I came across this project browsing the Papirus icon set. I find it very stimulating from a product design standpoint and thus felt compelled to share it here.

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Website URL: https://bpython-interpreter.org/ (archive)

Let us have a program in C*:

XAA is an acronym that stands for Xion–Aquefir–Anodyne. It is a grouping together of project initiatives from Xion Megatrends, a hardware development company, Aquefir, a software development initiative, and Anodyne, a project to build a personal supercomputer from the projects in Xion and Aquefir.

There are many subforums in this forum. For the most part, they serve as bug trackers similar in form to the issues system from GitHub for the many software projects being developed for the XAA initiative. These softwares may or may not be open source. In general, we try to use the Artisan Software Licence which permits credited redistribution in a share-alike fashion, but not modification without the developers' permission.

Initially, Alabaster was only intended to target CentOS 7 and Debian 10, as both of these were the last stable Linux distros to support the Knights Corner Xeon Phi cards, of which I have so many and intend to leverage in building Grovercomp.

However, I also do other forms of sysadmin work, and have deployed Rocky Linux and Arch Linux on some new datacenter-leased servers that are in the throes of migration. Awkwardly, introducing Arch Linux breaks the previously clean dichotomy Alabaster had where some distros are non-GUI, while others are GUI-first, since it works just as well for both cases, and anyway, there’s nothing wrong with deploying Debian server-side anyway. To solve this, I am implementing two (2) variant scripts of the classic alabaster.sh one-liner: one CLI-only (headless) distro of Alabaster available at cli.alabaster.sh, and another GUI-first distro of Alabaster available at gui.alabaster.sh. As for the bare, unqualified original at alabaster.sh, it will offer an opportunistic script that will default to either GUI or CLI installation depending on your distro. For distros that can support both, it will ask you to wget from the new endpoints in order to choose.

• Debian GNU/Linux [CLI and GUI]
  • Debian 10 (buster)
    
  • Debian 11 (bullseye)
    
  • Debian 12 (bookworm)
    
• Open RHEL derivatives [CLI only]
  • CentOS 7
    
  • Rocky Linux 8
    
  • Rocky Linux 9
    
  • AlmaLinux 8
    
  • AlmaLinux 9
    
• Arch Linux (rolling) [CLI and GUI]

Oración is a machine code assembler for both CISC and RISC instruction set architectures. Its initial development target involves supporting specifically the i286 and the ARMv4T instruction sets as a minimum feature level. Eventually, it can grow to support the current descendants of those ISAs, along with other architectures including RISC-V and novel ISAs created by Xion Megatrends.

A new assembler was deemed necessary at first to support arbitrary precision numeric modelling in the translation stages of Sirius C*. Later, it became clear that a new assembler was unavoidable due to Sirius DOS and A* proving to demand application of the concept of modular memory and khipus, as existing compiler infrastructure is far too bonded to the existing approaches of increasingly wide fixed-width integers for accommodating larger memory spaces.

Under the hood, it uses Backus–Naur–Nicholi normal form via an in-house C library to generate its own lexer and parser.

Additional resources:

• Wiki page: wiki.xion.mt/Oración
  
• Source code repository: scm.xion.mt/oracion

I’m writing this thread today to shed some light on the administrative philosophy of this bulletin board, its attached wiki, and whatever sites beyond may crop up in the future. I have spent a considerable amount of time browsing the Worldwide Web by now, and I have attained a very nuanced perspective that is informed by niche “net native” communities like this one, “mainstream” sites called social media, and the real world (I am not a basement dweller, I am very married and esteemed IRL). Crucially, I also came of age in an era where Tumblr broke containment and kind of ruined everything, because so many people don’t understand that they are psychically attaching themselves to online communities and thus becoming vulnerable targets for dark triad psychopaths who want to exploit others and piss on digital rocks for a living. All of this has gone on far long enough, and I am tired of watching it happen over and over. The Worldwide Web might be a shitty, sometimes hostile place, but it was not this pathological, totalitarian state of gaslighting until about 2015 or so, depending on what corners you look in.

In the interest of completely destroying any chance that radical, cancerous culture has at forming any kind of metastasis here, I am instituting a rule that needs explanation: the year 2000 is forever. What does that mean?

If you’re old enough, you might remember it firsthand. And don’t worry, 2008 wasn’t that different either if we’re being real. I just went with this because it’s an old Geto Boys lyric, and marketing matters. But if you’re too young, this is something you probably know about in your gut but don’t realise what it is – all of the cultural pull towards the vapourwave aesthetics of the 1980s is no accident. You guys are yearning for those times when people simply posted, and I’m here to tell you that we are going back there, whether you like it or not. The truth is, if we don’t commit to say no to this psychic corrosion and stop mentally “logging on”, it is inevitable that this community, like so many others, will devour itself in the course of spontaneous drama about nothing to feed the malevolent impulses of a few terrible, broken people who should be seeking professional help instead of ruining online communities.

So, say it with me, and commit yourself to keeping the Worldwide Web usable and interesting forever: The year 2000 is forever. I want you all to log on here like it’s a random Tuesday afternoon in 2007, or 1997, or whenever, and stop taking the Web to be more than it is. We are not fully human beings on here – we’re just people posting messages with avatars behind keyboards and we could be anywhere from Stockholm to Bombay. And that has to be good enough, otherwise… there’s going to be nothing left on here worth logging on for.

This guy tours various locations and does live DJ mixings of the discography of the popular EDM artist Rüfüs du Sol. They’re excellent mixes to listen to while programming, doing sysadmin work, or even cleaning house in my experience.

His channel can be found here.

This guy found some stems I guess and made some absolutely ecstatic extended remixes of many popular singles by the Weeknd.

His rendition of Blinding Lights is intense. His YouTube channel can be browsed here. If you want high quality MP3s of his tracks, they’re behind a $1.44/month paywall on Boosty, apparently. Get ‘em while they’re hot!

We host a dedicated Minecraft server!

Server IP: mc.tohoku.ac
Version: Java Edition 1.19.4 + Bedrock Edition via GeyserMC

Please be sure to follow the rules and have fun!

This is the master thread for Alabaster Linux, a pseudo-distribution built on top of Debian and CentOS.