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by imiric 11mo ago
A gift where the recipient can remove the freedoms that they've been enjoying themselves is a bad deal for ensuring those freedoms are available to everyone. A permissive license is a terrible idea for a F/LOSS kernel. This is the
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by imiric 11mo ago
Seriously. To the author: kudos for the interesting project, but please strongly consider a copyleft license moving forward.
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by imiric 11mo ago
This is interesting. I wasn't familiar with vsock. I think the use of Bazel and gRPC in the article distracts from understanding how vsock works. I found this article[1] much more approachable. [1]: https://medium.com/@
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by imiric 11mo ago
Ah, thanks. That is a much better example than the one in the article.
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by imiric 11mo ago
Whether or not that question is interesting is hardly relevant in this particular discussion. Companies building this technology are marketing it as if computers can think. They're telling us they can, and people are buying into it b
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by imiric 11mo ago
I don't think this changes the game as much as you think. AFAIU, the biggest challenge of running Linux on ARM machines is supporting the devicetree of each machine. After all, there is mainline kernel support for previous Qualcomm ch
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by imiric 11mo ago
That's fair. Thanks for your work! I don't think I'll use your project, but it's great that you're thinking about these things. We need more security initiatives in the "AI" space.
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by imiric 11mo ago
It's interesting that maturing and growing up for me has resulted in opposite conclusions to yours. We're all different, of course, but I'd like to offer a different perspective. > And anyway, because most people are tryin
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by imiric 11mo ago
Alright, but why couldn't I use `krunvm` directly then? What does your wrapper provide that I can't easily do already? Is it essentially a set of "recipes" and "skills"?
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by imiric 11mo ago
It's a bit patronizing to tell people what to do with their money. If you care more about the environment than enjoying technology, then go ahead and do what you suggest. If you want to be really green, how about giving up technology
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by imiric 11mo ago
What makes you think that Synology hardware is special in that sense? Most quality hardware will easily last decades. I have servers in my homelab from 2012 that are still humming along just fine. Some might need a change of fans, but every
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by imiric 11mo ago
Move fast and break things, amirite?
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by imiric 11mo ago
Funny, I think it is you who has this backwards. > The community of people cannot exist without the code and the license. That is obviously false. Communities form around any common interest. They also exist around proprietary software,
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by imiric 11mo ago
/sigh Because open source is not just about the code and the license. It is first and foremost about a community of people who want to make software better for everyone, not just for themselves or a select few. The code and license are
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by imiric 11mo ago
These are good takeaways from someone who seems to actually care about the users of their project, which is refreshing to see. I've gotten into discussions on this forum with people who think and do otherwise. (Case in point[1].) >
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by imiric 11mo ago
The concerning aspect of all of this isn't the financial cost of these blunders, and what happened in the past. It is the increasing risk to human lives, and what will happen in the future. The Boeing case was only a sign of what'
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by imiric 11mo ago
I see, thanks. It's reassuring to know that I can use all language features without relying on any of your infrastructure.
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by imiric 11mo ago
That article is from August 2024. A lot has changed since then. Specifically, performance of SOTA models has been reaching a plateau on all popular benchmarks, and this has been especially evident in 2025. This is why every major model anno
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by imiric 11mo ago
The translation to me is: this cow has run out of milk. Now we actually need to deliver value, or the party stops.
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by imiric 11mo ago
Yeah, the core ideas sound great, but if the only way code can be published and imported is via their cloud platform, that would be a hard pass for me. Glancing at their docs, I see mentions of Unison Share, which is also hosted on unison-l
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by imiric 11mo ago
Hi there, and congrats on the launch. I've been following the project from the sidelines, as it has always seemed interesting. Since everything in software engineering has tradeoffs, I have to ask: what are Unison's? I've rea
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by imiric 11mo ago
> The Unix philosophy is not an end goal neither. It's not even something well defined. You're right. But what I take issue with is that systemd authors deliberately decide to go against it. We know because there are other init
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by imiric 11mo ago
> why tar has multiple zip options Convenience? `tar` integrates well with compression tools, but doesn't implement compression itself. This is the epitome of the Unix philosophy. You can just as well pipe its output to any compre
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by imiric 11mo ago
A kernel is a very special program, and splitting it into individual components would be orthogonal to the Unix philosophy, which is about user space programs. Besides, Linux is quite modular, and only loads what it needs, so the fact that
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by imiric 11mo ago
This is precisely why it is valid to say that systemd doesn't align with the Unix philosophy, and yet it's also valid that many people such as yourself like it. I don't want my init system to replace cron. I don't want i
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by imiric 11mo ago
Or, 2b: the nerf is real, but benchmarks are gamed and models are trained to excel at them, yet fall flat in real world situations.
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by imiric 11mo ago
> Most people have no clue how these things really work and what they can do. Primarily because the way these things really work has been buried under a mountain of hype and marketing that uses misleading language to promote what they ca
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by imiric 11mo ago
I repeat: > Whatever issues Signal Foundation has had, they certainly pale in comparison to Meta's. At this point I would trust a vibe-coded messenger app over anything produced by Meta. Security and privacy are completely opposed t
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by imiric 11mo ago
I can't speak on the technical implementation differences between WhatsApp and Signal, but there's a huge trust difference. One platform is owned and run by a trillion-dollar corporation with a long history of privacy violations,
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by imiric 11mo ago
Ha. That's just the language of the RFC specification. This is not some protocol you MUST support exactly as described. It's an attempt at standardizing a convention , and such language makes it easier to follow. Regardless, blin

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