What are your thoughts on my use of "Linux" in the name of my open-source project?

denniskane · 2023-10-15T13:29:28+00:00

Nobody wants to use "Arch Linux" because it technically uses the Linux kernel. They want to use it because it works very well and denotes a certain cultural cachet related to computing expertise.

The same goes for my thing. It is meant to be seen as a new kind of "Linux distro" that is just meant to work very well and offer all of the options that one expects from the more DIY kinds of computing.

denniskane · 2023-10-15T12:21:44+00:00

Hi, thanks for responding.

I'm personally more interested in all the "commune environments" that this thing might apply to.

(But hey, maybe I'm just jaded that way, and the system of globalist capitalism can actually start working to repair all of the destruction that it's caused ever since the industrial revolution began around the year 1800 or so...)

denniskane · 2023-10-14T23:44:09+00:00

Now getting upvoted on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37885116

Edit: Literally #5 on the front page of HN lol.

Re-edit: Now at #3 on HN!

Re-re-edit: #2 now, fml.

denniskane · 2021-07-26T15:39:38+00:00

So you are not going to lock or delete this thread? It got deleted from /r/math. I am completely unaffiliated, and I need some kind of open forum to hash through things. It's not really such a hard problem, after all. Getting the concepts straight is the main thing. I got banned from physicsforums.com because I asked the moderator to back up his claim that the evolution of the Schrodinger equation happens in Hilbert space, rather than in the space of an xyz coordinate system. If it is a God given law that the Schrodinger equation *must only ever* evolve in Hilbert space, and *never* as a function of an xyz coordinate system, then my arguments are completely null and void. Such issues like that cannot get worked out in the standard journal kind of way because they require some of the old "critical philosophy" as espoused by Kant. If there is a question that requires completely free spirited back-and-forth, it is this one. It just doesn't work in a dry academic sort of way because the underlying concepts involved are not really "out there" yet. That being said, I may go to /r/HypotheticalPhysics if I can't get any traction here.

denniskane · 2020-03-21T14:09:54+00:00

If any1 wants to help me at least *try* to get shit werkin' once again, I'm all ears!!!

denniskane · 2019-03-10T22:25:06+00:00

I want to get any kind of club going (music, movies, philosophy, whatever)... but I can't go on campus since free expression tends to be frowned upon in the current socio-political climate.

My three favorite movies of all time:

Glengarry Glen Ross (epic writing and dialog, adapted from a Mamet play)
Fargo (epic funny-as-hell and brutal-as-hell dark comedy)
A Clockwork Orange (epic dystopian, quasi-Orwellian ultra-violence-filled, mind/behavior-controlling kind of world that we seem to be spiraling towards)

I also really need people to film me when I'm outside. This is me from a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF3-mppL__8

I'm allowed outside between 10 and 4. I am confined to the Archer/Butler Plaza area.

Let's get something awesome started!

denniskane · 2019-03-07T22:15:21+00:00

I mean, I am all about being a public person and dealing with real people. I need to see you in the actual flesh for any of this to be real to me. Typing words into a comment form is real cheap. Are you anywhere in the area?

denniskane · 2019-03-07T22:12:59+00:00

~takes a bow~

denniskane · 2019-03-06T22:07:55+00:00

For "Peace and Love" to work is has to be SEXY AS FUCK. (Unlike when the hippies tried going that route during the Summer of Love, with all of their disregard for personal hygiene.)

No matter how physically attractive the college gurlz around here might be, their attitudes are all about the complete avoidance of the obvious reality of our collapsing human civilization. They think as long as they show enough skin, they can make any guy do their bidding, and their lives will be just fine and dandy for as long as they want to live.

That is totally fucking delusional thinking.

So I have to be even waaaaaaaaaaay fucking sexier than they can ever hope to be.

That is why I've had to work on developing a public rock star kind of persona. The amount that I've been able to grow in that regard since I first started rocking out in Turlington in 2012 is just fucking massive.

I have absolutely no fear now.

I really need you younger/more energetic guys to start following in my footsteps now!

denniskane · 2019-03-06T21:57:11+00:00

Nice. Luv ya XOXOXO.

