Post #573441

2026-03-07 17:33 UTC

Looks like I’ve replied to you a few times, and sorry for the accusatory tone! Didn’t mean it! You did get me worried since I’m going to be used “bare metal” in my embedded class later this semester, and felt like I had gone insane not being able to find it anywhere. I was mostly just trying to convince myself this morning I wasn’t insane. I had thought it was the standard terminology. I do also need to caveat this that I am not familiar with whatever law OOP was referencing. I’m assuming it was one of the either baked-in surveillance or age verification things. Yeah, I’m with you and don’t really see a way out, unless we just step way back in time when we had less standardization and do bespoke everything. Cheers, and sorry for the tone!

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@Oinks@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-03-07 17:53

Oh no I wasn’t talking about you, sorry about that. I meant the tone of Timothy Roscoe which rubbed me the wrong way. I might be a bit oversensitive since it reminded me of how science cranks like to talk about their discoveries - You know, how people like Ovi Loeb or Eric Weinstein will go on Joe Rogan and complain how nobody in academia is taking them seriously. Obviously not what Roscoe is doing but it sounded a tiny bit like that to my ears (I also wrote that comment before finishing the Q&A section where he didn’t come off like that at all). I was mostly just trying to convince myself this morning I wasn’t insane. I had thought it was the standard terminology. No you are actually correct, “bare metal” does in fact mean “without an OS”. It just got co-opted to mean… other things additionally, and in the case of servers specifically the new usage ended up crowding out the original one.

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