I really like to see those old dmesgs, quite amazing work supporting this in OpenBSD (at the time)

You still see interesting efforts today. Here is a dmesg from a Tadpole SPARCbook 6500 booting 7.9 (released in May this year) that appeared on bugs@ just a few weeks ago (also, note who the person is that responds to that message):

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=178663407424547

You of course also have the absolutely insane luna88k support [1] and I have myself been looking into getting my hands on a landisk [2] box as the Hitachi SuperH CPU is fascinating (I only knew of it from old arcade boards and the Sega Dreamcast).

[1]: https://www.openbsd.org/luna88k.html

[2]: https://www.openbsd.org/landisk.html

As always with the french government: don't trust the numbers they give you.

pretty much the worst of both worlds: a non-working viewfinder and a terrible camera.

you should never discuss your personal life at work or with your coworkers.

It really depends on your workspace. At a lot start ups people would find it strange if you never shared anything about your life.

Yea this I agree,

Flying OceanGate.

This is a slippery slope, and I will stay away from Codeberg, because who knows what they'll ban next.

And that's a slippery slope fallacy.

They banned all LLM assisted projects.

It’s not a fallacy if it actually happened.

Did you even read the blog post or the ToS changes? You're either misinformed or lying. Banning projects that « mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools » is not the same as banning « all LLM assisted projects ».

Well we don’t know, do we?

Because the ToS helpfully doesn’t explain.

Does LLM autocomplete break the ToS? What about pre-LLM autocomplete? What about code written by LLM but reviewed by humans?

Also, the spirit of the community is clear, given the preamble and the provided moral basis for the decision: they don’t want any LLM usage at all.

I don’t think the slippery slope is a fallacy. If a group makes a change in one direction is it not more likely that they will continue making changes in that direction than if they had not made the initial change?

looks like a doom level

Doom cannot have hallways above or below other hallways without teleport hacks.

But you could do it in Quake.

Or Descent. Pity the fool who hits the map key mid-multiplayer fight.

For sure, I'm glad we have those emulators, real hardware is hard to find or expensive or faulty. Having emulators helps a lot.

Would be amazing to implement a JIT in hercules (would make it 10x faster potentially as fast as z/PDT which implements a JIT); good timing as IBM is retiring z/PDT!

I wish this could make it to qemu's main branch; always fun to preserve new systems. I wonder if it runs openvms/ia64 too!

I think most of the machines that could run Windows could also run OpenVMS. It’s a bit unfortunate the company behind the OS needs to make money off its licenses though.

don't they still give some hobbyist licenses?

I'm still waiting on mine, I doubt I'll ever see it though...

They are in a tough spot. They have to pick between milking their legacy clients who have been running VMS workloads and don’t want to port them to anything else, and a much more risky attempt to develop a consulting ecosystem so those clients can remain on VMS indefinitely. This ecosystem would eat into their own support business at the expense of reducing incentives to migrate to different platforms.

I'll admit that "OS snob who just wants to run VMS because they once ran it on Alpha" is pretty low on the freebie list, but they didn't even say no, they just strung me along until I gave up caring.

I really wish they released it under a GPL license. Unless an event starts an adoption uptick for greenfield projects (and it'd take some time for that). I wish they had an easy way to deploy an OpenVMS instance on a cloud service the same way IBM does with their POWER and Z machines (sadly, no Linux on POWER from them).

Huh. It looks like they're actually getting rid of their as400 hosting... I wonder what that would have cost, being the only players in the game...

> Images for the Virtual Server for VPC (s390x architecture) are deprecated. Starting 28 February 2026, you can't create new instances from s390x images. Existing instances are supported until 20 February 2027. Any instances that remain after that date are deleted.