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lproven
8,776karma·4,928submissions·December 30, 2013
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Tall dark black-clad atheist skeptic biker SF fan; writes, mainly about computers, for a living.
# Work
Currently the FOSS & cloud correspondent for the Register.
https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven
Work email: lproven+hn@sitpub.com
# Personal
Comments here (or anywhere else, unless otherwise stated) are personal opinion and not on behalf of any employer.
Based in Douglas, Isle of Man.
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recent activity (4,928 total)
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Nah. Alpine, or TinyCore. Much smaller: Slackware is biiiiig .
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You went the wrong direction. Go older, not newer. After trying dozens of lightweight Linuxes with disappointing results, I downgraded my Sony Vaio P to WinXP. This has full GPU acceleration on Intel …
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Ditto. A fascinating read, even if I didn't understand all of it. Another brilliant techie who became a doctor instead is Dr Cameron Kaiser -- I think he might be @classichasclass here. He runs t…
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And the ST equivalent, STOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOS_BASIC There's a modernised build: https://atariscne.org/news/index.php/stos-basic-v…
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Exactly -- not sure I have many machines new enough for this to apply to. The machine I'm typing on is the 2nd newest in the fleet -- it's a work box -- and it's an i7-8550U, an 8th gen…
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Thank you!
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Since I got downvoted merely for asking: apparently, "squiz" is Australian/NZ slang for a glance or quick look. I honestly didn't know there were any Amish down under.
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No, not yet, but it's attracting interest. I wrote about it here: https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/09/12/three-altern... …
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> And now, from the last I heard, it has evolved into neither here nor there. Minix 3 is a true microkernel Unix-compatible: it can run most of the NetBSD userland, for instance. It is probably the…
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"squiz"?
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> the Ordnung What does that mean? (This entire thread is very hard for this Brit to follow. So many unknown words and whole concepts.)
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"TFR"?
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All right. But only curbside ones? ("Kerbside" for me. "Curb" is the verb.) A bin is any trashcan in BrEn... in your office, in your kitchen or bathroom, behind the house, whatever…
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> You can't unilaterally say all AI blogs are low quality. That's bullshit. Watch me. I absolutely can and do. And pictures, and videos, and picture posts, and comics, and all image-forma…
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There was an entire book about that 50 years ago, and last month someone brought that thinking and analysis to the LLM-bot issue: EDIT: this is the one I was thinking of... https://sinclair…
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Still no: "Lord Buckethead" first stood in 1987, some 15 years before the "H'Angus the monkey" campaign in 2002.
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Nope. Several decades later. The "Boaty McBoatface" campaign was from 2016. "Lord Buckethead" first appeared in 1987, some 30 years earlier.
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No. The point of the comment was to clarify the confusion that you are reinforcing. A "bin" in BrEn does not mean a generic container: it generally means a receptacle for waste, refuse, or…
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I've been occasionally helping a blind friend of mine with his PC since 2005. His screenreader talks at about 600wpm or more and after 20 years of practice I can't understand it. I speedread…
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I have also written my own obituary for him, but I did not want to be accused of spamming HN. https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/03/david-p... Colly…
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WTAF? > If it was true Of course it is true. That is why I explained the length of my relevant experience. > you could explain how and why Why bother to an annoying troll? ELI5: My job is to und…
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Dude. You are demonstrating, repeatedly, that you do not know how publishing works, have no idea what the different jobs are and why they are different. You display shock and anger at the notion that …
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As I understand it, Hatari is mainly aimed at running classic ST games. I think its emulation core was the basis of the Amiga PiStorm and similar projects. There's another all-software ST emulato…
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No. It is not bad. The problem here is your lack of understanding, and also your hostile confrontational attitude... and in addition, apparently, poor reading comprehension.
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You seem not to realise that Brooks did not write or direct The Princess Bride and as far as I know has no role connected to the film.
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Er, what? No, neither. I am a reporter; I write the articles. The editors write the headlines. That is how most publications work: it is completely normal and plain and standard. I've been both…
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> swype was so good before it got destroyed by Nuance. 100% this. THE best text-entry method for touchscreens. Nuance enshittified it and then Microsoft killed it. https://www.theregis…
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Never heard of that one before, so I looked it up & watched a demo vid. Aieeee! I don't think I could ever learn to use that. I am from the 1990s fast-T9 entry era, and my thumb dexterity is …