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by ninefathom 4y ago
- Toshiba PocketPC PDA, circa '03 or so - RPi 1 B+ - Apple PowerBook G4 (Al) - Some old Samsung non-Android smartphone, circa 2010 or so - Older Android-based Amazon Kindle tablets - Older bargain bin Android tablets (think RCA) - Pre-
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Ditto re: the PowerBook, and thanks for not leaving us PPC folks behind.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Ditto. I laughed so hard on that one that I nearly choked. The Linux community as a whole hasn't been interested in compatibility with Solaris for nearly two decades, and pretending otherwise is nothing short of comedy.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
I'm a bit puzzled as to how split files with name standardization is an "extension." It seems to me that SEGGER is simply proposing a de facto file naming convention, and offering a few free tools (including a few abstraction
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by ninefathom 4y ago
My first thought when reading the title: "I wonder what livestock group subsidized this." A reasonable wondering, it seems. That doesn't invalidate the data, but it does raise questions about how the researchers might frame t
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by ninefathom 4y ago
"You're gonna microkernel whether you want to or not! Only our devs are allowed to crash the system." --Apple
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by ninefathom 4y ago
I noticed this when I got to some of the x86 vs. x86-64 questions. Occasionally I'll tutor C and C++ to college students, and I swear that I spend half of my time in such cases correcting erroneous (or absurdly incomplete) info provide
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by ninefathom 4y ago
I'll be happy to implement that for you. Already have a solution in mind; please feel free to reach out and we'll discuss my fees for Linux sysadmin work.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Literally my first thought when reading the article: "oh look- somebody else whining without RTFM." I kept waiting for the author to mention capabilities, and give some reason why they aren't ideal- nope. The author is (was)
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Bearing in mind that, on principle, I never expose ssh to untrusted hosts/networks, for many years my solution for ssh-SSO was GSSAPI. Typically this would be a two part auth, where gssapi-kex had to succeed, _and_ the connecting user
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Oh, good- I wasn't the only one.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Maybe I'm just old and grouchy, but I think that at some point we might need to consider just stepping back and letting a little bit of natural selection occur- occasionally, just once in a while- in Homo (sometimes-not-so-)sapiens.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Not quite, but I've used that one before as well. I suspect many of them offer similar(ly naïve) functionality.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
When I got down to Wizz Air's statement about "bugs in adblockers" making browsers "act unexpectedly" thereby triggering the robot detection code, I was reminded of the robot detection functionality in a very common
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by ninefathom 4y ago
I had thoughts the same way myself (viz. response to overstimulation) but I'm not even remotely certain how to get hard numbers behind such a thing.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
The article simply (and, one might argue, rather effectively) shows data; the comments here have been far more interesting. This seems to be a surprisingly polarizing (pun not intended) issue. Why are some people sanguine with the diminish
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Cf. "Da***t! Is that a Latin phrase or a binomial species name?" And incidentally, ethnobotany if your curiosity was eating at you.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Oh good- I'm not the only one whose eyelid started twitching over this. "Specific epithet" is the term you're looking for, by the by.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
For reference, this was several years ago- 2015 or thereabouts. The FreeBSD project has since added or improved various security features (or made them more accessible) directly as a result of the work from and/or the pressure exerted
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by ninefathom 4y ago
For many years, I was a devoted FreeBSD user. The lack of basic security hardening found on FreeBSD as compared to other systems vexed me somewhat. When the HardenedBSD project got going, I was thrilled. "Ah-ha!" I thought. &q
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Even with those statements, I think Ford is seriously sugarcoating the issue. It seems that the F-150 Lighting is basically a vanity vehicle at this point. To be fair, that (vanity vehicle) is probably at least half of the F-150 market tod
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by ninefathom 4y ago
I'm struggling to reconcile these two: https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/ford-f150-lightning-elect... -- "the towing range of the electric F-150 is dismal." (~100 miles) https://www.theverge
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Negative re: cinder blocks. In person, they're quite plainly larger than cinder blocks, and with a different texture as well. The absence of paint is also quite noticeable. As far as I recall, I'd long presumed it was stone of
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Drove by this house many a time, but never knew the history behind it. From the road, it doesn't look particularly remarkable. Oh, the joys of the depression.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
This article is peppered with factual errors. While none of them detract from the core idea, they do lead one to question Dr. Janega's scholarship. Here's a modest sampling: - Soap is given as a medieval invention, but this is s
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by ninefathom 4y ago
This mirrored my reaction as well. My first thought went something like, "that was a reasonably accurate explanation that most computer users would have understood... circa 1999." Standard practices among browsers have changed, a
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by ninefathom 4y ago
You just described, almost without discrepancy, X.25. That does not necessarily mean anything or diminish the value of what you're suggesting; it is simply worth noting that this has been done before (and fell by the wayside decades ag
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by ninefathom 4y ago
It seems very important to point out something here that I hope is obvious, but may not be: the Fedora project is not representative of, nor does it speak for, the entire Linux ecosystem. Fedora is ultimately stewarded by Red Hat, which (le
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Oh my... might have to go dig out my MVME187 and the VME cabinet. Or maybe I'll just fire up gxemul. Tough call. Either way, very nifty. Thanks for sharing!
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Heh - indeed. Methinks the emperor has no clothes.

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