commercialnix

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by commercialnix 2y ago
Malaysia has only itself to blame.
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by commercialnix 2y ago
https://rescript-lang.org/
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by commercialnix 2y ago
If you are going to develop on Windows and you aren't developing for Windows, you are what the construction and film production industries call "green".
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by commercialnix 2y ago
> at most corporate firms Some time around mid-2012, at two different higher end of software development firms, the target system for 90+% of clients was some open source language such as Java, Node, Python, Scala, Ruby, targeting some L
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by commercialnix 2y ago
Rocketman gets one step closer to Skynet.
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by commercialnix 2y ago
> a fully fledged backup program like Veeam mhmm...
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by commercialnix 2y ago
> Those smartphones, cars, etc. are all made by a relatively small number of suppliers on And Windows doesn't run at all on 99.99999% of them, and never will. > Buy a consumer Walmart PC running Windows and it is expected to be p
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by commercialnix 2y ago
No.
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by commercialnix 2y ago
Windows is a pile of shit and only managed to stick around by bundling an actual Linux kernel in WSL2 to cling to relevance with software developers and ultimately because retards who want to play-pretend they are IT and shouldn't be a
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by commercialnix 2y ago
> Are OpenBSD programmers somehow vastly more competent Put simply, yes. If you read open OpenBSD's website what philosophies and practices drive how the OpenBSD project is run, you'll have an idea.
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by commercialnix 2y ago
> Airport staff need to be able to support them. I know of a very small airport where what is displayed over the HDMI part is essentially Firefox at fullscreen with powersaving disabled so the screen does not blank. Some of them are Inte
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by commercialnix 2y ago
> I doubt any CTO will be fired for choosing Widnows+CrowdStrike (instead of Linux/BSD) I was personally involved in a meeting where my firm's leadership advised a client who did fire their CTO and a bunch of other people for w
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by commercialnix 2y ago
> It is a fact that Linux driver crashes causes a kernel crash See what was already written in the comment you replied to: We do not ship Linux kernels that contain drivers that cause crashes. We do not ship drivers that crash, he
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by commercialnix 2y ago
The Linux kernel images my company ships do not use the shit driver you are citing. We intentionally do not deploy hardware with these chips for this reason. Yes there are tons of Linux images out there built by stupid people and thus crash
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by commercialnix 2y ago
Windows and macOS are both total shit.
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by commercialnix 2y ago
> Not so on Linux unfortunately, any driver will bring the system down. I work for a company that provides secure endpoints that are Linux based (and can also run Windows apps without issue). We do not ship Linux kernels that contain dri
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by commercialnix 2y ago
Crowdstrike is not able to break my customers' Linux endpoints. My customers hired my company, not Crowdstrike.
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by commercialnix 2y ago
> Crowdstrike broke Red Hat and Debian earlier this year. For Crowdstrike customers foolish enough to be Crowdstrike customers, yes. The nature of the software pipelines for Red Hat and Debian are very friendly to continuous integration
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by commercialnix 2y ago
No, not "tech", just Microsoft Windows. Those of us serving Linux based endpoints (that yes, do also run Windows apps with our endpoint-local VDI stack) have happy customers.
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by commercialnix 2y ago
It provides the electrolytes Windows craves.
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by commercialnix 2y ago
See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41003860
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by commercialnix 2y ago
All my customers endpoints are on Linux based endpoints. Because our users' Windows apps run in vdi with disposable instances based off snapshots and highly restrictive networking on the Linux endpoints, none of our users are effected.
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by commercialnix 2y ago
Salt already does this on pretty much all distros and also the consumer-tier OS (mac, Windows).
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by commercialnix 2y ago
> 2.7 You may not use the Software for the purpose of developing competing products or technologies or assist a third party in such activities. Good luck enforcing that.
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by commercialnix 2y ago
> it’s not money, it’s employees who are malevolently careless This, 1,000%
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by commercialnix 2y ago
More than adequate modern IT functionality exists that there is no valid excuse for these data leaks to be happening.
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by commercialnix 2y ago
Looks like I forgot to clarify the meaning of the asterisk, so here: [*] we charge a hefty premium to manage third party OS in a sideways way by offering a 75% discount on our endpoint OS, with exception to special and authentic cases (some
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by commercialnix 2y ago
We should also note, that all modern SaaS is running on mostly open source databases, open source languages, open source middleware, and the PaaS and IaaS they are running on are all powered by open source too. This is not to disregard the
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by commercialnix 2y ago
I used Azureus, before it was renamed Vuze, in early 2003. All my friends had Azureus too, maybe because Macintoshes were what most of our parents (and thus we) had at the time. Azureus was what we all knew.
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by commercialnix 2y ago
Reports from large bodies of users is they are very happy with https://OnlyOffice.com which some clients are on to avoid GSuite to avoid sharing their business data with a faceless and highly ideologically partisan third party (

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