Posts by amdt@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #A1BCgReVBA3BHLVXX6 by amdt@mastodon.social
2020-11-14T04:01:27Z
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This is not a thread about Plan 9; it’s just an example of something I have difficulty with about the UNIX culture: the endless academic jostling about whether something should be implemented, or left as an exercise for the user, and if it is implemented, whether it’s done with core utilities, or as a shell script etc.
(DIR) Post #A1BCgS8zLoR8ntlt3I by amdt@mastodon.social
2020-11-14T04:04:56Z
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There are also non-UNIX examples: the Multics community argued about whether line and text editing features should be implemented by Multics at all, or left to be implemented by manufacturers of video terminals.
(DIR) Post #A1BCgSHUqBF5EHkgJU by amdt@mastodon.social
2020-11-14T04:20:46Z
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Alacritty, a very recently developed terminal emulator, for years had absolutely no ability to scroll the output because its author believed its implementation should be left to terminal multiplexers, such as ‘screen‘ or ‘tmux’.
(DIR) Post #A1BCgSQiHucBgs42gC by amdt@mastodon.social
2020-11-14T04:34:00Z
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There are few things I care less about than the arguments UNIX fans have about where something should be implemented. It’s of absolutely no interest to me. It’s as interesting as two neighbours arguing over the position of the fence between their houses, or schoolboys playing football and arguing about the distance of their sweaters as impromptu goal posts.
(DIR) Post #A1BCgSetRBxQOqhMmW by amdt@mastodon.social
2020-11-14T04:40:19Z
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The degree to which our current thinking about how computer systems should be composed is restricted by the (perfectly valid for the time) architectural decisions made for a multi-user time-sharing system for 16-bit minicomputers with a couple of megabytes of memory… is frustrating!
(DIR) Post #A1BCgSqajhJaz8Ai12 by amdt@mastodon.social
2020-11-14T04:45:28Z
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All of this to say that I have considerably more affinity and longing for the Lisp and Smalltalk machines, where there was no distinction between kernel- and user-space, and the address space wasn’t cordoned-off between processes.
(DIR) Post #A1jI3W84lp42DQhYga by amdt@mastodon.social
2020-11-28T11:41:43Z
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A fortnight ago I was complaining about the UNIX culture. Today I am reading the Plan 9 manual.I do not know why I do this.
(DIR) Post #A1yy8T4afgAjdAVtGy by amdt@mastodon.social
2020-12-08T05:14:42Z
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The correct response to command line tools which spy on users is not to introduce a ‘DO_NOT_TRACK’ environment variable; it is to stop using those command line tools.
(DIR) Post #A1yyKa72KBMMwEQwqm by amdt@mastodon.social
2020-12-08T05:16:58Z
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This is in response to this proposed standard for signalling a wish to opt-out of “telemetry”. https://consoledonottrack.com/
(DIR) Post #A2GR9ci5iNgUbV6Rf6 by amdt@mastodon.social
2020-12-16T16:26:19Z
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@matt @gueorgui Just popping in to second this recommendation for contacting Citizens Advice as a first step. 👍🏻
(DIR) Post #A4H2jVu1bo2pGdrRrs by amdt@mastodon.social
2021-02-14T16:40:38Z
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Periodic reminder that the only reason anything stays published on the Web is that someone, somewhere, is spending the time and money to keep a server running. If you bookmark something, you might want to consider archiving it as well.
(DIR) Post #A5ATx85dev7pplLN68 by amdt@mastodon.social
2021-03-13T06:26:23Z
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The work @elementary contributors are doing on their GTK stylesheet, and supporting a system-wide dark mode, is really great. I especially like these accent colours! I’m looking forward to trying it again.
(DIR) Post #A5ATx9ifbHwOt6c3Zg by amdt@mastodon.social
2021-03-13T06:29:20Z
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‘Something we knew we needed to consider from very early on was a path towards making elementary OS feel more personal without breaking custom styles in apps … we provide 10 possible accent colors to choose from. Combined with the dark style, you can get a much more unique look for your operating system without having to worry about apps behaving incorrectly.’ https://blog.elementary.io/look-and-feel-changes-elementary-os-6/
(DIR) Post #A5tqLck025PAM7ECu0 by amdt@mastodon.social
2020-05-05T05:58:22Z
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Perhaps Unix fans wouldn’t espouse simplicity of implementation as much if programming in C didn’t feel like walking on thin ice covered in egg shells and broken glass.
(DIR) Post #A5tqLeEWU5Pmz4W67M by amdt@mastodon.social
2020-05-05T08:33:40Z
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You do not need to reply with a defense of the C programming language: I am heavily biased toward the MIT approach of software development and you will not convince me otherwise.
(DIR) Post #A6e8nb8UEab0gHL5sm by amdt@mastodon.social
2021-04-26T12:59:08Z
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I’ve been using VS Code at work the past few days to edit various Web-related projects and as far as its feature set and user interface goes… it’s not bad! 🤭
(DIR) Post #A6e8ncguS5j1VKS6Ay by amdt@mastodon.social
2021-04-26T13:47:07Z
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Since many non-editing buffers open in tabs, it’s mildly disappointing that the integrated terminal emulator’s relegated to a panel at the bottom of the window.
(DIR) Post #AEofCfaa1XQCRfvbCS by amdt@mastodon.social
2021-12-27T00:51:14Z
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How did Silicon Valley get us into a situation where every Web site on my phone has been replaced with an app., and every app. on my computer has been replaced with a single-page Web browser? Absolutely bizarre state of affairs!
(DIR) Post #AQ7ApdPr8jzNJOV0ZU by amdt@mastodon.social
2022-11-30T02:01:42Z
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@Eggfreckles I was partial to OmniWeb for several years. I really enjoyed the vertical tabs in a drawer.
(DIR) Post #AQVGO1K5vIDKrv3fGa by amdt@mastodon.social
2022-12-11T16:18:16Z
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@shadowfacts This frequently happens to me and I've found (after a lot of experimentation) that turning Ask Siri off, and then on again, fixes it! It sounds ridiculous but it's also reproducible.