You're absolutely right, you could take any binary that runs under an OS and set up a bootloader to execute it directly without an OS.
The problem is that all programs, even ones in C, rely invisibly and enormously on the OS abstracting away hardware for them. The python interpreter doesn't know the first thing about how to parse the raw bytes on a hard drive to find the location of the bytes that belong to a given file path. Files and filesystems are 'fake' when you get down to it, and the OS creates that fiction so each program doesn't have to be customized per PC setup.
So, ironically, to be able to truly kernel hack in python like you want would require writing tons of C to replace all OS hooks (like fopen to interact with a file, e.g.) with code that knows how to directly manipulate your hardware (speaking PCIe/NVMe to get to the disk, speaking GPT to find the partition on the disk, speaking ext4 to find the file in the partition, e.g.).
OSes are complex as hell for a reason, and by retrofitting python to run on bare metal like that would require recreating that complexity in the interpreter.
Captures from an Internet Archive sweep of the web. There are so many captures since the domain has been active since the 90s and was part of a great many scans.
Wow, who hurt you? Vim is fun, and just because you can make things work without it doesn't mean it has no practical benefit. It's nice to have an editor as powerful as an IDE that doesn't require a graphical environment.
Hundreds of shortcuts is emacs, by the way. A major perk of modal editing and the vi editing language is that you can compose relatively few operations to accomplish many tasks rather than memorizing lots of more complex and specific shortcuts.
Who said anything about capitalism? I'm talking about centralization. Expecting countless individuals to be able to do something as well as specialists can do it just doesn't make sense to me.
"Personal responsibility" is a red herring used by those in power to try and shift the blame off of institutions with real power. We need institutional change first and foremost.
Off-gridders are primarily dilettantes who have the money to pretend they're disconnected from the system.
A strange choice. You've got most people who will be confused by the odd spelling, and then you've got esperantists like me who get confused by the missing accent mark. Until now, just seeing it in passing I assumed it was a password manager or something because of 'forgesi'.
I am glad to see more Esperanto in the wild, though.
You're absolutely right, you could take any binary that runs under an OS and set up a bootloader to execute it directly without an OS.
The problem is that all programs, even ones in C, rely invisibly and enormously on the OS abstracting away hardware for them. The python interpreter doesn't know the first thing about how to parse the raw bytes on a hard drive to find the location of the bytes that belong to a given file path. Files and filesystems are 'fake' when you get down to it, and the OS creates that fiction so each program doesn't have to be customized per PC setup.
So, ironically, to be able to truly kernel hack in python like you want would require writing tons of C to replace all OS hooks (like
fopento interact with a file, e.g.) with code that knows how to directly manipulate your hardware (speaking PCIe/NVMe to get to the disk, speaking GPT to find the partition on the disk, speaking ext4 to find the file in the partition, e.g.).OSes are complex as hell for a reason, and by retrofitting python to run on bare metal like that would require recreating that complexity in the interpreter.