Posts by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
(DIR) Post #AyfSIf2QrDiggwTBzM by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-09-27T05:52:24.622655Z
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@catsalad @SwiftOnSecurity @chillybot Thanks to @hannah, I'll never not see this when I see airplanes at airports.
(DIR) Post #AyjGlVkS3SBfSXtDXs by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-09-29T16:12:16.669897Z
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@kornel @chainqLack of obscure/legacy things is immaturity only if you assume having them is a goal, but Rust prioritized other thingsYou illustrate the problem perfectly here: thinking that it’s either / or is a broken way of thinking.Even if it were the case that prioritizing certain things precludes others (which it most certainly isn’t, unless you’re doing things incorrectly), this is precisely why Rust is inappropriate for universal adoption.If a certain corporate led group gets to decide what is “obscure/legacy”, then people either have to maintain their own forks of Rust, or we just have to blindly accept that things that aren’t popular enough or that don’t get enough attention by corporations will be deemed, “obscure/legacy”.
(DIR) Post #AyjGlX7AyRxVhJWsbY by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-09-29T16:21:08.863312Z
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@kornel @chainq This is bad for the planet. We should make good use of our computing resources and not intentionally landfill them. m68k is an example of how we can maintain support for non-mainstream if we want, yet people who know nothing about m68k would love to kill it for emotional reasons. We don’t need this at all. We’re already seeing this with Debian and i386.So when people want to lump things in to an “obscure/legacy” category and suggest that the problem isn’t Rust, that just means you’re cheerleading for reducing sustainability.
(DIR) Post #AyjGlYCAxLYJ36sO2K by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-09-29T16:24:29.778491Z
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@chainq @kornel Here’s a good example. How many people are even aware of the existence of SuperH? Do you know about SuperH? People who advocate for the dropping of i386 make claims of “cost” and “developer time” - of course they’d advocate for dropping support for processors they’re not even aware exist. Yet if you have a working (non Rust) toolchain, you can compile thousands of open source packages that were written by people of whom a vast majority probably know little or nothing of SuperH:https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sh3el/It’s somehow viable in 2025 to have something like this with a modern toolchain, a modern OS, and thousands of compiled packages. So should people like you, who would most certainly consider SuperH to be “obscure/legacy”, be listened to when you advocate for Rust and the exclusion of what you somewhat dismissively consider to be “obscure/legacy”?Rust is fine, but the advocacy is a bit exhausting, especially from people who show little awareness of the implications of getting what you claim to want.
(DIR) Post #AyjGlaKl0PbZgIuGgq by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-09-29T23:06:14.985702Z
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@kornel That’s the thing - you’re not asked to choose between “writing software that might run on SuperH (but probably won’t due to speed & RAM requirements) vs being able to write more reliable software that runs better on still-manufactured CPUs”.You invented those limitations. If you received a problem report about running on SuperH, it sounds like you’d focus more on how “irrelevant” it is, how support is a waste of time, perhaps, rather than focusing on the idea that fixing something, even something that’s an edge case, generally means code is better.The Rust ecosystem is nice and all, and nobody is saying that anyone should abandon it. Of course you’ll all have your npm moment when crates get backdoored, but that’s just how these things work.The real issue is that people in the Rust community want to replace everything with Rust versions while dismissing fallout as unimportant because “obscure/legacy”.Sorry, but no.
(DIR) Post #AzqP3AKciovKv77wIa by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-11-02T06:56:58.371762Z
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@mirabilos @ska Yes, they certainly have forgotten what Debian was supposed to be about, are apparently OK with making decisions by fiat, and have no problem condescending to thousands of users and volunteers at the same time.Like the world needs another corporate Linux distro...I even wrote a quick letter to Julian Andres Klode, requesting that he not be so dismissive of others' work, and he just replied with stupid justifications showing that he didn't understand the rather simple request or intentionally ignored it.
(DIR) Post #AzxUrIaSA8mYscyXPk by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-11-06T05:03:46.606397Z
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The Moon is bright tonight.
