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glamcode

@glamcode@openbiblio.social

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Software Engineer at a scientific library. Personal account.

Currently working on	#DSpace #OpenAccess #Publishing
Favourite programming language	#Pharo #Smalltalk

glamcode 3h ago

Adrianna Tan 7h ago

Ahahah my employer posted photos of us hoisting and flying the trans flag outside the aquarium and the haters are so angry it’s so funny they’re trying to say fish aren’t gay and people are like uhh some of our fish do actually change genders

#LGBTQ #Trans #Pride

glamcode 12h ago

Apparently I’m paying a certain percentage of the Apple commission to be included in search. Can I opt out of just that?

glamcode 13h ago

Weizenbaum-Institut 3d ago

Join us next week to talk about THE #AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want. Alex Hanna unpacks the myths and marketing that surround today’s AI discourse, and @milamiceli brings in critical insights from @data.workers.inquiry to highlight the often invisible labor behind AI systems. June 30, 6pm 👉 https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/the-ai-con-how-to-fight-big-techs-hype-and-create-the-future-we-want/

glamcode 13h ago

Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)14h ago

The AI Con book tour continues!

June 30: Alex in Berlin
July 1: Emily in Melbourne
July 16: Emily in Cambridge

Details: https://thecon.ai/events/

w/@alex

glamcode 15h ago

🤪

glamcode 16h ago

gedankenhal_de 1d ago

Ich will keine Museen von Milliardären „gestiftet“ bekommen.

Ich will, dass Milliardäre Steuern bezahlen und die Gesellschaft entscheidet, welche Museen sie finanzieren möchte.

glamcode 16h ago

karlsruhe.digital 1d ago

Psst...schon gewusst:

Das KIT setzt ein Zeichen für digitale Souveränität

Soziale Medien sind im Medienmix von Hochschulen unverzichtbar – doch es braucht Alternativen zu Big Tech!

Das @KIT_Karlsruhe launcht als erste deutsche Uni eine eigene Mastodon-Instanz – für mehr Kontrolle, Transparenz und Datenschutz.
📆 Launch-Event am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2025, 10 Uhr

glamcode 16h ago

FragDenStaat 1d ago

Der Verein Verwaltung für Demokratie hat ein Erste-Hilfe-Kit erstellt für Verwaltungsmitarbeitende, die sich mit anti-demokratischen Entwicklungen konfrontiert sehen. Darin gibt's auch eine Checkliste für die Neutralitätspflicht im Dienst.
https://verwaltung-fuer-demokratie.de/erste-hilfe-kit-demokratie/

Verwaltung für Demokratie e. V.

Wir sind ein Verein, der sich für den Schutz und die Förderung der Demokratie in der Verwaltung einsetzt. | Erfahre jetzt mehr...

Verwaltung für Demokratie e. V.

glamcode 16h ago

Fuzzy Leapfrog 1d ago

Leute, "stabil gegen rechts" bedeutet auch stabil gegen rechte Gedanken in uns selbst, stabil gegen rechte Aktionen und Haltungen in den eigenen Freundeskreisen und Kollegien, stabil gegen rechte Positionen in der eigenen demokratischen Partei. Es ist simpel: "stabil gegen rechts" startet nicht erst bei Rechtsextremismus.

glamcode 16h ago

Fuzzy Leapfrog 2d ago

Zwei #Queerbrarians stellen ihr Projekt #QueerTreasury vor. Mit ihrem Engagement wollen sie die Lücke schließen, die durch die Abschaltung des Regenbogenportals der Bundesregierung entstanden ist und das bibliotheks- und informationswissenschaftlicher fundiert. Zwar wurde der letzte Stand des Regenbogenportals dank @SafeguardingResearch als Archiv gerettet, doch neue Infrastrukturen, die direkt aus der Community kommen, wie diese, retten nicht nur, sondern schaffen explizit Neues. #bibliocon2025

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nixCraft 🐧1d ago

SunOS 4.0.3 desktop from 1989. I will take this over modern stuff any day. Sun was rock solid with Unix and hardware stuff until Oracle decided to ruin that iconic brand.

@nixCraft i Remember It. Please, don't say anything about my age 😢
PS: I hated Oracle for killing Sun. Honestly, I don't love it, now

Gabriele Marcosanti

@ten700 you're not old. You're well tested.
@nixCraft

mmarcott 🐡1d ago

@nixCraft what hardware do you need to run that?

Vassil Nikolov 1d ago

A fine system indeed.

