jrjsmrtn (u/jrjsmrtn)

jrjsmrtn commented on One weird trick to making Claude Code palatable to use · Posted by u/JSR_FDED

jrjsmrtn · 18 days ago

My new system prompt: "No glazing. Just use a Yoda-like appropriate citation as conclusion."

"> What Elixir library could I use for TUI ?

[...]

Much to learn about TUI libraries, you still have. But choose Ratatouille, you should - strong with the terminal, it is."

jrjsmrtn commented on Ask HN: Code should be stored in a database. Who has tried this? · Posted by u/vaughan

jrjsmrtn · 5 months ago

Hmmm... Smalltalk, a pure object-oriented language, stores everything in an image, and has tons of different browsers to inspect its "object soup". Install a Squeak Smalltalk if you're curious :-)

Userland Frontier was a wonderful scripting environment born on macOS and ported to Windows. It was a mix of an object database, storing code and data, an extensible scripting language called UserScript, and very powerful InterApplication capabilities, based on Apple's Open Scripting Architecture. Dave Winer, its author, worked on the XML-RPC standard afterwards.

jrjsmrtn commented on European Union OS – Fedora Linux and KDE Plasma Based eu-os.gitlab.io/... · Posted by u/maverick74

jrjsmrtn · 5 months ago

Correct.

But being open source and distributed under the GPL is not enough.

RedHat or SuSE have a more indeterminate future due to their shareholders control, frequent changes of owners, distro licensing or source code availability.

Debian, the distro, is almost boring but has the largest platform scope and one of the largest package base. Debian, the organisation, with its community, its policies, its social contract, its independence, has proven its resilience over and over again.

In addition to Debian's LTS and ELTS support, the Civil Infrastructure Platform (https://www.cip-project.org) provides Super-Long-Term Stable (SLTS) kernels for ten years. Want paid support ? Look at companies like Freexian. Want reproducible builds? (https://reproducible-builds.org) Look at https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds (And yes, I'm very aware of NixOS/Guix).

Thus, why start a new Linux distribution if we want sovereignty?

Let's support and build on the Debian project and community, the Civil Infrastructure Platform, the Linux Foundation, the reproducible builds projects. Let's support Proxmox, a EU-born VMware alternative based on Debian ! :-)

Developer resources are scarce, maintainers burnout is real. Let's not waste energy on futile projects. Let's build our sovereignty on solid, existing foundations.

jrjsmrtn · 5 months ago

Oh, and let's move to RISC-V. ;-)

jrjsmrtn commented on European Union OS – Fedora Linux and KDE Plasma Based eu-os.gitlab.io/... · Posted by u/maverick74

couscouspie · 5 months ago

It doesn't matter where software was produced or where it's core contributors reside. As long as it is fully open sourced and distributed under the GPL license (as Fedora) it is by nature an independent technology that empowers the user to claim their own sovereignty.

jrjsmrtn · 5 months ago

Correct.

But being open source and distributed under the GPL is not enough.

RedHat or SuSE have a more indeterminate future due to their shareholders control, frequent changes of owners, distro licensing or source code availability.

Debian, the distro, is almost boring but has the largest platform scope and one of the largest package base. Debian, the organisation, with its community, its policies, its social contract, its independence, has proven its resilience over and over again.

In addition to Debian's LTS and ELTS support, the Civil Infrastructure Platform (https://www.cip-project.org) provides Super-Long-Term Stable (SLTS) kernels for ten years. Want paid support ? Look at companies like Freexian. Want reproducible builds? (https://reproducible-builds.org) Look at https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds (And yes, I'm very aware of NixOS/Guix).

Thus, why start a new Linux distribution if we want sovereignty?

Let's support and build on the Debian project and community, the Civil Infrastructure Platform, the Linux Foundation, the reproducible builds projects. Let's support Proxmox, a EU-born VMware alternative based on Debian ! :-)

Developer resources are scarce, maintainers burnout is real. Let's not waste energy on futile projects. Let's build our sovereignty on solid, existing foundations.

jrjsmrtn commented on European Union OS – Fedora Linux and KDE Plasma Based eu-os.gitlab.io/... · Posted by u/maverick74

fsflover · 5 months ago

> Or base it on Debian if they don't want to be 'beholden' to any company.

Debian typically doesn't support new hardware and software while Fedora does. Personally, I found the balance by using both inside Qubes OS.

jrjsmrtn · 5 months ago

Debian Stable and Fedora answer to different use cases. I wouldn't use Fedora on any production server.

jrjsmrtn commented on The European Union Has Its Own Linux Distribution and It's Called EU OS news.itsfoss.com/eu-os/... · Posted by u/maverick74

jrjsmrtn · 5 months ago

AFAICT, this is *not* a "European Union's (EU) initiative for developing a new Linux distribution initiative".

This is:

- a "*Community-led Proof-of-Concept* for a free Operating System for the EU public sector" (https://eu-os.gitlab.io/?ref=news.itsfoss.com#what-is-eu-os),

- that community being led by a one person team (https://gitlab.com/eu-os/eu-os.gitlab.io/-/project_members),

- and with only 4 commits in its repository (https://gitlab.com/eu-os/workspace-images/eu-os-base-demo/-/...).

"Can this Linux-powered operating system disrupt Windows' hold in the European Union?"

Can a one-person PoC do that?

"The European Union has its own Linux Distribution and it's Called EU OS"

I cannot find any link to any EU announcements on that subject.

IMO, that article is very naïve...

jrjsmrtn commented on Ask HN: Language After Python and C? · Posted by u/greenfield101

jrjsmrtn · 7 months ago

Elixir (https://elixir-lang.org) and its Nx stack (https://github.com/elixir-nx), maybe ?

jrjsmrtn commented on Why doesn't Apple do servers? · Posted by u/throwaway4good

jrjsmrtn · 2 years ago

They did the popular Xserve, and the AWS before. They did A/UX, AIX (by IBM, of course), MkLinux and even Xenix (on the Lisa) way before OS/X. There was even a version of Netware for Mac. What they don't have anymore are the _enterprise_ sales and support channels.

jrjsmrtn commented on Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces, high quality polaroids (1981-) digibarn.com/collections/... · Posted by u/walterbell

jrjsmrtn · 2 years ago

Very nice... but the https://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/xerox-star-... picture has a Lisa screenshot ;-)

jrjsmrtn commented on Ask HN: Best way to run Linux VMs on M1 Mac with fileSharing/shared networking? · Posted by u/princevegeta89

jrjsmrtn · 2 years ago

Although I have a Parallel license, I'm mostly using UTM. I have Debian/Ubuntu, NixOS, SUSE, Windows 11 VMs all running natively on ARM.