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by robmusial 5y ago
> Do you believe in Free Software? > If we believe in things like right to repair... > immoral When it is phrased like that (and it often is phrased like that) it sounds like a religion. Also the notion that there is no compromise
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by robmusial 5y ago
This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is
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by robmusial 5y ago
Social distancing doesn’t always and automatically mean widespread prolonged lockdown. We are dealing with a novel coronavirus right now which how it spread and testing wasn’t immediately at hand. For something like the flu that we’re quite
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by robmusial 5y ago
Landley's major issue with GPL is that there isn't "a" GPL anymore. To paraphrase a talk (or multiple talks) I've seen of his: "the GPL", even up to GPLv2 was seen as a universal receiver of source code. F
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by robmusial 5y ago
seccomp in linux is _roughly_ similar to pledge. they aim to accomplish the same goals but pledge is more straightforward. think of it like sudo vs doas.
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by robmusial 5y ago
Don Knuth comes to mind.
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by robmusial 5y ago
This has not been true for some time, maybe 2017? Linux Foundation even had an LLVM Linux initiative. Building with Clang is supported https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.8/kbuild/llvm.html
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by robmusial 6y ago
Isn’t the sensible option then to allow third party app stores? If you want a tightly regulated environment only stick to the official channels. Apple can continue to charge their premium for that.
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by robmusial 6y ago
Is that a lot? How many does a similarly positioned company buy, say Alphabet, Dell, or Cisco? Seems like every time I find a neat niche networking or security product I like, Cisco or someone ends up buying it. Context would’ve been helpfu
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by robmusial 7y ago
For those that can't watch the video GregKH says that OpenBSD was right to disable hyper-threading earlier than Linux in response to Spectre and Meltdown and now Linux disables it too. He also caveats it by saying they were right for &
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by robmusial 7y ago
Anecdotally, you're correct SAP shops and I have seen a lot of Linux on z Systems running SLES.
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by robmusial 7y ago
It seemed to me to coincide with NPR's recent Planet Money episode https://www.npr.org/2019/07/12/741283641/episode-926-so-shou...
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by robmusial 8y ago
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