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Comment · 13 hours ago

I’ve never heard of Cosmoline

Ironically it's made of petroleum, which is the decayed remains of prehistoric organisms.

Comment · 13 hours ago

"The walls have ears."

Personally I would be careful about poking this bear so publicly. All it does is accelerate escalation and cause those of us who have been subjected to user-agent discrimination and found our own workarounds even more difficulty.

With the rise of AI, this point may be moot, but this is still a war and anything you make public can and will be used against you.

Comment · 13 hours ago

Maybe CFAA, but then again IIRC scraping was ruled legal.

Of course, in the spirit of adversarial interoperability, this is a path to freedom. It's unfortunate that user-agent discrimination even became a thing.

Comment · 1 day ago

Of course the Japanese would be anti-war. Never forget December 7, 1941.

Comment · 1 day ago

Wifi is vastly more complex than BT

I disagree; BT is several orders of magnitude more complex, since it includes many more layers than Wifi (which is really just a physical layer for carrying Ethernet).

Comment · 1 day ago

~370 MB/sec of raw data.[...]This is next to impossible to deal with.[...]You can't move it anywhere fast. Even SSDs have trouble dumping this straight from RAM to Disk

Always interesting to see what happened in ten years --- 370MB/s is well below what the slowest NVMe SSD can do today, and easily achieved over a 5Gbps Ethernet connection.

Incidentally, H.264 patents have either expired or will be expiring soon: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_M...

Comment · 3 days ago

I believe that is actually a Broadcom chip, originally BCM43455.

Comment · 3 days ago

Another breathless fearmongering. "threatens"? No, I don't think network booting is even all that common outside of extremely niche scenarios.

Instead, it applies only to organizations with machines that boot from local networks, or conceivably from Internet-connected resources.

Who is PXE-booting over the open Internet!?

Comment · 3 days ago

I wouldn't call it "atrophy" unless you were already reading and writing Asm regularly.

Comment · 3 days ago

IMHO this is one of the OSes with the weirdest decisions I've seen on here. I do agree with using PE instead of ELF, as the dynamic linking situation of the latter (and Unix-likes in general) is, to put it bluntly, a horrid mess.

The POSIX functions are split over ucrtbase, iphlpapi, and ws2_32, as on Windows, with anything that Windows doesn't implement put in mnposix.

LOL. POSIX in ucrtbase! Those are words that I never expected to see together.

I used AI to help with the mechanical parts of porting

I feel like it won't be long before someone comes up with a crazy chimera of an OS that can run DOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, and macOS binaries. It doesn't look like AI is replacing software developers, but rather boosting them quite significantly; there seems to be a lot of activity and new projects I've seen recently from many who aren't even using AI themselves, but must be somehow being inspired by others to do more.

Comment · 3 days ago

Using GDB to debug Asm is... certainly a choice.

Comment · 4 days ago

Wrote a few small utilities in Win32 in the early 90s; still use them today unmodified, but most recently in WINE. I have some slightly older DOS utilities that are also quite usable.

Comment · 5 days ago

I think another important point that AI is revealing is how diverse the population's preferences are. Legacy entertainment is nowhere as precisely tailored, because it tries to appeal to a wide audience.

Personally, all the Harry Potter AI shorts recently have been rather amusing, although they also vary significantly in detail and wit.

Comment · 5 days ago

Did you use AI tools to do it? The README reads like Claudish. It's amusing to see Nvidia-powered AI used to unlock their GPUs.