#plan9

"Builds" and "works" are two very different things; and especially under #Plan9. Built yggdrasil-go with the outstanding PR that adds #9front support. It builds, it connects to the #yggdrasil network -- but you can't do anything over it by default; cannot ping or connect to any peers. Not much use that way. Does it pass all checks and tests on build? Yes. Does the compiler complain? No. Does it run? Yes. Does it work? No.

look at this beautiful school #unix_surrealism #9front #bobby_glendys #glenda #plan9 #lunic

I got 9/9 problems but a bun ain't one #unix_surrealism #cirno #glenda #9front #plan9 #art #fediart #comic

🛸 9FRONT "THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN" RELEASED https://9front.org/releases/2026/08/02/0/ #plan9 #9front #osdev #opensource

A better shell for UNIX based on Plan 9 rc - developed by @odchttps://codeberg.org/rc23/rc23 #rc #C #plan9 #shell #programming

Cirno and large Glenda https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/182153619 #unix_surrealism #cirno #glenda #plan9 #9front

I wonder in what state is #Zig on #Plan9? Is it usable enough or it's a bit rot.

#UNIX is not just an OS; it is the ultimate #IDE for #programmers. Arguably the best written introductory book on UNIX programming is "The UNIX Programming Environment", Kernighan (1983). This book covers UNIX V7, but I used it with 4.2BSD. There is another jewel of a book of a similar kind, a free one to boot, by Prof. Ballesteros (King Juan Carlos University): "Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs" (2007). Prof. Ballesteros wrote this book to teach his CS students the fundamentals of good OS design. Although almost no one uses #Plan9 today, it is alive and kicking. It even runs on Raspberry Pi. Anyone interested in OSs and likes the philosophical underpinnings of UNIX should take a look at Plan 9. The other must-read book is his "Notes on the Plan 9 3ed Kernel Source" (2007). Prof. Ballesteros has many Plan 9 related publications in PDF format. https://lsub.org/books-papers/ PS—Those with a historical bent should also read Organick's "The Multics System: An Examination of Its Structure" (1980). Multix is the mother of UNIX, and Plan 9 is the grown-up UNIX.

9 #9front #plan9 #comic #art #unix_surrealism

The 12th International Workshop on #Plan9 will start tomorrow, as I discovered on YouTube. Programme and lineup of presentations: https://iwp9.org/ Recordings will be available on YT: @plan9foundation@youtube.com

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localfirst.

I wonder if people know how to have fun with a computer without social media, let alone without the web in general, let alone without the internet in general. Some of the most fun I've had recently was dinking around with #Plan9 with nothing more than a bunch of manpages and the occasional web lookup via #Mothra (a web browser who's capabilities closely match #Dillo — very web 1.0)

Shameless plug(s): https://rldane.space/i-loved-computers-before-the-internet-was-a-thing.html https://rldane.space/web-10-is-unironically-going-great.html

text-bias. terminals, CLIs, shells.

I love the fact that plain text has more or less won. Markdown. JSON. XML, umm, yeah. XD

Markdown.

MARK the FRICK [DOWWWWWWWWN] I was literally writing Uni class notes in MS Word until I discovered Markdown (not until after abandoning grad school, sadly). When I learned about it, I was like,

"This is a UNIX system, I know thi—"

COUGH

I mean,

"This is basically just #WikkaWiki or early #TiddlyWiki markdown! I already know this!!"

And I've loved it ever since, like 7 years, now.

decentralized. p2p. e2ee. no surveillance supported, allowed or even possible.

The glazed-eyed look when I tell people that their security cameras could be e2ee'd, that they didn't have to give some creepy corpo a 24/7 view into their kids bedrooms. Mein gott

middle finger to the rentier & grifter class.

Thank God for the #fediverse for teaching me terms like "grifter," "rent-seeking," and the like. Y'all have ruined this Texas boy 🤣

I was talking to my aunt a few months ago, and this totally white lady raised by conservative Christians said, "Man, capitalism just ruins everything!"

My immediate response: "DEAR GOD, [NAME], THEY HAVE RUINED YOU!!!" 😂

anti-AI caltrops the norm.

YAS. I wanna see TONS of anti-AI honeypots ;) There needs to be a service called amislopornot.com that lets you punch in a git repo URL and tells you if there's any agents.md, claude, or copilot contributions. #Fedi, make this happen! 😆

return to compute efficiency (where every pixel, character, cycle and bit is precious and not to be wasted -- unless its for sake of funny cat videos, and even that the only exception. ok also dogs in costumes. no other exceptions. maybe a re-binge of Firefly. literally no other exceptions, however. unless Minecraft has new skins avail. again: last possible exception.

Make .GIF for still images again. It was never meant to be used for animations. 😥 The fact that you can effortlessly convert an animated GIF to mp4 in like a few seconds with ffmpeg, shave off no less than half the storage with no perceptible loss of quality (on a highly dithered image, to boot!) really tells you it's just not meant for that.

the important point is to aspire to be a vegan even while mouth stuffed with fresh bacon.)

This is the last sentence that EVER needs be writ. Literature is now declared COMPLETE. I have a B.S. in Literary Studies, I have the auttorritaah!!!