Ever hear of Windows NT? Legacy DOS code was relegated to userspace long ago. And NT was designed by Dave Cutler, the guy who designed VMS and RSX-11. Most certainly not “shit piled on top of shit.” Unix could have learned a thing or two from Dave but by then it was too late; the plane had very much taken off.

The Amiga’s OS was written in 68k asm and BCPL (C’s grandfather) for the kernel, and C was used for the utilities and GUI. But this was considered quite ahead of its time for a single user micro.

Most critical sections should be.

You’re thinking of Shit Jobs, the FruitCo charlatan. Gates’ pancake sort algorithm held the speed record for 30 years.

“Who the hell” writes an OS in assembler in the 80s? Uh, some of the utilities are in C, but compilers were slow and generated slow code back then, and it was quite noticable on a slow machine. When every byte of memory counts, you often need to hand-optimize.

His last product was the OS for the Tandy model 100 in 1983.

I’m not so sure. Nobody is claiming the Bible ordains noncompetes, so we might be in the clear here.

Gary was robbed. RIP.

The propaganda in Southern exploitative shithole states runs deep. Exploitative labor relationships with a touch of Stockholm syndrome are truly “Southern heritage.”

restic is better.

Yeah, Conversations is probably the most fleshed out. Dino is missing lots of features, as is Monal for osx. Gajim is very nice, but it’s written in Python. Psi used to be my favorite 10 years ago but it’s unmaintained.

I just want something more on feature parity with all the Slack clones, but not actually Slack. Or mattermost. Or matrix. Goddamn, there are so many messaging apps

Nothing, I just never think to use it since mpv has more features for general use.

Honestly if even half of the effort that goes into every XMPP replacement du jour instead went into improving existing XMPP clients, we wouldn’t even be talking about this.

lol@typescript and appImage. Yuck. Just use mpv to find cutpoints and man ffmpeg

I watched several minutes of this when it first aired. It felt like a transmission from aliens who are really bad at the whole mind control thing.

I’m not certain it was. He is indeed well known for abstaining from alcohol because of his brother, Fred Jr.

What? He shits himself because his bowel control is destroyed from all the coke he used to do.

Cognitive overload? From IRC and mailing lists? It makes me doubt whether you’d be able to contribute anything, anyway.

git was designed to accept patches over email. How else would you do it? man git-send-email

This is an excellent article. Thank you for posting this. It’s refreshing to see a nuanced take that does justice to the complexity of this situation.