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iberator··on Play Cyberpunk 2077 in the Browser
executables are very small in comparison to assets. you just decode the exe, transpile it to c, recompile again to wasm and viola!

you still need oryginal game to play

iberator··on Gforth 1.0
For people who doesn't know forth:

Forth can have comments and doesn't need to be all at one line:)

also labels works as functions etc.

Its way more tradable language in real life than people think

iberator··on Ghostty 1.4
I was sceptical for decades as well. But they are amazing - no more closing the xterm by mistake. I'm using those because I wanted for example a single window with THREE consoles open at once AND being able to handle some ANSI crazy theming.

Xterm failed me :( Tabby just works.

iberator··on PHP 8.2.35
Ubuntu is CLONE of Debian. So of course debian is first and better.

Ubuntu literally stole debian, added own wallpaper and started selling it as its own distro.

iberator··on Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals
ZFS is useless. No bit rot protection at all. ZFS just informs you about broken files (like FAT32 3 decades ago) but can't fix them... There should be some parity data added or some Salomon Reed forward correction of data... Waiting for such a feature for a decade now
iberator··on /dev/null: social network for developers
Good point.

What if Microsoft black listed me from GitHub forever? I'm also banned from Facebook for like decade

iberator··on Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD
NetBsd os the King. Most portable operating system (not just kernel) on the Planet.

All back to 1978 VAX/780 - still working from single base sources as x86 or ARM

iberator··on Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran
Pascal and ADA are the direct successor of Algol 60(forgot the year of the first simpler dialect) and 68.

Algol, Pascal, Oberon, Simula, ADA, Julia (afik)

iberator··on Your C is not standard C
You love it? Then how come there are almost no applications for Plan9 ? Literally like only 2 editors for example .

What software do you write?

iberator··on Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit
Do you update the kernel every week? Linux is an awful choice for routers: too many exploits and ultra fast cycle of updates/features plus there are number one target...
iberator··on A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU
This is a prime example of how to spot poser vs real programmers.

How could one even start programming without sewing HACKERS the movie. cult classic

iberator··on A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU
Awful. Seriously. 100% CPU usage with "while true:"
iberator··on Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser
BS. So far AI just destroys jobs and lifes, and does not create literally any more jobs at all.
iberator··on Why were Victorian elites so effective?
Slavery and Imperialism money.
iberator··on Google Playground: Create and play custom games
This is NOT good news.
iberator··on Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
what are you using it with? hp unix? netbsd?
iberator··on C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake
Worth to mention that in the 80" Microsoft was the biggest UNIX vendor with their XENIX operating system:)
iberator··on Principles for Fast Tokio Applications
What the hell is Tokio? Articles mentions it like once I was expecting some programing principles from Japan
iberator··on A 386 PC for Your RP2350
MMU can be emulated as part of emulated architecture. Its totally possible to have software only mmu.
iberator··on NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9
NetBSD holds record for most supported architectures. Like 50 diffrent, while Linux like maybe 20...

Oldest one: VAX780 from 1978(!!!). First 32bit xpu with mmu

iberator··on How to Create a Tor Exit Node (2015)
I once got raided by the Police for hosting tor node for just literally 3 weeks! (about 5 months later)

Police seized EVERYTHING, and I got my hardware returned to me after like 1 year.

Got caution for sharing pirated software, but they didn't prosecute. It was in the UK.

iberator··on Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
Good antivirus should protect you from such attacks. Even zero day ones.
iberator··on Tmp.0ut Volume 5
Very cool and BBS/hacking style. BUT almost useless on mobile :(

I prefer to use a PC but that kind of articles are perfect to read when commuting.

You could just use <br> instead of fixed length words per line.

iberator··on Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a
i meant opoosite. browsing http over gopher
iberator··on Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer
Please write an article about that French computer Project idea: find 64kb kb of such memory and connect it somehow into Apple2, atari and other 8bit cpus hehe

It must be possible to have some hardware adapter to map RAM into that type of memory.

Or even over serial...

ps. Related story: around 10 years ago Texas Instruments started to use FRAM in some of their 16 bit MCUs (msp430 family)

It works exactly like core memory - data still intact after power resets.

iberator··on Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel
This os is supposed to be run on bare metal AFIK for same reason
iberator··on Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it
you should read about ham radio mate... there are some amazing protocols and modulations to save power.

And of course: 7mhz 0.5W transmitter could be heard worldwide... no jokes.

iberator··on How to compromise your system with a job interview
I got my last job and I didn't own a laptop as I was homeless. Had to borrow it from a mate.

It happens:)

iberator··on CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
I read the article. Worth to read. Questions: which Motorola chip CIA wanted? Same for Intel graphics card.
iberator··on Founder of Chinese property giant Evergrande sentenced to life in prison
Long live the chairman! China seems to be winning. China playing on easy mode tho in comparison to the west. (Authoritarian and centralized government can be VERY effective with applying wherever policy they want)
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