johnr2

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by johnr2 5y ago
> Presumably not on mainline kernel. At first it was necessary to compile the realtime-lsm module to allow user programs to make use of realtime scheduling. In late 2006 or so (IIRC) rlimits-aware PAM became available which made realtime
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by johnr2 5y ago
From the article: "I started using FreeBSD in 2016 as a dual-boot with Linux. The reason was that at the time Linux provided no support for real-time threads and preemptive scheduling" I've been using real time threads and pr
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by johnr2 6y ago
> How many developers that could evolve into great developers have been stunted because someone denied them the opportunity to become competent? Nobody is denying anyone. The code is there to read as an example. If an aspiring developer
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by johnr2 6y ago
> I believe that is anti-community in spirit and non-conductive to solving the issue you claim exists. You presumably haven't encountered this issue with your own open-source projects, but that doesn't mean the problem doesn&#x
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by johnr2 6y ago
>Computers should work for us. We shouldn't work for computers. Dump .txt for .text. If my computer expects me to type an extra letter every time I name a file it isn't working for me. The short extensions make for more efficie
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by johnr2 6y ago
> I wish Digital Ocean would do something about the amount of abuse from their network. Yes. After blocking the usual suspects, the great majority of SSH brute force attempts I see in my server logs now come from Digital Ocean IP address
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by johnr2 6y ago
> the Left's common enemy is the Right, and vice versa The common enemy of both is the moderate in the middle who prefers rational discussion to confrontation.
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by johnr2 6y ago
> Why are you using legacy BIOS? It has been obsolete for a long time It's simpler. That's sufficient reason for me.
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by johnr2 6y ago
For those of us who still prefer to use legacy BIOS on current hardware when possible, the article is not obsolete. I suspect the downvotes were because your comment comes across as unreasonably negative.
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by johnr2 6y ago
I switched to OpenBSD on my desktop and remote server after many years of Linux use. It's now my goto OS for network connected stuff. One caveat: A power cut during the relinking process that occurs during and after boot can wreck the
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by johnr2 6y ago
> HTTPS-only is about forcing all traffic to be encrypted by banning clear-text traffic Banning clear text might work for browsers but it would disable ACME clients that rely on plain http to initiate a certificate request from Let'
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by johnr2 6y ago
> tripe-filled posts I enjoyed the article and found it thought provoking. Maybe I have tripe for brains.
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by johnr2 6y ago
> Ah, the foundation trilogy. Prepper culture apocalypse fairy tales – but for academians. It was written in the early 1950's. Did prepper culture exist then to the same extent as it does today?
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by johnr2 6y ago
> if we ever rewrite Unix, we can just go with "wd" Thus confusing anyone who uses the 'wd' hard disk driver. https://man.openbsd.org/wd
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by johnr2 6y ago
> ammonia is way too dangerous The thought of working in the confines of a ship's engine room with such a hazardous fuel is horrifying. One reason for the widespread use of diesel oil is that it's relatively safe for human oper
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by johnr2 6y ago
> All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux! s/All/Most Alpine Linux uses musl libc and busybox, for example.
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by johnr2 6y ago
> Any guarantee they won't change the interface and break my version, while they update both of theirs together? No, I think you can guarantee that the interface will change at some point.
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by johnr2 6y ago
> you can trivially disable the persistent journal (I even believe that's the default on Debian) The persistent journal is enabled by default in Debian testing.
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by johnr2 6y ago
> It is very hard to read a long form text in such a narrow column. It displays at full width in Dillo, which has no JavaScript support. I can't see the article text at all in Firefox with JS blocked by NoScript, however. Strange.
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by johnr2 6y ago
> It matters at least somewhat to 90% of the general public and is very important to almost 50%: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/file ... From the linked web page: "sample size 1006
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by johnr2 6y ago
I switched my desktop to OpenBSD a couple of years ago after ~18 years on Debian. It takes less time to set up the way I want than recent versions of Debian. I make heavy use of traditional Unix CLI programs and don't use a heavyweight
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by johnr2 6y ago
> Note that the author does not respect gender identity/pronouns The article is written in the first person throughout and doesn't use any gender specific pronouns that I could see. How is that disrespectful? (My knowledge of G
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by johnr2 6y ago
> I think startx now only works if you’re root or have given users additional permissions That was the case for a while but in OpenBSD 6.7 startx works again out of the box, as long as you have certain graphics hardware, eg. radeon.
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by johnr2 6y ago
> The "good" tubes are JAN (Joint Army Navy) tubes which were last produced in the 1960s. s/1960s/1980s Sylvania was still making them up to 1981, when Philips ECG bought the Sylvania tube factory so they could supply
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by johnr2 6y ago
> A Star Went Supernova in 1987 It didn't go supernova in 1987. It happened around 168,000 years before that, but it took the light from the event that long to reach us. A better title might be "A supernova was observed in 1987
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by johnr2 6y ago
> Link has a paywall I'm not seeing a paywall in Firefox with NoScript or in Dillo (which has no JavaScript support).
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by johnr2 6y ago
> Because of planned obsolescence. The TL07x series op-amps along with quite a few others have been in continuous production for over 40 years. They are still manufactured by the million. When is the obsolescence you refer to planned for
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by johnr2 6y ago
> Switching from C++ to a language without memory safety issues while being just as fast Does that actually exist? (I mean in the general case, not just a few carefully chosen benchmarks).
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by johnr2 6y ago
> didn't know they were German Drummer Herman Rarebell's solo album "Herman Ze German" was a good clue :-)
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by johnr2 6y ago
> most commercially successful German rock band of all times: Rammstein s/German/German-singing and you might have a point.

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