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Re:What even is an OS now? on Saturday September 26, 2026 @04:07PM (#49860067)
Plebian os update incoming. It's a GPU terminal with openbox fallback. Each tile in the tiling kitty terminal interface uses its own xvfb.

Everything in the shell and you can click it. I'm building custom needle2 models to operate the panels and tabs instead of using tokens and md files

Re: on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:21PM (#49662947)
That's the political crux of this thread.
Re:Extensible Software in the age of LLMs on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @06:28PM (#49367997)
Yes perhaps when I have its features all built out I'll make it packages
Re:Extensible Software in the age of LLMs on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:04PM (#49366482)
It's not ready yet, but I vibe on an os flavor for agents and humans (and local ai) based on debian.

plebian-os.com

Re:Magic Cap OS on Sunday July 19, 2026 @05:23PM (#48971776)
That's neat. I put a windows 95 clone desktop in a GPU terminal (fork of kitty). The OS is a tabbed and tiling GPU terminal session, the desktop exists in a terminal session.

plebian-os.com

Re:Work with Codex from Anywhere on Friday May 15, 2026 @05:19PM (#48154019)
Side effect: manage the same session on your cellphone as is running on your server
Re:Work with Codex from Anywhere on Friday May 15, 2026 @05:17PM (#48153998)
I wrote tmux-browse on GitHub in order to use codex and Claude code in a browser pane.

https://github.com/itsmygithubacct/tmux-browse

Re:Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better on Friday May 15, 2026 @05:14PM (#48153947)
Do you host a torrent?

I have about 50k of the books, I would have used a torrent of just the txt files if it was prominent.

Re:Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice on Thursday January 15, 2026 @06:54PM (#46641203)
Kokoro is better for tts by far

For voice cloning, pocket tts is walled so I can't tell

Re:Ticker: Don't Die of Heart Disease on Sunday November 09, 2025 @08:42AM (#45865561)
You should have bought some illegal street diet and exercise or cholesterol meds or whatever.
Re:Ticker: Don't Die of Heart Disease on Sunday November 09, 2025 @08:40AM (#45865547)
Why not both?
Re:Ticker: Don't Die of Heart Disease on Sunday November 09, 2025 @08:36AM (#45865522)
Sure it's absolutely true (I stopped reading there.)
Re:Ticker: Don't Die of Heart Disease on Sunday November 09, 2025 @08:35AM (#45865512)
How about moderate cardio and more fats in your diet
Re:Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts on Friday January 31, 2025 @03:44PM (#42891761)
looking at all that data it appears that smoking cannabis is out of the question to this person.

the person should smoke cannabis regularly until a solution is found.

US govt could also require OFAC sanctions compliance on BTC via international framework as well.

30 warehouses or so, hundred websites, single code repository with a handful of developers.

Developers recently closed an open issue an American miner raised with OFAC compliance and the software, and even being able to help write the patch.

Beyond freezing, BTC can even be reissued via a module written expressly for such a purpose.

Re:Scientists Improve Anti-Tumor Power of Car-T Cells on Saturday September 23, 2023 @10:46PM (#37629706)
ill never eat PFAS again
twetch uses the bie1 encryption protocol on a plaintext blockchain to allow for append only data that can be retracted from view.

twetch.com

well, looks like that claim went uncontested!
okay, for example, the pi400 beats out the orangepi4 lts and orangepi 4b in the time it takes to make a sha256sum of a file
is there some sort of bench you want to see the output of?

ill try to reproduce/document for you.

i have a handful of these and 4 core rpi goes faster than 6 core orange for many things.