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jmclnxon Playing Zork 1 on a CP/M emulator on Linux (2021)

Very nice.

FWIW, frotz can be used to play these games on Linux and *BSD. See for these type games:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45392164

The article from the link above is below. You should be able to get some games from it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20261019201930/https://eblong.co...

jmclnxon Upload Your RAM

>so consumers are left to feel the guilt of having unused RAM in their computers

Funny WEB Site!

Not me, I have 2 8G DDR4 sticks sitting in a draw that I purchased a few of years ago when they were cheap. I was going to use them to upgrade my W541 to 32G, but I have one of the first models that the max is 16G. So saving them in case I have RAM issues.

If Sam wants them, he can pay me 5000 USD each for them, otherwise I will proudly hang on to them. If I knew his email I would send him a pic of them saying "hahaha" :)

jmclnxon The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo

Seems in Linux land, compatibly, even between distros, is going out the window. :(

Individuals can deal with that, but companies will have a hard time. You would think the Linux Foundation (LF) would chime in with all these differences. But they seem more concerned with AI than Linux these days.

If it was up to me, I would standardize on OpenBSD's doas, but me doing that would make for more incompatibilities.

jmclnxon Paraguay bank collapses with half of population's savings

I doubt it, but based upon the abc link orsorna posted, I cannot but help to think if this is a preview to the *coins (!bit) created at the start of Trump 2. This includes Trump's Coin.

jmclnxon Italian chef fired after refusing to put pineapple on pizza

Why not :)

Funny!

jmclnxon OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability

>We consider the root cause of this bug to be outside OpenSSH itself, but we're in a good position to deliver a mitigation quickly.

So not a ssh issue but an issue specific to Linux using "musl libc without PAM".

jmclnxon Italian chef fired after refusing to put pineapple on pizza

> An Italian chef sacked from a Brisbane restaurant had refused to put pineapple on a pizza because it was an "insult to his culture".

I fully agree with this! I hope he finds work soon.

jmclnxon Frustrated Ranchers Want People to Quit 'Rescuing' Their Working Guardian Dogs

Couldn't the tag the dogs ? The picture indicates the dog has no tag.

jmclnxon Too Expensive to Exist

Yes, very sad, but that is what you get based on how people vote these days.

But no worries, decendents of all the people moving south will eventually end up as climate change refugees in 50 to 100 years. Then we get to watch a whole new environmental habitat develop in the deep south :(

jmclnxon Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads

The big question I have, why isn't Nvidia's stock falling quickly ? Nvidia's GPUs are the most in demand chip for AI. Seems Nvidia stock is also falling, but not as much. I would think it would fall almost as quickly as Intel.

I wonder if something else is happening to Intel

Nvidia Stock:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NVDA/

Intel Stock:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/INTC/

jmclnxon WTF Ubuntu?

>Oh and btw, distros run by volunteers (Debian, Arch, Alpine...)

And Slackware too:

    Thu Oct 22 23:04:17 UTC 2026
    patches/packages/linux-5.15.223/kernel-generic-5.15.223-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
    patches/packages/linux-5.15.223/kernel-headers-5.15.223-x86-1.txz:  Upgraded.
    patches/packages/linux-5.15.223/kernel-huge-5.15.223-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
    patches/packages/linux-5.15.223/kernel-modules-5.15.223-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
    patches/packages/linux-5.15.223/kernel-source-5.15.223-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
      This update fixes bugs and security issues, including the PwnEscape flaw.
      For more information, see:
        https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99999
      (* Security fix *)

From: https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/Change...

jmclnxon The question we should all be asking about AI

> the government is trying to pay for Social Security, Medicare and an expensive war, all at the same time.

Total BS. We the poor and middle class paid for Social Security and Medicare through our taxes, NOT the government. Up taxes on the rich to allow people to get what they are due based upon what we paid into these programs.

jmclnxon Novellas with Groff

FWIW, to use ^H for bold print, set this:

    export GROFF_NO_SGR="Y"

    setenv GROFF_NO_SGR "Y"

depending upon your shell. Useful for old printers like I have :)

jmclnxon Edgar Allan Poe, Quintessential American Writer

He was a frequent visitor to a bar that is still in business in the city I grew up in. It was said he carved his initials in a table there. Friends and I spent time there looking for these initials but without luck.

