Posts by drj@typo.social
 (DIR) Post #B535xxUwWG0uGWCTC4 by drj@typo.social
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       @eniko I am installing FiwixOS (thanks to @nina_kali_nina ), and i note that "the minimum memory recommended is 128MiB". If, you know, one were looking for an OS to host a game.
       
 (DIR) Post #B56I0D1fXXDLvZE7pg by drj@typo.social
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       @nina_kali_nina i couldn't figure out in macOS/Fiwix how to make a ISO image that i could read on Fiwix (mostly, filenames in CAPS and some files don't read), but i did figure out:dd if=/dev/hdc of=mtools.tar.gz(that is, just jam a tarfile onto the raw blocks of a "hard disk" on the qemu side, and then dd it off on the Fiwix side)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5nP18OjHor3L7g7PM by drj@typo.social
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       Universities and other academic institutions should run their own source code repository service. A replacement for github if you will (i'm politically neutral on whether it should be gitlab, gitea, forgejo, or SSH, or whatever). They have a civic and academic duty to preserve the research artefacts of their workers; which unquestionably includes code. It is unacceptable that for the entirety of the 21st century almost every single part of the Academy has punted this service onto entities outside of their control, funding, and jurisdiction—latterly github. Yes, tarballs of code on departmental ftp servers (the 1990s practice) was literally better than this.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6Hk7Ujn4GPQ8sCXpY by drj@typo.social
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       Bitmap fonts, eh? What's your favourite font format? Yes, i know about TrueType (though examples would be welcome), BDF, Windows FON (a bit), Adobe BDF (a bit), Plan 9.Please RT.#BitmapFont
       
 (DIR) Post #B6V01eLKZAbMW7TTCS by drj@typo.social
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       @neauoire I've read both (mostly for bragging rights). Good luck! Once you've read Ulysses, nothing seems impossible.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6j1NLixlnCifmd2YK by drj@typo.social
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       Realised the other day that Varvara is just Barbara with a V/B substitution. Barbara[V/B]#uxn
       
 (DIR) Post #B6j1uFqcdhSm0HtxiK by drj@typo.social
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       @neauoire _singer_! not signer. The first must shorter version of this post, led me down a right rabbit hole. To this, for example, a sculpture of signing the Declaration of Independence. https://www.nps.gov/inde/planyourvisit/plaques-and-statues-in-the-park.htm haha