LukeShu

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   by LukeShu 3y ago

   First of all, I do intend for it to get incorporated in to upstream btrfs-progs. Plus, for the most part, it's not a replacement for what's in btrfs-progs, it's additional tools: Replace: - `btrfs-rec inspect dump-trees` is a
2. 182.▲
   by LukeShu 3y ago

   Too late to edit now: I wrote `btrfs recover`, but there is no such command, I meant to write `btrfs restore`.
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   by LukeShu 3y ago

   I intend for it to get incorporated in to btrfs-progs. In the mean-time: yeah, btrfs-progs-ng isn't a great name for the repo, but as I said, I isn't quite ready to publish it yet either, so the repo name wasn't at the top o
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   by LukeShu 3y ago

   But I would say that there is an answer here. Given the mutually-agreed on objective of protecting/creating-a-distribution-that-respects the users' rights to the 4 freedoms as defined by the FSF, there is an answer as to which
5. 185.▲
   by LukeShu 3y ago

   When there's a fork and disagreement over who "owns" the name, that's drama.
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   by LukeShu 3y ago

   There was a sibling "osboot" project that allowed in the minimum amount of binary blobs to add support for more boards. This is at odds with the FSF's RYF and FSDG policies. In November 2022, libreboot merged osboot, adopti
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   by LukeShu 3y ago

   Libreboot provides: - Release engineering and testing. When Libreboot started, upstream coreboot wasn't doing releases at all; now they are, but they're still not suitable for end-users who want to use stable tested software: &qu
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   by LukeShu 3y ago

   There's definitely drama around it. There's drama around whether devices seeking RYF certification can use newer (blob-allowing) versions of Libreboot, even if the devices has a board for which Libreboot doesn't use blobs.
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   by LukeShu 3y ago

   Docker has 8 different storage drivers that it can use... that's a lot, so you know they don't all get equal attention. As much as I love btrfs, it's probably fair to say that the only Docker storage driver that receives a
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    by LukeShu 3y ago

    I haven't had a chance to dig in to it yet. Most of the time, Docker uses `overlayfs` to emulate COW, but on btrfs it can just use the filesystem's native COW. In my mind it's about equally likely that it's Docker&#x27
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    by LukeShu 3y ago

    I'm intending to write up some docs and announce it in the next few days, but since this thread is here, I might as well mention it now: On the topic of alternative btrfs implementations, I've been working on https://gi
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    by LukeShu 3y ago

    IMO, it became stable somewhere between 2013 and 2016. I definitely haven't had any spontaneous corruption since at least 2016 (on multiple laptops and servers; btrfs volumes that mid-double-digit of terabytes) That said, - My BDB and
13. 193.▲
    by LukeShu 3y ago

    Their hostility toward the GPL is, in my mind, the proof that the souring was justified. I'm not sure if this hostility is general to the LF as a whole, or just in the CNCF, but: the CNCF has a policy about what acceptable licenses ar
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    by LukeShu 4y ago

    Using an illicitly acquired copy of the Crack 1 (not 1.1) manual, I quickly priced out the guts (I excluded the case, screws/nuts/washers, and wires) on tubesandmore.com + digikey.com at $184. Assuming the basic Crack 1.1 is simil
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    by LukeShu 4y ago

    You can absolutely secure your boot with libreboot.
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    by LukeShu 4y ago

    You can only sort of do that with gcc/clang. The #if 0 trick relies on funny behavior that is in a few common shells. When you try to execve(2) a script without a proper #! shebang, the kernel will return ENOEXEC. Bash will check f
17. 197.▲
    by LukeShu 4y ago

    Framing it as a $0.10 cost issue is disingenuous. It's not that I want to save $0.10, it's that I want hardware that specifically does not have that functionality. And I'm willing to spend more to get it; though not $10billio
18. 198.▲
    by LukeShu 4y ago

    Neat, I'm glad you have the option of purchasing hardware with this feature. But please let me buy hardware without it.
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    by LukeShu 4y ago

    I've heard Douglas Comer talk about how he used to get ribbed by the Bell Labs guys about "when are you going to come work on The Network, instead of that 'internetwork' toy?" There definitely was a cultural divide
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    by LukeShu 4y ago

    There is, in the 'doomgeneric/' directory.
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    by LukeShu 4y ago

    Instead of losing her bikini top (which Link must then find), the mermaid loses her necklace. Instead of pulling a towel to cover herself when Link enters the room, the hippo lady being painted is edited to have no nude characteristics.
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    by LukeShu 4y ago

    > But I hope we don't see any tedious comments here about how this is a moral outrage because all software should be fr£e. All software should be free-as-in-freedom, but not nescessarily free-as-in-£; though I acknowledge that the f
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    by LukeShu 4y ago

    On non-logged-in/no-history YouTube (e.g. a new private browsing window), there'll usually be 1-3 such shorts in the shelf on the homepage. Logged in, I think it's tried to show me such a video just once, after I'd been
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    by LukeShu 4y ago

    I use it on all my computers that are supported. But on the laptop side, that means I haven't been using it for a while, since most recent supported laptop is from 2013, and work-provided laptops have spoiled me in to liking having mo
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    by LukeShu 4y ago

    > Libreboot is a fork of Coreboot They've always called themselves a "Coreboot distro", not a fork. From the homepage: "In the same way that Debian is a GNU+Linux distribution, libreboot is a coreboot distribution
26. 206.▲
    by LukeShu 4y ago

    Same with libav pulling commits from ffmpeg (or was it vice-versa?).
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    by LukeShu 4y ago

    LibreCMC used to use Fossil, until they got fed up with people complaining that it wasn't Git.
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    by LukeShu 4y ago

    > I was considered traveling from San Francisco to Oregon or Colorado (?) where I think psychedelic mushrooms were legalized and you don't need to "know people" to get them. Yes, Colorado just passed Prop 122. https:&#x2
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    by LukeShu 4y ago

    Regurgitating from an older comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13110538 ---- The first version of UNIX to include `calloc` was Research UNIX V6, and here's how it was implemented: https://
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    by LukeShu 4y ago

    If they've fixed it in the last 5 months, then hooray.