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by chronid 12y ago
It's not necessary for something to be a single binary for someone to call it (and for it to be) "monolithic". Each utility in GNU coreutils is useful indipendently from the others. If each systemd binary is (almost) useless
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by chronid 12y ago
I doubt it's even possible for USB3 to support high-end graphics. The bandwith for intensive applications is just not there, and not having direct access to memory (like with PCI-E) could be another obstacle. Everything is possible, su
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by chronid 12y ago
People (outside IT) are not interested in knowing more about tech. For them technology is nothing more than magic, and they have no problem with that, nor at work or at home. Having an iPhone in your hand does not make you a "nerd&qu
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by chronid 12y ago
Until thunderbolt stop being a proprietary technology, I hope it will stay where it is right now: ready to disappear into irrelevance when OCuLink (finally) comes out.
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by chronid 12y ago
Crawling private mail for public displayed results? I seriously hope that's not what happens. OpenWRT does not support any type of automatic update, AFAIK.
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by chronid 12y ago
Just a random correction: custom plugins and modifications can be placed outside the custom/ subdirectory of oh-my-zsh by setting the $ZSH_CUSTOM variable. Still, in my opinion, antigen is a good idea :)
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by chronid 12y ago
Sysadmins and system engineers/operation guys have it worse, at least in the software development companies were I worked up until now. Their role is not recognized at all up until data starts getting lost (and then people come crying
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by chronid 12y ago
Guake in GNOME3 was pretty broken the last time I used it (a lot of time ago, it was the thing that made me switch to a tiling WM). Something changed lately?
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by chronid 12y ago
DevOps objective is not to reduce costs. DevOps does nothing to reduce the head count of developers/operations. This is a dangerous misconception. The objective of DevOps is to make working trasversally between all groups involved wi
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by chronid 12y ago
Someone know how it compares with dropbear [1]? 1. https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
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by chronid 12y ago
Are you implying that new cars rarely need fixing and are much more efficient because they are completely closed down and harder to work on than old cars?
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by chronid 12y ago
The shift of risk to the employees started when executives realized that they could cover they mistakes with a "reorganization" and still get a bonus in the end.
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by chronid 12y ago
While I think screens will never completely disappear, I feel that many of the appliances that are gaining them now (refrigerators? why?) should lose them as soon as possible. Those screens do not make the appliances that have them better o
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by chronid 12y ago
No, and I'm sorry I was not able to explain that properly. :) We should not (re)write a lower level where all the components are so coupled we will be unable to change one of them with a better alternative without changing the rest.
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by chronid 12y ago
Sure, it needs to be taken care of and the creator of that page recognize that when they say "We do recognize the need for a new init system in the 21st century". Systemd is trying to do TOO MUCH, instead of being a part of a larg
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by chronid 12y ago
It's (slowly) becoming impossible.
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by chronid 12y ago
When everything will use systemd (because all the "core system" is starting to depend on it, wayland included) how do you evolve out of it? Rewrite the entire lower level of your system AGAIN? That does not help evolving rapidly,
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by chronid 12y ago
The systemd init is FAR more complex than a basic init. Service status management? service file (of all types) parsing? IIRC all done in PID 1, with a nice (?) dbus integration and a glib loop added in for some additional fun. Some think t
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by chronid 12y ago
rc.conf was removed in Archlinux as a final step of the path to systemd and became obsolete when sysvinit became obsolete, not prior.
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by chronid 12y ago
Can those memory safe languages be called by other languages? Or moving that library to another language will force python/ruby/etc. to rewrite (a large) part of their own FFI?
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by chronid 12y ago
Forgive me, but I feel like laughing. No one helped the project. No one funded the project. No one cared until the hearthbleed bug. No one even looked at the damned code. But everyone feels entitled to comment on how shitty OpenSSL is, NOW
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by chronid 12y ago
I feel no one really cares about the possibility of a bomb being on a plane. Everyone fears the negative PR that will destroy them if they make a mistake - they are just covering their asses, not thinking about human lives. And that fear is
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by chronid 12y ago
I hope that's not the only standardization we will get, since I don't really like vendor lock-ins (talking about Windows...) and I think we need something better than that. Silly me? I know. And still I don't like it. Maybe
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by chronid 12y ago
I will, thanks :)
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by chronid 12y ago
Having (or better, limiting yourself to) a single vendor is not standardization at all, in my opinion. I'm not talking about having a single vendor in a single company at a certain point in time - that's good, doing differently is
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by chronid 12y ago
I don't really think a good developer can replace a good sysadmin. The reverse is true too, this is not a flamebait! :P I don't see "DevOps" as a way to replace some roles - but as a way to make everyone work better toge
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by chronid 12y ago
I really hope we get a contender for the linux servers space. Maybe it will be Canonical, maybe not, but having Red Hat/CentOS everywhere (in new deployments at least) is starting to tire me.
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by chronid 12y ago
Maybe they were talking about how easy is to find existing libraries that do what you need with that "pick up", instead how easy is "to learn" those languages for a Java dev? Otherwise it makes little sense to me too. :)
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by chronid 12y ago
Even if it was C, does it really matter? I think everyone in tech knows (or suspect, at least) writing good C is hard. Very hard. But there is something comparable we can use? Something that can offer a similar level of interoperability?
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by chronid 12y ago
Well, with the exploits for this vulnerability now showing up everywhere i almost feel bad for the people that still have not-patched servers lying around.

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