Wisellama @Wisellama@mastodon.wisellama.rocks

Interesting work, tracing the history of UNIX through FreeBSD.

"Unix has evolved for more than five decades, shaping modern operating systems, key software technologies, and development practices. Studying the evolution of this remarkable system from an architectural perspective can provide insights on how to manage the growth of large, complex, and long-lived software systems"

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20210618/

#Unix #BSD #FreeBSD #Computers #Software #OperatingSystems #ComputerHistory

The person who started the initiative to fork Audacity has stepped down, due to IRL harassments from 4chan.

https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/99

Fork of Audacity without any telemetry:

https://github.com/cookiengineer/audacity

Can I interest you in anything and everything, all of the time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

(CW: swearing, vulgarity)

Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

every so often i remember that time skate god rodney mullen compared linux to street skating

From my POV, the more web engines and web browsers not based on Google code the better.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90611677/flow-ekioh-web-browser-new-engine

> And I grew up during the heyday of the Free Software Foundation, so I *know* this is a trap, but I’m *tired* and don’t have the energy to be a server admin for something that’s held together with scotch tape and prayers when I’m really supposed to be writing OpenGL code.

OK that is fucking amazing...
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/

"RIAA's YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub's CEO" – https://torrentfreak.com/riaas-youtube-dl-takedown-ticks-of-developers-and-githubs-ceo-201027/

#GitHub #youtubedl

#youtubedl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md

I made this as a meme for a friend but I ended up spending longer than I wish to admit on it so now you have to suffer too lol

#Minetest is 10 years old! It was first released publicly on the 10/October/2010. Here's to 10 years more.

You can download the first version from here, it's a Windows executable but works well in wine: https://packages.8dromeda.net/minetest/minetest_old_releases_2010_through_2012_mostly_win32/2010-10-10_to_25/minetest-c55-win32-101010000530.zip

Happy ten years of F-Droid 🎉!

https://f-droid.org/2010/09/29/f-droid-is-here.html

Seven years ago, as the news declared I was being charged as a criminal for speaking the truth, I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA's activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them.

And yet that day has arrived. https://t.co/FRdG2zUA4U