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ncommander

@ncommander@restless.systems

An endless seeker who tries to do what I can to make things just a little better in the world.

Created Mixer's FTL, founded SoylentNews, and likes cursed computing!

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TIL that not all versions of Netscape supported DNS ...

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In better news, I published my first article on Medium, talking about my thoughts after spending the better part of a weekend experimenting with COBOL.

It's available here as a permanetaly free link, but I would love if folks with follow and give a clap: https://medium.com/@ncommander/a-weekend-learning-cobol-3ce35c490dab?source=friends_link&sk=ab05dcc66e4dedda73a0a9b07c182814

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So I've been toying w/ an idea for a few weeks on creating a boot disk to help get new users involved with vintage computing and drastically reduce the pain of setting up Windows on 90s/early 2000s computers.

The biggest question is it even possible to use FreeDOS as a base for this (since I can't redistribute Microsoft DOS), so that's what we're exploring ont he next stream at 11PM EST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEOZMqwM_gY

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found what is possibly the greatest redirect of all of English wikipedia ...

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I think I'm going to stream NetHack starting with the next in game full moon, and maybe just keep going until I ascend.

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Tonight, I helped find a bug in libreadline, that required looking to the actual POSIX specification to determine what, if anything, is the sane thing to do if your locale is broken.

This is not the YouTube video I expected to make, but I just uttered the following in :

[2:50:09 AM] <NCommander> This is getting fairly close the eldritch tomes of lore that AT&T used to forge the One Ring deep in the heart of Murray Hill

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Today has been an exercise in getting absolutely nothing successfully done

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I just had to factory reset my keyboard after some how I managed to swap WASD and my arrow keys.

I can't help but feel like a world where my keyboard needs a reboot means we're rapidly approaching peak smart device.

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Man, I get some wild YouTube recommendations at times ...

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Waking up and finding a Content ID strike for a piece of music that doesn't even sound like whats on air.

I've actually won content ID disputes before, but I've never gotten flagged on content that's been up for months at this point.

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@kkarhan @sataa @ActionRetro

One of the biggest problems is that copyright laws in the United States very much hinder any attempt to preserve any of this. Awareness on the issue is growing though, and maybe it might even be possible to try and lobby for change.

Repair bills are getting through state congresses at this point, so its def. something to look towards.

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I've gotten flagged with a second content ID claim. Same copyrighted song, expect this time, its in a section of the stream with no music and keytyping.

This is also a charity stream, and like, am I just going to keep getting an email day after day on this?

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Bad idea -- being installed!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72IngPgZQM4 - Next video drops tomorrow at noon EST!

Alsos a special shoutout to one of the people who helped inspire this dive into SunOS: @jwz

I'm pretty sure you're going to appreciate (or scream) at this one

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Nice to see NetBSD-10/evbarm-aarch64 works fine in UTM!

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Well ... this is a thing I didn't know existed ...

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@sataa @ActionRetro @kkarhan @greymatter

Honestly, for me personally, I learned with (t)csh, since it was the standard on many systems, and I just learned to accept whatever the standard installed shell was.

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Well, I bit the bullet, and getting ready for the first stream on my laptop: https://youtube.com/live/9G6vN4qW3yw

Hopefully everything works well, and I figured trying the unofficial ARM64 port of illumos while streaming off a M2 MacBook Pro will be interesting

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Went for a drive ….

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I ran out of road ...

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Standing 200 miles south of cario, eygpt at the southern extreme point of the continental United States

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Progress in two screenshots:

The first is distributed.net crunching RC5-72 on the VAX. 8,188 keys on its single 25Mhz processor.

The second is my MacBook Pro, after I patched dnetc to build on Mac OS X/aarch64. 8.9 million keys!

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Fun fact, did you know that clang as and gas use incompatible assembly syntaxes on an architecture that is less than two decades old?

Read my comment to find out how I dealt with this.

https://github.com/NCommander/dnetc-client-base/commit/8b176ceb92a800b6ff9fa448ebfecba5a8cee445

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I actually did the math. It looks liks it checks 2^32 keys per work unit.

It would take the MicroVAX 8 days of number crunching to complete a unit.

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Checking out -current via CVS is just kinda dreadful. I'm not thrilled on building this on a Pi either, but it's good to at least have a not entirely broken example either. I do wonder if it would be faster to check out elsewhere and rsync

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As a New York City native, currently living in New Jersey, I should really visit the Statue of Liberty at some point in my life ...

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@sayartyler its more "if New York is the World's Capital, then New Jersey is the World's Toxic Waste Dump".

It's also where the light at the end of the tunnel leads.

We proudly host more federal superfund sites per capita than any other place in the country by a wide margin.

As for me, I'm the child of third generation Italians, and a Cuban exile who was born in the United States.

Half of my culture got embargoed, and the other half has faded into English :/

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It does seem impossible to get VMWare Fusion demos anymore. Damn it, I needed that to test OpenBSD/arm64

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