icedchai

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by icedchai 5d ago
I'm not saying it would've been easy. They could've installed the GNU tools in a different path and left it up to the user to change their preference. They did something similar with putting the BSD tools in "/usr&#
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by icedchai 5d ago
Early Linux distros were very rough. Remember messing around with modelines in X11 configs? Sun could've been the "Apple" of x86 Unix: it just works.
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by icedchai 5d ago
I had a similar experience. I forget the exact timing, but it was probably around 2002 - 2003 that Linux felt "good enough." I was at a startup that finally considered putting its "enterprise" stack on Linux.
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by icedchai 5d ago
Yep. Solaris was the Unix for the 90's. I worked at a couple of early ISPs and users demanded Sun Solaris shell servers. At a couple of startups, we built everything on Solaris because Linux wasn't accepted in the enterprise yet
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by icedchai 5d ago
I have nostalgia for early SunOS 4 because that was the first Unix system I got access to!
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by icedchai 8d ago
With good input (prompts, specs...) LLMs can generate code that is often correct, faster than a human could generate equivalent code. Even when there are bugs, it is still "useful" from purely a time savings perspective. If you do
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by icedchai 9d ago
Or all the Sun Sparc servers that were incredibly common at that time. Coincidentally, they almost all ran telnet!
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by icedchai 10d ago
That may have been true in the past, and I usually wait for the first point release, but macOS and iOS 27 seem to be a definite improvement. My 5 year old phone is much snappier!
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by icedchai 11d ago
Box checking is an important business!
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by icedchai 11d ago
Why are they bothering to signal through a debian package mirror instead of just sending a message directly?
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by icedchai 12d ago
While that would be bad if they broke all of TLS, it would not let agents "take over the internet." What would that even mean? Pumping out even more slop? Also, AI providers are literally getting a stream of traffic with every pro
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by icedchai 12d ago
"Not shutting off API access" is a science fiction scenario. Anthropic and OpenAI are both behind Cloudflare. It's fairly easy for an upstream to shut you off. Beyond that, the government / law enforcement could seize an
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by icedchai 12d ago
It's an accounting trick.
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by icedchai 12d ago
Is it really capex though? New models are being constantly trained, released at least quarterly, while old ones become obsolete. Training costs vary, but never disappear.
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by icedchai 13d ago
There were "PC compatibles" that used it, like the Tandy 2000. You are correct in that they may not have been entirely compatible, but they did exist.
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by icedchai 14d ago
Many forget that IE was basically the only decent browser for most of the early 2000's. It was the defacto standard. Netscape 4.x was ancient and crashed every half hour. Mozilla/Firefox wasn't stable yet. Chrome wasn't
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by icedchai 15d ago
Prompt injection is often not the issue: it's prompt quality. If given a vague spec (prompt), the human is more likely to understand the problem domain, see what's missing, ask clarifying questions. AI is more likely to assume and
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by icedchai 15d ago
2016 was an acceleration point into madness. We were going down hill anyway, and the hill suddenly steepened. Covid didn't help. Now we have half the world with AI psychosis. I can only hope things even out a bit in the next 10 years.
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by icedchai 15d ago
I'm sure many use their parents' credit card. In which case, the parent would do the "verification" and the minor uses the account anyway.
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by icedchai 16d ago
You certainly can. My parents don't use online banking or even ATMs.
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by icedchai 17d ago
I don't think the tide has turned, it's just being assumed that you use them now.
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by icedchai 17d ago
I'm pretending to drink the koolaid, faking interest in agentic coding while I figure out something else to do. It's okay for personal projects but professionally, I honestly hate reviewing slop, being sent 10+ page documents full
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by icedchai 18d ago
It may be more common than you think. The latest version of pfSense CE is on 16.0-CURRENT.
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by icedchai 18d ago
I've been using FreeBSD since 1996, both commercially and as a hobbyist. Early on, back in the CVS days, I would do a you describe, building STABLE out of /usr/src. These days, I always use RELEASE and apply patches with fre
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by icedchai 22d ago
Even with DNSSEC, it still is. Example: https://blog.cloudflare.com/de-tld-outage-dnssec/
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by icedchai 22d ago
Yep, SMTP itself doesn't have any security. Anyone else remember the open SMTP relays of the 90's?
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by icedchai 22d ago
This. It's concise and I don't have to think about "which Auth" we're talking about.
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by icedchai 22d ago
I'm curious, what would be the point of having a zero-sized array if you can't access it?
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by icedchai 23d ago
Yes, I figured that's what you meant... I wasn't sure about the other guy.
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by icedchai 23d ago
It depends what is meant by "compatible." Is the memory layout the same? Yes. Can I memcpy between them? Yes...

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