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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 09:28:15 JST Takom
@nyanide People call it a "linux tool" because that's what it is now.
> I'd just like people to acknowledge Unix did something
All of my Linux textbooks used the term "Unix-like operating system". Unix is practically history now, but is the knowledge of it really that rare? It's hard for me to believe. -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 09:15:48 JST Takom
@nyanide Absolutely, but there were a lot of people involved in the GNU project and they couldn't come up with a functional kernel through their group effort. Hell, Hurd is still complete ass more than 30 years later. I refuse the notion that "anyone" could write something rivaling Linux from scratch.
The creators of Unix had a team of experts and the budget of a telecom giant. Torvalds was a single student in a dorm room, and open sourced it for the good of the community. That's what makes him so respected, alongside his maintainership.
> Part of why Linux took off was being at the right place at the right time.
This could be said for literally anything. Things that aren't needed fall into obscurity
Unfortunate for the creators of Unix that AT&T decided to nuke their OS' chance to succeed going forwards, but they are still legends in their own right within the community. And I'm glad Linux came out on top. -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 09:03:02 JST Takom
@nyanide Is this Andrew Tannenbaum's alt account?
Anyways, engineering works by iterating on existing concepts, and that applies to software too. Both GNU coreutils and the Linux kernel are heavily based on Unix principles, because why wouldn't they be? Why reinvent the wheel if it works so damn well?
Also how many university students do you know that can write not only a functioning, but excellent kernel from scratch? It's still pretty damn impressive but yes, most of my admiration for him comes from how well he has done maintaining the Linux project for decades. -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 08:52:51 JST Takom
@nyanide No, I can't agree with that. Torvalds has led the project for decades and it's only because of his autistic code standards that he enforces with fury that the codebase hasn't fallen apart. -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 06:40:42 JST Takom
@mischievoustomato
I would say I'm sorry to hear but I'm really not. -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 02:37:36 JST Takom
@snacks
Ah, because the upload limit is listed as 500mb -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 02:37:07 JST Takom
I can't seem to upload videos (189mb), is that an instance setting or fedilab acting up? -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 22:18:38 JST Takom
Why is everyone an anime girl help -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 20:46:32 JST Takom
@kaia suing my company for pp chafing (company failed to provide lube in a timely manner) -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 19:07:33 JST Takom
@snacks The compactness is nice because you haven't got headphones on your neck but the downside of it is that you will drop them eventually as you keep taking them out, I really grew to hate that. One time I had to rappel down from the balcony on an outcrop below because I dropped one of my buds live... Bone conduction headphones are just there.
And if earbud ANC is enough then you just haven't had a slavic coworker yet, not to mention earbuds tend to lack in the passive noise isolation department. I ordered a pair of Dyson Zones, praying I can get him down to at least below throbbing headache level. -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 18:54:47 JST Takom
I seriously don't understand how earbuds became so popular over bone conduction headphones. Earbuds SUCK. They impact your earwax, they constantly fall out.
Bone conduction headphones are great. They hold on no matter what, you don't have to shamble to take them out and put them back in whenever someone talks to you, and if they aren't good enough for your audio, just use headphones like a proper human being.
I mean come on, with bone conduction headphones you can literally beam the sweet siren song of your favorite ASMR vtuber into your skull while you shower how the hell are you not sold?
If you use earbuds, you will not be allowed into Agartha. -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 03:11:22 JST Takom
@mia @snacks @lucy I got hired because I showed my boss my homelab and faked my way through a couple sentences in german. -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 02:04:22 JST Takom
@lucy I had to help a master's degree holder make a makefile two weeks ago. -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 00:39:37 JST Takom
@lucy @georgia @snacks So anyways, out of curiosity, what is Akkoma and why use it over Pleroma? Is Lain no longer working on Pleroma? -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 00:38:35 JST Takom
@lucy @snacks @georgia I wasn't aware there was a leaderboard 😕 -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 00:38:32 JST Takom
@lucy @georgia @snacks -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 23:59:52 JST Takom
@snacks @georgia I forgot what instance I had an account at, thought it died. -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 23:59:16 JST Takom
Holy crap I thought this account was wiped. -
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Takom (takom@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 23:59:05 JST Takom
@georgia @snacks bawn journo