Several interesting videos have been made about TempleOS and Terry's life since he passed away last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6HlbpczpDM (12 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgoxQCf5Jg (1.5 hours)
TempleOS: Installation
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#32Have there been any major improvements/updates/upgrades to TempleOS in the last year or so? Haven't seen the author of the OS posting around much in that time.
Yeah, pretty big one here:
https://github.com/DivineSystems/DivineOS
There is also the one that adds package manager and network :)
https://github.com/minexew/Shrine
I am freaking amazed !
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#33I learned today that Terry died. There is mist in my eyes and pain in my heart. I wish I could have helped him. Sorry Terry, you were born with a loaded gun. I wish we could have healed you. I wish we could have taken care of you. I wish you were still here to share your gift with the world. I’ll install Temple OS on a Raspi in your honor and memory. edit: https://youtu.be/bQlE2C7K7Kc
I felt similarly when I heard the news.
I can't explain the sadness I felt when I learned that 4Chan brigades are largely responsible for how quickly his situation deteriorated.
For those who, like me, didn't know, he had begun live-streaming, where he would take call-ins to his landline. It's there that a concerted campaign to get Terry to alienate himself from his parents (with whom he lived) and stop taking his medication. This is not to mention how they egged on romantic feelings for a YouTube personality who they would later impersonate and torture him with in awful ways.
All this led to Terry's parents being unable to house him. They were very old and the situation became impossible. Terry survived on the streets for sometime, meeting up with (genuine and loving) fans along the way. Terry sadly was struck by a train.
We were able to celebrate an eccentric and strange life because of the internet. It also ended it. I hope the internet can heal... I know people like you and I hope it can. It didn't here.
If you want to learn more about Terry's life and death, please check out Fredrick Knudsen's video essay. It is in-depth and important, although very challenging because of the subject matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgoxQCf5Jg
Finally, if you feel like you or someone you care for are in crisis, or might be soon, consider speaking to the folks at NAMI in the US. If you're not in the US, they can direct you to people in your country.
1-800-950-NAMI (6264) or info@nami.org
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#34I learned today that Terry died. There is mist in my eyes and pain in my heart. I wish I could have helped him. Sorry Terry, you were born with a loaded gun. I wish we could have healed you. I wish we could have taken care of you. I wish you were still here to share your gift with the world. I’ll install Temple OS on a Raspi in your honor and memory. edit: https://youtu.be/bQlE2C7K7Kc
I felt similarly when I heard the news. I can't explain the sadness I felt when I learned that 4Chan brigades are largely responsible for how quickly his situation deteriorated. For those who, like me, didn't know, he had begun live-streaming, where he would take call-ins to his landline. It's there that a concerted campaign to get Terry to alienate himself from his parents (with whom he lived) and stop taking his me…
This is so awful.
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#35Terry was a nut, but he did a pretty good job of getting the word out about his magnum opus. Over several years, he alternated between sincere advocacy and unhinged abuse in trying to get my website OSNews to cover his OS development efforts more widely. Eventually, one of our volunteer editors patiently worked with him to produce an article about it: https://www.osnews.com/story/23796/recreational-programming-... I…
Would you be able to publish said letters somewhere for posterity?
When I die I hope people don't decide to begin sharing my private conversations.
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#36Have there been any major improvements/updates/upgrades to TempleOS in the last year or so? Haven't seen the author of the OS posting around much in that time.
Yeah, pretty big one here: https://github.com/DivineSystems/DivineOS There is also the one that adds package manager and network :) https://github.com/minexew/Shrine I am freaking amazed !
I was never able to get Shrine's network layer working.
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#37I don't like running TempleOS on hardware or in a full fledged VM(Seems like overkill). I would like to make an alternate virtual machine to run TempleOs programs on, in Javascript using a Canvas element for UI. I am unsure if there are constructs which TempleOS uses which are unrepresentable in a virtual machine built inside of a javascript virtual machines - like threads, interrupts, etc. I think events could be wi…
If you'd like to write a PC-emulator in Javascript I can only tell you good-look. It can be done, it has been done for example " rel="nofollow">https://www.pcjs.org/>, but it will require the kind of low-level PC hardware knowledge which takes a while to come together.
Yes you'll need interrupts, but you'll need a hell of a lot more than that! If you're interested in learning about emulation then start with chip-8, or a similar simple system. Once you've done that you'll become much more aware of all the parts you're not aware of.
But seriously this is a lot of work, rewarding work, commercially useful work, but a throwaway comment "Lets do this in javascript with " is a significantly understated commen suggests to me you don't understand the scope of what you're proposing - not that this should stop you, it would be rewarding. It's just a fine line between pondering "What if ..?" and being insulting to Terry.
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#38I learned today that Terry died. There is mist in my eyes and pain in my heart. I wish I could have helped him. Sorry Terry, you were born with a loaded gun. I wish we could have healed you. I wish we could have taken care of you. I wish you were still here to share your gift with the world. I’ll install Temple OS on a Raspi in your honor and memory. edit: https://youtu.be/bQlE2C7K7Kc
I felt similarly when I heard the news. I can't explain the sadness I felt when I learned that 4Chan brigades are largely responsible for how quickly his situation deteriorated. For those who, like me, didn't know, he had begun live-streaming, where he would take call-ins to his landline. It's there that a concerted campaign to get Terry to alienate himself from his parents (with whom he lived) and stop taking his me…
This makes me so angry. Usually, mob justice is a bad thing but there are few legal recourses here; can we make sure that the stain of this man's death never washes away from the people who perpetrated this act?
If the live streams are still up, can we (with the family's blessing) find the people who called in to hurt this man? Would it be okay to publicly name them and link to his suicide and what each individual did?
It feels odd to ask for a punishment via the commons, but this man deserves some measure of justice for his passing.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you be able to publish said letters somewhere for posterity?
When I die I hope people don't decide to begin sharing my private conversations.
I’m sorry to inform you, but that’s often how we preserve history...
E.g. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/lette...
Should we destroy these letters too?
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't really experience the true TempleOS flavor without the hardware speaker beeping RNG-based hymns.
Indeed. That algorithmic music is something else... each time I hear it I don't know what to say and I used to create experimental electronic music all the time...
A way to think about it is that music, to Terry, is quite literally the voice of God. Imagine what meaning things like this hymn Risen (the theme song of TempleOS) must have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3zCwrbOvEU