drewdevault

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by drewdevault 2y ago
I've read most of the report and it's got a lot more than "last time". Speaking as someone who has done a lot of my own research on Stallman's bullshit, the depth of this report is astonishing. The allegations it ma
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by drewdevault 2y ago
Your cited source is not really a good view of the situation. He did not reverse his position at all on the Minsky/Epstein issue (and the article quotes Stallman doubling down on this, saying he's resigning over "a series of
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by drewdevault 2y ago
I am sympathetic to the cause. I respect the Linux project as a whole forming a consensus on the right direction for the kernel and I respect the right of the Rust developers to participate in the consensus-making process and advocate for w
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by drewdevault 2y ago
>This person read that email about one Rust Kernel developer resigning because of burnout. Now he goes into how the Linux project is a “burnout machine” and how his heart goes out to the “developers who have been burned” (how did we get
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by drewdevault 2y ago
Cygwin is a POSIX implementation, not a Linux implementation. Linux is mostly POSIX compatible and so Cygwin is source-compatible, but not binary-compatible, with many programs that work on Linux.
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by drewdevault 2y ago
I have not contributed much to Linux -- my claim to fame is submitting a one-line patch which generated 50+ emails of arguments from LKML before Linus merged it -- but I have read a ton of the Linux source code and familiarized myself with
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by drewdevault 2y ago
Why would you even say something like that?
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by drewdevault 2y ago
The original aerc prototype was written in C. It wasn't great. https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc-legacy
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git-am.io: Reviewing Git contributions via email(git-am.io)
7 points by drewdevault 2y ago|0 comments
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by drewdevault 2y ago
Singapore has the death penalty for drug offenses.
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by drewdevault 2y ago
From the terms of service: > Please be aware that there may be certain adult or mature content available on the Website. Where there is mature or adult content, individuals who are less than 18 years of age or are not permitted to access
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So you want to compete with or replace open source(drewdevault.com)
8 points by drewdevault 2y ago|1 comments
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Hare 0.24.2 Released(harelang.org)
7 points by drewdevault 2y ago|0 comments
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by drewdevault 2y ago
Something that hasn't been addressed by comments here yet is that you could implement EFI boot services in the Linux kernel and essentially turn Linux into a firmware interface. Though note that I generally shy away from any attempts t
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by drewdevault 2y ago
>So he cheated, he got Linus to run BK commands at his house and he snooped the network. He had no legal access to those bytes. Without those snoops, no chance he reverse engineered it. Snooping the network is a common and entirely legal
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by drewdevault 2y ago
Come on, man, you should be better than this. With so many years of hindsight surely you realize by now that reverse engineering is not some moral failing? How much intellectual and cultural wealth is attributable to it? And with Google v
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by drewdevault 2y ago
In retrospect, our datacenter partner in the old datacenter was unreliable. But, we had been there from the start, since I was just hosting a personal server there pre-SourceHut, and during the incident they egregiously violated their SLA w
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by drewdevault 2y ago
Both. We restored from backups and touched up the diff out of band. We then had the drives removed and destroyed.
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by drewdevault 2y ago
There was no lost data, and it wasn't just unanswered emails -- several hours on the phone, juggling between subsidiaries on either side of the pond, with no clear responsible party on their end. The customer service for this shipping
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The state of SourceHut and our plans for the future(sourcehut.org)
60 points by drewdevault 2y ago|18 comments
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Writing a Unix clone in about a month(drewdevault.com)
395 points by drewdevault 2y ago|134 comments
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Copyleft licenses are not "restrictive"(drewdevault.com)
31 points by drewdevault 2y ago|12 comments
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by drewdevault 2y ago
Agreed. This is ridiculous.
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by drewdevault 2y ago
>I'll get on my soap box then. The redis client ecosystem is fractured and awful, and it's mostly Cluster's fault. Getting cluster right is really hard, and most clients do it inconsistently and get something wrong, if the
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by drewdevault 2y ago
We're excited to see valkey innovate in these areas! We wish you the best of luck and wish that we could have merged our forks, but alas. >Ultimately a small community will struggle to maintain a lot of clients, so I think we need a
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by drewdevault 2y ago
I'll defer to your on the ground expertise as to the relative popularity of each, but I will point out that we're both working with anecdata here. I might also suggest that MySQL is losing a lot of ground to Postgres and I don&#x2
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by drewdevault 2y ago
>Are you sure? I'd asked antirez to clarify 6 years ago, and he said he had transferred the Redis IP to Redis Labs, without being more specific Well, trademarks are a form of IP. But in any case the copyright was never antirez'
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by drewdevault 2y ago
>MariaDB is also somewhat widely used, but not nearly as much as MySQL. I believe this is factually false. Consider just one datapoint: https://repology.org/project/mysql/versions https://repology.or
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by drewdevault 2y ago
No problem :)
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by drewdevault 2y ago
Thanks! It would be great to have your help. I think your Rust/wasm goals are a little bit dramatic for the goals we established among ourselves, but by all means start a conversation about it. Good support for compile-to-wasm is proba

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