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by drybjed 3y ago
Deep dive on the Wolfenstein 3D by Ahoy is worth watching, if you're interested in the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSb87DC-PtA
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by drybjed 3y ago
Who knew that The Congress (2013)[1] would be so prescient... [1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/
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by drybjed 3y ago
Starship didn't blow up on the launch pad. That's a success during development.
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PlanD: Plan9 from Containerspace(github.com)
59 points by drybjed 3y ago|9 comments
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by drybjed 4y ago
I have 386 as last digits of my phone number. Hardly anyone notices though.
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Hacker Public Radio, episode 3675: Plan 9 – An exercise in futility(hackerpublicradio.org)
3 points by drybjed 4y ago|1 comments
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by drybjed 4y ago
Everybody uses Plan9, it's called "The Web" now.
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by drybjed 4y ago
You can also watch an excellent series of videos[1] from the adventuresin9[2] YouTube channel, showcasing the Plan 9 system itself (based on 9front fork) and its capabilities. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7qFf
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Adventuresin9: Great YouTube channel which explores Plan 9 and 9front(youtube.com)
2 points by drybjed 4y ago|0 comments
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by drybjed 5y ago
First rule in government spending - why build one when you can have two twice the price? -- S. R. Hadden, Contact ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et4sMJP9FmM )
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by drybjed 5y ago
Here's a few tips to combat this addiction: - turn off Youtube history, there will be no more suggestions based on your recent viewing activity to keep you engaged. Also, searching for a sink review will not result in Youtube suggestin
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by drybjed 5y ago
> In general, how do control mounting - the fact that I plugged a USB device into a shared computer doesn't mean anyone should be able to mount it. Root allows me to trust one person, rootless seems to require me to trust everyone?
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by drybjed 5y ago
According to the Plan 9 Desktop Guide[1], when you plug your USB stick and the OS supports the filesystem, it will be mounted in the /shr directory. From there you can bind-mount stuff you need to wherever. Alternatively, you can mount
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by drybjed 5y ago
I think that from the security perspective, the more important change in Plan 9 was dropping the notion of a privileged "root" account. This forces you to redesign your system from the ground up. No more "root" to mount
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by drybjed 5y ago
> I'm almost surprised that you can't add a shebang line pointing to Ansible at the top of your YAML. You actually can do that, with something like: #!/usr/bin/env ansible-playbook --- - hosts: loca
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by drybjed 5y ago
There is/was a Hellaphone[1] project, based on Inferno, a Plan 9 successor. There are also some slides[2] and a video demonstration[3] available. [1]: https://jfloren.net/b/2015/8/18/2 [2]: https:&
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by drybjed 6y ago
I can offer one, DebOps[1]. It's a git monorepo that contains a set of Ansible roles and playbooks that can be used to manage Debian-based servers, VMs or containers. It's designed in such a way that almost every configuration opt
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by drybjed 6y ago
Linux has almost 30 years of active development behind it, thousands of people wrote projects for it, which were then used by others. "Firefox" is not a simple application, it depends on multitude of other software and libraries t
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by drybjed 6y ago
There is a port of vim for Plan 9[1], I think it should be included in 9front as well. [1]: https://vmsplice.net/9vim.html
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by drybjed 6y ago
> I just wish CentOS and Debian had a way of searching across the entire codebase this easily when I couldn't figure out something from the docs. You can use https://sources.debian.org/ website to search in the Debi
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by drybjed 6y ago
Regarding your idea of short lived root SSH certificates. Netflix BLESS[1] is an implementation of this, but it relies on AWS Lambda. Thers's also an open source re-implementation without this dependency, called CURSE[2]. [1]: https:&
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by drybjed 6y ago
In Debian, Python 3.x is packaged as `python3`, whth v3.7.3 packaged in Debian Buster. https://packages.debian.org/buster/python3
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by drybjed 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/1319/
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by drybjed 6y ago
That's exactly what it is, Plan 9 does not have $PATH. You just mount directories with binaries under /bin. When multiple binaries have the same name, the one from the last mounted directory is used, masking the others. You could
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by drybjed 6y ago
Perhaps you would be interested in Harvey OS[1] which implements Plan9-like operating system in 64bit environment. [1]: https://harvey-os.org/
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by drybjed 6y ago
You can watch GregKH presentation[1] on the whole Linux kernel development process. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyenmLqJQjs
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by drybjed 6y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the current stack for a containerized multi-host environment could be roughly described as: UNIX-like Linux kernel -> POSIX environment -> Kubernetes API -> Docker/CRI-O runtime -> POSIX environmen
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by drybjed 6y ago
> we need to throw away everything and start from scratch This has already happened back in the 1990s with Plan 9 from Bell Labs[1] and Inferno[2], but it didn't take due to various factors. With Docker and Kubernetes we are slowly
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by drybjed 6y ago
A simple solution would be `dnsmasq` which provides DNS and DHCP, but it cannot be used on a public network. More complex setup would be ISC DHCP server that maintains a dynamic subdomain in BIND.
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by drybjed 6y ago
In that case you might be interested in Hardspace: Shipbreaker[1] game which is currently in early access. There are some gameplay videos already, for example Scott Manley's[2]. [1]: https://hardspace-shipbreaker.com/

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