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by na85 5y ago
I dunno, sounds like sour grapes to me. Those benchmarks are in agreement with my subjective experience of running (open)bsd on an allegedly well-suoported thinkpad: compared to debian, bsd was sluggish and lasted hours less on battery.
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by na85 5y ago
No I think I saw them on openbenchmarking, why?
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by na85 5y ago
BSDs pretty consistently perform at the bottom of most performance benchmarks I've seen, when compared to Linux. NetBSD appears to have embraced a niche as a research OS, not sure about the other distros.
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by na85 5y ago
I do this as well with syncthing. I have a PCengines box at home running wireguard that also runs an always on instance of syncthing so I can sync to and from my home network from a Starbucks or wherever. It takes a little setup but once th
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by na85 5y ago
>Especially the bit about stonewalling customers until the issue appears in a public forum, and then suddenly backpedaling. That's standard practice for pretty much all of Big Tech. Official support channels? You can go fuck yours
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by na85 5y ago
> discovered a new planet named Jubyla. It has rings like Saturn. It looks like chocolate ice cream. That is so wholesome. I miss the old web.
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by na85 5y ago
>Play the game of cat-and-mouse with an entire Internet's worth of bad actors trying to break your server? "No thanks," says most actual users. In the context of today's tech stacks (possibly containerized daemons run
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by na85 5y ago
>I want to know that somebody thinks it’s the best way to browse the web I think it's the best way to browse the web. Chrome on Android, at least, doesn't allow ad blocking. Who the fuck in The Year of Our Lord 2022 doesn&#x27
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by na85 5y ago
I'm continually surprised that people trust Brave. It's got shitcoins baked right in; the definition of a scam.
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by na85 5y ago
I use emacs every day and while it's technically true that emacs can do email and web, the experience is awful. Emacs is great but it's not a panacea. There are some tasks for which it is ill-suited.
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by na85 5y ago
I know. I'm an aerospace engineer. I still think it's fun(ny) to muse about these things.
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by na85 5y ago
With a rock tied to the end of a rope of course.
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by na85 5y ago
Aircraft are kind of silly in many ways. The default speedometer doesn't actually tell you how fast you're going, and the default altimeter doesn't actually tell you how high you are.
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by na85 5y ago
I've been writing a lot of lisp lately, and I don't know that homoiconicity is in and of itself a virtue. It's nice to have, I suppose, but I don't see what it really brings to the table other than a time-saving hack fo
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by na85 5y ago
>I remember real meetings. They were far more exhausting than any zoom call. Completely draining. Some were and some weren't. Bad leaders hold bad meetings. Good leaders hold meetings that are short, to-the-point, stick to the agen
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by na85 5y ago
Don't worry, some people who made their money from ads or ad-dependent business models will be along shortly to tell us how ads are actually a good thing, and targeted^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H "relevant" ads are even better.
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by na85 5y ago
I mean, even if you limited yourself to just the Peace prize (arguably the most controversial), you'd still have to reconcile your statement with the fact that people like Malala Yousafzai have won.
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by na85 5y ago
Yes I think that's the story that parent poster was referring to.
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by na85 5y ago
https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2020/01/21/inenglish/15796...
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by na85 5y ago
It's to keep press out.
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by na85 5y ago
>A better solution is to physically disable the USB ports. It's not an either/or situation.
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by na85 5y ago
> Especially if they can just slip the janitor $10,000 to put a USB labelled "Barely Legal Gone Wild" into the machine while vaccumming. Part of Defensive Depth includes vetting and requiring the janitor who cleans the SCIF to
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by na85 5y ago
Your wiki's JavaScript hijacks the navigation controls on Firefox for Android. No way to escape the page except closing the browser
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by na85 5y ago
>similar to "the game", which you just lost FUCK. I had a good streak going.
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by na85 5y ago
Sounds like the market in france is ripe for disruption.
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by na85 5y ago
No, both aircraft don't need it. As long as the traffic has a transponder, TCAS can see it.
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by na85 5y ago
Most airliners have TCAS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...
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by na85 5y ago
>I have been doing embedded development for 30 years What's your take on the various *BSD distros in the embedded space? A lot of BSD proponents like to talk about the stability and minimalism (a proxy for resource-efficiency I gue
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by na85 5y ago
>I'm guessing they thought they had right away It's actually "right of way".
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by na85 5y ago
>We take granted how good VLC or MPC-HC as software are. Yeah but neither VLC nor MPC-HC really whips the llama's ass.

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