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Borg3on Building Principia for Windows XP

I actually wanted to try it (maybe I will do), but on github page I read its experimental and lots of dialogs arent implemented. So a bit shame it cannot be fully ported. Maybe I will take a bite and try to build it using my dated mingw gcc 4.9 ;)

Borg3on Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide

What do you mean what context? Just move yourself 10 years in past and see how RAM much web browsing used.. There is just no sane reason why it balooned so much.

Of course, progress needs to be done. Better graphics, more data.. But now all the consumption goes into shitty decoration with is useless and waste resources.

Other big usage is all that ads and tracking shit behind the scene..

Borg3on Ask HN: Who here would agree to replace parliaments with LLMs?

Dont. Its super stupid idea. I said it before but I will said it again. AI/LLM with current form is pure stupidty. Humans try to move their highest asset, aka Inteligence, analitical thinking, science into AI. Like fucking what? This is what made humans colonize entire planet. Not because they are strong and resistant spieces, but because they are inteligent and addaptive. If you want to offload that to AI, then humans arent really needed. Why would you need billions of consumers (paracities) that dont do anything usefull? Waste of fucking resources.

This is needed now, because it generates income to billionaries. Now focus. With current trend, when we replace workforce with automation and AI, humans are needed less and less. So billionaries can build they autonomic empires with AI/robots all around, no need to humans. Thats like dream for them, never ending fun, and no need to worry about billions of people to feed and keep them in check. Biggest loosers of this are all those scientists and engineers who are cutting branch they sit on... For suck a smart people, they are really stupid and shotsighted..

What is needed is technocracy. Democracy is a failure. How billions of consumers can elect someone smart? Not really possible. We need smart people to rule the system, not AI. If we put AI on charge, humans will be eliminated, because its just burden to the planet.

Interesting system existed in Japan, from 50s to 90s. A War Economy adapted to make consumers goods. It worked very well, to the point that US was pissed off because it couldnt compete. So they put smart plan to invert it. And they suceeded.

Borg3on Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide

Its a pathetic world.. and sad.. I have currently 2 browsers open and my memory commit is 370MB.. If I hear that Win11 uses 3GB of RAM idling, I really get shivers... WTF?! How is that even possible? Bloat is astronomical and yet.. Most people just does NOT care...

Borg3on Reviving a Quarter Century-Old Server

Haha, I love how that old HW was built to last. Incredible. My old server is still going strong ;)

14:11:03 up 2435 days, 1:14, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Borg3on Ask HN: How long have you been looking for a job?

Hah, Im in similar situation, but I am network/IT admin. I think its worse, because who need networking guy? You just plug it in and it works, right? ;)

Borg3on Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism

Normally, its the one who understand technology, can control it. Unfortunately, its not the case anymore. Stuff got unnecessary complex and bloated, hard to grasp it alone. Also, now AI plays the new role too.

Dark times ahead...

Borg3on Why Ruby Still Feels Like Home After All These Years

Exacly. And I love its written in C. You need to extend Ruby w/ your favorite Graph Library? You just slap .c glue code and vioala it works like a charm!

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 :)