@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, I feel the same way, although it’s hard to tell in retrospect after so many years. 😅 Maybe our teachers actually did a good job and I just didn’t get it back then. I wish I could go back in time and re-watch all that, to see what it was actually like. 😃

@arne@uplegger.eu Aye, works fine now. 😊

@prologic@twtxt.net Maybe, yeah. HackerNews frontpage = at least 50’000 hits in a short time, when it happens to me.

twtxt was on HackerNews yesterday and I think none of us noticed. 😂 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42488983

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (I think “division is just repeated subtraction” is a great explanation of what division is on a fundamental level. 🤯 Well, if they did explain it that way in elementary school, I didn’t listen that day. 😂)

@prologic@twtxt.net Ouch. Any insight on who that was? Or just random IPs?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oof, that is impressive!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hmmm:

Could not fetch: HTTPError('403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://uplegger.eu/twtxt.txt')

🤔

@xuu@txt.sour.is It uses “North American Mode” by default, it seems (says the source code). cal -mw 2024 switches to ISO 8601.

(Everybody should use ISO 8601 or at least RFC 3339!!1!11! 😅)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That must have been “Between Interval - Radio Silence” playing in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIzhpg01Faw&list=PLApmGFOVPZhko_EIfnvcPVdqXSklqJTIq (I didn’t pay attention to audio, sorry. 🥴)

2024 was a funny year: The year begins and ends with calendar week 1:

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The one in January being 2024-W01 and the one in December 2025-W01.

🤓

(Hmmm, my printed LaTeX calendar using tikz-kalender gets it wrong or uses different week definitions. It shows next week as 53. 🤔)

Why have I never checked out KolibriOS before? That thing is crazy. 😳

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@mckinley@twtxt.net

So, just a hobby. It won’t be big and professional like GNU, then?

Ha! 😅 No, that certainly won’t happen this time. 🥴

(What an exciting time that was when there were new operating systems. 🤔)

Improving the filesystem is probably going to be the next big task. I don’t know that much about this stuff, so I’ll have to learn a lot. 🥴

@prologic@twtxt.net 😃 It surely was/is one of the most fun projects recently.

@bender@twtxt.net Heh, crazy. Here in Germany, they make you pay good extra money for that. I get a new IP every time my router connects to the internet.

I’ve been making a little toy operating system for the 8086 in the last few days. Now that was a lot of fun!

I don’t plan on making that code public. This is purely a learning project for myself. I think going for real-mode 8086 + BIOS is a good idea as a first step. I am well aware that this isn’t going anywhere – but now I’ve gained some experience and learned a ton of stuff, so maybe 32 bit or even 64 bit mode might be doable in the future? We’ll see.

It provides a syscall interface, can launch processes, read/write files (in a very simple filesystem).

Here’s a video where I run it natively on my old Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop (and Warp 3 later in the video, because why not):

https://movq.de/v/893daaa548/los86-p133-warp3.mp4

(Sorry for the skewed video. It’s a glossy display and super hard to film this.)

It starts with the laptop’s boot menu and then boots into the kernel and launches a shell as PID 1. From there, I can launch other processes (anything I enter is a new process, except for the exit at the end) and they return the shell afterwards.

And a screenshot running in QEMU:

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@prologic@twtxt.net Exactly. 😂

Props to you if you can easily spot the scrollbar in this picture:

https://movq.de/v/a6dc0491a9/s.png

@mckinley@twtxt.net

Early on, I was thinking about WAN IP address changes as well but it hasn’t happened in ~2.5 years with this ISP.

You mean to say you have the same public IP all the time? For 2.5 years now? Without paying extra? 🤔

@mckinley@twtxt.net I used to have an SSH port reachable from the outside, but since I’m doing 99.999999% working-from-home now, I no longer need that. (I don’t even have a desk at the office anymore and – and this is important for us Germans! – no parking spot, either! 😅)