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by johnklos 3y ago
SearXNG is awesome. Between Google's search results degrading in quality, the pollution and manipulation of search results by advertisers and scammers, and the complete lack of concern for privacy that search engine providers seem to h
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by johnklos 3y ago
I love in-depth evaluations like these. There are many people who want to question the status quo, just as there are many people who want to defend it, but discussions with data behind them are so much more compelling. This discussion leave
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by johnklos 3y ago
I think it's interesting to consider that Alpha was in some of the fastest supercomputers in the world around the time it was cancelled. Somehow, some people still believe that it was cancelled for technical reasons, and that the reaso
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by johnklos 3y ago
"Intel® APX demonstrates the advantage of the variable-length instruction encodings of x86 – new features enhancing the entire instruction set can be defined with only incremental changes to the instruction-decode hardware." In ot
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by johnklos 3y ago
This! This is why I have a problem with Supermicro. They used to have IMPI that automatically shared the motherboard's primary ethernet when nothing was plugged in to the IPMI port. You can't disable that in the BIOS. You can&#x27
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by johnklos 3y ago
This is an area where AMD has typically been better than Intel. With the longevity of the AMD4 platform, even ancient motherboards have had recent BIOS updates to bring in newer AGESA versions, so most motherboards have gotten lots of updat
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by johnklos 3y ago
This has a real "Windows NT is secure if you don't connect it to a network" vibe. If you don't want others to ever know your IP address, don't connect to the Internet. If you actually care about people not learning
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by johnklos 3y ago
Thank you! Your summary makes for an interesting read and makes much more sense than the article.
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by johnklos 3y ago
The title doesn't even make sense. First, does "Every economist" mean literally every one? What does it even mean to be "on Mastodon", considering that Mastodon is software, not a platform? Is the author really sayi
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by johnklos 3y ago
As long as we can still run BSD on our VAXen, I'm happy. http://vlc.zia.io/
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by johnklos 3y ago
I splurged. http://lilith.zia.io/
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by johnklos 3y ago
In 260 megs of RAM?!? I'm going to try this on my Amiga! Check back in a few months for my results...
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by johnklos 3y ago
> good reason I've been looking for these for years: the reasons that might justify the removal of basic functionality and interoperability with other tools. Got any sources?
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by johnklos 3y ago
While "lossage" in the context of an OS implies other things, in this statement it could mean time. I've had plenty of time wasted by systemd, as has pretty much everyone I know who has had to do more than basic tasks with sy
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by johnklos 3y ago
Or maybe it doesn't. Replace "x" in x64 and show me how that ends up somehow indicating x86. x64 refers to Alpha 21064, 21164, 21264, 21364, so the "x" in x64 could refer to any of these. It's like when people
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by johnklos 3y ago
"x64/arm64 devices"? "CPU: 2x quad-core+ @ 2.80GHz+"? Was this written by AI, perhaps? x64 means Alpha (I know - EVERYONE does it - that doesn't make it correct) and absolutely nobody has dual processor quad co
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by johnklos 3y ago
I love the ideas behind this. I think too many people are more than happy to jump on the bandwagon du jour without spending a moment to consider how much of the world can't, for some reason or another, participate. Running NetBSD witho
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by johnklos 3y ago
Yeah - the whole "sudo" category just seems superfluous since the issue is with sudo, not with the individual tools. OTOH, if people are expecting literally every program to open file handles / network sockets, then drop priv
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by johnklos 3y ago
The even better than "best" practice is to not allow passwords for any login. Keys really aren't that hard.
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by johnklos 3y ago
I use it to have serial consoles on a number of other machines for remote administration. The sessions get started automatically on boot with tmux and cu, so it's very convenient and easy - much easier than having a ton of USB-serial a
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by johnklos 3y ago
Back then there were dedicated boards with large numbers of serial ports. These days you can get PCI(e) serial boards with, say, 16 serial ports. Personally, I'm using a Commodore A2232 seven port serial board in my Amiga 4000, which h
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by johnklos 3y ago
If this hardware were still around today, NetBSD would be running on it. The m68020 can still run NetBSD quite well, and someone would've written support for the Cydra numerical processor. Interesting stuff.
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by johnklos 3y ago
One thing to consider would be to use something like the BOINC model, if the amount of data that needs to be exchanged isn't too great. You could also just start a small project to pay people. If 2¢ per core hour is a reasonable price,
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by johnklos 3y ago
This is worth examining, but one of the more enlightening examinations I'd like to see is a proper comparison of Mastodon, which is a big, hot mess with dependency hell, with other Fediverse software like Akkoma. I'm running Akkom
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by johnklos 3y ago
One of the nicest things about tinc is how little attention it needs. It starts on boot, and no matter if the connection between two points drops, or one end gets a new address, or connects via IPv6 instead of IPv4, or restarts, the connect
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by johnklos 3y ago
I can't tell if you're trolling or if you really don't understand. The person who was emailing me got my email address from my web site. Both the email server and the web server are hosted on a public Internet .0, so in spite
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by johnklos 3y ago
It seems like you don't understand :( What if I called your telephone to tell you that your telephone setup shouldn't work?
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by johnklos 3y ago
As someone who runs a .0 on a public /24 and who uses net.inet.ip.hostzerobroadcast to not waste IPs needlessly, I thought it was hilarious when someone emailed me to tell me that I shouldn't do it, and that it'll break all s
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by johnklos 3y ago
As with OpenBSD, there has been discussion for ages about moving NetBSD from CVS to something else. However, nobody has slimmed down any of the considered VCS to be small enough to add to NetBSD's base. I think Got is worth considering
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by johnklos 3y ago
That's both ambitious and a little daring. One place where I disagree is in the "skill discrimination" section. If you look up the definition of the word "discrimination", you'd see that it probably means somet

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