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Immer wenn ich Leute treffe, die Linux für schwer installierbar halten und Windows so toll einfach, dann fange ich an, über die manuelle Konfiguration von AUTOEXEC.BAT und CONFIG.SYS unter Windows 3.11 zu schwärmen und merke dann plötzlich an den unwissenden Gesichtsausdrücken, wie alt ich doch bin. ;)

Hi everyone, I am new to Mastodon, so I'm still not very familiar with the whole thing, but I smell very good premises!

I am a (soon to be) Physics PhD student, and I'm interested to links Statistical Mechanics and biological evolution.
Other than this, I like to read (and sometimes write) about the links between technological advancement, such as machine learning or social networks and changes in our society and politics!

@IntegralDuChemin It has relatively complete document compare to OpenBSD.

Fediverse Health Indicator (FHI) =

Number of instances / Number of accounts

Range 0 – 1. The closer to one, the better.

HT @IntegralDuChemin #FHI

@aral @IntegralDuChemin I think small instances are better than instances of one. Makes moderation easier than a free-for-all and minimizes administration costs. I'm talking hundreds or low thousands.

If there is a for Mac OS X can it also run under FreeBSD? On what conditions would that depend?

Is there a way to gain access to the usenet free and anonymous?

@aral One instance per user would then be the optimum?

I mean why don't you take the ratio total_number_of_instances/total_number_of_users?

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I love spending time in the internet reading about strange topics. Right now it's a lot of time reading about old operating systems from the and as well as their use and their . It's just interesting that every user still uses programs written in the 70s and 80s like bash or the X window system

@dewb I so agree with that. Thank you @textfiles for setting up this genious web page - it is just amazing! Maybe you want to donate to Scott a bit :-)

@laura That I would love to see on more websites - it's a shame that most sites don't load even a bit with NoScript enabled.

@michsc Du redest von gekochten Eiern? Dann nimm die Seite mit der Luftblase, dann steht dein Ei nämlich auch ohne Eierbecher - so in der Theorie. Du stellst es hin und schlägst dann die obere Seite auf und genießt dein Ei.

I like the writing style of its authors (well concerning the linked book) and wonder whether the cited bugs are still a problem for Linux.

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Interviewer: What's your biggest strength?

Me: I'm an expert in machine learning.

Interviewer: What's 9 + 10?

Me: Its 3.

Interviewer: Not even close. It's 19.

Me: It's 16.

Interviewer: Wrong. Its still 19.

Me: It's 18.

Interviewer: No, it's 19.

Me: it's 19.

Interviewer: You're hired!

For all the and among you - I highly recommend textfiles.com - a site containing thousands of files from the old times of BBS but some interesting things from the modern days as well.
For example try this - the Unix Haters Handbook - quite fun to read.

pdf.textfiles.com/books/ugh.pd

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