Notices by Pawlicker (pawlicker@makai.chaotic.ninja), page 3

@allison@hidamari.apartments remember hotline.preterhuman.net is still going after years

So Cohost is shutting down.
https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down

The long story short is, the future is always going to be federated no matter if you like it or not.

There are literally BBSes, IRC servers, and Hotline servers running to this day and Hotline is dead old tech made when random hacker kids making proprietary shitware still was a thing. XMPP might have been abandoned except as part of Cisco Jabber (TM) which has been neglected by everyone except the US Government it seems (companies love Teams (tm) as of late) yet online you'll find guys running ejabberd and connecting to it with Gajim/Conversations.

Meanwhile Cohost is like a bad fedi instance the second they run out of money. "Sorry guys, we're out of money, too bad, and you can't even get the source code lol".

@allison@hidamari.apartments @penny@mk.noob.quest fun fact I e-mailed them a while back asking if they'd FOSS it in the style of one of the Richard Stallman emailers and worded it exactly in the way some anti-capitalists would get.

They said lol no.

@mint@ryona.agency decades in development and nothing to show

neko.com (the original cat chaser) for the pc98

@skylar@misskey.yandere.love @Sandstar@nicecrew.digital @SuperSnekFriend@poa.st you just know these "people" want to fight everyone online like they did other school kids when they put on that tapout shirt thinking it's the WWE.

Today it's art, tomorrow it's something else stupid.

@skylar@misskey.yandere.love @Sandstar@nicecrew.digital @SuperSnekFriend@poa.st unironically this mindset is why I can't stand segments of fedi either.

These are the same people who would blow a head gasket over liking anything they didn't years ago, they're literally the same as the Twitter alphabet people but with a different skin. I literally don't want Twitter 2 I just want to post. This is the same reason I never use bsky either, aside from it's rules on content the entire website is an asylum run by the inmates.

@Sandstar@nicecrew.digital @skylar@misskey.yandere.love @SuperSnekFriend@poa.st >he doesn't know about kemoket and the kemono sphere
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%A2%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC
https://skypalette.jp/kemoket/index.html

@Witch_Hunter_Siegfired@poa.st @Sandstar@nicecrew.digital @SuperSnekFriend@poa.st @skylar@misskey.yandere.love you WILL read the FURRY manga

@mint@ryona.agency >misskey still lets you see big emojis when you mouse overpleroma doesn't

The three biggest hurdles to Linux adoption:

Shitware for your shit job/games/some program you want won't run on it, if it does under wine nobody supports it (you should have seen a tech support wagie at HP when I was running one of the first open Windows 8 betas on my laptop with issues I was calling about, fun times), and wagies/normies want their windows badly.

Go on your local job board and search for Linux jobs, they're all "we want 10 years experience and a clearance".

@Nudhul@shitposter.world a redditor found out the cheat code to getting a interview is to work at certain companies

"My takeaways from this experiment is that applying for Software Engineering positions is very similar to the golden rule of Tinder:

1. Work at FAANG

2. Don't not work at FAANG"

https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/qhg5jo/this_resume_got_me_an_interview/

@Nudhul@shitposter.world Namely at FB/MS/Google/Apple/etc.

The value of having worked at Google isn't working at Google, as much as being able to get a job literally anywhere. "Oh he worked at Google he must be good" is a cheat code to success. Replace it with any big name tech company and you're in.

Working somewhere else doesn't exactly work if the name isn't one that someone has heard of.

@nyx@social.xenofem.me corporate it

upgrades on a wagie laptop: wwan and 1080p

@allison@hidamari.apartments @atlas_core@pl.starnix.network @YTFoidLover1488@poa.st >something like ARC

You can actually boot and run ARC on those machines, while Motorola had the ARC in ROM if you flashed it, like some of the Alphas did. It's just like with ARC on Alpha/MIPS, only used for Windows NT.

Someone on fedi was trying to port Windows NT to PowerBooks using something like this.

But there's old IBM documents explaining CHRP and PReP where the goal was to actually have a universal PPC box that would run Windows, MacOS, and UNIX and could be tweaked. Of course the problem is it was IBM and this was the 90s when Intel was breaking every antitrust law in the book to gain dominance, on top of Microsoft absolutely insisting that computers ran Windows and Apple being controlling of a cloning program that was already under pressure from MS.

I heard the last reason is why the only Mac clones were built by a startup, Pioneer (who normally didn't make computers), the CPU vendor for Macs, and Mac accessory vendors (UMAX, Radius, and DayStar were Mac accessory vendors). Also every Mac clone was based on a pre-existing Mac model, including the Tanzania design (which was designed to among other things, work with PC floppy drives and had PS/2 and VGA ports on clones).

@YTFoidLover1488@poa.st @atlas_core@pl.starnix.network The other problem with PPC hardware (which is killing it IMO), is it's stupidly expensive and ARM hardware is cheaper and more common.

The Raptor Blackbird might as well be irrelevant when ARM server boards cost around the same, come with a CPU, and have a vastly brighter future. There's also no cheap PPC SBCs and even the SOCs used for Amiga boxes by boomers cost more.

@atlas_core@pl.starnix.network FreeBSD or OpenBSD, IMHO.

The problem is that you should expect it to be rougher around the edges than Linux, and some stuff might not work.

@YTFoidLover1488@poa.st @atlas_core@pl.starnix.network NetBSD is a meme, especially if you run the non-x86 ports because there are some ports that just don't work, have bitrotted code or other issues, and everything is cross compiled.

One example of this is the PReP port of NetBSD (for 90s IBM PowerPC desktops). For a while, the installer script has been generating floppies far too big for 1.44mb, and the last version with disk images of a proper size was made in 2002! Furthermore the main limiting factor for a netboot is 2mb, meaning that you can't even netboot the machine with the latest kernel.

In 2021 this was finally noticed at least and someone made a mailing list post about it and nothing has been done.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-prep/2021/06/10/msg000183.html

Apparently the VAX port as well has issues and someone made a YT video on it.
https://youtu.be/6BxBDCLPJ9w

@YTFoidLover1488@poa.st @atlas_core@pl.starnix.network It was supposed to mean PowerPC Reference Platform, and was designed far before the drugs came out.

The idea was to make a PC but with a PowerPC CPU in it, and it failed because only IBM/Moto built hardware with it and Apple rejected it. CHRP was the successor (and what modern PPC hardware is based on, to some extent with hypervisors and all leading to PowerNV coming out as yet another PPC standard for Linux only boxes).

Yet CHRP was only used by IBM, because Apple also stonewalled the release of machines adherent to it until Steve Jobs came back, PPC Macs had their own weird Open Firmware implementation, and when IBM made the latest OpenPOWER push they chose to create yet another standard that was "bare metal" and not hypervisored like IBM hardware and the Xbox 360/PS3 are, hence PowerNV.