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by jmclnx 4mo ago
Will not build without docker, so I am out of luck. This tells me this is not portable, even to some Linuxes.
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
As I expected, this is about removing strncpy() from the Linux Kernel, not glib. Removing strncpy() from glib would be awful for applications :) Edit. Meant glibc, thanks mattst88
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
That works out to 2.5 million per job. This is not the first time this type of thing happened almost looks like a laundering scam. Companies that do this should face real and very expensive consequences. But we know that will never happe
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
No kidding, in that vain, I would say IBM throwing 2B USD at Linux started a revolution.
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
>If the machine cannot run a lightweight Linux desktop at a usable speed after you have applied the optimizations in this guide, it is time to recycle it or better yet, install NetBSD. That system will run on anything that old :)
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
> I've used WordStar, WordPerfect, Word, MultiMate, Sprint, XyWrite, and just about every other MS-DOS I bet you never used Wang WP or Wang WP Plus for DOS :) That is what I used back then, WP+ was good but I liked WP original bett
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
You can write about these issues all you want, but the fact remains the young do not vote (period). When I was young, the voting age became 18, me and all my friends could not wait until we could vote and we kept it up as we aged. Many in
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
Off to small claims court people should go. Amazon tried something similar and got in trouble because people when after them. And people wonder why some people sail the high seas.
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
That is too bad, you would think these could be kept active for historical purposes. But seems these services are all being turned off even though I heard a few were very useful in this day and age.
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
And sad for us. We may have to wait for nice cheap used hardware for use with Linux or *BSD. But I wonder if components would have been stripped out due to AI. I heard even older RAM and SDD/HDD are getting expensive.
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
These days, I would guess a "tsk-tsk" is said to them. The States need to grow a pair and start arresting these agents who break the law.
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
Interesting, the "training of new animators" mirrors what has/is happening in other industries. When I started programming decades ago, an experienced programmer would review my work and help me out. That started ending in t
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
It is from a VPN Company, so YMMV. But I do agree there is surveillance happening, but the amount of data is way too much to fully examine. Makes one wonder if this is one of the reasons the US Gov. (and others) are so into AI.
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
They have been around that long ? Does not seem so but the timing could be correct probably because the sites I went to had no need for CAPTCHAs until AI came around.
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
I am from northern part of the US. 30+ years ago there was a 2-week convention in Tulsa OK in June. I volunteered to work there. I thought I was going to melt, and everyone from the North suffered. Few passed out due to the heat. I aske
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
The rate the world is going, even people on the Arctic Circle will need A/C. Where I grew up and live in the US, I had no real need for A/C until 4 or 5 years ago, a bedroom window fan was fine for the few real hot days. Now, I n
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
It is like an arms race :) people who went to large SUVs got better views and a greater false sense of security. Soon everyone was driving the same size SUV. So what happens, people way bigger, the everyone is buying bigger. Rinse and Re
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
It needs to be said, this is what you get by "trusting" Microsoft. There really is no need for secure boot in Linux. The only reason to have it is if you dual boot because M/S says so. If using Linux by itself, just disable
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
>In the middle 1970's, the IBM corporation did (and perhaps still does) most of their in-house programming in a computer language called FORTRAN. Sorry, I doubt that. In the middle 70s it was COBOL, when COBOL'74 came out it b
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
A related question "Do current programmers know how to write programs with low memory requirements ?". When I started out, the mini computers were 16 bit and there was a limit to program size. You could do a lot within those limi
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
If you ever rode regularly with a large group of bicyclists, you have probably have done the same or will do the same as you gain more experience. It comes naturally because you want to avoid a direct head wind. Granted it does not take th
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
I just installed NetBSD 110. RC5, no issues so far. RC4 had a minor issue that was fixed the day after I created a PR (bug report). The NetBSD team is very tiny to the team Microsoft has for W11. I wonder how long will it take for M/
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
I know what "slop" has come to mean, but all Smart Phone Operating Systems have been a dumpster fire since day 1 due all the spyware and locked-down functions. To me, AI cannot possibly make Cell Phones worse.
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
It would be interesting to know who by Country or Language who believes ETs built the pyramids. Personally I expect US would be the leader. The reason is because over the last 50 years there have been lots of shows describing how and why S
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
Thanks for your work. Please, if you have something to do with Emacs, can you review this for NetBSD and OpenBSD when using gtk3: https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/1621-emacs-30-wxaw The issue was traced to library xinput2,
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
Very few, 300 USD was considered rather high in my area back then, maybe a house would be 300. That area is now in the top 5 expensive areas to rent. In the late 80s early 90s I was paying 350 USD for a 2 bedroom.
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
We need to define "safe". Safe from coffee shop people or in a dorm, probably yes. If you lock your laptop with a good screensaver and have a decent PW, those people are not getting in anyway. Plus with smart phones hardly anyone
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
If only Windows users fully understood why M/S wants you to create an account, people would leave en-masse. The ID along with their telemetry, M/S can map you to what you do and from where. That pretty much makes their builtin di
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
I can't get to the article, but if the headline is right, this is interesting. This tells me it looks like the start of AI funding drying up. I say that because it seems these AI companies are starting to "snip" are each othe
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by jmclnx 4mo ago
Where I grew up as a kid, we had what was called singing bridges. There were 2 maybe 3 of them crossing the river. There were steel grates where water and snow would fall trough to the river below. When yo drove over the bridge you would

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