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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 23:22:32 JST pistolero
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@mint @MisterRogersSnapped

> Here's Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard from '99.

That one was USB, and as I said, no one used those. There were plenty of people running 95 because there wasn't this screaming urgency about updating. I had a computer in 1999, my friends had computers, I had a part-time job doing tech support at an ISP, this involved fixing people's computers: I never saw one of those keyboards at the time.

The RTX 4090 exists and is available for sale but they only made 100k of them because nobody buys a $1200 GPU, it's a niche thing.

> I'd reckon most of those complains were about this key having a Windows logo on it rather than it existing in the first place.

It was that it represented Microsoft eating the world, down to the keyboard.

> Look at Model M, for example, there's clearly some space left that would fit an extra button nicely,

I don't need to, I have keyboards from that era. (Most of a disassembled 486 in my closet; no time or space to play with it at present, but I'd like to be able to get an old Hercules video card for it, amber monochrome monitor, complete the experience. My first machine had one of those and I really like the way they look.)

Old coworker of mine had a PS/2 to USB adapter, into which he plugged an XT to PS/2 adapter, into which he plugged his Model M, so that he could use a Model M with his Thinkpad. Apparently he got one in the 80s and the things can't be killed. He cleaned it by just putting it into the dishwasher.

> Either way, I think we're digging too deep into what was supposed to be a silly video

I will die on this and every hill: that kid does not know what the 90s looked like. That BBS documentary? Half of it took place in the 90s. DOS-ass motherfuckers. WinME sucked for a lot of reasons but removing the "kill Windows and go back to DOS" option in the Start menu was a dealbreaker for a lot of people.

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 20:48:59 JST pistolero
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@mint @MisterRogersSnapped Anachronisms inserted by this kid:

> index.php(!!!)

> web-based forum

> a comment section

> upvotes

> disgusting relative timestamps

> dynamic page content

> user profiles

> profile pictures

> buddy list

> the keyboard (you can't fault him for not tracking down an old keyboard but he didn't need the close-up of it; you *can* fault him for not just looking at old-ass websites)

I will fight that kid.

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 20:35:15 JST pistolero
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@mint @MisterRogersSnapped @Zergling_man @dcc @goo @j @shibao Copypasta issue; the censorship appears on https://web.archive.org/web/20200607140627/https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.html .
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 18:52:29 JST pistolero
@NonPlayableClown @11112011 @SilverDeth @TrevorGoodchild What is blitz on about now?

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 18:50:42 JST pistolero
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@MisterRogersSnapped @Zergling_man @dcc @goo @j @shibao I should probably mention that this is copypasta: https://web.archive.org/web/20121018125753/https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

While I'm on the topic, the GNU website appears to be down, at the moment, but archive links are preferable anyway: they have taken to retroactively editing things without noting the edit or altering the attribution, so I have no idea who censored the "Know your Unix System Administrator" piece, but on May 30, 2020 (not too long after they kicked :rms: out), someone removed some words from https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.txt , so the Last-Modified header on that URL reads "Sat, 30 May 2020 10:54:03 GMT" and https://web.archive.org/web/20200507133552/https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.html differs from https://web.archive.org/web/20200507133552/https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.html . It is one thing to edit someone's jokes retroactively (I don't think it should be done; I don't even like that they changed the quote style), but they don't even note that they edited it anywhere, and that part is kinda infuriating.
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 18:14:01 JST pistolero
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When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi and Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, ‘C-h for help’ and ‘“foo” File is read only’. So I use the editor that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.

Ed, man! !man ed

ED(1) Unix Programmer's Manual ED(1)

NAME
ed - text editor

SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.

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Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed because it's ED!

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs

Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:

golem$ ed

?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?

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Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

TEXT EDITOR.

When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a Unix standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.

Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 18:09:08 JST pistolero
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@MisterRogersSnapped @Zergling_man @dcc @goo @shibao When @j was testing his upscaler, he did a more legible version:
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 17:35:06 JST pistolero
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@mint @rasterman Yeah, I think I mentioned this but we got DoS'd by that search engine (accidenatally, probably, since they were probably used to indexing really simple sites; FSE might be the world's largest gopher site).

