Someone Wants Linux to Still Boot 1,000 Years From Now

https://linuxiac.com/someone-wants-linux-to-still-boot-1000-years-from-now/

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16 Comments

blarth@thelemmy.club · 51 pts · 66d

I’m also someone.

Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 46 pts · 66d (1 reply)

Thats how the avengers beat kang in the cartoon

Kang who comes from a couple thousand years in the future uses a modified version of iron mans operating system

So iron man is able to exploit it

Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 16 pts · 65d

This implies Tony knows of a zero day nobody else could find, and didn't bother to tell anyone for thousands of years.

Respect, that's old school.

haroldfinch@feddit.nl · 24 pts · 66d (4 replies)

If Idiocracy is any indication, the Eternal OS might be capable of booting, but the people won't be able to do it.

cm0002@lemy.lol · 24 pts · 66d (3 replies)

Yea, that movie is pretty dumb tho, no way any of that could actually happen ~ Naive teen me

Mihies@programming.dev · 17 pts · 66d

If only that'd happen, not the much worse crap we are seeing these days. ~ me, today

python@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 66d

I should get into selling Electrolytes ~ Smart teen me

Uli@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 66d

If there's still turkey in the fridge, I'm totally having sandwich ~ hungry teen me

umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 65d (1 reply)

You may have heard of "rewrite it in Rust", now get ready to rewrite it in COBOL

Flagstaff@programming.dev · 5 pts · 65d

But can COBOL run Doom?

bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 65d
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inari@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 65d

Yes, me

pglpm@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 65d

A bit sad that Turing's machine isn't mentioned anywhere in their pages – but maybe I just missed the mention.

over_clox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 65d

At the rate we're going, humans will either be extinct by then, or people will only know how to read and write in hieroglyphics emojis..

GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 65d

Genuinely, this is brilliant. If this works, it'll mean that the massive chunk of our culture that lives on the internet won't be lost completely. I wish them luck.

Digit@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 61d

I was just thinking lets have the date expand infinitely.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 65d

Isn't this the idea of docker?