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by moody__ 6d ago
From the article: >When an individual chooses to use a Linux-based operating system instead of Windows or OSX, they are, deliberately or not, making a statement. They are declaring themselves to be autonomous and independent. But this is
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by moody__ 6d ago
And now GNU/Linux is freely taking money from corporate overlords and ponying up money to frontier model companies. I don't know what possess people to think Linux is still some cool counter culture thing, it's not. It's
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by moody__ 17d ago
Congrats to the team, I adore Haiku from afar and hope they continue to do good work. Had to do a bit of debugging with some code I help maintain for the new release, but it was a fun excuse to mess around with it a bit again.
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by moody__ 17d ago
Just in time for the kernel and its consequences to become completely hostile to anyone not paying for a frontier model. If I was 16 again and evaluating linux only to see everyone using LLMs to reason about the mess they've put themse
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by moody__ 1mo ago
When did junk like this start being called an operating system?
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by moody__ 1mo ago
When did you get the idea that we're trying to please anyone? The type of people to scream about "wokerism" are not the folks we want in our community, conversely the people who scream that we're not sufficiently sanitiz
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by moody__ 1y ago
After all of this hype this is the best they can do? This is the forefront company (arguable) of the forefront tech and no one can review slides before being shipped out? I think the reason why this has resonated with people is that it give
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by moody__ 1y ago
There aren't really union filesystems per se, the plan 9 kernel provides unions through its namespace model. In my opinion part of the reason why the userspace tools can be as nice as they are, are due to the use of file system interfa
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by moody__ 1y ago
Yes you're correct, my apologies. There has been work on this going the other way as well: https://github.com/michaelforney/wl9 . But there's still a lot more than can be done. There are vague plans to test th
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by moody__ 1y ago
Could you expand more on what you would like out of an "enterprise Plan 9"?
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by moody__ 1y ago
This has been done already: https://github.com/aiju/jsdrawterm
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by moody__ 2y ago
Sure, but the security concerns of that I feel are much less concerning than having multiple domain names with the same visual appearance that point to different servers. That has immediate impact for things like phishing whereas lookalike
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by moody__ 2y ago
As the sibling comment has mentioned Unicode in DNS uses a punycode encoding but even further then that the standard specifies that the Unicode data must be normalized to NFC[0] before being converted to punycode. This means that your secon
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by moody__ 2y ago
Normalization implementations must not strip variation selectors by definition. The "normal" part of normalization means to convert a string into either consistently decomposed unicode, or composed unicode. ie U+00DC vs U+0055 + U
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by moody__ 2y ago
I write a lot of code for 9front within 9front, all of which is done through the sam editor. While sam does have a powerful general purpose editing language, it doesn't do syntax highlighting or any sort of language aware tooling (LSPs
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by moody__ 2y ago
> Like all those magazine subscriptions make their money off ads. The idea that a business can't survive on its own is fine, no? This is not quite the same, if a single magazine starts to become more ads than decent content it is no
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by moody__ 2y ago
A lot of discussion in this thread is pointing out that chromium is a thing and that it would be hard for a company to properly fund a web browser without the backing of a tech giant whose more direct revenue stream is elsewhere. I think th
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by moody__ 2y ago
I can't speak for OpenBSD specifically but I can speak to some of my thoughts in why an operating system continues to use C. Supporting a language ecosystem is not easy, the less "default" languages needed to bootstrap the co
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by moody__ 2y ago
I didn't directly mention third party software but when I talk about the various levels of default software the implication is that those with less built in typically rely more heavily on third party software. Even those who do ship a
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by moody__ 2y ago
Your link for 9front mentions that ssh2 is not included. This is because the code was rewritten and the program is now just called ssh(1). Other features of ssh are accessible through sshfs(4), and sshnet(4). The only difference in features
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by moody__ 2y ago
There is a direct correlation between the amount of power exerted by a project like Debian over an upstream project, and the amount of effort and upkeep required in doing so. I think of this like a sliding scale between shipping things with
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Plan 9 is a uniquely complete operating system(posixcafe.org)
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by moody__ 2y ago
What is said here in this blog I think is true, but it is only a single part of the perverted incentive puzzle. Folks up in the c suite have realized that they can just say they care about security and reap the benefits. In my experience av
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by moody__ 2y ago
Why would the author of this repository make "wc2 - asynchronous state machine parsing" his header of his README if indeed wc2 was not by his own definition an "asynchronous state machine"? I ask you to consider what is
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by moody__ 2y ago
I was not treating "asynchronous state machine" as a noun, even if taken as a generic adjective it doesn't make sense in this context. What "other things" is this wc2.c doing while the state machine is churning? The
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by moody__ 2y ago
The "asynchronous state machine" name here is a bit strange, when searching for this term used elsewhere I couldn't find any formal definition what it is. Reading further in the README it looks like the author implies that it
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by moody__ 2y ago
This is spot on, the issue is not the mistake per se but in creating a code base that the team themselves are not familiar with. With some intern or team member generated code you can sit down with them and have them walk you through the co
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by moody__ 2y ago
Location: Des Moines, Iowa Remote: Open Willing to relocate: Unlikely Technologies: Go, C, k8s, operating systems, embedded systems, networking, profiling, penetration testing/security analysis Résumé/CV: Available upon request Em
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by moody__ 2y ago
I want to preface this by saying I only add little bits and bobbles, and a huge chunk of the heavy lifting was done by aiju. Most of my answer is talking about code written by them. Both gb and gba make an attempt to preserve the cycle timi
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by moody__ 2y ago
I really doubt anything happens. The three big reasons why nintendo attacked yuzu were: It was a modern console, developers were making a profit working on it, and it violated DMCA by shipping a circumvention for game encryption. No one at

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