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anthkon Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines

Unless Windows 11 runs fine under 2GB of RAM (even 1 with some profiles) and with 4GB with normal browsing, they are doomed.

anthkon WTF Ubuntu?

OpenBSD got a recent GeFS (COW FS, but far lighter than BTRFS and not to mention ZFS) update, I wish 8.1 or 8.2 had it stabilized, because the issues with FFSv2 would end in the spot and maybe even steal some server machines to GNU/Linux.

anthkon Novellas with Groff

Well, sl might have patched troff itsef....

anthkon Novellas with Groff

Not always:

https://t3x.org has two novels and tons of comp sci books probably made with very little...

anthkon Infinite Mac: BeOS

To be honest gopher is so simple that you might even craft it with just an AWK script and no AI at all.

anthkon Redox: Ring Buffers Project Summary

More like io_urine, it leaks everywhere and if pisses you off in both ways. Even more by hooking it up against DMABUF. We didn't learn anything from the 90's...

anthkon Redox: Ring Buffers Project Summary

>io_uring is incredibly fast for async I/O but is also a massive security disaster in the Linux kernel

Torvalds bound it up with... DMABUF. Guess what will happen.

On Linux' future memory subsystem imported from a branch, the Asterinas' one in Rust it's miles ahead and far more secure. Like Windows 98 compared to NT.

anthkon French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax

They can migrate to a non-France server in no time.

anthkon French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax

No, just France.

anthkon Infinite Mac: BeOS

Get a gopher client and join gopher://hngopher.com (r/o HN over gopher), gopher://magical.fish (huge portal, from a translator from text adventures over gopher, and even current news) and gopher://sdf.org. (blogs).

Gopher://typed-hole.org it's fine too.

anthkon Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights

You can run a subleq interpreter and some eforth image under 10 lines of awk, 13-14 with muxleq.

anthkon My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

Nah, the PSP. Being a die hard geek/nerd I played both Slashem at 50MHZ with the CFW, MSX/GB/GBC/NES/SNES/MD/SMS/NeoGeo/Who-knows games under emulators, GBA games (being better on that far better than the GBA itself, savestates and a clear, big screen) and OFC its own PSP (and PSX eboots) games.

And Scummvm, too, to play some gems such as Broken Sword and Lucas Arts adventures.

And I my childhood I loved the Game Boy, but the PSP was almost the GBA I wanted in my early teen years, but enhanced. Oh, and it doubled as a portable media device, so I could watch videos on the go (before smartphones). I ripped up everything from a PC.

anthkon Infinite Mac: BeOS

Target system 7.5.3, it will run far more stuff.

anthkon NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto

Then use Redox OS, or convince Torvalds to merge Asterinas' memory handling code into Linux.

anthkon Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers

SMB in the kernel and binding io_uring to DMABUF doesn't look pretty safe either.

Torvalds needs to borrow Rust code from Asterinas (and maybe Redox) ASAP.

anthkon NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto

jmacs.

anthkon NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto

Joe editor dates back to 1991 and it came with jpico, jmacs and jstar as pico, emacs and wordstar clones as a hard link.

anthkon StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month

There's a FFox plugin to enforce old.reddit.com's old CSS.

anthkon Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer

Recoll it's far smaller and it runs on a potato. It's a desktop search engine which can parse tons of files. Under GNU/Linux just install all the recommended dependencies for APT/RPM. Or just use Flatpak and to hell with transitive dependencies.

anthkon Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain

I'm from Spain, I know it well. Just check what happened with short-distance trains.

anthkon Spain train crash: 'At least 10 dead' in high-speed collision

Also the train network was neglected a lot since the 70s-80s so the car and oil companies could earn huge profits.

anthkon Python's experimental JIT to be removed

I've seen worse reimplementations. For what it does it's pretty close.

anthkon Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain

In Spain the train network was neglected so car and oil companies could earn tons of money since the 70's.

But Toledo-Madrid it's a special high speed network with thousands of daily users heading Madrid to work, which is just 1h away from Toledo.

Still, I will always be pro-train because they can mass deliver goods at much higher ratio than by truck.

anthkon Show HN: ArtCraft – Creative studio for images, video and 3D

Official site:

https://getartcraft.com/

anthkon Python's experimental JIT to be removed

RustPython it's pretty mature.

anthkon Txoko: Basques' traditional feast a gastronomic peek into a culture (2024)

It's a two-sided personality of the Atlantic Spain. Far more reservated and shy than Andalusians, with a really different mindset. But if you became a friend of some group, you will keep your friends forever.

anthkon Python's experimental JIT to be removed

The Rust based Python3 port can keep it and it can still be far more secure than CPython. Not everything it's JIT'ted on RustPython, it's ondemand per function, you have to enable it explicitly.

anthkon Nietzschian Debugger

Then just run M-x doctor under Emacs.

anthkon Pharo 14

Pharo with a GTK4+Libadwaita adapted IDE:

https://github.com/pharo-pulsar/pulsar

Almost "Pharo for Gnome".

anthkon Why Gopher in 2026?

Now if someone did for Go what they did for rettui...