TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
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Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#2Here is he sitting in his truck and working on his computer:
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#3ELI5 the story behind this?
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#4When I googled I found more details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/7218gh/templeos_crea...
> Despite the mean spirited attention he gets, he does have a following of people who seem to genuinly feel for him, and want to do nice things for him. One thing his followers did which at least seemed well intentioned was buying him a drum set. Terry likes to use drum sticks, but didn't have a set, so a gofundme was set up and he was bought some drums.
> But shortly after receiving the drum set, Terry vanished off the interenet for a couple weeks. Eventually, this note was posted on his website:
>> I got kicked-out of my parent's house. I got in a fight with my Dad, went to jail then mental hospital.
>> I'm adapting to being homeless. Hope to get a car to live in but no loan yet.
> At some point after posting this note, he was able to get a van, which he's now living in.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#5In a recent HN thread fellow HNers were asking what is a real artist: this is it.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#6The amount of dedication Terry shows for his project is beyond what you see anywhere else in the software dev space.
For anyone who hasn't, I recommend to watch his videos on TempleOS (there are a lot of hymn videos or ranting videos, you can ignore those), they are a genuinely interesting perspective into OS Development.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#7In a recent HN thread fellow HNers were asking what is a real artist: this is it.
How do you mean? TempleOS is undoubtably a pretty interesting achievement, both in the artistic and technological sense - but Terry has serious mental issues, and we shouldn't overlook them as "oh, that's just how artists are".
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#8TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person to completely understand?
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#9TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person…
It's a bit similar to Windows 9x -- anything can do anything.
It might not be suspectible to Meltdown and Spectre per se, but the lack of security that grants that property still means a lack of security.
Re: TempleOS creator Terry Davis is homeless and living in a van
#10TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person…
That's like saying "I don't have any doors in my house, just open frames. So I'm not affected by the weaknesses in locks."