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by rollcat 1y ago
Eh I thought so. Mitigating a software problem in hardware (while Linux doesn't have this problem) feels like a step backward. I absolutely adore OpenBSD, but the file system is its weakest point.
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by rollcat 1y ago
> This repository will be abandoned once Linux or FreeBSD is stabilized with write support. OpenBSD is not the main area of interest. This doesn't inspire confidence. OpenBSD is famous for how well the base system is integrated (eve
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by rollcat 1y ago
What's your experience with OpenBSD on RasPi4 specifically? I've found it's pretty poor at handling unexpected power loss - the FS requires interactive fsck during next boot, which means repositioning the box near your comput
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by rollcat 1y ago
ELI5: What is MCP, and how would I find it useful?
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by rollcat 1y ago
> running a rdbms I agree with you on every step and every point except the LM. Your entire argument hinges on FTS requiring a fat RDBMS. This is not the case. Postgres is what I have experience with, but I just looked up SQLite and inde
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by rollcat 1y ago
> I don't think determining factor is price This is a solution that is supposed to be affordable in third-world countries, where 99% of all personal computing happens on low-to-mid-end smartphones. Unless you specifically mean first
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by rollcat 1y ago
Yeah that's $350 vs $35 - just to run text search?
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by rollcat 1y ago
I wonder how hard would it be to detect which single bit was flipped? As ryao noted, in JPEGs it's immediately obvious where the image was corrupted - by visual inspection. Similar for videos, you only need to inspect the data followin
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by rollcat 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
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by rollcat 1y ago
These devices are insanely underpowered for running LMs. We've had pretty decent search long before the current hype wave. Postgres has built-in support for FTS in multiple languages[1]; if you want to get fancy you can maybe throw in
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by rollcat 1y ago
As michaelmior has already noted, Linux is not an OS. Anyone is free to take the sources and do as they wish (modulo GPL), which is what a lot of people did. Those people owe you nothing. But consider FreeBSD. Contrary to Linux, it is a ful
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by rollcat 1y ago
Maybe explain how would you have exposed the raw syscall interface in a high-level, GC'd language with userspace scheduling? Genuinely curious (I'm a bit of a PL nerd)
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by rollcat 1y ago
I have specifically given an example of u.h defining types such as i32, u64, etc to avoid running a hundred silly tests like "how long is long", "how long is long long", etc. > So now you need one file for all platfor
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by rollcat 1y ago
IANAL, but in general, doxxing people is just a really mean thing to do. Convicted criminal? Sure, write a story. In the most hopeful case, the sentence they serve will help reintegrate them with society - even then, it's good to know
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by rollcat 1y ago
> Who is setting up their own email server when they could instead sign up for one of those? About the same number of people who set up their own WWW server, modulo the absolute PITA that is email. Still, federation between GMail, Hotmai
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by rollcat 1y ago
Email has solved federation / decentralisation long before WWW. Nobody is confused when you hand them a user@gmail.com, user@hotmail.com, etc; I use my own user@whatever.com and sometimes get a blank stare, until people realise you can
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by rollcat 1y ago
This. Simple projects: just use plain C. This is dwm, the window manager that spawned a thousand forks. No ./configure in sight: < https://git.suckless.org/dwm/files.html > If you run into platform-specific
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by rollcat 1y ago
Try Anubis: < https://anubis.techaro.lol > It's a reverse proxy that presents a PoC challenge to every new visitor. It shifts the initial cost of accessing your server's resources back at the client. Assuming your
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by rollcat 2y ago
Agreed, macOS has different and distinct paradigms from Windows, KDE, or Gnome. But they're (for the most part) more internally consistent. Say I want to keep the music playing when I close the player window. Other systems have to hack
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by rollcat 2y ago
That would be a good start. I guess someone at Apple has already been brainstorming about it for a while. I still think geofencing is a poor bandaid to patch a problem we've created in the first place. Just like notification filtering
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by rollcat 2y ago
I think in case of any security-critical project it's important to evaluate the track record objectively: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=OpenSSH It's true that there are 5 advisories so far
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by rollcat 2y ago
> Societal problems can have [...] technical enablers. That was my point. > [...] there is a technical solution to, say, "people being meaner to each other because they can cloak themselves with anonymization technology." I&
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by rollcat 2y ago
Technological solutions to societal problems just don't work. Some $EVIL technology being fashioned to harm individuals isn't to blame - the companies behind that technology are. You can pile up your geofencing rules, the real sol
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by rollcat 2y ago
I'm still trying to wrap my head around why does FTL violate causality (even in the specific case of "space folding", a theoretical instant jump from one point in space to another). Let's simplify the problem (take a sph
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by rollcat 2y ago
This is why I generally do not rely on SSH servers other than OpenSSH. It's (by far) the most widely deployed implementation, thoroughly battle-tested, etc. It's also hard to actually get pwned; the OpenBSD[1] guys believe in secu
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by rollcat 2y ago
> The doublings required for our artificial technology to catch up is about 25-35 years, maybe more depending on how much Moore's Law slows down. "A technology that is '20 years away' will be 20 years away indefinitel
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by rollcat 2y ago
Interesting work. It immediately brought boot2gecko to my mind. If I understand unikernels correctly - do you think it would be viable to run this on real HW?
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by rollcat 2y ago
You're assuming I'm ignorant. I would also assume so. It's the only way not to be.
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by rollcat 2y ago
Linux: still can't decide between Qt and Gtk. macOS: too busy rewriting it in SwiftUI before Apple pulls the plug on Obj-C. Windows: https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/o1x183/
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by rollcat 2y ago
It's absolutely (almost) correct! HTTP/0.9 does not require you to send back a status code or any headers. Some modern web servers even recognise a lone "GET /" to mean HTTP/0.9 and will respond accordingly.

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