nbsd4life

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by nbsd4life 8y ago
the 'cold war' ended up being a bunch of proxy actual-wars in my area, and I don't think the thousands that died liked it very much.
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RCE exploit for the latest Safari(github.com)
27 points by nbsd4life 8y ago|4 comments
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
I recommend using the package manager than building yourself. If something needs to be modified about the source, it will first be patched in the widely used package manager. convincing upstream to take in a patch & then waiting for a n
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
Ridiculous claim. A few months ago Gaza militants fired 460 rockets in one day, injuring 80 people (mostly civilians) and killing one, and the IDF has barely done anything besides bomb empty buildings. When's the last time your country
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
Google has 100 times as many employs as NSO group. The equivalent for a group of 100 Google employees signing a petition is one person signing it. They can just be fired & replaced.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
The suggestion to invalidate cache is also in ACPI 6.2A 16.1.1.2 Example 2: S1 Sleeping State Implementation (page 783) http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2...
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
Is it weird to support some of these today? we just dropped acorn26, although it was gone for a few years. I think mips r3k has a better behaving add ("addu"), or is that only on some? if your compiler outputs these you don't
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
If you've ever been on the bad side of banks you'll dread this a lot. I merely had my credit card stolen but getting a replacement was surprisingly time-consuming and I'm glad I could still eat and travel until then.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
Apple isn't the best example. They generally do publish the modified source code to FOSS projects they do, and sometimes they don't add their own license clause, so the changes can get merged back.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
it can't backfire too bad, if it does they'll change the license again.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
so you want a non-commercial use license. these aren't seen as open source by most people, but perhaps they'll be accepted by users. calling it open source is harming actual open source projects by making people fear adopting them
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
No need to work so hard, VMs self-identify: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1009458
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
This question sounds so silly I wonder if it's a strawman argument. Can you have any advanced device that doesn't contain anything made by 50% of humanity? no. This comment is sent to you from Asia and 7000km away from Beijing.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
HP's "keylogger" doesn't belong in this discussion. It was a debug trace to a driver. I've left similar traces as part of debugging. It wasn't even their driver but belonged to Synaptics.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
That only refers to copyright, not the patent, right? I know FOSS projects avoiding a different implementation of RCU for patent reasons.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
I have this in my ~/.xinitrc because I found the color changes of f.lux distracting: xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --gamma 1:1:0.5
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
Why are there so many fish?
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
> there's a one in four chance Closer to 1 in 7, because the reviewer might be female (who are rarely color blind).
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
I've enjoyed cleaning chores a lot more after mentally declaring them to be exercise.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
> The cartel tested their bulbs and fined manufacturers for bulbs that lasted more than 1,000 hours If their motivations were pure, they would set a standard for efficiency and/or brightness, or a minimum but not maximum of 1,000 ho
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
The way netbsd does GCC updates gives a really wide margin for figuring out compiler issues: - Copy existing compiler into gcc.old - Add new compiler as "gcc" - Switch architectures one by one If one architecture is left behind it
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
I doubt that Fabrice Bellard is getting a lot of money for his work. The money in open source goes to adding a feature in widely used projects. New projects have no users, so nobody to pay money.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
NetBSD 8.0 took longer to release than intended. The comparison to "oldest clang/gcc you can get in a linux distro" is not right, you can get a lot of different versions as packages. this refers to the base compiler which is
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
It isn't a zero sum game with a finite number of FOSS idealists. Linux's popularity grew rapidly in what were previously proprietary software users. It didn't take away that much from BSDs. Linux and other FOSS software becom
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
it's probably a mistake that it got enabled there, I don't think the architecture has support for it. Even the edgerouter shouldn't, but don't quote me on it.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
it's a nice OS, friendly community. It's very easy to build and modify everything, it doesn't hide errors under a rug (syslog messages are legible, coredumps not disabled by default and so on), so I feel like I can tackle any
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
No those changes are in -current, and still a bit rough around the edges but much better.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
I do, I'm using dwm, firefox and urxvt. I've got a lot of netbsd running machines. The one I use now is a Haswell CPU with nvidia graphics, and everything works well on it (even nvidia graphics!). Not all machines are so good. I h
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
Dell XPS uses almost the same wifi as the macbook stuff AFAIK - the fullmac broadcom chips.
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by nbsd4life 8y ago
You're editing your ACPI tables, compiling the result, and telling the kernel to use it instead of what it gets from the hardware.

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