Andrew Pamment

@apam
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Programming for fun. Interests include retro computing, MMORPGs, and Linux / BSD

all operating systems suck uniquely. find the one that sucks the least for you and use it. also, shut up about it.

EDIT: "shut up about it", is about OS proselytizing. share all you like, just don't pressure me to use what you use. it'd be hypocritical to say this as I certainly don't shut up about my love for OpenBSD.

#Linux #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #Windows #Illumos #plan9 #9front #MacOS #DOS

@jmc this is where it appears to hang on both machines, the top process on htop appears to be doing something, but it stays that way until I give up waiting (i left it overnight once).

Also, interestingly, the ksh93 process does not die when I Ctrl-C the nightly script.

I wondered if it could just be taking a really really long time due to the git status in oh-my-bash.

I have saved the log too, if you want it, but don't think i can post that here.

finally managed to build #illumos on my #openindiana install. It turns out there is some incompatibility with oh-my-bash (it would never finish) but restoring the stock bashrc for my user fixed it.

The End (of Windows 10) is nigh!

On 14 October, #Microsoft will end support for #Win10.

This will turn hundreds of millions of computers that cannot upgrade to #Win11 into security risks and #eWaste.

Yours may be one of them!

But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

Learn more: https://endof10.org/press

Saved a device from the bin? Tell the world with the hashtag: #EndOf10

#Linux #GNU #GNUlinux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Windows

Nick Clegg says that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would ‘kill’ the industry, according to The Times.

Okay, maybe let it die then. Maybe we can get back to building tech that actually works rather than hyping up hallucinating plagiarism machines in order to fluff up corporate quarterly reports.

If generative AI just went away tomorrow, it would be a net positive for the world.

A new goodbye screen for my BBS :)
I'm not sure why people appropriated pagan holidays and made them into my son's birthday, but I guess I need to get him two gifts now?!
This is worse than 2016 because now everybody knows exactly what trump represent and people still chose it....

There's going to be a lot of fingerpointing today about why Kamala Harris didn't win but the bottom line is that 70 million Americans knowingly voted for a racist, misogynistic, narcissistic, rapist and liar who is a convicted felon.

There's no excusing that.