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by ninefathom 2mo ago
The BBC did this in their 2012 documentary mini-series "How to Grow a Planet" with Iain Stewart. It was a lovely series; I highly recommend it.
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by ninefathom 2mo ago
This is a very long-winded demonstration that the shareholder-driven philosophy of "we must keep growing at all costs" is not sustainable.
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by ninefathom 2mo ago
//confused noises// Wait, are you telling me that macOS has gotten so ensh---ified that many of its users feel the need to purchase a bespoke file manager , arguably one of the most fundamental functions of an operati
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by ninefathom 3mo ago
This seems to me like a stab in the right direction. Obviously their actions are going to be fiscally motivated at the root, but sussing out how they intend the precise dynamics to play out is more nuanced. Thinking of this as an effort to
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by ninefathom 3mo ago
While I love the sentiment, I feel like the odds of this actually ever reaching a trial are low, given the international positioning of the parties, and the... um... complex relationships involved. Anthropic's actions seem performative
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by ninefathom 4mo ago
It seems to be nearly forgotten that Once Upon a Time, business and scientific computing were more or less different universes. The two paradigms eventually merged, but there was a problem: it wasn't really a merger. It was more that
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by ninefathom 4mo ago
Very interesting to see this pop up on HN just after I spent a few days making Alpine/m68k a thing. (just a personal tinker project - don't look for it upstream any time soon unless I get extremely bored)
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by ninefathom 5mo ago
"For some reason" there are ._ files... now I'm really feeling old, that an apparently-savvy macOS user seems to be unaware of the history of resource forks and AppleDouble. That was fundamental knowledge in the subject of M
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by ninefathom 3y ago
And I'm sure there's zero chance that IBM will be releasing their own Linux office product- probably derived from LibreOffice, but with an additional support line item attached- in the very near future. Nope, no chance. /&#x
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by ninefathom 3y ago
Seconded. Naming an interactive language shell after ssh's older, insecure cousin just seems like begging for trouble. I'm imagining some auditor seeing an "rsh" binary on a Linux system and dinging the system on it, an
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by ninefathom 3y ago
While much of this is true- and I speak from some personal experience, here- the article also takes an unnecessarily critical tone, as if these challenges somehow invalidate the ideas behind the digital nomad lifestyle. There's no rule
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by ninefathom 3y ago
This comes back to something I mentioned elsewhere: What's good enough for an advertiser trying to sell concert tickets is not necessarily good enough for enforcing legal prohibitions. The location collection mechanisms built by Apple
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by ninefathom 3y ago
Running with the billing address example... so to circumvent the ban, all one would need is a prepaid phone plan. Service addresses are collected for those, but they're basically unused and there's no incentive on the consumer en
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by ninefathom 3y ago
I'm a bit perplexed that there seems to be minimal discussion on the complete technical absurdity of this ban. Within the USA, there might _possibly_ be sufficient technical infrastructure available to block app downloads at a national
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by ninefathom 3y ago
Any of the late 90s / early 00s RISC platforms would be good for this. You could easily grab an AlphaStation, Sun Ultra, or pre-G3 PowerBook for such a purpose, and within your price range. Perfectly adequate for most non-browser tas
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Illumos Bug #15586: ddi_parse needs len(illumos.org)
1 points by ninefathom 3y ago|1 comments
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by ninefathom 3y ago
See also https://www.openindiana.org/announcements/openindiana-hipste...
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by ninefathom 3y ago
//happy dance// ... That is all.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
> To paraphrase Bob Metcalfe, if the browser reduced operating systems to “a poorly debugged set of device drivers”, then the cloud is reducing the dev machine to a poorly debugged set of environment mocks. A certain breed of application
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by ninefathom 4y ago
I can second the legacy and reliability assertions. My experience with z/Arch was more recent- and it's a very different world from the modern cloud CI/CD Linux git Dev[Sec]Ops thing- but the reliability and legacy support i
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by ninefathom 4y ago
My introduction to Forth was tinkering first with Sun SPARC machines in the late 90s and then PowerMacs in the early 00s. At the time, I had no idea that it was a discrete programming language; it only registered in my mind as part of the O
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by ninefathom 4y ago
> what do you use OpenIndiana for? I find that it's a good fit for quite a few things, but if you're looking for a specific example: clustered Java application stacks, like ELK or Hadoop. Zones, crossbow networking, SMF, and ZF
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by ninefathom 4y ago
A developer is surprised that improper electrical infrastructure causes systemic computer malfunctions. Surprised enough to write an article about it. I feel like this just perfectly summarizes my early years in the tech field, back when I
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by ninefathom 4y ago
I'm glad to see interest in this functionality taking off in Linux-land. I think there are one or two other projects with similar goals (i.e. implementing BE selection on Linux) and it might be time for me to do a side-by-side. This c
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by ninefathom 4y ago
xterm? Never heard of it. In all seriousness though... sorry, friend - that's a negative re: xterm vt420 compatibility. Quoting from the [current] author's own website at invisible-island.net/xterm/ : "[xterm] also
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by ninefathom 4y ago
OpenVMS on VAX. There are plenty of terminal emulators out there that are 99% VT420 compatible. On *nix it's rare to notice that remaining 1%, but on VMS it's noticable.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
These types of things always make me chuckle. There are many aspects of '80s and '90s computing for which I'll wax nostalgic, but the monochrome CRTs are not among them. One could hardly have designed a better instrument fo
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by ninefathom 4y ago
I don't necessarily think that AWS is overly complicated. What I do think is that the entire ecosystem of tools is very powerful, and often times finding the "easy button" for a given task (and there usually is one) is far m
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by ninefathom 4y ago
This is my concern as well. The idea here seems to be that the thing that offends the least must be fact. This behaves very differently for falsifiable vs. non-falsifiable information, but the end result is not something in which I'd
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by ninefathom 4y ago
I've had the privilege in the past of working with a small number of Irani technology professionals, and I found these particular individuals to be some of the most capable and well-rounded in the entirety of my experience with the glo

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