Notices by Thom, HP-UX™ evangelist (thomholwerda@exquisite.social), page 2

Latest NixOS KDE unstable image currently being written to a USB drive.

I'm walking into a cult with my eyes wide open.

So the Fedora Silverblue experiment has a big snag: for some reason, thermal management is a hot mess, literally. So I might as well experiment with more nerdy stuff on my XPS 13.

BSD perhaps? ...9front? Am I cool?

Okay so what's the best way to get a good, solid classic Motif desktop (CDE?) going on Linux or FreeBSD? Is there any distribution that specializes in this sort of stuff?

I'm reading the 9front docs and holy shit these people are genius shitposters.

My favorite find is this image in the section on emulating Linux binaries:

Fedi, I'm looking for temperature and humidity sensors compatible with Home Assistant. Preferably Wi-Fi (fuck hubs). One needs to have a nice display so we can chuck it on a wall in one of our living rooms, the others should not have a display and be small.

Big tech companies who have joined the American nazi's campaign to exterminate trans people:

- Apple
- Microsoft
- Facebook
- Google
- Amazon

Jesus fucking Christ hearing non-translators and non-localisation people talk about this is rotting my brain. Of course, none of these people have an accessibility need for closed captions either.

Y'all can fuck off. Enjoy shitty, hallucinating, utterly broken subtitles for the rest of your life as more and more translators go out of business. And it's also clear you fuckers never cared about accessibility in the first place, since this will kill off any quality closed captioning too. All you care about is your own entertainment, not anyone else's.

Shitfest: HP's compiler tools for HP-UX. Full version is locked behind codewords (so a license) that they don't sell anymore, of course. Latest GCC is some 4.3.x version.

I have no idea if pkgsrc can work with that.

holy fucking shit they kicked me out

i was just about to contact them

wat

We need to start making Motif software again.

Like this absolute chad, who develops and maintains a Motif window manager, file manager, and image viewer.

https://fastestcode.org/

Where's my Motif browser? Fedi client? Email client?

I've gotten so, so much shit for deciding to not report on Ladybird after the transphobia came out. I still get shit for it. Well what do you know:

https://corteximplant.net/objects/f2d30c92-a64f-4154-940f-99080479f0c8

It would be easier to be a coward and just not speak up about shit like this, to avoid pointing out the rotten apples in our bunch, but I'd rather @osnews remains as free as possible from people like this, even if it means fewer readers ans thus less income for me.

This is self-serving but also not: @nlnet should be giving grants to maintain and hopefully grow the last few vestiges of independent technology news reporting. Virtually all technology news publications are either dying, already dead, resorting to massive amounts of privacy-invading ads and shady advertorials, or they become part of massive corporate media conglomerates more interested in raw profit than good reporting. The end result is "news" dictated by Big Tech.

We're dangerously close to losing the last few remaining independent tech news sources - which in turn means open and libre tech efforts take a backseat to big commercial interests. NLnet focuses on open and libre tech efforts, but without independent, responsible media reporting on such efforts, there's a lack of communication between the kinds of efforts NLnet funds, and the people who might want to use those efforts.

At @osnews, I obviously feel the pressure too. I scrounge by with donations and Patreon, but it's barely workable and I have no idea how long I can keep this up financially.

Well, since people were asking, I figured I'd make an official Ko-Fi donation goal for that awesome new-in-box fully decked-out HP c8000 PA-RISC workstation on eBay. It's the final one they ever made, with two of the most powerful PA-RISC processors in it, both dual-core, and the best GPU. It's €1300 including shipping (from Germany to Sweden).

If we make this goal, not only will I - of course - write about it on @osnews; I will do you one better: HP-UX, daily driver, for at least a week.

I legitimately don't think we'll reach this goal, as it's not something a lot of people will want to donate to, I think. Hence, there won't be a story about it on OSNews, maybe only mentioning it in the sidebar.

Criticising big corpos in the US is a deadly endeavour.

https://archive.is/xBuPg

AliExpress speedrun: without using search, starting at the main page and scrolling, find the weirdest possible item.

@mp Male Shaving Apron Beard Catcher Cape Care Bib Face Shaved Hair Adult Bibs Shaver Cleaning Hairdresser Gift for Man Clean Apron
https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ez7338Y

I wrote about how good @kde's Falkon is, actually.

I just wish KDE itself knew this, and put a bit more effort into Falkon.

https://www.osnews.com/story/141265/the-state-of-falkon-kdes-browser-is-much-better-than-you-know/

And another undersea cable in the Baltic destroyed, this time between Sweden and Finland.

But keep pretending we're not already at war with Russia, you cowards.

@Ze_Andarilho Lenin may be a communist in name, but his actual policies and the state he built were very much fascist.

Idolising Lenin is cringe. The guy was a fascist in everything but name. Tens of thousands of people who disagreed with him were slaughtered in concentration camps. He was a brutal dictator, his image polished only because his successor was even worse.