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Mar 05, 2026
JdeBP
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This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @JdeBP. For #senryu and #SlowLife tasks, see @JdeBP. For the command-line and system tools (including #nosh and #djbwares), specifically, see @JdeBP.
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Another 2nd chance to tell legislators that the mechanisms that we have inherited from #Unix, and used in loads of #FreeSoftware operating systems from #NetBSD to #Tribblix, do not have date of birth/age fields for user accounts, is #Illinois, where HB5511 is the very same text as #California's, too.
https://my.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocTypeID=HB&DocNum=5511&GAID=18&LegID=167486
It really does seem at this point that this is model legislation.
Sponsors in Illionois are Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, Margaret Croke, Janet Yang, Rohr, Kimberly Du Buclet, Natalie A. Manley, Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar, Rick Ryan, Michelle Mussman, Martha Deuter and Tracy Katz Muhl.
The bill is in the judiciary–civil committee as of yesterday.
It was introduced last month, 1 day after it was introduced in Colorado. I wonder in what other states it has just turned up.
A lobby organization handing pre-drafted bills to multiple sets of legislators is not unknown.
@nileane@nileane.fr @RunxiYu@social.treehouse.systems
#CaliforniaLaw #USLaw #IllinoisLaw #FreeSoftware #AgeVerification
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Feb 11, 2026
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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @JdeBP. For #senryu and #SlowLife tasks, see @JdeBP. For the command-line and system tools (including #nosh and #djbwares), specifically, see @JdeBP.
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People waxing lyrical about using 'original vi', both nowadays in 2026 and back in 2006, haven't a clue what that is.
There's only one family of operating systems where 'vi' will actually run the original vi program by Joy, Horton, et al.: #Illumos and its derivatives #Tribblix, #OmniOS, and #SmartOS.
*Everyone else* uses one of the ground-up clones.
On #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, and #NetBSD, it's Bostic's early 1990s #nvi, which was derived from Kirkendall's elvis, a clone written some time around 1990.
On Linux-based operating systems, vi either is Bostic nvi, or is one of the derivatives of STEVIE (the middle-1980s vi clone for the Atari ST that inspired Kirkendall to write elvis in the first place): Moolenaar's VIM or NeoVIM.
On none of those will you get original Joy+Horton vi in base, or indeed packaged/in ports.
Yes, Heirloom vi exists, which is Ritter's 2002 fork of 1985 Joy+Horton vi. But it's not even available in Arch Linux nowadays.
#vi #retrocomputing #ComputerHistory
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