johnklos

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by johnklos 1y ago
"Because you're using adblockers, we're going to punish them." Sounds about right for Google.
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by johnklos 1y ago
> So, now you have to worry about your VPS/Internet provider deplatforming you. Or about your domain name being seized. And spam filtration, backups, redundancy... Your VPS / ISP better have a good reason to "deplatform&qu
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by johnklos 1y ago
I'm still running Sendmail on NetBSD, the way I've been running it since the '90s. You'll find plenty of people telling you to not do it, but they mostly seem to think that others shouldn't do things because they ca
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by johnklos 1y ago
The true value of a company can be measured by our ability to communicate with them. If we can't communicate except after public outrage, then what does that say about the company? Here's a genuine question: is Proton Mail the lea
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by johnklos 1y ago
I'm one of those people. I compile thousands of open source packages on VAX, m68k, SuperH and other less popular architectures. I think I know at least a bit about how much of this "maintenance" is repeated-but-not-substantia
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by johnklos 1y ago
You try to make it either/or in the most overly simplistic way possible. I wonder if you do, in fact, know that it's not a matter of only one or the other, but instead of acknowledging that, you'd rather pretent to be ignoran
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by johnklos 1y ago
> They have no problem with X11 coexisting You have it wrong. Rather than reuse parts of X11, like the compositors that support hardware that nobody will ever be paid to support, Wayland is trying to reinvent the wheel and replace X11, w
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by johnklos 1y ago
Discussions about the corporatization of Linux largely move on emotion. Imagine getting flagged multiple times for asserting that writing code that assumes little endianness is bad programming practice, just because someone had a talk where
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by johnklos 1y ago
I've preserved a number of machines by building them in to rackmount cases. It never occurred to me to make a faux product out of them. This is amazing! The graphics and detail are wonderful.
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by johnklos 1y ago
The story is confusing in that they don't link to the actual project, which you can only get to by visiting the Github link, then going to the developer's projects page, then finding nano11. I'm not sure, but I think nano11 i
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by johnklos 1y ago
> paving the way to building reliable IGZO transistors with a target lifetime of five years It almost makes it seem like they want their memory to last five years, as though it's a feature.
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by johnklos 1y ago
When you're building your own CPUs, why be beholden to US companies for GPUs? This makes perfect sense. GPUs are great if your workload can use them, but not so great for more general tasks. These are more appropriate to more tradition
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by johnklos 1y ago
This is beautiful. Thank you, Ken, and thank you, Marilou, for sharing :)
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by johnklos 1y ago
Binary only, and only support for certain processors makes it not very universal. I don't like getting binaries from other people :(
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by johnklos 1y ago
Maybe I should try to port this to the 65CE02 on the Commodore A2232 seven port serial card. It could use one of the serial ports for BASIC input and output. If I wanted to get fancy, I could even use the Amiga side to load and save program
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by johnklos 1y ago
Because marketing? I suppose if you're buying something for someone who is new to all of this, it might be worthwhile to have many things be RPi branded so if there are issues, there's only one party to worry about.
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by johnklos 1y ago
For starters, Linux is messy. Each distro is different from each other with little consistency. There are even distros specific to device families, like the Raspberry Pi. Sometimes we don't want to have to keep around a cheat sheet so
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by johnklos 1y ago
Amazon is one of the few companies that could benefit the most. Here's an exchange I had with one of their "human" support people: "Search is broken. If I search for wwvb watch, I get shown tons of watches which are defi
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by johnklos 1y ago
So Arnd Bergmann thinks that all future systems, embedded included, will have 64 bit CPUs? Or will embedded just stop using Linux and move to the BSDs?
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by johnklos 1y ago
No idea about Windows. No interest, either. UEFI makes it so you can boot your Unix OS, like NetBSD, without needing to have specific bootblocks that are tailored to the given machine. You can move drives between Arm machines, too. Much sim
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by johnklos 1y ago
The ports would easily fit in a 1U case, as would everything else, including the fan and heat sink. The metal back panel is standard. It'd be nice to have one that's made to fit 1U cases.
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by johnklos 1y ago
The Rock 5 ITX+ is a nice board. I wish a 1U back panel were available for it. UEFI does make things a lot easier. It's a shame that this isn't more common for Arm boards, but it's good to see things heading in the right dire
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by johnklos 1y ago
These days we have more meta-software than software. Instead of Apache with virtualhosts, we have a VM running Docker instances, each with an nginx of its own, all connected by a separate Docker of nginx acting as a proxy. How much waste is
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by johnklos 1y ago
A few nitpicks: * landlords aren't a good thing. * "setup" is a noun. * It'd be helpful to offer some context. For instance, talking about ufw without even mentioning that we're talking about Linux, or even a specif
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by johnklos 1y ago
We do know. Don't both-sides here.
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by johnklos 1y ago
This is a problem. There's a recent phishing campaign with sites hosted by Cloudflare and spam sent through either "noobtech.in" (103.173.40.0/24) or through "worldhost.group" (many, many networks). "noobt
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by johnklos 1y ago
People are already complaining. Could you imagine how much fodder this'd give people who didn't like the work or the distribution of any funds that a cryptocurrency would create (which would be pennies, I think, and more work to d
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by johnklos 1y ago
FYI - you can communicate with the author of Anubis, who has already said she's working on ways to make sure that all browsers - links, lynx, dillo, midori, et cetera, work. Unless you're paying Cloudflare a LOT of money, you won&
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by johnklos 1y ago
I agree - the article is interesting and not dismissive. I was talking more about some of the people here ;)
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by johnklos 1y ago
This is a usually technical crowd, so I can't help but wonder if many people genuinely don't get it, or if they are just feigning a lack of understanding to be dismissive of Anubis. Sure, the people who make the AI scraper bots ar

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