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Borg3on Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

Nah, its not rose tinted glasses. Win2000/Win2003 were amazing. I still run Win2003 because it just workz. GUI is great, it snappy, I have all the tools to tinker here and there.. Leaked SRC code helps tiny bit ;)

Win7 wasnt that bad, you still could set classic GUI. If they only kept it like this and plow money to improve kernel...

Borg3on Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

Hah, amazing.. And unresolved for all those years?

Borg3on Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

Hmm I wonder how stable it is.. It cannot render correctly Window control buttons (Minimize, Maximize, Close). If it fails on such basic task, I wonder where it crashes...

Borg3on The Miller Principle (2007)

We are reaching society shown in "Johny Mnemonic" movie.. So much (useless) information around that people gets overloaded. I barely read anything these days on NH, too much (crap) information. I skim and only read stuff that is very close to my interest.

I used to read a lot more in the past, not the case anymore..

Borg3on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

It works exacly as it was designed to work.. GIT as VCS.. Version Control System.. for text code sniplets. It can handle small binary blobs just fine.

If you need (D)VFS aka Distributed Versioned Filesystem, grab right tool. Or write one.

This is exacly way I wrote DOT (Distributed Object Tracker). Its pure DVFS repo manager, to handle binary blobs and that it.. Nothing more.

People complaining about GIT not working well w/ big data just handling GIT wrong. Linus said it from the begining, its NOT tool for such datasets. Just move along.

Borg3on IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember

http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?ipv6

Now, if only those people who designed IPv6 were smarter.. Hex aint that bad, LONG hex addresses are pain to use.

Now, lets say you have LAN like this [::1:0:0/56]. So, ::1:0:24 is easy to remember right? Managable? right?.. Also, bonus for :: shortening is, you immediatly know what are you dealing with, ::1 is loopback, ::1:1 is LL, ::1:0:1 is LAN.. everything else is Internet.

The truth is, IPv6 is really 64bit, the other 64bit part is just randomish node address...

Borg3on Everyone Post Your Uptime

10:14:05 up 2336 days, 22:17, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Borg3on The “small web” is bigger than you might think

http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?fun/wisdom_of_the_ancients

Borg3on Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

Connections... It was always like this..

Borg3on The shady world of IP leasing

Haha, nice, I run something similar.. But more manualy managed and I put those bans pernametly. Currneltly, there are 1360 blocks in drop list and growing. I never really remove them, because even those leased blocks move from one spam/abuse operator to another, so no big loss.

And indeed, if people would fight w/ spam/abuse better and more aggresivly, the problem would be much smaller. I dont care anymore, In my opinion Internet is done. Time to start building overlay networks with services for good guys...

Borg3on Windows NT/OS2 Design Workbook

This and great backward compatibility. I still can make app targeting Win2000 and it will run on Win2000 onwards (Win10 and Win11 included.) Unfortunately, its starts to fall apart...

Borg3on I fixed Windows native development

Exacly.. I avoid Visual Studio.. I try to build everthing using Mingw..

Borg3on Evolving Git for the Next Decade

Exacly. Git supposed to be DVCS not generic DVFS. Choose right tool for right task. I needed generic DVFS to store my docs, so I wrote one. Its easy and quick and does it job :)

Borg3on I'm not worried about AI job loss

Ugh.. sorry to hear :( I am myself unemployed right now. Its really hard to land a job in tech.. Luicky, I dont need to flip burgers for now...

Borg3on End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git

Oh poor soul :) I had the same problem. And I solved it easly. I pulled out stuff from Internet, keeping only VPN overlay network..

The future is dark I mean.. Darknets.. For people by people. Where you can deal with bad actors.. Wake up! and starting networking :)

Borg3on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Haha, yeah.. Im using Notepad2 actually, because for LOOONG time, notepad.exe could not display LF files correctly... and Notepad2 has a bit more features, but still.. clean and lean.

Borg3on I paid $170 and all I got was this demo

Because ML and LLM (Not the fucking AI, it doesnt exist yet) should be used to deal with bulk boring stuff. Filter milions of images to leave interesting. Transform some data (but IM not sure why LLM is interesting here, I can write a script to do so) and so on... Not a creative stuff. This should be left for humans. Because if we take this away, whats left? Low skilled labour at best...

Borg3on Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

Whats the problem? 1997? They were probably using 10BaseTX network, its 10Mbit... Using Novel Netware would allow you to trasnfer data at 1MB/s.. quake.exe is < 0.5MB.. so trasnfer will take around 1 sec..

Borg3on Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

I think you were using some 3th party software for auto completion. There was project called Visual Assist with was pretty popular and powerfull tool.

Borg3on Show HN: Ruby-libgd – Native 2D graphics engine for Ruby (no CLI, no JavaScript)

Yeah, its private stuff.. I added GRX Lib bindings to Ruby so I can use Ruby to do 2D graphics.. Ive been looking for somethink like this but couldnt find anything usefull for me, so I made one..

Here is example/demo: http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?grx/test

gperf is not a demo, it my simple performance counters drawing app.

Borg3on C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)

I dont know the indented use. If you need delay or difference, 16bit is more than enough. If you writting generic clock w/ ms accuracy, it will be not enough. You either split it or use larger storage. Its not rocket science...

Borg3on Show HN: Ruby-libgd – Native 2D graphics engine for Ruby (no CLI, no JavaScript)

Something like this? http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?gperf

This stuff is written in Ruby :)

Borg3on C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)

Then use long.. Does Arduino CPU cannot do 16bit add/sub with carry? wtf?

Borg3on C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)

Like fucking what? If you do any TS.. you just use unsigned whatever fastest type you have on targeting platform, and you do NOT care. 16bit? wrapping at 1 min? Thats eternity even on 2MHz 6502... You just count and substract to get difference. Usually you are <1000ms range.. so wrapping is not a problem..

If you target about 32bit and 16bit, you either think about and using long (on 16 bit is more costly) or you just count seconds.. Or ticks.. or whatever you need.

Borg3on AI needs to augment rather than replace humans or the workplace is doomed

Destroying planet in the process.. NOTHING is fucking free.. wake up.. It have costs. Energy and waste (waste needs to be reproceesed so energy again).

If you take a look how much energy is put into producing 1kcal of food, you will see that its negative. We put around x6 more that we get (diesel, syntetic fertlizers, water pumping, etc). This is because we have cheap energy, like fossil fuels.. Unfortunatelly, it have hidden costs smartasses didnt anticipate.

Borg3on AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was

And why you think all the big boys push for ML, LLM, AI? To cut off the middle class. Once stuff will work automagicaly, they can squish even more profits while not caring about middle class at all. They will just ask automatas to do things for them... Great bright future...

Borg3on Rust in the NetBSD Kernel, and other odd decisions

O really? Please.. can I bootstrap it here?

CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.3.22(0.78/3/2)

Borg3on In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels

Can you provide some citation about CO2 themolysis? I found just one paper from China....

Borg3on In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels

Yeah, I did not thats why I asked. Water and Steel doesnt like each other. But thanks for the info.. It seems it can be done in controlled way.

Now I wonder how cost effective it is :)

Borg3on In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels

Uh, can you provide any scientific papers that H2 can be used for Iron smelting? CO2 is very stable, even at high temperatures. Its hard to strip O2 from it (except photosintesis). Now, H2 itself is very violatile gas. When burn, it creates water. Water is not stable high temperatures. It become vapor and when temperature rise it can even break bond between H2 and O.

So, papers or are you hallucinating?