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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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If you want something modern connected with OS-9, then I have good news! https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/25/foss-de... …
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Yes, I have one too. Mine has an external HDD and between the 3 of them it triple-booted OS X, the last PowerPC Ubuntu, and MorphOS. TBH neither Ubuntu nor MorphOS was a patch on OS X, IMHO. Never re-…
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:-) Thank you! (And for the implicit acknowledgement that, as a mere reporter, I don't have much influence over the headlines at all, and most often the editors don't use my proposed headlin…
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> posts that slander GraphenOS. FWIW, as someone who is not in the phone OS development world at all but has been reviewing phones with alternative OSes for about the last 4 years... My impression …
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I put that together. Any problems, do please let me know.
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Thanks for the plug! :-)
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> The 6.0 graphic mode just gets in the way. You can just turn it off. WP6.2 on DOS on a 21st century machine screams along. I run it occasionally under IBM PC DOS 7.1 (the FAT32-capable version)…
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> I grew up using WordStar on the Apple ][. I don't think you did. AFAIK it never ran directly on 6502. Perhaps under CP/M using the Microsoft add-on card that DOS creator Tim Paterson de…
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More to the point and much more complete, WordTsar: https://wordtsar.ca/
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> I wonder if his views and toolset have changed since then and he might be amenable to sharing more. No. He uses WordStar 7 for DOS and made his own installable bundle of it and shared it. https:…
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It is about the hobby projects of Yuri Zaporozhets. Over the last few years, he has: * Taken the last public source code snapshot of QNX, version 6.4, got it building again and then ported this 32-bit…
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Oh, hey, that's one of mine. Thanks for posting it.
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I know. (I've reviewed it and am on its mailing lists; I've contributed a tiny handful of fixes to FreeGEM.) So does the Win98 emergency boot diskette. But both post-date Win95.
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DOS mostly predates CD-ROM. The DOS heyday was the 1980s. No officially-released version of DOS contains generic CD-ROM drivers; the last few DOSes (MS-DOS 6.x, DR-DOS 6/7) contain the redirector…
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Interesting. Thanks for replying. I have made this same point repeatedly across HN, Reddit, Lobsters, and multiple other fora, and cited the link in articles. I have never seen any response from you b…
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> You need to start using LLMs a lot and then you will know how we know. $SWEARWORD no! I am an AI vegetarian: I won't touch them ever except for unavoidable ones (defaults on some search engi…
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> It has a long list of favorite words, verbal tics and common structures. Go on, then, let's see the list.
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> If you look at it, the diagrams are very similar, The page links to the same site you do . No wonder it is similar -- the source is the same!
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[[citation needed]] I am a professional writer and have been for over 30 years. (I do not use any form of LLM ever.) This means I read a lot . This also means that I have 30+ years of experience of r…
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The movement is still alive. I hosted a couchsurfer last week. https://www.bewelcome.org/ https://www.warmshowers.org/ …
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* Scarry But you're right!
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Interesting. Yes, I do see that. The activity graph exactly matches that of Kirkland himself: nothing until the last 3 bars, then identical. So I think we can conclude that DK is using Claude. I detes…
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Ah yes, Dustin Kirkland, whose HN question ended Ubuntu's best work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821 …
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Where? Byobu has been around since 2008 and so long predates LLM coding "assistants". Citation: https://byobu.org/#about …
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On its own, it doesn't. On top of tmux, somewhat. I tried to compare terminal multiplexers a couple of years ago: https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/06/24&#x…
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> All KDE after 2 and 3 is awful to use. Thank you for saying this! I agree. KDE 1.x was great. KDE 2.x was cluttered but it did the job; with a major rework, such as Corel LinuxOS and Xandros ga…
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Still brings a lump to my throat.
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For those who do not know, this comment is itself a C&H reference. https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/09/27 https://www.reddit.com/media?…
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> Zalgo Garfield Those were a fan parody, and were nothing to do with Jim Davis.