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1. You can have a button for both.

2. Yes

3. I got stuck and couldn't get past RILGUN -- it'd be nice to know what the word you were going for actually was.

Frogfind would probably be good.

May be good to have a comparison/contrast with something like xonsh, or comparison of use cases.

You really ought to watch the Black Mirror episode Plaything. It’s about digital pets with a neural network interacting with a human played by Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who) and the outcomes that might result from this.

Not even open source. Bleghh.

You should definitely watch the Doctor Who episode Partners in Crime.

But they left out the star marking the only location I want to know on any map of the Isle of Man: BigClive’s house.

Who is that, and why?

Can't distribution be archival?

Thomas Jefferson: "Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident."

If it can't be done on a MC68000 (or thousands in parallel), then does it really need to be done?

What is GNU and what is not these days?

There is a definitive list: https://www.gnu.org/software/

Is Wayland? Is GNOME?

Wayland never was. GNOME was at one point but isn’t any longer.

Have you checked out Chimera Linux? Should I refer to that system as “the Linux kernel” or “GNU/Linux”? Neither makes sense.

Neither, but it would be both accurate and more specific to say that it is a Linux-based OS with BSD’s userland.

whole “GNU/Linux” things has always felt desperate.

It’s now “desperate” to ask to receive credit for software you wrote? GNU wrote coreutils and gcc and early GNOME and those are part of pretty much any early GNU/Linux system and you think giving GNU credit for the work they put into building an OS is ‘desperate’?? No offense but screw that.

It is a bit like the 70’s BSD guys says AT&T needed to call their software BSD/UNIX because so many people used BSD stuff on their systems.

But the BSD guys never said that..that I can tell. Unless you can provide specific examples, I can only assume this is a straw man and ignore it.

The main advantage of sixel is probably the fact that it’s directly backward compatible with old DEC hardware, which I happen to like to use. I could have, say, a pdf reader that renders the pdf to the screen of an actual hardware VT330 by using sixels.

I see no mention anywhere of yaft. Not an in-kernel framebuffer console, but one worth knowing about nonetheless, because it offers features like sixel support which probably won’t be landing in kernel any time soon.

[Also the title is ambiguous. While technically correct by referring to the kernel as Linux, I thought it originally meant GNU/Linux (the OS) because it didn’t say (e.g.) “consoles in the Linux kernel” or “consoles in GNU/Linux”]

This is funny in that despite it being hosted on textfiles.com it is an audio file... attempting to convince people to switch from binary formats to text formats.

http://audio.textfiles.com/basement/maketheswitch.mp3

Near infrared??

PTA

Parent-Teacher Association??

Even more reason to not use it for anything.

Oh Holy God, not another one!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_proliferation

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Trivial_brainfuck_substitution

What did I just read?

It can compile C into BF, too. So....that's a thing.

Interested parties should also check out awka (https://github.com/noyesno/awka) and ELVM (which can compile C into awk or sed, among various other things) (https://github.com/shinh/elvm)

Just replying to the top comment in the hopes that this'll get seen: He's doing a keynote for linux.conf.au this year: https://old.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/riwm4x/brianwkernigha...

Yes, I believe the computer jargon term for an occurrence such as this is a 'typo.' :D

Interestingly, elemental phosphorus was originally isolated from urine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus#Discovery

which is funny considering that economists and such are worried that mining phosphorus rock might have a limit soon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_phosphorus

eh, I suppose that's fair.

significant early contributor to the C programming language

source? http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?I=info.Brian_Kernighan says that

Kernighan has said that he had no part in the design of the C language: "It's entirely Dennis Ritchie's work".

He did help write the first device-independent troff (The original by Joe Ossanna only worked with one specific type of computer-controlled typesetter.) and helped write the K&R C book, and the K in AWK is him, too.

GNU ls also has options to automatically add quoting to its output.

this is one fugly text file:

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-378593A1.txt

I've got both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS on 5 1/4 floppy. I can use ADTPro and I recently got (but haven't yet installed) an Uthernet ethernet card.

I'm looking for some kind of tiny ssh client I can squeeze into an Apple II. I'm pretty sure even dropbear is too big (I haven't actually tried yet, though so YMMV.)

Are there any other smaller SSH clients out there?