johnklos

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by johnklos 2y ago
You're not really making any points, or at least none that're relevant to this discussion. Let me summarize: businesses do silly and sometimes stupid things for irrational reasons, or for reasons they never care to divulge. To avo
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by johnklos 2y ago
> You can't protect your website from your DNS provider or hosting provider suddenly kicking you off. You are going to be offline for a couple of days. Sure you can. Colocate in two or three places. You're your own DNS provider
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by johnklos 2y ago
Cloudflare is evil, even though they do a decent job of pretending they care. They are smart to offer gateway services (gateway as in gateway drugs - stuff to get you hooked) for free to end users, since it grows their fanboi base, gets mor
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by johnklos 2y ago
ARM really could've come up with better numbering / identification. I suppose it's ARM, emphasis on v, then 9, to differentiate it from ARM9, such as ARM9E-S?
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by johnklos 2y ago
"anyone not in the above list would quickly fold" So... intentional and deliberate centralization of email? No, thank you. We already have plenty of proof that corporations cannot and will not do what's best for humankind, an
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by johnklos 2y ago
I like that they have a good selection of processor families, although I wonder why some are missing. For example, SuperH, VAX, m88000, NS32000 all are missing. One thing they could fix is using non-whole amounts for any field. The m68030,
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by johnklos 2y ago
...and it compiled just fine, and ran fine on first launch. Excellent!
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by johnklos 2y ago
I just compiled and uploaded dillo 3.0.5 for NetBSD/m68k... Now I need to try 3.1.0!
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by johnklos 2y ago
"Requiring the installation of analog AM radios in automobiles is an unnecessary action that would impact EV range, efficiency and affordability"... I think this bull is them telling on themselves, since the cost of adding an AM r
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by johnklos 2y ago
Let's see... Amazon has nothing to do with the Amazon basin, the river or anything else, aside from probably contributing to the destruction of all things Amazon. Google couldn't even spell googol correctly. Network Solutions is t
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by johnklos 2y ago
Consider moving to Porkbun, where they have actual humans who know what DNS is and how it works. I moved a test domain to them. I was impressed that they not only moved the domain while keeping the correct nameservers, but they also importe
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by johnklos 2y ago
> fundamentally based on an irrational fear of the unknown — specifically the fear of having to rely on something that you may not be able to perfectly understand or control — and a prideful desire to not only control everything but not
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by johnklos 2y ago
> This desire to be able to understand absolutely everything on your system seems kind of absurd to me. There's a difference between having a desire to be able to do something and having a desire to actually do that something. I int
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by johnklos 2y ago
My first experience with free Unix were with Red Hat and NetBSD on Amiga hardware. I'm still running NetBSD on the two Amigas I started with in the mid '90s :)
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by johnklos 3y ago
SearXNG is great, with a few caveats: Running it on a machine that also does NAT for many other machines helps to prevent getting blocked by upstream search engines like DuckDuckGo. It'd be good if access to certain upstream search eng
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by johnklos 3y ago
I've run in to exactly that. By putting my SearXNG on a machine that also does NAT for a busy network, this can be avoided. This is definitely one instance where IPs from a colo are a bad thing and residential IPs are a good thing ;)
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by johnklos 3y ago
Ha ha ha... I wouldn't be surprised, though, if xz were forked and imported, then reworked by the OpenBSD folks. Forgetting for a moment that it's April first, I thought that's what this would be ;)
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by johnklos 3y ago
April Fools or not, this is a wonderful writeup that makes for a wonderful contrast between historical computing and modern computing. Love it!
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by johnklos 3y ago
This reminds me of a fortune(6): In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore ... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upwar
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by johnklos 3y ago
Yeah - I've killed several "fancy" Samsung SSDs due to spending lots of time in swap. One might think a 25 MHz VAX SOC (VAXstation 4000/30) with 24 megs of memory wouldn't be able to do I/Os fast enough to kill
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by johnklos 3y ago
But... but... AT&T said it WASN'T their data that was leaked. Who are we supposed to believe? AT&T? Or AT&T? This is why I'm for large fines for companies that lie about data leaks.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Except that doesn't match reality. Someone has worked on xz for several years. Are you saying that this somewhat active contributor was likely actively contributing, then all of a sudden stopped, also stopped paying attention, and also
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by johnklos 3y ago
My reading comprehension did.
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by johnklos 3y ago
I'm rather surprised that Berkeley Student Tech Services would keep people around who either don't know how DNS works or know, but who make up excuses to dismiss a problem. The problem really should be escalated and the nonsense a
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by johnklos 3y ago
The discussion isn't about reliability. It's about resource wastage. It's a bit silly to try to change the topic of the discussion. Reliability through redundancy is simple, particularly when you aren't replicating multi
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by johnklos 3y ago
There's a lesson to be learned from the trend to move everything to Kubernetes / Docker / one VM per function. Aside from the disadvantages of being reliant on others for timely updates and security fixes, people now believe
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by johnklos 3y ago
An Apple ImageWriter II would work, no matter what. I bet it'd work if they were printing DURING a launch.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Oops. It's 3x4 inside of a 4x5 box, meaning a Sinclair ZX81 can only do 64 x 38 :(
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by johnklos 3y ago
...but IPMI configuration isn't stored in EEPROM. It's stored in NVRAM. And I believe you that you configured this pre-2022, but anyone could use the IPMI tools to configure this pre-2022 and pre- -lani option. You're trying
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by johnklos 3y ago
There are plenty of cheap colos that do no filtering on their public networks. Some are saving money by putting a number of machines on a single ethernet segment, some are saving IPs by not having a /31 (or, much more often, a /30

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