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software engineer, author, game designer

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@ricci I remember ed! nice
December 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
@ricci IIRC it was before vi existed so curious what the builtin text editor was in v4. fuzzy memories of that era
December 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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The more we look into this, the more it appears that this is a complete system or pretty close to it! There's a kernel, userspace binaries, source, including userland, kernel, device drivers, seems to be the full UNIX V4!
December 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Here's a copy of the filesystem that has been extracted as a .tar file: http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4/
UNIX - v4
squoze.net
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Apparently the entire UNIX tape was read successfully, what's going to need to happen next is to decode the signal from it, decipher the file formats, etc., I'll post updates as I get them
December 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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There will be more video later (there's a TV news crew there) but here's a bit that Jon Duerig has sent from on-site
December 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!
December 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
@wingo I only avoid them because I don't know how they choose to pronounce themselves anymore. with PNG and JPEG I'm safer from ridicule. heh
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
@FlohEinstein cloudflare/aws outage is the new "compiling not done so we're swordfighting" per XKCD
December 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
@bagder thank you, Mr. Stenberg, for putting up with that kind of thing over the years
December 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
@bagder

this one is easy to answer with one word, and in all its mysyerious glory:

> how do I get activation code

curl
December 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
@glyph nailed it. its IP theft at hyperscale. and when you ask it to make a de facto literal copy (like "read aloud to me such-and-such Sherlock Holmes book") it can't even do that correctly, rather it lies or hallucinates. its been a clownshow in my experience
December 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM