johnklos

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by johnklos 3y ago
For some of us, compiling from source is the ONLY way to do things. If there's a zero day, I'm not going to sit around waiting for someone else to make a binary. Likewise, simply as a matter of principle, I won't run software
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by johnklos 3y ago
Every time I see something new on righto.com, I get excited! I get to learn :D Thank you so much, both for constantly sharing what you know and for preserving what's one of the most interesting times in the evolution of computing.
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by johnklos 3y ago
> It's kind of sad that you seem to think that Windows and Android-as-supplied-by-the-phone-maker are the only alternatives to Apple. Oh, I don't think that Windows and Android are the only alternatives. Android is pretty much
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by johnklos 3y ago
Funny, because I get the impression that users of Windows and Android systems are treated as renters. They're certainly not treated as owners, because the devices and OS continuously give the OS and software more control over the devic
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by johnklos 3y ago
So much of this, such as the backpedaling on support of AVX512, seems to be at least indirectly related to the desire to "solve" the problem that occurs when Intel wants to have little (efficiency) cores that might not have the sa
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by johnklos 3y ago
There are many instances where choosing functional over pretty can be beneficial, and the author illuminates one of the most important instances, which is when trying to be pretty allows the introduction of flaws. This, I think, is a bigger
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by johnklos 3y ago
Amperdress.
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by johnklos 3y ago
I like to imagine a world where this is not only possible, but common. Not many people need to do this, but there's incredible power in being able to identify a specific date and time in cvs or git history and recreate literally everyt
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by johnklos 3y ago
I run BIND, Apache, sendmail, SearXNG, npf, and route a class C network over tinc on my 8 gig Raspberry Pi 4 with software mirrored disks. I just bought an Orange Pi 5 because it's much faster (it has four Cortex-A76 cores, just like t
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by johnklos 3y ago
No, I didn't leave them out. They're just not a significant factor because those costs are proportional to need and demand. A company is either large enough to have enough that those things are aggregated across tons of servers, o
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by johnklos 3y ago
That's a sales line. Or do you work exclusively for small companies that are selling high demand online services that're trying really hard to go viral? The only other time I can imagine is if a company isn't going to exist i
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by johnklos 3y ago
People say cloud is cheaper, but that's based on horrible assumptions such as the idea that companies don't have staff that know how to maintain a server, so cloud costs have to be compared with in-house plus the salary of a syste
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by johnklos 3y ago
The m68060 is in countless Amiga accelerators, including ones made in the last few years such as Terrible Fire accelerators. Personally, I have a phase5 Cyberstorm MK III and Blizzard 1260. There were Atari '060 accelerators, a Sinclai
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by johnklos 3y ago
The '020 was earlier than the 80386 and the '030 better. But yes, by the time of the 80486 and m68040, Motorola was better, but quite late, plus Motorola never had the impetus to bring it to higher clocks, whereas the 80486 got to
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by johnklos 3y ago
Wordpress auto-update is fundamentally broken, anyway, which is why it's still one of the most popular phishing site hosting platforms out there. This is sad, but not surprising.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Discord not running in a browser on a system that can ONLY do 3 billion instructions a second is an insult to the Internet.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Quad9 seems decent. They're certainly not as shitty as Cloudflare or Cisco.
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by johnklos 3y ago
"Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available." "This incident has been resolved." I guess more information hasn't become available, even though they've apparently fixed the issue. Or d
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by johnklos 3y ago
You don't need to understand something to know it's problematic and bothersome. I don't understand Windows, but it has never failed to surprise me with how badly simple OS operations can be screwed up.
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by johnklos 3y ago
And for things that don't fit in a Prius, you can get / borrow / rent a small trailer. I get 40 to 50 MPG from my Diesel Chevette, 25 to 30 MPG towing, and it can tow more than it weighs.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Sure, it could. However, you'd have to have reasonable expectations regarding what you can do with it. Compiling will be slow and swappy, for instance, but it'd certainly work. USB 2 is more than fine for storage and ethernet. You
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by johnklos 3y ago
I honestly don't know with certainty. I explicitly set drive types with "SET RA* TYPE=" (and RQ*) and image sizes with RAUSER, and suspect that the metadata got written to after the drive type's size offset in to the ima
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by johnklos 3y ago
Agree. I see the original post was making a distinction between people who were upset and the person who tried to encourage harassment. That person definitely was being toxic, so please disregard my comment about calling people toxic becaus
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by johnklos 3y ago
This is decidedly not the case, and it attempts to misattribute the issue. I cared because it happened to me. Like most people, I use a package management system (pkgsrc), so I wasn't on the simh mailing list and I didn't know abo
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by johnklos 3y ago
Calling the use case esoteric is flatly wrong. It's literally how many disk images across decades of software work. It's how things like vnd(4) work. Nobody would've cared if it 1) wasn't turned on by default, and 2) did
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by johnklos 3y ago
Of course, and it's obviously easier to configure a single recursive resolver to prefer encryption wherever possible than it is to try to configure each client (or in the case of DoH, each program) to do opportunistic encryption. The p
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by johnklos 3y ago
You answer questions by answering what you feel like and diverting, not by addressing what's relevant to the discussion. I'm not going to answer things in good faith when you're just playing dumb. I'm fairly certain you&
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by johnklos 3y ago
Trust is hard, yes. Cloudflare might not be going for the low hanging fruit such as injecting ads, but they clearly want to be a monopoly around whom the Internet recentralizes. Moving DNS from an ISP, who we pay and with whom we have legal
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by johnklos 3y ago
"Even when you're home, you're still at the mercy of your ISP." No, I'm not. If you think I am, then you don't understand networking. "What does preventing use of Edge have to do with DoH?" If you can
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by johnklos 3y ago
I can't tell if you're a troll or if you're really just not understanding things. My network is not my ISP's network. My ISP can't censor me. I advocate for people to have control over their own networks and to take

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