MisterTea

Do you happen to have a source for this?

> Goose has syntax familiar to C and Rust programmers, but there is no heap. Every dynamic value lives inline on data stacks managed by the compiler.

This is what Ada does, at least the GNAT implementation.

I had the privileged to sample both at a friends house and both were ... uh, interesting on buttered bread.

There's a comma at the end of your URL which breaks it.

> Not everyone cares so little for friends and acquaintances.

You misunderstand. I have had to use various apps to communicate with people I dont need to talk to again, e.g. hotel and airbnb hosts in different countries which use these services. Like the time I had to install whatsapp in Spain to get into a boutique hotel. Sometimes you are meeting someone, e.g. a potential client who only uses signal so I install signal for our meeting and promptly uninstall it after we are done communicating. I have also had to install signal when coordinating with others for a hackathon and dumped it afterwards as we all had email addresses.

It really feels like we missed out on cheap optical storage. Blank CDs were pennies and blank DVDs weren't far behind in a time when DVDs were "big enough." Stories predicting discs with hundreds of gigabytes and eventually one day, Terabytes of cheap optical disc storage. Then the internet, cloud storage, cheap flash memory and streaming media rapidly chipped away at the need for cheap plastic optical storage. Feels like a missed opportunity.

A fantasy of mine is walking into a Microcenter and picking up a 100 pack of 1TB discs for $50 bucks.

I honestly have never had this issue. It's really about focus and effort. If the person is important enough, I will most likely remember how to contact them. I also mostly use email for all important communications so that remains searchable. The other chat apps are all for casual friends and acquaintances that if lost, well so be it.

> This is Gorton and the letters are carved into the plastic, so this required some effort!

Having operated an old engraving machine and software I would have assumed it was a lack of effort in line spacing. Some of that old software was very primitive as it was a XYZ engraver which operates like a cnc from an origin point, each line needed an new origin offset you had to specify per-line. That happy mistake is when someone sets the line spacing to the font height.

What brain space? These apps take seconds to install and get an account connected. After that you forget it exists until someone messages you.

> This is due to the affected components being written in C, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities regularly happen.

Ugh...

> From a Gen A and Gen Z point of view, their Gen X parents lived the dream, coming of age at a time when houses were affordable, culture more accessible, the job market less scary, and gaining a university degree still delivered on its promise.

Culture more accessible? How?

> I do miss it, and this isn't about AI or anything, but mostly nostalgia of a simpler time, but it isn't that simple as an adult or to make this a full-time endeavour and just live there.

To me it's about disconnecting from an over connected world. It exhausts some people who need to decompress in peace and that is hard if you live in the middle of a noisy city. Personally, I love being in the country side where there are little to no people around and all you hear are the sounds of nature. It's serene.

> Nature is fucking harsh, people that are crying about AI getting them unemployed or changing their professions are pretty much mostly softies...

No one is talking about living off the land. There are governments and markets in the country side. The expense of some goods is offset by the low cost of living. I fully support peoples decisions to live where they feel most comfortable. If that means a city person like me has to subsidize it, then so be it.

I don't understand why having more than one chat app is too much for some people. I use signal, whatsapp, discord, irc, google chat, email and messenger without complaint. I can't force people to use my platform of choice so I have to compromise and use what they do with little to no notice on my end. Sure, I am not happy with this situation but I accept it and move on while keeping an eye out for alternatives.

Really sounds like an inside job by either the Fedex driver or someone working at the appraisal company. Someone knew those skids were on that truck.

Sounds like organizing a community vs establishing an entity and enforcing its rules.

I always find it amusing when people use hyperbole to describe technology that is mostly mundane. Of course a terminal is a computer. Just a very stripped down embedded computer that ran a single terminal program from firmware. There is no secret here.

Don't for get actual 4-track recorders, a tape deck that recorded and played back all 4 channels simultaneously. They were cheap and enabled a low cost "poor mans recording studio" where you could record 4 different channels to mix down later. Some were portable and featured a built in mixer which made bedroom and live gig recording affordable.

I know a lot of people who live in apartments but have a collection, usually classic computers, stored in their parents house. Hell, I was just talking to a guy few weeks ago who was lamenting how his parents threw out his "junk" pdp11 years ago.

> Turns out memory can play tricks on everyone: we now know they were instead generated with the POSIX-standard drand48 random number generator.

Or he lied to obfuscate the origin.

