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781.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Yeah, it was before the bigger antitrust suits but IIRC it was part of what set the stage for them
782.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I know OpenBSD's fork of it is being maintained just fine even though they've declared it feature-complete (which for some reason is anathema to a lot of people).
783.
by bandrami 9mo ago
No. Why would you think that's satire?
784.
by bandrami 9mo ago
There's basically two mobile worlds in India. The middle class has mobile plans basically like the rest of the world, while the poor (especially the rural poor but also to some extent the urban poor) have a pay-per-use account that als
785.
by bandrami 9mo ago
That means a lot more capex though (as it is drivers bring their own cars) and I'm not sure how much enthusiasm there is for more of that right now
786.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I feel that way about IDEs too, though. My text editor has snippets, my file manager shows me what files are where, and my terminal lets me run programs. Why it's important to people that these functions to be grafted into a single win
787.
by bandrami 9mo ago
(Sorry, pre-sysfs. Though chronologically also pre-devfs)
788.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Right, that was mentioned in the case IIRC; they didn't want that to happen again
789.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I don't think SCO's claim ever got adjudicated but it was enough to let them shake down multiple companies
790.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Wasn't part of one of the big lawsuits 30 years ago that Microsoft could not market a UNIX derivative?
791.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I certainly wouldn't trust self-reporting on this
792.
by bandrami 9mo ago
You don't have to forward ports with IPv6 but you certainly can , and that means some remote sites you have to interact with will .
793.
by bandrami 9mo ago
It can be sans NAT, but there's no guarantee it will be, and if a remote site chooses to NAT their IPV6 you still have to support it
794.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Was I the only person that used inetd to bring up their services on demand? I could have sworn it was popular at the time.
795.
by bandrami 9mo ago
This was almost 30 years ago so my memory is fading, but pre-devfs when they were just in the /proc tree you could tell the kernel to bring them up in a given order and so assign the name you wanted to a given card.
796.
by bandrami 9mo ago
The recipe to Coca Cola is not copyrighted (recipes in general can't be) but is protected by trade secret laws, which can notionally last forever. The recipe also isn't that much of a secret, they read it on the air on a This Ame
797.
by bandrami 9mo ago
No, if the bubble ends the use of all that built infrastructure stops being subsidized by an industry-wide wampum system where money gets "invested" and "spent" by the same two parties.
798.
by bandrami 9mo ago
They are washing 10s of billions of dollars an an industry-wide attempt to keep the music playing
799.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Yeah devfs was better at that. A static dev tree was better still.
800.
by bandrami 9mo ago
It's already happening in India. Voicefakes are working unnervingly well and it's amplified by the fact that old people who had very little exposure to tech have basically been handed a smart phone that has control of their pensio
801.
by bandrami 9mo ago
It used to be the only way to do it (LMMS is still kind of stuck in that time period). Fortunately there are a lot more native plugins now.
802.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I still would love somebody to explain to me what's "dodgy" about a shell script that runs the commands you want run...
803.
by bandrami 9mo ago
What could be more robust than that? There's basically nothing to break
804.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I mean, 25 years ago I don't think any shop used the distro-supplied init scripts; those were just a skeleton you used to get the system into a state where you could edit them.
805.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Legible, discoverable, debuggable. They listed the commands the computer needed to run, in the order it needed to run them, to get the system running. It was absolutely beautiful. And then LSB came along and broke it, and as a result of tha
806.
by bandrami 9mo ago
It's that lack of visibility that still makes me low-key hate it, though it's no longer the part of the modern Linux ecosystem that I hate most so I mostly just accept that it's part of watching a platform I used to really li
807.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Because "Stop Job Running For User 1001: (22s / 90s)" with no indication of which @$%^ing stop job it is is incredibly annoying. And the fact that "systemctl start blahd.service" exits successfully even if blahd d
808.
by bandrami 9mo ago
I mean, Emacs's oldest source files are like 40 years old at this point, and yes they are in fact legible? I'm not sure what you're asking -- you absolutely can (and if you use it long enough, will) read the source code of yo
809.
by bandrami 9mo ago
Notionally there's not a difference between dividends and buybacks. (That's somebody's theorem... Modigliani maybe?) The fact that our tax laws treat them so differently doesn't make much sense.
810.
by bandrami 9mo ago
> Great mentality if all you want is waging war though Arguably not; in the end it produced a brittle general staff who could not accept that they needed to rethink all their war plans based on the political constraints of time (ironic s

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