TimeSquirrel

It’s the Amazon store technique. Today, you’re known as “Sohanghi”, tommorow you’re “Elbertung”, next week you’ll be “Smasnug”.

“Maybe I’ll try learning more about C++ templates today…”

Wall of incomprehensible errors

“Maybe not.”

“alt.fan.furry”

Me: “What is this?” click

Back in my day we had to get our Internet at the village Internet well. I remember the dialup modem noises it made as you pulled the bucket up.

You just have to be able to navigate whatever executable file format it is, figure out where the data/code sections are, how different parts are linked together, and translate all the binary opcodes to readable mnemonics.

Easy. 😁

Everything is open source if you can read assembly.

I don’t want to know what installing Windows looks like.

I’m pretty sure it involves slimy tentacles reaching into all your private areas/data.

unless we’re wrong about the whole speed of light thing

Technically, if we could reach relativistic speeds close to the speed of light, the trip could be very short for the crew. Just don’t expect to ever be able to see anyone you knew back home ever again. We can do just fine on sub-FTL tech if the crew accepts the consequences. We can use very high ISP continuous propulsion methods like the Orion nuclear bomblet and pusher plate concept, or beefed up ion engines, or lasers pushing a solar sail, etc.

Debian

As long as you’re not using the distro’s 5 year old version of 3D printer slicing software with ancient printer models in it and go for the newest appimage/flatpak instead (just dealt with this last night).

Also, I’m pretty sure they can’t do shit about encapsulated data, such as VPN traffic.

2001. Was 19 still living at home when my Dad switched us to something called “@home” broadband, which became Comcast a couple years later. I do remember being blown away by seeing images load almost instantly on a web page.

That was also the last year I remember using Netscape Navigator as a daily driver. It was IE for the next four years until I switched to Firefox, and have been using that ever since. Yes, IE blows, but Navigator was starting to become a bloated mess as it started to suffer from feature creep trying to win people back.

You know what was great about the era of CRTs? We didn’t know what we were missing. If you look at almost every 70s/80s scifi movie depicting the future decades from then, and there is a computer display of some sort, it will be a CRT. Even inside vehicles.

Star Trek is the only one where I saw flat panels (LCARS terminals). AND they were touchscreens.

MacOS is actually officially “UNIX” though. It has that going for it.

Tankies gonna tankie.

Wat? Don’t you dare talk that way about my favorite multiple personality disorder clusterfuck of a language.

I mean, I’m on Debian and I’m on the same install instance I’ve had for almost four years now. I’m constantly reading about how some of you people keep hosing your other distros with a normal update…

Yeah that sounds like a typical BMW engine layout.

I’m imagining a 30 year old Pentium Pro server grinding away in a broom closet somewhere. It’s next to the one still running the old Space Jam website.

I discovered this when I started doing embedded baremetal programming with no OS and using SD cards. It hit me like an anvil from the sky when I realized dirs are just files pointing to other files. With no OS services you have to open the dir file directly in the program and scan it for file entries to get a list of them and pointers to their actual locations in the media. Navigating down and back up a subdirectory tree has to be done entirely in programming by keeping track of where you’ve been. There’s nothing in the filesystem itself that will do that for you. It just tells you where you can physically locate data.

Good enough for MS-DOS, good enough for me.