(DIR) Post #B05pjI46EFFQzt7ar2 by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-11-06T22:55:50.154191Z
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@ricci “UNIX Original” gives the same kind of vibe as this fortune gem:The hieroglyphics are all unreadable except for a notation on the back,which reads "Genuine authentic Egyptian papyrus. Guaranteed to be atleast 5000 years old."Very cool! Can’t wait to check it out on an (emulated) PDP-11 :)
(DIR) Post #B0AgKotn5ZvNnCM8e0 by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-11-12T13:52:14.877639Z
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@kaia @lain I quit Linux when Linux became less consistent with O'Reilly animal books than AmigaOS.
(DIR) Post #B0ORW93tqJG0edRSzo by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-11-19T05:12:32.796749Z
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@ricci @eeide There's a whole book about the Fastlane Z3?
(DIR) Post #B0W9fjaxPJczKPBjkm by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-11-22T04:16:28.910663Z
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@meluzzy An easy way to get started is to download the image here:https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2025/10/07/msg009440.htmlOr, if you want to start with a new image, download the Generic 64 bit image from here:https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/arm/Write it to an SD card, then mount the MS-DOS partition on it, then download to it and unzip on it the EFI from here:https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/releasesv1.50 came out less than a day ago, so I haven’t tried it, but I know that v1.42 works. You then need to boot the image, go in to the EFI menus, then set:Switch Default uSD/eMMC Routing: Arasan SDHCI -> EMMC2Disable “Limit RAM to 3GB”Set boot order to microSDI think that’d do it. The notes at the mail-index.netbsd.org link above should help.
(DIR) Post #B0iZj94ZM9nK0iitkW by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-11-28T19:14:58.121854Z
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@hellomiakoda @nonehitwonder @ramin_hal9001 This right here is why 32 bit should continue forever. Run a 32 bit browser on a 64 bit system and let it limit itself.
(DIR) Post #B0uzhV8nGXT2a05wW0 by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-12-04T21:21:18.474334Z
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@nf3xn @Free_Press Dumbocrats sounds about right. Dumbocrats. It works.
(DIR) Post #B0wkPjA1I9kZquefei by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-12-05T18:08:49.128286Z
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@m0xEE @nf3xn @Free_Press That fits, though, considering how so many Dumbocrats pander to Republicans. They'd middle ground their own executions.
(DIR) Post #B15HB3vmdZ6bg9I3zk by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-12-09T17:45:41.485124Z
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@rl_dane @jlw_the_jobber I'm debating whether to split off in to a new person or to migrate to #snac. Did you look in to the latter?
(DIR) Post #B1FS6iCMXRcaC7lx2W by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-12-14T18:28:45.358932Z
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@thomholwerda That’s why I don’t unboot my DEC Compaq HP AlphaServer.
(DIR) Post #B1FxLMFVWaon2ihu76 by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2025-12-14T18:22:05.490970Z
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@buherator I truly feel bad for people who believe that they can't not run Windows.
(DIR) Post #B21X3gL5lY6mRHNSq0 by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2026-01-06T23:41:14.464844Z
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@mcc @glennseto The more I read, the more small pieces fit in to place because of explanations like yours, @mcc At the same time, I’m completely lost about what Wayland is actually supposed to do. Can I ssh -Y with Wayland? No? Why not? How can this possibly be a replacement when it can’t do basic things?I wonder out loud why we can’t have our X11 / graphics drivers get talked to by Wayland until Wayland is ready to do that on its own. Or, in the case of old / odd hardware (X11 works on Amiga custom chipsets under NetBSD, after all), Wayland might never talk directly to the hardware, and that should be fine - nobody is forcing Wayland to support hardware that doesn’t make money for someone.Or maybe I’m misunderstanding things, which is entirely possible and would explain many things. It’d just be nice if new things which’re intended to replace old things didn’t do it both incompatibly and half-assedly.
(DIR) Post #B2BVBhW11ILm4lmYCW by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2026-01-11T18:53:34.476464Z
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@0x47df You can still find PowerBook G4 batteries for sale, even if those batteries aren't quite as good as real Apple supplied batteries.
(DIR) Post #B2UcIy2W5wp6lqBXxg by AnachronistJohn@zia.io
2026-01-20T05:30:58.654475Z
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It took six days and eight hours for a #NetBSD Raspberry Pi Zero W to compile gcc 14.3.0 for earmv4.Now I’m curious how long each version of gcc would take compared to each other…Please don’t go down that rabbit hole, I keep telling myself.