p_l

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by p_l 6d ago
Gears has been superseded, not canceled
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by p_l 6d ago
That's fair, yes. I guess my specific "bubble" simply didn't have that issue for a long time
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by p_l 6d ago
Distributions aren't locked from distributing ZFS, the only group that actually is suing is few kernel developers w/ their lawyers who have non-standard understanding of copyright (including one that isn't norm for the linux
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by p_l 7d ago
The copyright issue is not really that big, except from some devs who decided to sure Ubuntu :V But there's a LOT of FUD about it.
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by p_l 10d ago
He switches bodies at will... and is generally a psychopath so his quips are probably more to cause discomfort than anything else
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by p_l 11d ago
And the built-in Steam DRM is laughably easy to bypass once you've bought the game, IIRC - just a small thing that responds with fake user id + license status. None of the crazy VM wrapping etc.
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by p_l 11d ago
Pretty sure there are DDS implementations that provide most of that, maybe with memory pools instead of no-allocations. Other than that, PX4 uses an in-memory only pub/sub for internal data bus, somewhat inspired by DDS
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by p_l 11d ago
It's already a rh>ng for critical infrastructure companies in EU.
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by p_l 11d ago
In EU, NIS2 regulations already hold top management personally liable both financially and in worst case criminally. Does wonders for how c-level treats compliance work, now if only middle management followed...
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by p_l 14d ago
For (1) - ACPI is how the kernel knows what addresses maps where. And when a driver claims the same address space, it knows there's a conflict
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by p_l 14d ago
I am not saying it's one movie, though my understanding it would be only 506.a.1.a because there's no redistribution. I am saying that a) the hacking attack is still considered large scale b) offense against CFAA is heavier than a
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by p_l 15d ago
Yes, there is legally - even in USA where MPAA & RIAA got widest reach, CFAA is still way more serious law to breach, even at scale
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by p_l 15d ago
O_DIRECT is niche use case (originally called rather unkind words when it got copied from Irix to Linux). Page cache duplication has been greatly lowered in last decade
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by p_l 16d ago
Another part was pretty vicious infighting between PDP-10 (already sorta on thin ice from start due to fuckup that was PDP-6) and PDP-11/VAX teams, and VAX team won it pretty decisively - if in part through consolidation efforts. EDIT:
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by p_l 16d ago
There were options for migrating from PDP-11, not PDP-10. PDP-11 was a 16bit byte-addressable minicomputer that was extended to 22 bit physical addresses through MMU. VAX took PDP-11 and extended it into 32bit flat addressable paged system.
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by p_l 17d ago
honestly it's why I am not updating from Fold 5... the stylus is the part that truly differentiated it
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by p_l 17d ago
One thing many people don't understand is that IP was not that common of a protocol in intranets for a long time, too Plus just how much SMTP sucked compared to other systems and only got enough kludges barnacled onto it in semi-transp
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by p_l 17d ago
It was one of multiple successors to PDP-10 that tried to capitalize on existing user base after Digital decided to utterly cancel all 36bit work in favour of VAX (legends claim the last prototype ended up in millpond). Some started even ea
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by p_l 17d ago
I am from a place where CompuServe was just something you read about the way you read travelogues or otherwise reports from far away country, unfortunately. I encountered data about System Concepts due to being interested in PDP-10 history
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by p_l 17d ago
Exchange is funny because it's X.400 native internally, even if recently they dropped external X.400 support
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by p_l 17d ago
More like 3 years, and in a very niche network that was not generally deployed in companies looking for email outside of certain niches.
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by p_l 18d ago
AFAIK SC-40 were all made for CompuServe, and effectively by CompuServe
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by p_l 21d ago
The first time I was in Silicon Valley, the most surprising thing was that equivalent of blue laws was every day with how early everything closed. Still makes me wonder how anyone gets anything done, OTOH it explains how door dash, uber, et
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by p_l 22d ago
They actually bought entire ThinkPad R&D as well, and have been subcontracted manufacturer for some time before that. So Thinkpads are still designed in ex-IBM Lenovo Japan
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by p_l 23d ago
Popular claim by IBM PR, but the issue was that OS2fW component (which reused locally-installed Windows 3.x) had binary patches it applied to windows core component to turn it from DPMI host (which owns 32bit pagetable etc.) into DPMI cl
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by p_l 24d ago
Now i am awaiting Gemini 3.11 "For Workgroups" to be released early December...
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by p_l 24d ago
It was huge problem for Git adoption, that's why I mentioned GitHub EDIT: GitHub had probably the first UX where I actually liked what I got, compared to various earlier git based ones, or the horrible CVS and SVN ones where clicki
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by p_l 25d ago
As someone who was a mercurial fanboy too, critical element was that Github happpened for git while mercurial had nothing comparable - and before anyone points at bitbucket, it fucking sucked in UX
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by p_l 26d ago
Honestly? I could theoretically maintain my output, yes. Practically nope, not because I can't do the work without AI, as much as because of burnout - both from technical (Ansible, Python - neither are a thing I like using) and social
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by p_l 27d ago
Member states will veto it because it will shift power from national governments directly into a separately voted parliament, changing the current approach of "EP is where we can drop someone if they lose national election as a reward

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