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You probably want to add 3 lines to /n/9fat/plan9.ini:
9fs 9fat
echo 'monitor=ask' >> /n/9fat/plan9.ini
echo 'vgasize=ask' >> /n/9fat/plan9.ini
echo 'service=terminal' >> /n/9fat/plan9.ini
Arguably, we should probably generate it with this by default. I'll look at changing it.
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2026-07-18 00:04:17 GMT

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I've (in the distant past) taken multiple courses on the ethics of technology, so I've definitely been exposed to this viewpoint. I disagree with it.
I admit, I haven't read the specific book you pointed at, but I would imagine that it mirrors Ursula Franklin, and to a lesser extent, Neil Postman.
Rejecting the idea that technology has inherent ethical value isn't the same as absolving it of harm. Remove the people, and technology is just a very intricate pile of rocks and metal. Deciding that technology has inherent moral value outside of how people chose to use it makes it too easy to avoid reckoning with the social context of technology. Rejecting that forces you to reckon with the full interaction of technology and humanity. The harms and benefits technology cause are intricately intertwined with social structure, ideology, politics and human behavior.
Accepting technology's neutrality, though, means that you need to reckon with the complexity of social interaction. You need to defend not just against the things you label as "bad", but also the things you label as "good". Moral neutrality is not the same as having no social impacts. And while some, er, ballistic impact, translates pretty directly to social impact, a huge amount of indirect impact is far more ambiguous. Even if we can use it for huge good, we need to be careful to defend against downsides.
Trying to label technology outside of social structures is too dangerous for me to accept.
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2026-07-17 12:25:48 GMT

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It's worse than that. Technology is neutral, people are adversarial.
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2026-07-16 02:03:53 GMT

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Right. I saw that email, and I think I just forgot to respond.
Anyways, yes -- it's going, but between paying bills, debugging issues that people using it on 9front run into, and just understanding what I'm doing in the VFS, it's slow.
Maybe it's time to put up an onlyfans.
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2026-07-15 20:06:24 GMT

Looks like my talk was accepted.
https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/NVMSCJ/

2026-06-25 17:01:05 GMT

The well known hotbed of Debian-like distros, Lower Manhattan. Thanks, Google, for your helpfully localized search results.
https://hj.9fs.net/ori/s/post-f9b2d0fd9bec255a867f68907e0a9a5f.png

2026-05-10 15:59:11 GMT

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But what music?
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2026-03-28 13:35:49 GMT

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That's with G as in GIF, right?
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