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amszmidt

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sauerpunk gnu hacker / software freedom or bust / wizard of zymurgy / lisp machine revolutionary / professional curmudgeon

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amszmidt, to amiga
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To those using , is the system source ? Can you rebuild the whole system?

amszmidt, to random
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curiosity .. in the CADR Console debugger, to start the remote machine one types "105 FOOBAR" -- can anyone explain why?

amszmidt, to random
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If you are doing testing, you're not a real programmer.

awoodsnet, to vim
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People often talk about Emacs vs Vim. Every developer I’ve met uses Vim. Occasionally, some of the vim users will say they have previously emacs, but switched to vim.

So where are all the people who are currently using Emacs?

I’m not trolling or looking for an argument. I legit want to know!

amszmidt,
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@phundrak @hajovonta @0x1de @awoodsnet You don't need to customize eshell to get that behaviour. It also works for any file access .. DIRED? yup. M-x copy-file? yup!

Sprinkle some bookmarks on top of that for easy access to remote files ...

Another cool thing is file shadowing: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/File-Shadowing.html

amszmidt, to random
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@Reiddragon @screwtape Common Lisp is both a high and low level language. What I am referring to is more akin to assembler, C is not a suitable language period -- just the compiler is larger than the whole Lisp Machine system including microcode.

amszmidt, to random
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Random pondering about sustainable software, and operating systems like Project Oberon, Forth, Smalltalk, and the Lisp Machines .. Systems that a single individual can maintain (maybe not write ...)

amszmidt,
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@screwtape Any sustainable system needs to be entirely free software.

amszmidt,
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@screwtape Second critera would be, one single implementation language -- maybe two, a much lower level one.

amszmidt, to random
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"has banned FOO and its employees from ever contributing to BAR" -- a statement that should never be accepted in an project.

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@glitzersachen Will you try and vet each and every contribution through this filter? What if such a contribution "sneaks" past your filter, when what?

If a contribution is made, and if for all intents and purposes cannot be discerned that it came from A or B which ever is good or evil, it does not matter..

If previous contributions where suspect, those contributions (not contributors) should be put under a microscope.

E.g., if a Russian submits a patch should one dimiss it because of Putin?

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen Better yet, should all US contributions now be disregarded since the US participates in the Gaza genocide?

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen My point failed to make across as well, I do not understand what copyright law has to do with the topic at all, this is about projects either dismissing or accepting contributions based on some criteria, which seems irrespective of copyright law.

E.g., in the case of NixOS and that drama ..

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen FOO in this case is some company. I do not think such dismissal is ever warrented.

The comparison with Nvidious is also not apt, the contribution in question would be free software.

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen A blob cannot be free if it is is not free. Free Software has an actual meaning.

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen Are you going to dismiss everyone working at SCO and Microsoft? Where do you live? I need to know wether you are ok to talk to.

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen Ok, and what does that have to do with a patch you get sent from a @microsoft.com address? What does that have to do with a patch from @sco.com address? Assume patches are sensible.

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen It was a argument made from the devils side. You are saying that one is fine to dismiss contributions by people simply by association. By the same logic, I should be able to dismiss anything you say simply by association with a country, no? Or does that become quite unfair?

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@glitzersachen Ok, then Nvidia, or some random mil-tech. I do not care who.

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen But that has literally nothing to do with WHO is contributing.

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen The copyright assignment is not that extensive. And the disclaimer from an employer is not that scary.

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen You are asking different questions, if corporation is compromised or not is TOTALLY IRRELEVANT to accepting a contribution from someone having a @foo.com address. You can read the contribution. QED, muting this nonsense.

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    amszmidt,
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    @yeti I had a nice little rant on the topic .. maybe @screwtape has a link to the thread. 😉

    amszmidt, to random
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    Maybe I should give up .. just become a Swift programmer or something.

    amszmidt,
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    @jschwart Sadly, it seems like one of those terribly slow languages. Loop over 5 million and print the digit takes 3 seconds (yes, super scientific!). Which is on par with random Lisp implementation ...

    amszmidt,
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    @loke @jschwart did you print to stdout? It isn’t ver scientific was more comparing thing in my local crappy box…

    amszmidt,
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    @loke @jschwart As I said, unscientific with faults. It was a crud comparison .. yet GCL and GNU Clisp was faster or on par….

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