Notices by @<jn> ( -- ) #6118 DEO JMP2r (jn@boopsnoot.de), page 2

@lanodan ooh, good one. i already had nethack but not rogue

what are the top 10 programs that any unix host should have?

@linus similarly, if programs put other runtime data in .cache, that's bad, because it violates the contract of a cache that you outlined.

i wouldn't put it past, let's say, browsers to do something silly like that

spotted at WHY2025

Debian hairstyler

@a1ba incident description: malfunctioning clock

makes you thing

@Suiseiseki what? that doesn't make sense. a CPU architecture doesn't become bad because it's supported by a toolchain you don't like

I'm quite surprised to find out that OpenOCD doesn't appear to have any support for PowerPC targets.

vendors 😒

Big endian RISC-V is coming!

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/742147ba1bb2

@prettygood oh god. GNU Trollface. :D

@fossdd @famfo RISC architecture is the future

@domi @tufo @merlin some of us hoped for the next ibm thinkpads, but we got the next late-stage lenovo thinkpads instead

@domi just like in Hackers (1995)

This blew up a bit. I got many replies, ranging from harassment and gore to pretty thoughtful ones.

So, what's my problem? I think jokes and art based on fascist materials make space for those who genuinely enjoy these materials.

I wish the release collage came with a paragraph stating what is obvious to many but not all: It's a fucking disgrace to deport people and rip them out of their lives, and if we don't watch out we'll be reliving the 1940s faster than we're prepared for.

@lanodan @novenary fair points, thank you both. after sleeping on it for a night, i've distilled my gripes somewhat:

https://boopsnoot.de/@jn/114671594749757068

Although there are things I like about the Plan 9 family of operating systems, I cannot in good conscience promote 9Front.

Among the first commits in the git history was "Added /lib/meinkampf", followed, three months later (with a lot of regular development in the meantime), by "replaced /lib/meinkampf with something more sensible". You'd think this means they removed the nazi propaganda, but no, they replaced it with an english translation.

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the manual page for ns(1), a tool that lists the namespace of a process, to this day states: "46:The name of this tool is reminiscent of National Socialism and NeXTSTEP, it's hard to decide which one is worse", which is at best an incredibly trite attempt at humor.

and it isn't all in the past. the poster for the current release ("clause 15 common elements of maus and star type") is a collage (credited to sl) of a drawing by prahou (whom i respect as an artist), and a photo

the photo isn't credited. it shows men with shaved heads in cheap, uniform clothing, sitting in shelves. the photo was taken at the concentration prision in El Salvador (CECOT), to which the US has been deporting "gang members".

the "back" side is even worse: just straight up nazi shit, namely the table of "Markierungen der Häftlinge", signs that prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps were forced to wear.