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2025-05-27 20:15:14
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mleku on Nostr: btw, fun fact for those who don't know CS history plan 9 operating system was ...

btw, fun fact for those who don't know CS history

plan 9 operating system was inspired by the Ed Wood movie Plan 9 from Outer Space

which featured the hungarian actor, famous for doing vampires, Bela Lugosi

the emblem of plan9 OS was an angora rabbit called Glenda, a tribute to Ed Wood and his fetish for angora sweaters, and a reference to his other movie Glen and Glenda which is some kind of not very well known trans narrative

what's hilarious to me is that almost nobody knows about these things, even though they are pivotal things in the history of computer science and operating systems

i guess i'm that weird that i know about gothic music that makes reference to an old hungarian vampire movie actor who featured in a movie that had its name stolen for an operating system by a dude who was the main (honestly) designer of the Go language

what has got me shaking my head at the moment is that the sheer fraud of the current state of the "art" (ificial) bullshit that is pumping the stock markets and prompting my boss to make endless irritating bumps of links to yet another attempt to monetise this zeitgeist

idk what to say

none of this is science

none of this even actually works
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