The more I learn about the Romans the more I realize how advanced they really were!

Oh, wow, I never considered that art could be created from code. You totally got me.

Or not - the fact that you had to modify the code to turn it into art proves my point.

Your bonafies don’t impress me.

Coding is not an art. It’s creative at times but it’s categorically not an art. The output from coding is not artwork. Code is not a work of art. It has no aesthetic quality. It’s used to create software.

Programming is not an art. The output of an artistic process is art.

So what?

Computer code is not art. It has no aesthetic quality. It’s generally not even seen and frequently hidden.

It’s engineering - you don’t need to get all up yourself by claiming to be “artists”.

curl -sSL https://install.secretspec.dev/ | sh

Nope.

It’s the way that word has been used for over 20 years.

I never trust a programmer who has any “strict rules”.

My biggest customizations are all of the software I install and use to do things with the computer.

Wait… So if Linux doesn’t have the api (sorry, the “signal” 🙄) how will sites that require it respond? What does it mean to be “exempt” - every user is considered to be an adult?

An alternative to complete cloning (which gets out of date fast) would be to manage systems with ansible.(or puppet, or chef).

You can script configurations, package installs, users, etc. And it also allows for hardware/architecture specifics when needed (e.g. drivers for the different platforms).

You would then just install a base os and run your playbook. No need to store gigs of data and easier to update the base os to newer versions. You could even mix

You can also push out changes without needing to snapshot a new image and re-install it everywhere.

does it still work for software development?

… Why wouldn’t it? Like you could do other things but not write code?

It’s a bit more interesting than that…

Linux, unlike Windows, will let you delete a file that is actively in use. It removes the reference on the file system but the contents of the file won’t be deleted until all file pointers to it close. In fact it will still be seen as taking up disk space until it’s garbage collected (deleting a large file that’s in use can be frustrating).

So the file is actually still available to that running process. If you replace it with a new executable and run that then you get the new version.

No - nobody is still using one that would be running a modern distro. Anyone relying on hardware this old is already managing their own ecosystem of software.

We’re talking about computers that have clock speeds in the megahertz range FFS. They’re slower than an ESP32 and take a lot more power.

Nothing of value was lost.

I’m sure you’ll be devastated to learn that Linux stopped supporting the i386 in 2012.

Oh no!

Anyway…

The replies to this story are making me lose faith in humanity.

Is this useful? They’re started but doing absolutely nothing. Who cares? You need to plan for max usage not idle.

My forgejo instance running right now is using 1070MiB. That’s way off your 173MB.

Why do you feel a need to be able to claim that something is “written in Lua” or “Python” when it’s using native libraries? Many games are using a mix of languages these days. There’s no shame in it and I didn’t imply there is.

People get very confused over this thinking that “Python is very fast at number crunching” because of things like numpy which is written partly in C to achieve that performance.

This is like saying Rust isn’t a real language because it relies on LLVM which is written with C/CPP.

That’s entirely different - I’m not talking about the interpreter or compiler. Just the runtime code.