But sometime in the early 90s or late 80s, there was a fire that burned most of those old tables in a side room. Rumors spread saying the owner at the time set it on purpose for insurance. It was never proven true.

jmclnxon TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8

If I am reading this right, Slackware 15.0 is already fixed:

     % uname -a
     Linux XXXX 5.15.223 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 22 00:03:07 CDT 2026
     x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

jmclnxon UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

Too little, too late.

There are aspects of many political parties I agree with, but to me, being against Nuclear Power is the largest short sighted items this and a couple of other parties are/were against.

If many countries took the same road as France, the world would be in a much better place. Imagine the energy advances that could have happened if nuclear was supported for the past 50 years.

jmclnxon NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto

Size:

Linux:

     -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 321832 Dec 15  2021 /usr/bin/nano

per the link, atto(1) is 48 kilobytes.

jmclnxon NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto

>making it suitable for inclusion in the rescue system

People seem to be missing the point. Also NetBSD has what I call a "real single user mode". Last time I had to boot single user, ed(1) was the only editor available without some work. My guess is this new editor will be useful for people who do not want to deal with ed(1).

I have not seen it yet, but I guess it will be included in 11.1.

jmclnxon It's now official, tech is the new tobacco

I doubt tech right now can be equated with tobacco, its use does not kill.

Now AI ? The day will probably come when AI will kill on purpose without a real person's involvement. I know about the Iran School, but at that time I thought I heard the final decision was made by a person as opposed to AI.

So we really need to learn to push back should AI starts heading down that path, even if it costs you your job.

jmclnxon A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress

Maybe try a different server ?

https://sdfeu.org/w/faq:basics08

But I think more info is needed. like membership level and server you are signing into.

jmclnxon Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

Interesting.

At one tine, Slackware Linux would not recompile binaries unless the program was patched. So there was a time you could find rather old binaries on Slackware, and maybe still on other distros.

I wonder what the oldest unchanged source/program running on Linux or BSD ? My vote goes to cat(1) :)

jmclnxon Challenge Is Gone

I learned to live with my mistakes :)

I remember the old USENET Days, back them people were noto concerned with spelling, at least in the groups I read.

jmclnxon Radio Days

I hope so, I still listen to the radio.

The AM Station in the city I grew up I would play the old radio serials from before TV on Sunday Evenings. I had to move away so I cannot get that station, but I will have to check if I can stream it.

jmclnxon Why Gopher in 2026?

Why ? It is not owned and controlled by billionaires. Plus no AI slop being spammed to gopher sites.

FWIW, the same applies to gemini protocol.

jmclnxon Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

> Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

Should be "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe yet another Reason to Replace American Technology"

jmclnxon Show HN: An icon for every city in North America

very nice, saved!

jmclnxon Dungeon Generation in the Gnomish Mines of NetHack

Related, TNNT starts in 9 days (Nov 1), anyone can join the tournament.

https://tnnt.org/

jmclnxon CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority

Slackware also updated ca-certificates yesterday (Wed Oct 21 00:53:24 UTC 2026). The curl commands keks24 mentioned fails as expected

https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/Change...

To check, from keks24:

     % curl --url="https://dv-g3b-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/"
     % curl --url="https://dv-g3b-aaa-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/"

jmclnxon Corporate Linux

>In a way, Torvalds is more true to liberty than Stallman: Do what you want with the code.

To be fair, RMS is not about that kind of liberty. IIRC, FSF/GNU was a reaction to a piece of hardware that the lab had that was orphaned. So he reversed engineered it and GNU took off from there.

I believe his intent was to protect the user to be able to use their hardware as they saw fit.

Corporations want to extort us to use items their way, not our way and to spy on how we use the product.

jmclnxon Corporate Linux

It has been for a maybe 10 years. I take the recent announcements as "proof" the Linux Foundation does not care about hiding that fact. It is too bad, some distros are trying to avoid following corporate mandates, but I think their days are numbered. The Debian/AI vote proves that.

Another indication is the on-going rewrite of GNU UN*X utilities to a different License. Corporations hate the GPL. With clang, rust/uutil and now pgp rewritten in another license, distros are well on their way to being non-GPL. I have popcorn out waiting to see how Companies will move the kernel from the GPL2 to something else.

It was nice while it lasted.