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HP van BraamPeople complain if I put Microsoft Bob on <a href="https://mastodon.tmm.cx/tags/macos9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macos9</a>, or when I destroy a <a href="https://mastodon.tmm.cx/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> DVD drive. But out there in the real world people are building things like this and nobody bats an eye.That's right, a Linux distro where NodeJS is the entire userland. And they call it "lightweight"... compared to...?!?!"thanks" <a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@nixCraft</a> for making me aware of this.<a href="https://github.com/NodeOS/NodeOS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/NodeOS/NodeOS</a><a href="https://mastodon.tmm.cx/tags/cursed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cursed</a> <a href="https://mastodon.tmm.cx/tags/cursedcomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cursedcomputing</a>

The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculusYour eyes are not deceiving you... I got an Apple TV 1st Gen, the only x86 based model (it uses a Pentium M as its CPU) booting Windows XP Service Pack 3! For reals!This was possible through a small security flaw in the Apple TV's firmware and boot process... while the Apple TV looks for a boot.efi file on its boot partition and has it load a Mach-O binary to be able to boot, it doesn't actually care about the actual contents of the file! So by that note, you can wrap a kernel or bootloader from another OS into a Mach-O file and name it mach_kernel, and the Apple TV won't care and will happily boot it! So after this little escapade of cursed computing, you know Linux is next! 😁More deets are in this video, along with a link to grab a premade disk image from the Internet Archive! <a href="https://youtu.be/v2w5MmiRHUo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/v2w5MmiRHUo</a>The entire project was done by distrohopper39b, who chronicles his work on the project from beginning to end here:<a href="https://youtu.be/YkjrEXtZoWM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/YkjrEXtZoWM</a><a href="https://hackers.town/tags/HackThePlanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HackThePlanet</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/CursedComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CursedComputing</a>

The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculusWait, the first generation Apple TV can actually boot Windows XP now?? :flan_hacker2: <a href="https://github.com/DistroHopper39B/NTATV" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/DistroHopper39B/NTATV</a>Hmmmm... I think the last part of the spell I need to do some *extremely* cursed things to the Apple TV has been revealed!Let's try a certain cursed Linux distro on it, shall we?? :cult: <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/CursedComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CursedComputing</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/tags/HardwareHacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HardwareHacking</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:I wounder if we'll soon see <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IE11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IE11</a> for <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> as peak <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CursedComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CursedComputing</a> sooner than later...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AoyQeUzbEU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AoyQeUzbEU</a> via <a href="https://social.restless.systems/@ncommander" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ncommander</a>

NCommanderToday I learned that dependency manage in Perl using a floating point numbers to compare version stringsI'm still processing the implications of this failure message, but I feel the need to scream into the void.EDIT: Turns out its a bit more sane than that, mark Gardner explains it here: <a href="https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/110495135782384907" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/110495135782384907</a><a href="https://social.restless.systems/tags/cursedcomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cursedcomputing</a> <a href="https://social.restless.systems/tags/perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#perl</a>

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