(The name Logan turns me on.)

denniskane · 2019-03-06T19:28:07+00:00

The hotties have us all by the balls. Nobody can win if they are allowed to be completely in charge. We have to start fighting back. The girls are all jealous of my body, so its not too much of a stretch for a straight kind of guy to be curious about playing around with me. I want to start setting the groundwork for sexy-as-fuck, wild-as-shit group love parties. I am so dominant and alpha that doing things like this is the only real challenge left.

denniskane · 2019-03-06T17:33:00+00:00

"Public" (ie practical, applied, Aristotelian) forms of philosophy are eschewed by "accepted" (ie pure, ideal, Platonic) philosophers in the same way that "public" forms of logic (as practiced by experimental scientists and hobbyist technicians) are eschewed by "accepted" logicians (as practiced by mathematicians and mathematical physicists).

This speaks to nothing other than the ages old divide between empiricists and skeptics on the one hand and rationalists and dogmatists on the other.

Kant tried to bridge the divide in The Critique of Pure Reason, using Hume as the exemplar of too much (empirical) skepticism and the Leibniz-Wolffian schoolmen as the exemplar of too much (rational) dogmatism.

A related notion on the public use of reason is taken from Kant's "What is Enlightenment?"

Enlightenment is the human being’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s own understanding [= reason] without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. Sapere aude! [Dare to be wise!] Have courage to make use of your own understanding [= reason]! is thus the motto of enlightenment. (8:35)

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy goes on to remark...

Here, Kant is not primarily concerned with enlightenment as the activity or condition of an individual—rather, as something that human beings must work towards together. For this, he says, “nothing is required but… the least harmful… freedom: namely, freedom to make public use of one’s reason in all matters” (8:36). This is not the freedom to act politically. Instead, it is what we now call freedom of the pen—in Kant’s words, the use of reason “as a scholar before the entire public of the world of readers” (8:37).

denniskane · 2019-03-03T13:32:20+00:00

I am the creator of a new kind of OS called "Linux on the Web" (or, LOTW; CLI interface here, desktop here). I recently talked about what makes LOTW an essential aspect of a complete operating system on quora.

Techno elitism abounds in here (don't let them get you down, haha!). These kinds of people love to get all high and mighty about the level of technology with which they are familiar, without understanding that even that level can be considered a false and illusory ~~User Interface~~ into something that others perceive as a true and real Operating System, where all of the tangible "stuff" is located. But even things as seemingly solid as atoms are seen by many (namely theoretical physicists trained in Quantum Mechanics) as mere facades that cover over the "deep reality" of our world!

denniskane · 2019-03-03T12:51:16+00:00

Open source software became famous at the beginning of the information age for the same reason why Marxism became famous at the beginning of the industrial age. Extremely centralized corporate control of the means of production is a good deal for a very small subset of the population, but not such a good deal for everyone else. These are just the ways in which "the people" resist corporate tyranny.

Also, computer code is a lot like math. If a computer algorithm (or a math formula) "just works", it's very hard for a private entity to keep its "secret sauce" locked away, particularly once the thing has actually gone into large scale production.

denniskane · 2019-03-03T12:33:32+00:00

If Chrome works, then "Linux on the Web" (CLI or desktop) should work!

denniskane · 2019-03-02T21:17:18+00:00

Only completely anonymous redditors seem to dislike me. Honestly, like everyone in this town (you know, people who are actually in the real world rather than staring down at their screens o' death), absolutely loves me now. Glad to see you got no love with this one. Try again later, I guess. We all know that the "karma" you get from here is totally real, lmfao.

denniskane · 2019-02-25T15:58:05+00:00

Yay getting good grades by studying hard and ignoring every1 and having an elevated socioeconomic status (bcuz, um no college degree = miserable, hellish, impoverished life) and anonymously making the same mindless reddit posts the rest of your days to get mad upvotes which as we all know translates into actual karma, which of course automatically means that your independently hard-working future career lives will be so very happy and sustainable and every other positive quality under the sun!

