bthylafh @bthylafh@social.privacytools.io
Figment of the Internet's imagination. G+ and Usenet refugee.
Joined Jun 2019
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@feld "Next, we're going to use a PXE configuration to boot several FreeDOS VM's on this machine. We'll use the XMPP protocol to pass messages to the HURD Inter-Process Communicator on the main system so that these VMs can talk to each other."
"I-isn't XMPP an instant messaging protocol?!" a frightened acolyte cries out.
"Fool! It is a flexible protocol standard for passing data around! We can do everything we need with XEPs!" you bellow ominously as thunder mysteriously cracks. The weakling backs down.
You clack around on your vintage IBM keyboard, which you have garishly modified to contain Razer LEDs.
"There! It is done!"
The hard drive crunches and shrieks as a single JSONb tree containing thousands of x and y coordinates is dangerously vomited back and forth between mongodb instances and the oracle database. An Xterm application pops open, and, like fingernails on a chalkboard, pixels scratch into signage on an ncurses background.
"WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?!"
"I-isn't XMPP an instant messaging protocol?!" a frightened acolyte cries out.
"Fool! It is a flexible protocol standard for passing data around! We can do everything we need with XEPs!" you bellow ominously as thunder mysteriously cracks. The weakling backs down.
You clack around on your vintage IBM keyboard, which you have garishly modified to contain Razer LEDs.
"There! It is done!"
The hard drive crunches and shrieks as a single JSONb tree containing thousands of x and y coordinates is dangerously vomited back and forth between mongodb instances and the oracle database. An Xterm application pops open, and, like fingernails on a chalkboard, pixels scratch into signage on an ncurses background.
"WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?!"
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@feld there has to be. There must be!
"For our next activity, we'll be doing media encoding and decoding...inside of an Oracle database...using Haskell objects wrapped together like a nested burrito!"
"For the love of God, make it stop!" a nerd cries. You slap him.
"RMS cannot hear you now. But listen!"
"JooooIN uSss nOw aNddd ssssSharre tHe SoooftWAare..." the computer moans through a poorly implemented MT-32 chip.
"That was a DOS program," you cackle.
"For our next activity, we'll be doing media encoding and decoding...inside of an Oracle database...using Haskell objects wrapped together like a nested burrito!"
"For the love of God, make it stop!" a nerd cries. You slap him.
"RMS cannot hear you now. But listen!"
"JooooIN uSss nOw aNddd ssssSharre tHe SoooftWAare..." the computer moans through a poorly implemented MT-32 chip.
"That was a DOS program," you cackle.
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Imagine trolling a GNU/Linux User Group meetup by showing up and unironically showing off your GNU HURD / Haiku/ ReactOS hybrid to everyone there.
"I compiled it with LLVM", you say smugly, "and all of the libraries are system32 reimplementations running on a translation layer for the Haiku desktop runtime. The CPU is an old Setun chip that I ordered from Russia. The whole thing runs on balanced ternary instead of binary. The body is an OG Xbox and a Sun SPARC computer that I welded together. There's an Amiga X1000 co-processor in there."
The head of the group glares at you. Veins are throbbing in his temples. Sweat is running down his brow.
"It also features a TempleOS emulator."
He blacks out. You have bested him. You push him out of his chair, and sit in it.
"This is my user group now," you announce sternly. The Linux users cower in fear as you fire up a TempleOS app.
"Oh, mighty Temple," you pray, voice booming fearsomely, "what shall we do next?"
"I compiled it with LLVM", you say smugly, "and all of the libraries are system32 reimplementations running on a translation layer for the Haiku desktop runtime. The CPU is an old Setun chip that I ordered from Russia. The whole thing runs on balanced ternary instead of binary. The body is an OG Xbox and a Sun SPARC computer that I welded together. There's an Amiga X1000 co-processor in there."
The head of the group glares at you. Veins are throbbing in his temples. Sweat is running down his brow.
"It also features a TempleOS emulator."
He blacks out. You have bested him. You push him out of his chair, and sit in it.
"This is my user group now," you announce sternly. The Linux users cower in fear as you fire up a TempleOS app.
"Oh, mighty Temple," you pray, voice booming fearsomely, "what shall we do next?"
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Every manpage should have an EXAMPLES that shows how to do the very basic, most obvious thing with the command line tool or library function.
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#youtubedl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md
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https://codeberg.org/polarisfm/youtube-dl
https://git.nixnet.xyz/Amolith/youtube-dl
https://code.loranger.xyz/rob/youtube-dl
https://git.hackers.town/The_gibson/youtube-dl2.git
https://gitlab.com/nephros/youtube-dl
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/youtube-dl
https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader
https://git.marcg.pizza/~marcg/youtube-dl
https://git.osuv.de/star/youtube-dl
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/
https://git.nixnet.xyz/Amolith/NewPipe
https://code.loranger.xyz/rob/NewPipe
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I've wanted to do basically this for almost fifteen years now but the hardware and software available to me was just never there. #feelsgoodman
This is a practice run; I've been thinking about doing this in anger on my new work PC. Base OS being Xubuntu 20.04, running one or two Win10 VMs for different tasks as-needed, and potentially MacOS in another VM. One of the Win10 VMs would be for making up new Windows install images, best handled with Hyper-V VMs because the workflow is actually really good.
Here's some nerd shit right here:
Booted to Linux, using virsh/qemu/kvm to run a slightly customized (XML was edited to make it pretend to be a particular CPU) Win10 virtual machine that's able to run Hyper-V, so I'm running a VM inside a VM (yo dawg). Performance is actually acceptable.
Upgrading from OpenBSD 6.7 to 6.8 was surprisingly easy. All I had to do was pkg_add something to let me retrieve the ramdisk and its signature file over http, verify same, and reboot into the downloaded rd to upgrade. 10/10 would do again.
I'm using it as my SSH jump host in a kvm virtual machine.
Welcome To The Old Internet Again!
http://theoldnet.com/
Uses the Internet Archive and some backend stuff to strip out Javascript.
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Go fuck yourselves, Google
โGoogle disabled my husband's accountโ
https://nitter.net/miguelytob/status/1315749803041619981
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Putting the EICAR Anti Malware Test File (https://www.eicar.org/?page_id=3950) in a QR code and putting it up everywhere is a hilarious idea.
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god damn i want it. imagine getting an email from tom@seriousbusiness.shoes
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Way to mount EXT4 with r/w into Windows:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/access-linux-filesystems-in-windows-and-wsl-2/
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Kontrast is the new KDE application that will help you pick the best (and most accessible) color combo for you site/app.
Figment of the Internet's imagination. G+ and Usenet refugee.
Joined Jun 2019
