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by laxd 17d ago
Real apple-people would'nt consider this anyways. Open source geeks is were they can get traction. Seems like there is plenty of us that would like fbsd quality and vertical integration to the desktop level. There is effort but no brea
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by laxd 3mo ago
My view: The nether update was fabulous with so much new stuff. After that they seemed overconfident and promised way too much. They delivered but it took three new versions rather than one. Each of those versions was awesome in my opinion.
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by laxd 10mo ago
Certainly not the only one making things worse. Software has become an enemy of the people in the last 10 years. Remember when the internet was nominated for Nobel Peace price?
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by laxd 10mo ago
Absolutely not. These are fundamental concepts in our computer world and a step on the latter towards becoming a programmer or sysadmin.
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by laxd 10mo ago
I've felt it through my guilty pleasure of scrolling instagram reels periodically. They've obviously changed their algorithm from time to time and it's crazy how I've intermittently have gotten endless right wing stuff a
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by laxd 10mo ago
A thought in the other direction though. A lot of fields don't really have kids playing their way towards skill. Still people find their way to the frontiers and push on.
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by laxd 10mo ago
> Part of the issue is that computers today require no deep knowledge to use, unlike first or second generation PCs that genX and millennials grew up with. A point that I've often tried to convey among friends and family. No! Todays
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by laxd 10mo ago
Thanks for the effort, that was an interesting read.
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by laxd 10mo ago
I like it. Remember when people used to have badges on their sites? Like HTML5 or XHTML or Apache or whatever. Maybe we could bring back one for "made by humans".
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by laxd 10mo ago
"If 386BSD had been available before I created Linux, then Linux might not have been born" - Linus My impression is that there was also a bit of a culture clash. BSD was the white coat academic world and not very welcoming to outs
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by laxd 10mo ago
My impression is that ASLR just hasn't been well regarded and prioritized. See for example this tweet by cperciva: https://x.com/cperciva/status/1528971801983823872
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by laxd 10mo ago
The OG thread: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115504720054699983
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by laxd 10mo ago
> But before Zig, there was C. For fifty years, C has been the foundation of modern computing. And for fifty years, language theory has made progress. While C, brilliant as it once was, has given us never ending problems with security an
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by laxd 11mo ago
I've worked for a company with a large code base in Visual Basic .net. Product been in development since the 90's, with rich customer that only cares about their software doing its job. It's a surprisingly productive language
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by laxd 11mo ago
Ports is a meta build system, from which packages are created. Gives a lot of convenient power and flexibility. For ready built packages, the FreeBSD equivalent of dpkg or whatever five different package commands Debian is using now would b
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by laxd 11mo ago
Sounds like the knee-jerk rules of some socialite circle in a top floor Manhatten apartment. Please let me have some of your cocaine.
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by laxd 11mo ago
For FreeBSD, given that it fulfills the tasks required: * Ease of management - more holistically designed. * Rock solid parts that fits together - more holistically designed. * ZFS, jails, bhyve, dtrace, ports. * If it works today, it works
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by laxd 11mo ago
My impression: * PF was imported into FreeBSD from OpenBSD, maybe it had problems at first. * Both implementations have been actively maintained, further developed, and diverged. * There is now collaboration in the development of the FreeBS
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by laxd 11mo ago
Addendum: I've used FreeBSD as my daily driver (I hate that term) since around 2004. Including through cs/math university. With Windows in a VM for "I need it". The longer I've used it the more I'm annoyed by t
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by laxd 11mo ago
- firewall? PF seems to me like pretty much the most well regarded firewall there is - with a nice, sensible DSL for config. If you don't like like it, you can use use IPFW or IPFILTER, which are alternative, built-in, firewall front-e
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by laxd 11mo ago
Let's rebrand and try again!
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by laxd 11mo ago
Sun ceased to exist 15 years ago. Time flies.
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by laxd 11mo ago
Unfortunately not. They are calling it "phone" and ("rooted phone" or "unlocked phone").
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by laxd 1y ago
I don't need more movies. I want higher quality movies. And I don't think AI will work out any better for movies than it does for youtube documentaries. It's getting tiresome to find anything worth watching among all the slop
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by laxd 1y ago
Mollusc is a perfectly legal way of writing mollusk if that's what you mean. And everyone knows that whales evolved from hungry beach snails around 50mya.
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by laxd 1y ago
# I was always struck by how much it resembled meat in both texture and taste. Say what? How can a mollusc taste like meat?
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by laxd 1y ago
If it's dead, why is it moving so much? https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+log
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by laxd 1y ago
It's called washing machines. They come with a computer built-in.
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by laxd 1y ago
Birds of Parallax from 9:45 onwards is my favorite. They had this on repeat in an electronic music history exhibition I attended in a London museum some ... counting... 12 years ago. https://youtu.be/lNTZh0jHOvs?t=585
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by laxd 1y ago
It was only meant as a pragmatic here-and-now way of dealing with the issue, for the hn crowd. Most people are helpless victims.

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