Post #1373968
2025-01-01 20:47 UTC
Replies (32)
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@nil@furry.engineer 2025-01-01 20:48
i spent hours trying to get this program to run for the bit and then gave up and just faked it with a shell script. why am i like this :) edit: i did a bit of hacking to bypass parts of the code that weren't working in the emulator, and confirmed that the program will behave exactly like the screenshot: https://furry.engineer/@nil/113755546111532838
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@dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud 2025-01-01 21:00
@nil@furry.engineer CDE clock dystopia experience
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@redrummy@ohai.social 2025-01-01 21:03
@nil@furry.engineer What a gorgeous OS, tho
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net 2025-01-01 21:16
@nil@furry.engineer holy shit now _that_ is a warning message! does it use the time despite not believing it? as in, does it behave correctly?
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@onyx@mastodon.catgirl.cloud 2025-01-01 21:28
@nil@furry.engineer congrats, you just inspired this lmao: https://forge.katzen.cafe/katzen-cafe/iowo/commit/d9ef86387d4dd129e51111d7f984d84f9d922ba6 anyway, may I also include a screenshot of this in the source tree for potential far future reference?
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@seth@pdx.social 2025-01-01 22:09
@nil@furry.engineer More proof that there's no such thing as test code; all code is production code. You never know if your "hack" will be running on a computer/VM/nuclear reactor/starship/tardis at some unknown date in the future (or the past). Though with some systems, you can be reasonably sure you're that the time is always somewhere between 1970 and 2038 😂
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@erraggy@hachyderm.io 2025-01-01 22:20
@nil@furry.engineer wow! I haven't seen that desktop in 25 years!
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@grishka@friends.grishka.me 2025-01-01 22:41
As far as I'm concerned, the time has stopped in early 2020 and hasn't resumed yet.
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@dgentry@hachyderm.io 2025-01-01 22:44
@nil@furry.engineer Is that... CDE?
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@12@eightpoint.app 2025-01-01 22:47
@nil@furry.engineer no, it's actually Jan 31, 2005
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@iomf42@chaos.social 2025-01-01 22:51
@nil@furry.engineer CDE😍
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@till@ubuntu.social 2025-01-01 23:03
@nil@furry.engineer Planned obsolescence ... This workstation was not meant to be used for so long ...
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@pixelscience@mastodon.social 2025-01-02 01:27
@nil@furry.engineer @helge@mastodon.social Solaris was my first distro. Thanks for the DeLorian ride, Dr. Brown.
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@Virginicus@universeodon.com 2025-01-02 02:31
@nil@furry.engineer I miss that desktop.
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@BobCollins@fosstodon.org 2025-01-02 03:58
@nil@furry.engineer That is the Motif desktop environment.
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@dragonsidedd@sciencemastodon.com 2025-01-02 05:03
@nil@furry.engineer now there's a desktop that takes me back...
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@sgharms@techhub.social 2025-01-02 05:17
@nil@furry.engineer God that gorgeous deep purple CDE desktop. I can smell the jasmine in the planters, the garlic up from Gilroy, the dump in Milpitas, the herds being sacrificed to a bloodthirsty god at the Showers Drive In-and-Out. Deftones "White Pony" and Tool's "Lateralus." Perl 5. XEmacs. Those were the good times. (btw. if you have a quick 0-60 guide on getting this desktop on #freebsd, I would be eternally grateful. Present small human demands make digging into a #retrolaris build impossible at present.)
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@tj@howse.social 2025-01-02 05:58
@nil@furry.engineer This reminds me that I need to get out of the software profession before 2038.
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@cyclophora@mastodon.social 2025-01-02 06:04
@nil@furry.engineer common desktop environment my beloved
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@drscriptt@oldbytes.space 2025-01-02 22:33
@kkarhan@infosec.space @nil@furry.engineer is it wrong that I’d like to know more about the company? I like to keep my options open.
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@drscriptt@oldbytes.space 2025-01-03 06:50
@kkarhan@infosec.space @nil@furry.engineer fair enough. I retract my question and instead ask you to not violate NDAs. 😇
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@dmbaturin@functional.cafe 2025-01-03 01:59
@kkarhan@infosec.space @nil@furry.engineer I once got an offer to maintain some software running on Solaris 9 systems. I'm a huge fan of Solaris but I chose to decline the offer despite the fact that it involved a then-outdated version of my beloved System V flavor. If I accepted, I guess a lot of things in my life would be very different. I was more excited of the future of Sun products — a future that I didn't know was already doomed. I should finally start contributing something to OpenIndiana, though.
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@hattom@mastodon.social 2025-01-03 07:36
@kkarhan@infosec.space @dmbaturin@functional.cafe @nil@furry.engineer $dayjob migrated desktops from Solaris thin desktops to Linux about 1-2 years ago. Still a few Solaris machines in the background I think, though not sure how many left.
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@CursedSilicon@social.restless.systems 2025-01-02 08:38
@nil@furry.engineer Huh. I've not seen that before Gotta get my 420R running and try it
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@moppi@chaos.social 2025-01-02 09:49
@nil@furry.engineer now im feeling old :thisisfine: the last time on Solaris was 2010 .... to shutdown the system 4 ever
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@Hurgotron@chaosfurs.social 2025-01-02 10:00
@nil@furry.engineer https://comp.unix.solaris.narkive.com/ozIc4rdn/your-clock-is-set-in-the-future#post11
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@trojaner@social.trojaner.dev 2025-01-02 11:04
@nil@furry.engineer This literally didn't age well
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@markus@mastodon.headcrashing.eu 2025-01-02 18:17
@nil@furry.engineer This proofs that programmers often have "great" ideas that simply are bullshit.
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@Stefan_Urbat@mastodon.social 2025-01-02 20:26
@nil@furry.engineer 👏😂
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@zaivala@hostux.social 2025-01-03 18:48
@nil@furry.engineer that might explain why the Los Angeles Police Department systems shut down because their systems won't work beyond 2024...
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@7adi@mastodon.social 2025-01-05 20:54
@nil@furry.engineer Tales of Unsigned Integers and Left Shifts. - Little Endian, 2026. Look forward to it. (what is Solaris still doing)
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@seeteegee@social.afront.org 2025-01-05 22:13
@nil@furry.engineer I worked with Solaris/CDE to prepare for y2k, a quarter century ago…