Windows has betrayed me one too many times.

[sungo@social.sungo.space]

@mwl yes, yes I have. did you know they built a skyscraper over that gelato place since we were last there?

[sng@bsd.network]

@sungo @mwl I don’t even know what Inferno is. I’m so damned out of it any more.

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@sng @sungo

you missed Inferno??? The Hell-themed Plan 9 variant???

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@mwl @sng @sungo you *could* tell people that have issues that they are reading your books wrong and that they should read them under inferno

it probably would not be a sensible business decision, but you *could*

(is there even an epub reader for inferno? I've found traces of one for OEB inferno-os.org/inferno/man/1/e… , but surely that's enough for everybody, right?)

(also, I should be doing things, not wasting time looking for software for niche operating systems!)

[sng@bsd.network]

@valhalla @mwl @sungo Now I’m pondering how much I would pay for a book that can only be read under an OS I’ll ( most likely ) never touch. It’s non zero for sure. Crap. We may have just given him an Idea. His wife is gonna murder me next time I see her.

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@sng @valhalla @sungo

I would never do that.

now, a windowed release? hold back the next Beaks epub for 60 days in favor of the inferno-only version? sure.

[paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org]

@mwl @sng @valhalla @sungo

And now, I have to install inferno to be able to read that book, whatever it is. I may even send some extra money to Lucas just because.

Great job, everyone.

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@sng @sungo @mwl should I be grateful about the ocean between us? and never go to a BSD conference, just in case? (we all know those are dangerous places)

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@ParadeGrotesque @mwl @sng @valhalla @sungo Open Ebook Format (aka epub) is cross-platform. I'm just surprised someone bothered writing an epub reader for Inferno, a niche research OS (written by the Bell Labs crew who previously wrote Plan 9 and, before that, UNIX).

[sng@bsd.network]

@cstross While true and accurate how does this help with convincing Lucas to do something funny? @mwl @sungo @ParadeGrotesque @valhalla

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@sng @cstross @sungo @ParadeGrotesque @valhalla

Mr. Stross might have a far larger readership than I do (and well-earned, might I add).

But I will say: my readers are far, far worse.

[sungo@social.sungo.space]

@mwl @sng @cstross @ParadeGrotesque @valhalla look, all it means is we have to go invent some inferno only thing so by the time that mwl finds room in his schedule, it's all ready and waiting.

remember those POC||GTFO binaries that were also PDFs and disk images containing the PDFs?

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@sungo @mwl @sng @ParadeGrotesque @valhalla You *do* know about the PDF that's doing that rounds and when you view it in a sufficiently compliant PDF browser it boots up a Linux kernel and gives you a terminal and userland?

GitHub - ading2210/linuxpdf: Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator

Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator - ading2210/linuxpdf

GitHub (github.com)

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@cstross @sungo @sng @ParadeGrotesque @valhalla

oooh... now THERE'S a worthy prank. Point init at an epub reader with the book loaded...

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@mwl @ParadeGrotesque @sng @cstross @sungo there is evil. and there is this.