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This is not a [email protected] alternative. This is not a [email protected] alternative. This is a place for you to post your bad posts.

Ever had a really shitty bit idea? Joke you want to take way past the point of where it was funny? Want to feel like a stand-up comedy guy who's been bombing a set for the past 30 minutes straight and at this point is just saying shit to see if people react to it? Really bad pun? A homemade cringe concoction? A cognitohazard that you have birthed into this world and have an urge to spread like chain mail?

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Do not post good posts.
- Unauthorized goodposting is to be punished in the manner of commenting the phrase "GOOD post" followed by an emoji that has not yet been used in the thread
- Use an emoticon/kaomoji/rule-three-abiding ASCII art if the rations run out
This is not a comm where you direct people to other people's bad posts. This is a comm where you post badly.
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If you're struck for rule 3, skill issue, not allowed to complain about it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yess, I love 9front

The 9front people are doing a great job of dragging Plan 9 into the 21st century after the project was abandoned by the original developers (the 9front people would say "before they went on display at Google" lol)

In addition to better hardware support, some novel features have come out of the 9front project: new filesystems on-disk or otherwise (very very looking forward to ori's "good enough filesystem" ending up in the system), a completely new and from scratch Git implementation (one of the only other complete implementations in the world), kernel tracing infrastructure similar to Solaris (idk much about this one but it's called "dtracy"), etc etc etc

And if you wanna realllly be completely bewildered, look into mycroftiv's ANTS (Additional Namespace Tools for Plan 9) project. I was lucky enough to meet this guy once online before he died a few years ago, he had some wild ideas about how to construct distributed operating systems, absolutely love it lol. The Plan 9 community (mainly united around 9front) is a community of dreamers. My dream is a kind of "social operating system" in the service of communism, uniting the computational resources and information of all of society into a grid of computers that anyone can use, but also serving as a virtual meeting and collaborative space and as a distributed economic planning apparatus. Idk it's a grand dream (and Plan 9 is far from that, although there is a "grid" a lot of the 9front people use to talk to each other and collaborate on) but I like to think about it and try to make parts of it real lol

The Plan 9 developers once referred to their project as an attempt to build a Unix out of a lot of little systems instead of a system out of a lot of little Unixes (and the latter approach has won out under the market-based system, most people's idea of distributed computing is like.... Docker and Kubernetes agony-deep )

I hope that makes sense, I am very tired lol

I wrote a bit more about Plan 9 and its history to another Hexbear here a few months ago if you wanna read: https://hexbear.net/comment/4812784