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  @csara@vmst.io - I use @beasts@social.mythic-beasts.com, and would recommend.

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  I have a #linuxdesktop question: my wife has bought a new laptop and has agreed to give #Linux a go, but with the condition that "I don't want to have to keep typing things in like you do", referring to me using i3wm and extensively using the command line. I don't think she's particularly bothered about having a UI which is similar to Windows, MacOS, etc., so I'd like to set it up with something clean and minimalist, but it needs a graphical la...

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  @Rp12Biker@oldbytes.space - the chipboard bracket to the right of the upper drive, and the cardboard taped under it also make it look homemade to me, although maybe it started as a mass produced machine and was modified or restored much later by a hobbyist? What does it have in the way of I/O ports?

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  Is there a standard #Linux #CLI tool for managing #OAuth2 tokens? I'd like to be able to call it from other scripts and (I guess) have the token returned on stdout. Appreciate that this will require some sort of out-of-band interaction when no token is already available, but maybe someone has already thought about that. I specifically want this to work with the Microsoft and Mastodon APIs in the first instance (I assume it's probably naive to think that OAuth2 will just work across all v...

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  @madduci@mastodon.social - thanks!

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  I had been thinking about the filtering part of #fcli, my #Mastodon to #email bridge as 'similar to #procmail', but today I realised that if I add custom headers to the email messages it produces I can just use procmail itself. By interfacing #Fediverse ideas with email standards I seem to be needing less and less custom code to get a setup which works for me, and making more and more use of decades old open source software, which is actually a pretty great outcome.

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  @hongminhee - boosting as I think this is an interesting discussion to have. I'm working on some ActivityPub adjacent ideas which use semantic web concepts, but I'm not deep enough in yet to have strong feelings about the right standards to use in different places.

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  @kleisli@mastodon.social @reiver@mastodon.social - two points on this: 1. I feel the "don't make me think" attitude, i.e. the idea that any sort of learning curve will reduce adoption of a digital product to zero, was one of the mistakes we made in the the Web 2.0 era, and ultimately it was one of the things which caused us to cede the open web to corporate interests. We need to try a different approach this time around. 2. Keeping the underlying protocols open and simple doesn&#...

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  @raffomania@mstdn.io - thanks. I missed @cwebber@social.coop's presentation on Saturday, but will check out the video. I also have one more question: you mentioned that the data model, and specifically the idea of lists containing other lists, followed existing practice. Do you have a reference for that? I'm wondering whether there might already be an ontology.

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  @marquisdegeek@ohai.social - really enjoyed your Eliza talk this afternoon. I have an interest in historical software for the IBM 7094, including CTSS but also the MUSIC-N series of audio synthesis programmes. Maybe surprisingly your talk wasn't the only MAD code which I've read today, and I'm probably one of a very small number of people who've written new FAP code in the last 12 months. I'm interested in any preserved software or documentation, if you're aware of anyth...

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  @larsbrinkhoff@mastodon.sdf.org - the short answer is curiosity. As far as I know there's very little preserved software and the format isn't used anywhere else, and it's actually trivial to extract the data without fully understanding the format, but there's a field I can't explain and would like to. It's also proving a nice way to get more familiar with the programming languages and the OS libraries, and it gives an insight into how the system evolved over its lifetime....

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  Farewell to #FOSDEM for this year. I've had a great time, but I have to get home this evening so I can't stay to the very end.

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  A little more info on the word count in #CTSS ARCHIV - I've worked through some of the source code, and it looks like it's literally the value reported by FSTATE, which is the equivalent of stat(2), i.e. to read file metadata from the filesystem. It's also the same value used for the loop control in the actual file transfer, so by definition it's the exact number of words written to the output, which I guess means that the difference is down to whatever later processing happened...

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  @raffomania@mstdn.io - I'm generally interested in what I see as the 'static' side of the Fediverse, i.e. what you can do if you view your social graph as part of a linked data structure to be queried, rather than as a communication network for ephemeral messages (although I realise that there's overlap between the two). I'm interested in the extent to which existing web technology can be deployed to enable this, especially semantic web ideas - I've already played with th...

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  Thanks for a great presentation @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk!

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  Massively overestimated availability of breakfast near my hotel at 8am on a Saturday. Heading to the #FOSDEM campus instead and will hopefully be able to find something on the way.

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  Here's an update thread on some #CTSS things I did on the train to Brussels. Firstly, I started to label the dependency diagram for the #kernel with my best guess at what each module does. Fortunately the #dot layout does seem to correspond quite nicely to the logical grouping of functionality. I should stress that these are my current best guesses, and are very much subject to change. 1/n #retrocomputing #IBM7094

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  @tg@indieweb.social - super interesting, thank you. I have similar views on the newsfeed paradigm for social media, and have written a Mastodon to maildir bridge so I can experiment with using mutt to read Fediverse content, configured in an attempt to manage the volume of posts without feeling like I have to read every last one of them. I'd be very interested in trying out what you're building.

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  Made it to Brussels and checked into my hotel for #FOSDEM - looking forward to seeing some of you soon!

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  @jamesbelchamber@hachyderm.io - agreed. I try to travel by train as much as possible (have recently done both Barcelona and northern Italy from London), but it can be quite anxious, so anything which smoothes the process would be good. Fortunately this time I made it and am now past security and waiting for the Eurostar 9132 to Brussels. #FOSDEM

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  So my journey to #fosdem has started with a cancelled train to London. Fortunately the stopping service is running and should just about get me to King's Cross in time for my Eurostar connection.

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  @Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io - really looking forward to this.

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  @PurpleJillybeans@kind.social - ooh, these look cool. I need to try them out.