bogantech's comments

On: Chuwi Minibook X

[bogantech]

Can it use an external display under Linux?

On: A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing

[bogantech]

> More interesting is what happened next: an institute in Sofia was reportedly tasked with decapping the ICs, lifting the netlists under a microscope, and reproducing them with socialist lithography

Given that (afaik) the Apple II logic would have all been jelly bean logic or otherwise off the shelf parts did they really reverse engineer ICs?

On: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

[bogantech]

Except you have to run Tahoe

On: ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives

[bogantech]

With a PATA-SATA bridge support for CHS is up to the BIOS / OS

With a USB adapter though it's up to the adapter itself to support that which they generally don't do

On: Amiga Unix (Amix)

[bogantech]

Hyperion charge money for the OS and don't pay the developers at all, if anyone is greedy it's them

[ThatGuyRaion → bogantech]

AFAICT Cloanto is milking Amiga, and Hyperion is actually updating OS 3.1/3.2 plus their OS 4 stuff.

On: M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer)

[bogantech]

I'm guessing the Spartan II was used because it is compatible with 5V IO

[rasz → bogantech]

Spartan 2 was used because it was free, author salvaged it together with Atmega128 from some scrap he had laying around :)

Here is a prototype https://imgur.com/gallery/486-homebrew-computer-lsUiWdw

The most impressive part of this build is that maniek86 (Piotr Grzesik) is still in High School (electronics oriented CTE).

On: Is Proton leaving Switzerland?

[bogantech]

They were tapping fiber links between datacenters

[mmh0000 → bogantech]

And, they were directly installing compromised hardware in datacenters [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

On: Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental

[bogantech]

Most software development these days is JS/Typescript slop, popular doesn't equal better

[recursive → bogantech]

You can write slop in any language. And good software for that matter.

[mlindner → recursive]

I've never met anything written in JS/Typescript that I would call "well written".

[josephg → mlindner]

I have. I personally really enjoy the recent crop of UI frameworks built for the web. Tools like Solidjs or Svelte.

Whatever your thoughts are about react, the JavaScript community that has been the tip of the spear for experimenting with new ways to program user interfaces. They’ve been at it for decades - ever since jQuery. The rest of the programming world are playing catchup. For example, SwiftUI.

VSCode is also a wonderful little IDE. Somehow much faster and more stable than XCode, despite being built on electron.

[division_by_0 → josephg]

Great points! I think your point about the JS community is often overlooked. Electron et al have made desktop UI/UX considerations more salient in the JS world. Desktop-like experiences in the browser can be great.

[recursive → mlindner]

I guess you should read more code.

[lomase → mlindner]

Bait used to be credible.

On: Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

[bogantech]

It's because they're ramping up for the midterms

On: Trial by jury is a right that needs protecting

[bogantech]

And the UK marches further into authoritarianism

Now they'll fast-track you to jail for social media posts