bifrost

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1. 181.▲
   by bifrost 5y ago

   I'd say more like "close enough", which is frankly good enough for most people. I'd go as far as to say that Linux's userbase exists despite Linus's personality and intelligence.
2. 182.▲
   by bifrost 5y ago

   Yep, been using FreeBSD on the Desktop since 1996. I've used Linux for plenty of things, but I tend not to unless I need something thats written specifically for Linux. There's very little I need Linux itself for. My issues with L
3. 183.▲
   by bifrost 5y ago

   Linus is why I generally don't use Linux unless I absolutely have to.
4. 184.▲
   by bifrost 5y ago

   I really didn't read that from this post.
5. 185.▲
   by bifrost 5y ago

   One of the few times I agree with Linus.
6. 186.▲
   by bifrost 5y ago

   Or protonmail doesn't protect suspected terrorists?
7. 187.▲
   by bifrost 5y ago

   True, although every time I've tried it out its been fairly garbagey so I never considered it seriously. Its been at least 2 years though, I'll try it again.
8. 188.▲
   by bifrost 5y ago

   The main leap for whitebox is AES-NI for SSL/TLS offload. Nobody is really using DPDK/NETMAP in OSS products from what I can tell. Netgate is doing TNSR, but its not open source: https://www.netgate.com/tnsr-applic
9. 189.▲
   by bifrost 5y ago

   Yeah, the spin out lowered the product quality for sure. Pulse is a winner from a UX standpoint, its "ok" from an admin/operational perspective but its not great. There was a while when some simple netconf commands would cras
10. 190.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    Yes and no TBH. Some Juniper gear emulated the IP2 forwarding asics in software, its fairly decent for what it is. All of the packet inspection stuff runs inside of FreeBSD. The new vSRX is all software and uses commodity cpu power for eve
11. 191.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    Its the secret about "the cloud" that nobody wants to say.
12. 192.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    I was half expecting this to be a "ligma" variant.
13. 193.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    Here's an unpaywalled article about what happened: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/river-dave-grateful-fire... Still unclear to me why Karp gave him the money but seems like its helpful to "River Dav
14. 194.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    I'm actually not sure why it failed after generating 1.3M files, no error messages or anything, it was weird. Initially I thought maybe it was like an inode/fd issue or something but no.
15. 195.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    seq is in /usr/bin, its default in FreeBSD as on FreeBSD 9.
16. 196.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    Way back when "X10" was a thing, a friend of mine made a webui for his lighting controls, he then published this on IRC. He realized this was a bad idea when people kept turning his lights on and off for days lol. He'd neglec
17. 197.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    Its an antivaxxer site. VAERS is already full of dodgy data because its all self reported, "Open VAERS" is even worse.
18. 198.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    I'd be excited to see if you can run ARC on Intel ARC! GPU Accelerated HN would be very interesting :)
19. 199.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    ok, unloaded system, 12M files. Using old SATA 300GB Raptor disks that I had sitting around. Fairly old E5-2650 CPUs clocked at 1.5Ghz because of power usage, this is single core performance. "ls" is using 2.5GB of ram, 76 seconds
20. 200.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    Non-Loaded system with 2.8M files -> 13 seconds
21. 201.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    Interestingly, that didn't work. Strangely "jot -w file 8000000 1 | xargs touch" worked. I'm going to try to replicate this because I sense some kind of tomfoolery.
22. 202.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    with "ls -f" on 1.9M files its 45 seconds, much better than regular ls (and system load of 94) 2.25M and its 60 seconds I'm also spamming about 16-18 thousand new files per second to disk using a very inefficient set of csh s
23. 203.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    Its going to take me a bit to generate several million files but so far I've got a single directory with 550k files in it, it takes 30s to ls it on a very busy system running FreeBSD. 1.1M files -> 120 seconds 1.8M files -> 270 s
24. 204.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    Interesting point, this does appear to be Linux and situation specific though. Its interesting enough that I'm going to run my own test now.
25. 205.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    I was one of three people working on the project, the other two people on the project also agreed that Snopes was full of it. The one source they used was from a rehash of a blog post. They made no attempt to interview any of us.
26. 206.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    I initially thought Snopes was a great idea, and in the early days it seemed quite handy. Now its only really minorly credible. My personal experience was finding an article that talked about something I was directly involved in, and it was
27. 207.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    Its a bit more recent than 25 years, probably 2003-2005 maybe. When I was a young "computer nerd" who went off to college we had a pretty decent CS program but it was awfully dusty to those not into it. I think there were maybe 5-
28. 208.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    Not entirely true, the "tax them to death" crowd in SF are very envious of "Tech Workers" who are largely programmers.
29. 209.▲
    by bifrost 5y ago

    People who've been affected by CA Prop 47 would beg to differ. The recalls of the DA in both SF and LA (the LA DA was a former SF DA) are also indicative of far left politicians being incredibly unpopular. The upcoming recall election
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    by bifrost 5y ago

    Yep, you got it!