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It depends on what do you mean "hack". Redacting important documents can qualify as a heck of a hack.

This guy is incredible. Lzexe, Qemu, TinyCC to name just a few gems.

I switched to Linux (Slackware, Gentoo, Kubuntu, Arch Linux) some 22 years ago. It has been a pain and sometimes I still get issues.

But I am grateful my PC basically does whatever I ask it to.

A desktop PC lasted 10 years before dying. A laptop another 6 years. No NAGs, no service subscription.

And no ads from software (browser sometimes excluded), no nothing.

I could still install it on a very old machine, with some extra work needed, I could still use less than 1GB RAM.

So I am grateful, despite some extra work is sometimes needed. Nothing is really free. It's a matter of tradeoffs.

Like wolves that evolved into dogs. Interesting.

HN effect:

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This could be a solution.

It is not clear to which problem.

Thee problem is the viewer, not the format. We are talking about accessibility and scientific papers, where fancy animations and transitions are not core features.

LaTeX and TeX are the de facto standard for this context and converting all existing documents is a lot of work and energy to be spent for basically little gain, if any.

We'd need more people like your dad.

For doing what?

I have mixed feelings.

On one side I think we need to preserve this relic as we did with Homer's poetry. Because it just deserves.

On another side I think we won't (and should not) try to preserve in an infinite present whatever has been written by humanity. For what purpose?

Yes. Everything on internet can be deleted and modified at someone's will.

If all this is true, then it's another step towards freedom.

Freedom to delete and rewrite history.

I too have spent hours of assembly code on PC hardware. My freshly downloaded copy of the interrupt list has always been at my (virtual) side when designing tests or libraries.

I think that has been one of the very first and largest information collection shared for free on the internet.

Kudos to Ralf Brown and whoever participated in keeping the list compete, accurate and timely.

If it's a declarative tool, then "yes, thanks".

But if it's not, then "no thanks", I already have my native CLI tools bundled with my RDBMS.

May I Say 355/113 ?

What puzzles me too is the time it took to recognize an outage.

Looks like there was no monitoring and no alerts.

Which is kinda weird.

I think that's one of the huge gaps between a genius and an average man.

Computer history is paved with faults that, in technical perspective, should have never happened.

NeXT was not ahead of it's times. It hasn't been technically surpassed by any other product in the "next" 10 years.

So NeXT is one. IMHO, Amiga 1200, Archimedes and Sinclair QL are other ones.

It seems a mix of mismanagement and marketing (which maybe is still mismanagement).

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Do you mean we have full source code of baseband modem and wifi/bt hw interface?

Commercial partnership between open source projects and real companies can be tricky if not deadly.

I still remember CyanogenMod powering the first OnePlus One as Cyngn Co.

Lineage OS raised from the ashes of CyanogenMod.

On top of this, any ad blocking and "privacy first" project just shutters in pieces when the hardware manufacturer gives you a bunch of binary-only closed-source modules to be stuck into the kernel.

Stop using apps and run Firefox or any other open source browser. That type of privacy can be (almost) achieved that way.

But if your os runs non-auditable binaries directly into the kernel, then it's clear we are talking about dreams, not reality.

Is it time for carbon-based technologies to be made available?

And ...

> Hey! This is an old, abandoned project, with both technical and design issues. Please have fun with this tutorial but do look for more modern and authoritative sources if you want to learn about OS design.

x86 only, unfortunately. But some parts can be borrowed for other ISAs.

No, it is not. Unless you don't care about the laptop.

Unfortunately, backpacks are a better solution due to padding and reinforcements.

Unfortunately because they attract attention by thieves.

Moreover I don't like walking with one hand busy carrying a bag, especially when I bike or commute between public transportation means.

There are more things under these skies that a fervid imagination can produce.

Nice. But ...

> Later modems used PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)

PPP a (c)slip are not used by modems but by the computers whose serials are up and running. Even without modems.

Done

It is readable in English with quite some training and context. Many characters have the same representation.

I for one would say this is not generally usable and has a limited scope.

Interesting nonetheless.

Why demoting? It Is x86-64 only!

Only for short hauls.