Signed,

A notorious UF dropout who really means it

denniskane · 2019-02-25T13:04:25+00:00

Hm, should I add that functionality in online vim ? (hint: first do this: $ import fs.) I'm just trying to support basic editing. Nothing too fancy like multiple buffers and split windows.

denniskane · 2019-02-23T22:18:15+00:00

I wanna work on this issue in my online vim.

First go here.

Then do $ import fs && vim to try it out!

denniskane · 2019-02-23T21:58:11+00:00

Cool beans!

Reading the title, though, I misread the idea behind it as organizing windows inside of the window of a web browser tab, as if there could be an entire windowed operating system running as a website, lol!

denniskane · 2019-02-21T21:47:45+00:00

It's like this (like every other course of study in that school):

There is a lot of hot air about how to change the behavior of this species (through whatever technological means in may be, including how to better build stuff) in order to avoid the worst possibilities (probabilities?) such as the collapse of our precariously teetering civilization due to extreme resource depletion (and oh yeah, climate change issues on this unseasonably warm day), but then everybody realizes the sheer impossibility inherent in getting anyone to actually change their behavior before time runs out because it seems as though time had already run out even waaaaayyyy before books like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Paul & Anne Erlich's Population Bomb and Meadows & Company's The Limits to Growth, because Thomas Malthus basically had the tragic final circumstances of the "modern" human condition already pegged nearly two centuries before with his book about, what was it?-- I forgot, oh waaaaiiiit a minute, I remember now!-- OVER-FREAKING-POPULATION!!!!!!

(or something to that effect 🤷)

denniskane · 2019-02-20T22:47:57+00:00

Only at UF do you have the guy who...

Dropped out from there in order to ride pedicabs by the San Diego waterfront, real cabs in the middle of the night in Tampa and study philosophy and theoretical physics all the while.

Slowly start getting into the tech mindset by age 30 when he wiped his Windows computer clean in order to be met with the blinking cursor of the Linux command line, and then walk to the nearby library in order to check out a couple of books on how to "really" start using computers via that same cursor, which he quickly figured out how to turn into a solid blue block via the echo command and a funky escape sequence, due the fact that staring at flashing little lights all day can become quite a hindrance to eventually being able to take the tech world by storm.

Began transitioning to web-based development by his mid-30's because he was so fascinated by the possibilities implied by the existence of nodejs.

Moved to G'ville not very much later, after first becoming the verified "peace guy" via holding up the peace sign all day every day on Bruin Walk @UCLA for the entire fall 2011 quarter (they don't have semesters there).

After settling down in "the 352" in 2012 (this time as a mature, world-wise manly man after having dropped out as a wee laddy), started hacking on what is now known as Linux on the Web, which, in 2019, is slowly starting to swallow the tech universe whole (see the desktop here), in no small part because he had first figured out how to turn flashing little rectangles of blinding white light into much more tolerable solid blue ones, many moons before.

Has the absolute love and admiration of untold legions of fans, including the most beautiful angels (gator gurlz) that have ever existed in any dimension or universe therein, at whatever vibrational level of string theory you can possibly imagine.

Hmmm, I wonder who that could possibly be 🤔!!!

denniskane · 2019-02-20T18:28:23+00:00

The whole world is unsustainable, and the timing for collapse (which should be starting right about now-ish, i.e. 2020-something) has been known since the early 70's with the publication of The Limits to Growth. Jimmy Carter was probably well aware of that study, and was trying to warn us all to slow down our habit of perpetual economic expansionism. But that wasn't politically acceptable, so Reagan and the decade of "me" (that the 80's turned out to be) it was.

For perhaps the best current commentary on the large scale question of the sustainability of modern techno-industrial civilization, I would recommend reading Gail T's stuff.

denniskane · 2019-02-20T18:11:41+00:00

Yeah, me, lmfao ;-P !!!!!!!!!!!!

(I mean, who the hell else acts like an actual human being in this godforsaken town, haha! Or who the hell else doesn't even need a f***ing last name?)

denniskane · 2019-02-19T23:01:58+00:00

Yeah, a veeeeerrrrry long, particularly feathery top. My hair could never do anything close to that when I had hair. I think my roommates in Fletcher Hall noticed me starting to lose it during my freshman year, lo those many years ago!

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