Is this the PostScript-based window system?
I forget if it ran on SunOS 4.0.
If not, then it ought to be X11.
Doesn't look like SunView.

@vnikolov @nixCraft

I confess my memory failed me on this, however it did lead to some general reminiscing so I looked up NeWS (which I did remember as the PS-based system) and Wikipedia helpfully yielded:

"The OPEN LOOK version of the FrameMaker desktop publishing program, developed by Frame Technology Corp. with funding mainly from Sun Microsystems and NSA, was one of the few commercial products that ran on NeWS."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS)

NeWS - Wikipedia

Vassil Nikolov 1d ago

Thank you, this is very kind of you.

[witchzard]1d ago

@nixCraft I appreciate that. As an employee I think that before Oracle; Scott and Eric's embrace of AT&T to make the "one true UNIX" in System V was a key breaking point. In many ways it was enshittification personified. Leadership chose money over engineering. I get that they needed money (SGI was coming up fast) but being in the systems group at Sun really changed at that point. And not in a good way. I guess I still have unresolved grief over that fork in the road.

John Ulrik 1d ago

@nixCraft Not the only thing they ruined. There’s that office suite. There’s that database. … … … Still baffled they didn’t ruin Java.

Shane Celis 1d ago

@ujay68 @nixCraft > Still baffled they didn’t ruin Java.

Didn't they though?

John Ulrik 22h ago

@shanecelis Apart from the javax vs. jakarta package disaster, Java is very much alive and kicking IMO. More than ever, actually.

GreenDotGuy 1d ago

@nixCraft I desperately want someone to create a modern theme package and compositor with this vibe (personally I want Classic Mac OS Platinum), but capable of HiDPI, smooth text, and native to Wayland.

Is there anything like that in the works that anyone knows about?

Charalampos Mitrodimas 1d ago

@DarcMoughty that would be a dream come true.

@nixCraft @DarcMoughty, it’d be wonderful. However, I fear so much software uses custom UI that this wouldn’t work because the apps design would clash with the system theme. :(

GreenDotGuy 18h ago

@volemo That's been my experience when I do use systems like XFCE with retro themes. It's a bummer, but I understand why it has to be this way, and I'm still happier with GNOME and other modern GTK+-based systems than I am on anything else.

Jan Johannesson 1d ago

@nixCraft I remember that environment, And what a bunch of docs I have created in FrameMaker.

@nixCraft
*sigh* an interface like that on an big E-Ink display is my personal dream...

Killab33z 1d ago

@nixCraft Oracle tends to ruin things as if it's a part of their business model.

Knightmare 1d ago

@nixCraft wow, that Makes AmigaOS look ten years in the future even though it came out in 85.

Ernst de Moor 1d ago

@nixCraft oh, I used a colored SunOs (don’t remember the version) on a Sun386i in 1989. Sweet memories.

Rainer "friendica" Sokoll 1d ago

@nixCraft xbiff!

Mark Coggins 1d ago

@nixCraft Wrote my first novel with FrameMaker on a SPARCstation.

Paul_IPv6 1d ago

sun diskless workstations w 19" monochrome monitor totally rocked, as did SunOS. i was less thrilled with early solaris but that was also because sun engineering wasn't either and still used sunos when customers were getting solaris. later solaris was still not thrilling as a desktop but great as a server.

the oracle takeover was as fetid and tragic as we all predicted.

mikeTesteLinuxQlub 1d ago

@nixCraft First impression: look like mac OS in the old days, they copied it?

Inverse ATASCII 1d ago

@nixCraft os’s were better user experiences when they had personalities. Now they are blindly utilitarian and feel as such.

Alexander Shendi 1d ago

I don't see what's so great about the screenshot.

The screen is almost entirely taken up by FrameMaker 2.0. Besides that there are only standard X applications:

* xconsole -C
* xbiff
* a csh shell window (I'll give you that the icon is nice)
* xclock

The look of the monochrome desktop is reminiscent of GEM on Atari ST. It's low distraction and I like the monochrome look (But would prefer Smalltalk or Interlisp).

But you could "rice" any X11 window manager to get the same look.

@nixCraft, this looks so damn good!

Shane Celis 1d ago

@volemo @nixCraft It's surprising to me how much it looks like a mac, probably the black-and-white has a lot to do with it.

@shanecelis @nixCraft, yeah, I think it’s the absence of colour, the dithering, and the fact that there’s only so many ways to design a windowing GUI on a monochrome low-res screen. (:

IrishMASMS 5h ago

@nixCraft good #suntember #sparctember post