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Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by sillysaurus2 »

thu wrote: post #53
sillysaurus2 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Play with it if you have VMWare and you're bored, but I'd strongly recommend fully isolating it... He's said that networking isn't a goal of the project, as the OS is intended for gaming. So it doesn't have any way to connect to any network.

Isolation is not just about networking.

Hmm.. What else is it about? Using VMware or Virtualbox is actually more dangerous from an isolation perspective because of shared folders and sharing USB drives between the guest/host OS.

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by clicks »

jevinskie wrote: post #5
aegiso wrote: post #2

I don't have a dog in this fight, but some context might be useful to those who didn't instantly recognize this as I did: This is a from-scratch operating system by LoseThOS, an absolutely brilliant but (allegedly) schizophrenic programmer who posts on HN but has been hellbanned countless times for the unintelligle religious rants and insults he posts. This version looks like a rebranding of LoseThOS, the previous it…

SparrowOS is another name for the project. I find the author's hellbanned posts fascinating, at least when they aren't racist!! The project is quite an undertaking for a single human. Edit: After watching this video, I understand the SparrowOS name (audio required): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tuXweEJNFI

Terry is the guy behind the LoseThOS monicker, he does not appear to conceal his identity, so it's not hard to find his contact information if you try. I'm wondering if one of us should try to reach him and make an effort to get him to understand that if he lays aside the gibberish addendums and racist insults in his communications he's more than welcome to be a part of this community. I mean, this is actually someone who has gradually been losing it because the world has not been kind to him.

Look at his post from a little more than two years ago: http://i.imgur.com/qL01m.png

There are no insults in that post, instead you see a man who's created something wonderful and isn't getting anything back for it. Of course the icing on this cake is that, that very post was marked as dead... his cry for help was not seen or heard by anyone.

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by [deleted] »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #58
integraton wrote: post #57

The basic idea behind this, as I understand it, is that the author views the operating system as a way to interact with God. See the following thread of comments on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1aqdxn/temple_o... This is essentially the equivalent of "outsider art" in the technology world.

Indeed. He has the bizarre belief that his computer's PRNG is actually the holy spirit.

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Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by ChrisClark »

dschulz wrote: post #52
eck wrote: post #20

I know the author is a long-hellbanned hn user, possibly with some kind of mental illness. But just out of curiosity, I downloaded the 24MB ISO from the website and loaded it up in a VMWare instance. It does boot... It's an odd curses-like interface, with lots of blinking and scrolling. There are command-line looking things around, but all of the commands are kind of like C statements, like instead of 'cd ..' you hav…

> possibly with some kind of mental illness Oh, that explains very well what I was thinking about those bible cites..

I think he posted an explanation for those seemingly gibberish posts. He wrote a program to grab random text from the Bible and other sources. Supposedly that randomness is what allows the truth to come out.

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by givehimagun »

icelancer wrote: post #16

Oh god, the LoseThOS guy returns. Do yourself a favor: Turn on showdead in options and browse a bunch of threads. You will see his markov chain generator going nuts, plus his rants.

Ohh man, I used to work with a guy like this....though he would sing and write poetry to you over IM and slowly descend into madness.

He also believed his code was bulletproof and never needed changing/refactoring. He was a team culture killer.

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by noir_lord »

Fargren wrote: post #54
noir_lord wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A bit off, that's like saying Stalin had the odd off day or Machiavelli was a tad manipulative. LoseThos is balls to the wall flat out crazy.

About Machievelli: The Prince was (proably) a sarcastic piece[0], denoting the things he saw politicians doing and he thought should not be done. It's a shame that he's remembered as though it was an instruction manual. [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince#Interpretation_of_Th...

I read The Prince when I was a lot younger, fascinating book.

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by sillysaurus2 »

clicks wrote: post #62
jevinskie wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SparrowOS is another name for the project. I find the author's hellbanned posts fascinating, at least when they aren't racist!! The project is quite an undertaking for a single human. Edit: After watching this video, I understand the SparrowOS name (audio required): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tuXweEJNFI

Terry is the guy behind the LoseThOS monicker, he does not appear to conceal his identity, so it's not hard to find his contact information if you try. I'm wondering if one of us should try to reach him and make an effort to get him to understand that if he lays aside the gibberish addendums and racist insults in his communications he's more than welcome to be a part of this community. I mean, this is actually someon…

He is schizophrenic. One of the defining features of schizophrenia is that they can't be reasoned with. They have periods of complete lucidity followed by periods of complete craziness due to physical deterioration of the brain.

He deserves a good doctor. If we can do anything, then we should set up a fund for medical treatment. He has said that doctors haven't been able to help him, but maybe whoever is caring for him hasn't been able to afford top-tier care. It makes a huge difference.

In practice, setting up such a fund would be difficult because we don't know who's caring for him or how.

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by billadoid »

clicks wrote: post #62
jevinskie wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SparrowOS is another name for the project. I find the author's hellbanned posts fascinating, at least when they aren't racist!! The project is quite an undertaking for a single human. Edit: After watching this video, I understand the SparrowOS name (audio required): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tuXweEJNFI

Terry is the guy behind the LoseThOS monicker, he does not appear to conceal his identity, so it's not hard to find his contact information if you try. I'm wondering if one of us should try to reach him and make an effort to get him to understand that if he lays aside the gibberish addendums and racist insults in his communications he's more than welcome to be a part of this community. I mean, this is actually someon…

He's quite racist[0] and people won't tolerate his hate. It's for the best he got hellbanned, so the "saner" ones won't be tempted to get into a flame war with him.

[0]:http://i.imgur.com/IIMGYKE.png (the last comment made me laugh)

Re: The Temple Operating System

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Post by sillysaurus2 »

billadoid wrote: post #68
clicks wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Terry is the guy behind the LoseThOS monicker, he does not appear to conceal his identity, so it's not hard to find his contact information if you try. I'm wondering if one of us should try to reach him and make an effort to get him to understand that if he lays aside the gibberish addendums and racist insults in his communications he's more than welcome to be a part of this community. I mean, this is actually someon…

He's quite racist[0] and people won't tolerate his hate. It's for the best he got hellbanned, so the "saner" ones won't be tempted to get into a flame war with him. [0]: http://i.imgur.com/IIMGYKE.png (the last comment made me laugh)

He's not necessarily racist. He's suffering from a mental illness. He believes god talks to him.
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