I recently got to try out Quake 2 on 9front, a Plan 9 fork, which ran surprisingly fast on my very, very modest Thinkpad T410i with a 2.4 GHz dual core i3 at 1440x900. Plan 9 has no GPU support so all rendering is software. Even had a little lan party with other devs. I really enjoyed the software rendering, it bought back early memories of playing Q2 before we bought our Voodoo2. I even used my ploopy trackball to play. Fun times.

Presently, Plan 9 in general lacks 3D graphics but has an in-kernel 2D rendering engine referred to as devdraw. Quake 2 software rendering is done in-engine by rendering full frames to a bitmap displayed by devdraw. A fun experiment was to rcpu into my industrial DIN rail PC, a 1.2 GHz 4 core Atom, from the Thinkpad and play Quake 2. When I run Quake 2, it runs on the CPU server but graphics are sent to my laptop. However, since Q2 is rendered in-engine on the remote iPC, full frames are copied over gigE to my laptop. Q2 full screen was stuttering badly but at about 1/4 screen size it was surprisingly playable.

An other example is a port of cave story done by a 9dront dev where he integrated devdraw so the game renders by loading its assets into devdraw and issuing rendering commands. It is likely the first Plan 9 native game. It plays perfectly over an rcpu session at full screen as the rendering is done by the client side devdraw.

Another 9front dev is doing a lot of graphics work and implemented affine warping in devdraw which is useful for rapidly transforming bitmaps, e.g. scaling the output of the gameboy emulator and Doom. He and others are interested in implementing a concurrent 3D rendering software devdraw engine as we have many-core machines now. When GPU's first hit the streets, we were on single core machines. SMP machines were not affordable by mere mortals when the 3Dfx Voodoo hit the market. So the idea is, why struggle with the gargantuan task of implementing a "modern" GPU stack when you have all these CPU cores now? Why not take a step back, think about what we have learned, and extract all the performance we can from modern many-core CPUs with all sorts of vector extensions. In a Plan 9 context, you could run the game on a many core machine to handle game logic and play remotely with a bigger many-core spraying pixels at a display. Distributed gaming. Might even be able to do multiplayer with a single engine instance with multiple rendering clients attached. Fun system to play with.

As someone who loves and enjoys writing Plan 9 c, all I can say is "standard c", whatever that means these days, is a mess. Too many things to name ranging from the only two oss compilers being bloated monsters, post c99 additions being pointless, in-line asm ruining portability*, and POSIX can die in a fire (along with typewriter terminals.)

I have a friend who is currently on the C committee and is likely going to leave because of all the bad ideas which have both been implemented and going to be implemented.

* No, spamming a million ugly #ifdefs all over the source files is gross and hard to read. Split up the code dammit.

It's amusing how there was a point where Windows was portable across architectures while also supporting different operating system API's such as the OS2 and POSIX APIs. There was Power PC, MIPS, Arm, Alpha and even i960 ports of NT. The HAL was part of that effort to decouple NT from the hardware so a port to a new machine was writing a new HAL and drivers.

Too bad that idea never took off. Bell labs also did the same with Plan 9 and produced a tool chain and C design which enabled any platform bootstrap the other. That effort is now the foundation of Go's portability. It's nice to be able to boot 9 on a Pi, build the AMD64 user space and kernel, then net boot the x86 machine from the Pi. First class potability was a missed opportunity.

The title implies content related to "The command line" however, the article is about protecting a private code repo from AI scrapers. Fix your title!

"The moon is made of green cheese because I said so" is not a fact.

> this feels cartoonishly evil,

It's been cartoonish for over a decade. An elderly spoiled rich kid is running the USA into the ground along with his playmates starting wars he said he wouldn't. Another elderly infantile man is upset one of his vassal states had a tantrum and invaded it. Some other children got really angry after a terrorist attack and retaliated with 100x casualties in a "nah nah nah we got more bombs than you." A shrewd child is turning his industrial power house into a large technopanopticon while selling it to other nations along with debt traps all while eyeing a former sovereign territory for takeover.

At this point I would rather vote for actual cartoon characters like Daffy Duck or Goofy. Duck Season FIRE!

We used to install FF and Chrome on the local PCs at work to ensure this would not be an issue. The office workers just used Edge.

What angry people with pitchforks?

2. "Do whatever the fuck we want because who's gonna stop us, the government we gutted? lol"

Duh.

> I'm trying to understand the reasoning behind the entity that was sending presumably hundreds or thousands of requests per minute to the same page.

The most likely answer is they don't give a crap because it's not their money and no one is going to do anything about it.

Japan would like to have a word with you.