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   by api 10y ago

   Is that really true? I have always read that cgroups based containerization on Linux is kind of a joke and that root in the container more or less equals root on the host. Has there been significant improvement in this area lately?
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   by api 10y ago

   I wonder if you can hit this via 4G/LTE networks? I also wonder if it works over VPNs? Or is hardware L2 adjacency (WiFi) required?
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   by api 10y ago

   So we have cyber arms dealers now. I continue to be amazed at the prophecies of William Gibson. Makes me wonder if there's anything to "remote viewing." Did he just look forward into the 21st century and write down what he sa
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   by api 10y ago

   Today's mobile devices are mostly dumb terminals for the cloud. It's a portable always on VT100 for the 21st century. Web sites and apps are like giant VT macros. All the interesting stuff is elsewhere. As they get more powerful I
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   by api 10y ago

   Part of the reason OS IPC is stagnant is that it's not that interesting or useful. I feel like the folks making these and other (kdbus) proposals are still thinking in terms of a "box." Boxes are dying. Almost everything inte
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   by api 10y ago

   To me the whole value prop of Sandstorm is the idea that we can run our own absolutely independent cloud server. External dependencies for auth or hosting (e.g. relaying everything through sandcats.io) bring us to "well why not just us
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   by api 10y ago

   I think a comparison matrix would be interesting: countries in the Y axis, ideologies and religions and other elements of personal identity (e.g. sexual orientation) in the X column. Would provide a quick at-a-glance map of what can get you
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   by api 10y ago

   Thanks for the response! I gave up pretty fast on the e-mail option since I had to set up a mail server and it was painful... we use Google for e-mail and it could not use that, and setting up anything else is a many-step time sink. I did n
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   by api 10y ago

   This seems like a much more minimal version of what Sandstorm does. Sandstorm is more interesting in many ways, but it's oddly high friction to get going with it. I installed it, got its config page, and was excited to get it running,
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    by api 10y ago

    How big of a space telescope would we need to see this planet in any actual detail? One of my sci-fi fantasies is to take a photo of an extrasolar planet and see someone else's city lights. :) Of course if we could see that we could al
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    by api 10y ago

    There are also AFIAK a few "deprecated" instructions that are implemented for backward compatibility but do not perform well on modern cores or have much better modern alternatives. These would be things like old MMX instructions,
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    by api 10y ago

    It's largely an artifact of the cloud dependency of mobile apps in particular. Every app has a bill someone must pay and a server or other cloud presence someone must maintain, patch, etc. App stores also contribute in that an app with
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    by api 10y ago

    Meh. It works. Npm is okay if you exercise quality control over what packages you use and keep dependencies down. The language is decently productive for scripting and everyone knows it so it's easy to find maintainers. It performs wel
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    by api 10y ago

    What's the incentive? Everyone wants a walled garden to maximize lock-in.
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    by api 10y ago

    What we do right now in our project is write thin C++ but use C++'s features (class types, exceptions, catch all, etc.) to implement bounds checking in parsers, etc., in a relatively safe way and with near-zero cost. If we need to go t
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    by api 10y ago

    We will port our security critical code to Rust when you can ship it in Rust for Mac, iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, BSD, FreeRTOS, SYSBIOS, and VxWorks. C's dominance today is about platform and architectural support, not hardware cons
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    by api 10y ago

    That's okay. Sooner or later they'll get around to integrating ssh into systemd to fix this. /joking I hope.
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    by api 10y ago

    I just call it IOJ: Internet of Junk.
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    by api 10y ago

    One of the things that really disappoints me about computing is how GUI development is such a horrid treadmill of constant reinvention and total reboots with no overall cumulative progress. The Web is just now reinventing things with React
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    by api 10y ago

    The international bureau of you can't make this stuff up delivers yet again.
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    by api 10y ago

    You don't need warp drive to go to the stars. You need suspended animation, extreme life extension, brain uploading, sentient AI, or some combination thereof. At 10% the speed of light it is maybe 50 years to the Centauri system includ
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    by api 10y ago

    Give it to the Rastas and boost it to L1.
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    by api 10y ago

    Years ago I heard this called "in-deflation." It's our era's stagflation.
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    by api 10y ago

    A simple fix for many of the objections in this thread: can't means low probability.
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    by api 10y ago

    I think it's a great bit of campy cinema. It's like Wet Hot American Summer with ravers and 90s cyberculture. It's a lot better today than it was when it was made. Instead of lame it feels charmingly funny and nostalgic.
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    by api 10y ago

    I think it's also about permission-free innovation, and maintaining a software and Internet ecosystem that allows that. If we allow the Internet to become too centralized, ISPs and major cloud providers will have a large incentive to j
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    by api 10y ago

    > "it would allow you to securely run a VM in the cloud that is protected against someone who controls the hypervisor" > Attestation uses an on-chip certificate signed by an AMD master key during fabrication. This is absolut
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    by api 10y ago

    Tunneling encrypted traffic through your ISP to a data center improves performance vs. going straight from your endpoint to the other endpoint. Stop and consider this for a moment. The fact that this is so often the case points to either BG
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    by api 10y ago

    There's no benefit I can see. Our present system combines everything that is bad about "socialized" medicine (loads of regulation, bureaucracy, inflexibility, etc.) with everything that is bad about private medicine (inequali
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    by api 10y ago

    A more compelling use case than ad blocking is child porn. One of the problems with networks like Freenet is that people do not want to donate resources to replicating and hosting unknown (but known to be substantial) amounts of CP. It&#x27