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That's probably for the best. Writing init scripts is easy enough for that small percentage of users (like gp) who really need it. Good choice on Debian's part, imho.

1984 is a great book, but I wish more who invoke it had read it or understood it.

That more seems like there's a hole in the market for a better gui.

I'm reminded of one of my favorite music videos: https://youtu.be/fTH71AAxXmM

And that's why wayland will never replace X

It's pretty popular in more casual circles. I'm pretty sure it's still the chosen format for videogame mods and the like

Think about what you'd use the os for. In general I'd say:

Programming tools (text editor, assembler, compiler)

Simple office software (spreadsheet, database)

Multimedia (music/video player, image viewer/editor)

Toys (simple games, demos, emulators)

He's become somewhat controversial due to his worldview and political writings, which include climate change denial

J is one of the strangest programming languages I've ever tried. I would reccomend giving it a go, though I wouldn't personally write actual software in it.

Well, on dvorak, the quote key is where the q is on qwerty, so you certainly won't be accidentally hitting return!

I kinda sorta use a local rss client myself, based on a screenshot I saw on someone's website: https://git.sr.ht/~japanoise/feedbag

I'd be interested in other folk's take on this.

That's a cute analogy. Sounds like my maternal and paternal grandfathers :)

This is excellent! I'll be using this for my OSR sandbox campaign for sure!

Note that if you want to use this for a hexcrawl, the hexes it generates are 50mi on their short diagonal - this means they fit five (four and two halves) 6 mile hexes on their short diagonal, if we go by https://www.welshpiper.com/hex-templates/

This looks rather like an ebook written with pandoc[1]; if you don't mind, what prompted you to write your own rather than using an existing format?

[1]: https://pandoc.org/epub.html

We have that in the UK, and unfortunately it doesn't work very well. Obviously the UK is different to the States in a number of ways, but you might want to watch Shaun's video on the subject: https://youtu.be/nP95Frc0v4k

This looks really useful, thanks for sharing!

Great article. I will definitely be subscribing to your feed.

>…the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

- torvalds

There's a comparison in the linked article.

We need a web anti-browser, which only has a "reader mode"

Even more shameless: I used it as a base for my own ersatz-emacs in golang! https://github.com/japanoise/gomacs

This is actually my go-to editor for small files/quick edits now

Yeah I learned Perl in 2013 or so and I almost exclusively use it as a better shell+sed for text munging, which is where it excels. In my experience Python is super bad at this compared to Perl or even shell

Your most recent article, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=3440 is tagged bitcoin, and in fact if I click on the tag, I see an awful lot of articles written in the last few months http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=42

Loper-os seems to suffer from the same problems as a lot of "unix hater"/lisp weenie types: while he does point out real flaws in the computing of today, he seriously lacks in a competent, coherent, non-vaporware alternative. His blog is now nothing but bloviating about bitcoin

Profitable, maybe, but better than before? No.

YouTube's culture and ux have slowly been killed by Google over the years, and the platform is becoming more bland and homogenized as we speak.

Some people use Tumblr for this; it's where I copped the term "microblog" from.

Maybe mine was more like a nanoblog...

This reminds me of a microblog I used to keep; I had one `blog.html` page, and added to it with an `<h2>` for the date and a few paragraphs of text... good memories :)

>We now use smartphones and tablets most of the time, since they are much easier to use. ... With people switching to mobile devices for mundane tasks...

Who are these people and for what tasks? Afaict, except for email and Facebook, the promised death of the PC is extremely overblown. In a professional setting, even major phone addicts still use PCs or laptops.

The problem isn't change per se, but change for the negative brought on by mainstream exposure leading to an influx of new members who don't learn the ettiquette of the community before joining in.

An analogy would be if HN was suddenly overrun with rude, non-technical people attacking other posters and causing drama, and outnumbering the thoughtful and constructive comments and links we come to the place for.

The "eternal september" is particularly sad if you go back and read the archived posts of early usenet - I would kill to get discussion of that quality on the net today.

If you're willing to pay, that really helps. There are countless mail services that are way better than gmail while also not spying on you.