@rasterman has been here since 2018 and FSE has had gopher enabled since gopher support was added (~2020) and he apparently just found out about it so I guess we've got security by obscurity on our side. It's not hard to force gopher through a bottleneck (or turn it off altogether) if it becomes a problem, but I wanna avoid that if possible.
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 17:02:21 JST pistolero
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@rasterman Well, technically that is lain's doing; I just enabled it. lynx supports gopher, I think elinks does too. There's a gopher browser for Plan 9 at https://github.com/telephil9/gopher . If you don't have any of those, you can probably just boot an old enough live CD im qemu, Firefox *used* to support gopher; try something pre-2009, I think 3.6 was when they removed all the cool shit.
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 16:51:10 JST pistolero
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- SilverDeth
@SilverDeth Incidentally, did this work?

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 16:51:09 JST pistolero
- SilverDeth
@SilverDeth oof. Hope it wasn't too bad.

Lemme know if it works or not, I'm curious about if it actually works. It *looks* like it does but I just have emulators.

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 16:50:46 JST pistolero
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@SilverDeth I have one, but it crashes in a lot of emulators because of a bad instruction introduced in the translation patch. So if this one runs, have fun. If it doesn't and you find one that does, let me know.
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 16:50:45 JST pistolero
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- SilverDeth
@SilverDeth 620 locations have 0x1b in them and it turns out that the memory map is kind of complicated ( https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/CPU_memory_map ) but if I just guess based on the format having a 16-byte header ( https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/INES#iNES_file_format ) that the 0x1b at 0x98d6 in the ROM is not a coincidence and change it to 0xee (a one-byte NOP, apparently there are lots of NOPs aond some of them ar two bytes: https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/CPU_unofficial_opcodes ) then *this* version runs in at least NEStopia.
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  The .NES file format (file name suffix .nes) is the de facto standard for distribution of NES binary programs, with use even in licensed emulators such as commercialized PocketNES and Wii Virtual Console. It is often called the iNES format, as it was created by Marat Fayzullin for an emulator called iNES. The format was later extended with NES 2.0 to fix many of its shortcomings.
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 16:50:45 JST pistolero
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@SilverDeth The only emulator I have used that it doesn't crash in is ines, so I have some 32-bit ines binary in ~/bin. I figure that I could fix it with a hex editor and a memory map of the NES ("Unrecognized instruction: $1B at PC=$98C6", and I don't know where in the NES's RAM that address would appear at, ines treats it as a nop) but I haven't attempted yet, so if you don't find a better version, it wouldn't be hard to replace it and make one.

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 16:42:48 JST pistolero
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@shibao @dcc @Zergling_man @MisterRogersSnapped @goo Those would be, based on the 2007 timestamps, probably 711chan or some weeb forum I used to hang out at. Estimating from the graph, about 2/3 of the meme directory came from fedi, though.
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 16:12:31 JST pistolero
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> Enough making fun of languages that suck, let's talk about javascript!

Ha, I saw the "wat" talk when it was new.
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 16:12:30 JST pistolero
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> VB also does this!

Yeah, to be fair some of the JS stuff there is like...stuff you expect a runtime to do if it is all IEEE-754 and there is no real integer, but then stuff like

>array of ints sorted as strings

Zero languages should be allowed to do this. '[] + {}' should probably toss an error of some sort, or coerce the array into an associative array so []+{}=={}, like [1]+{a:2}=={0:1,a:2} would make more sense than JS's fascination with just coercing all types to strings.

> 'banana'

Ha

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 16:12:28 JST pistolero
@realman543 @Zergling_man @MisterRogersSnapped @dcc @goo Well, that's PHP stuff. PHP is Linux's Visual Basic.

JS isn't bad to know, it's just bad to tell a recruiter that you know it.

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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 16:07:54 JST pistolero
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@realman543 @MisterRogersSnapped @Zergling_man @Zettour @dcc @goo I have a bunch of shit that I ain't even know I had, man.
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 23:10:11 JST pistolero
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@dcc @MisterRogersSnapped @Zergling_man @goo Like, it seems like that'd get a feller in trouble.
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