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by johnklos 2y ago
This illustrates a problem that I wish more people would see. People, usually businesspeople, consider adding some craptastic thing such as intrusive ads, to make more money. Who doesn't like more money? They add the thing, and revenue
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by johnklos 2y ago
The title literally made me laugh out loud. What drama! What intrigue! Can't wait to see what happens next. Honestly, I have no horse in the race, so to speak. I think the people responsible for Wordpress code still suck because they s
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by johnklos 2y ago
Got me. Running Akkoma on Elixir is a piece of cake, relatively speaking. Trying to run Mastodon on Ruby by simply using the latest version of the required Ruby components hasn't worked for me, ever. The idea that we'd need to kee
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by johnklos 2y ago
The oldest computer that I run regularly is an Amiga 3000. It's now 33 years old, yet the system has everything it needs to run lots of excellent and modern software: 16 megs of memory, a SCSI bus that can take drives of any size, dece
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by johnklos 2y ago
So is the only difference between "x32" (sic) and 32 bit x86 with PAE the fact that "x32" can use full 64 bit registers?
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by johnklos 2y ago
It really is difficult to take this seriously when they suggest disabling IPv6. There are already quite a good number of ISPs that use CGNAT for IPv4, which often means that connections die or are intentionally killed in short amounts of ti
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by johnklos 2y ago
It really isn't tough to come up with scenarios where the game can schedule off lots of independent threads to work on various things, then collect the data when ready. But 16 cores ? Not just 16 threads, but cores, where the total nu
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by johnklos 2y ago
Taking the time to delve in to things like this can teach you more about the OS you run than many other things can. It's not too unlike making a crunchgen OS, or even just a read-only OS with overlays. It's sometimes quite enlight
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by johnklos 2y ago
Yeah - my AlphaServer DS25, which is five years older and has dual 1 GHz Alpha CPUs, can keep up quite well in many regards with a dual 1.5 GHz Sun Fire V245 (which is very similar to the Sun machine here).
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by johnklos 2y ago
I wonder how well NetBSD would run on it. There're quite a lot of current packages for it: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sparc64/10...
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by johnklos 2y ago
You summarized things well. #2 is the primary reason that ssh in a loop doesn't work as well or as reliably as autossh (the program discussed here; it's just coincidental that my own automatic ssh script is also called autossh).
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by johnklos 2y ago
Today I learned that some people make mistakes, but I already knew that ;) ServerAliveInterval doesn't do this properly and consistently. I've used my own autossh type script for two decades now. It's mostly used to give acce
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by johnklos 2y ago
No, it actually doesn't, or at least not properly. It's not hard to get ssh sessions that are wedged.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Educating regular people and getting them to care is really, really hard. I can't tell you how often I hear the silly trope, "I have nothing to hide, so who cares if company X tracks everything I do?" Until companies do somet
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by johnklos 2y ago
This is no better than ssh in a loop, which is trivially done by a shell script - no systemd needed. However, when you have shitty NAT routers (SonicWall, any AT&T fiber device, for instance), the connections will be timed out or will d
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by johnklos 2y ago
https://nitter.poast.org/RobertMMetcalfe/status/183970360110...
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by johnklos 2y ago
Not sure what happened: 404 File not found The site configured at this address does not contain the requested file.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Anyone going to a coffee shoppe and using a public wifi is exposing CUPS and can be exploited. Simple minded dismissal doesn't help anyone.
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by johnklos 2y ago
Who said anything about asserting that your code is actually portable? There are two extremes here, and not being one doesn't mean the other: 1) Writing code with bad coding practices where alignment, endianness, word size, platform as
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by johnklos 2y ago
I had no idea that we could install third party software on TomTom car navigation systems until just now.
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by johnklos 2y ago
> windows Everything you write makes sense in the context of Windows, but only for Windows. That's certainly not true for open source non-Windows specific software.
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by johnklos 2y ago
I'm writing a how-to for colocating for people who're closer to newbies. In this case, Rachel's article did suggest it's not for newbies.
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by johnklos 2y ago
That's just nonsense and is not based on fact at all.
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by johnklos 2y ago
I'm writing up a how-to about colocating using one of those Pi colocation offers. Glad to see colocation get some more attention!
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by johnklos 2y ago
I've always wondered if the ROMs on my VAXstation 4000/90a are ferroelectric. The DEC manuals refer to it as flash ROM, but I've also heard / read it referred to as FRAM, although I couldn't say I remember where or
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by johnklos 2y ago
One of the larger problems is purely social. Some people unnecessarily resist the idea that code can run on something other than x86 (and perhaps now Arm). Interestingly, some apologists say that maintaining portability in code is a hindera
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by johnklos 2y ago
It's an excellent writeup (as usual from Vermaden), and I plan to share this with several people who're currently learning Unix. I particularly like the "why learn anything at all?" bit. People will learn all sorts of es
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by johnklos 2y ago
> don't blame the player, blame the game You make it sound like this is OK. "It's not their fault that a protection racket didn't already exist. They just filled the market's need for one."
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by johnklos 2y ago
So Cloudflare now wants to collect money to not block people. Is that about the gist of it?
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by johnklos 2y ago
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650662 , and this article has nothing new in it.

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