arthurfirst

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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
> Yes, actually - being right and out of business is much better than being wrong and in business when it comes to ethics and morals. Yes, but since you are out of business you no longer have an opportunity to fix that situation or adapt
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
>> even when mine (that they had already approved) would save them 400K a year You learn lessons over the years and this is one I learned at some point: you want to work in revenue centers Totally agree. This is a big reason I went in
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Depends how they are built. There are many embedded/real-time systems that expect this sort of reliability too of course. I worked on systems that were allowed 8 hours of downtime per year -- but otherwise would have run forever unless
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
>If you ever feel the need that you have so many interdependent services that you need something more complex than RC, then you might have an actual architectural problem to be honest. Bang on.
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
If I had gone with the flow in 1995 I would have got my MCSE and worked for a big government bureaucracy. Instead I found Linux/BSD and it changed my life and I ended up with security clearances writing code at defense contractors, dot
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
It really is.
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Moral arguments are a luxury of thinkers and only a small percentage of people can be reasoned with that way anyways. You can manipulate on morals but not reason in most cases. Agreed that you cannot be in a toxic situation and not have it
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Email is a glorious relic from the truly distributed internet that could have been... That is why its so useful! It was just designed to work not enslave or en-silo. The opportunities came after the market was created and adoption was wide-
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
All good points guys -- but my point was to see what is possible. And it was. And it was fun! Of course I know it will perform poorly and it's not hardware.
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
YES -- Because "it's one program doing too many things and that goes against the unix philosophy"
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
THIS ---- Systemd also runs 100% against the Unix/Linux philosophy of composability and single purpose.
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
I earned their respect over many years of hard work -- hardly a freebie! I will say that being social and being in a scene at the right time helps a lot -- timing is indeed almost everything.
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
> still shake my head at IPV6's committee driven development, though. My god, the original RFCs had IPSEC support as mandatory and the auto-configuration had no support for added fields (DNS servers, etc). It's like the commit
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Actually there is a place to put it... I didn't want to get into this but since you asked: My prototype/thought experiment is called IPv40 a 40bit extension to IPv4. IPv40 addresses are carried over Legacy networks using the IPv4
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
No profit in allowing people to communicate freely without intermediaries. How to middle man and gatekeep otherwise?
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
They signed it for you as there will be 1000x less workers needed so they didn't need to ask anymore.
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
I have worked with a lot of code generation systems. LLMs strike me as mainly useful in the same way. I can get most of the boilerplate and tedium done with LLM tools. Then for core logic esp learning or meta-programming patterns etc. I nee
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Yes, but we have separated for a while on a few different occasions. FreeBSD chased me away for few years around version 7. I always came back though.
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
I get the moral argument and even agree with it but we are a minority and of course we expect to be able sell our professional skills -- but if you are 'right' and out of business nobody will know. Is that any better than 'wr
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
I did not look for a consulting contract for 18 years. Through my old network more quality opportunities found me than I could take on. That collapsed during the covid lockdowns. My financial services client cut loose all consultants and ki
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Of course not. But IPv6 is not the solution to Ipv4's issues at all. IPv6 is something completely different justified post-facto with EMOTIONAL arguments ie. You are stealing the last IPv4 address from the children! - Dual stack -- unn
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
THIS. Also what problem does it solve that RC scripts can't accomplish? They are much more readable and less complex. What is the benefit of all that added complexity? Even more to the point the business case for it in a professional s
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Fair question! But why am I -1 on this? Risk is relative and not just about THAT security. I worked at an AV vendor and the joke internally was our security threat lists were the scoreboard for bad actors. But if you asked our salespeople
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Yes. Over the years I've used just about every linux distro from Slackware and RH up to nix + arch, as well programming on Solaris, IRIX, SCO, OS/400 and even Tandem --look it up it's pretty obscure! But I just use FreeBSD mo
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Veteran sysadmin of 30 years... UNIX sysadmin and developer... I use docker+compose for my dev projects for about the past 12 years. Very tough to beat the speed of development with multi-tier applications. To me Dockerfiles seem like the p
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
THIS. As bad as launchctl on Macs. Solution looking for a problem so it causes more problems -- like IPv6
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
ZFS is amazing and while there are many would be clones there is only one ZFS. I used (and pushed) it everywhere I could and first encountered on Solaris before FBSD. Even had it on my Mac workstation almost 18 years ago (unsupported) -- as
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Docker did work. AFAIK the APIs are there. Someone needs to grab the bull by the horns. Jails and BHYVE vms are excellent -- but I use Docker every day and if I could use BSD as my docker host I would. Good thing my docker servers are all b
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Regularly (every 3 years or so) had 1000+ days of uptime with FreeBSD rack servers on Supermicro mobos. I built the servers myself and then shipped to colo half way around the world. I got over 1400 once and then I needed to add a new disk.
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
26 years of FreeBSD and counting... IIRC in about 99 I got sick of Mandrake and RH RPM deps hell and found FreeBSD 3 CD in a Walnut creek book. Ports and BSD packages were a revelation, to say nothing of the documentation which still sets i

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