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by rollcat 2y ago
> A cool feature for sure, but, kind of ruins the whole concept of that a chiptune is. It's called a band, or an orchestra. Or a guitar effect. Or using a brush instead of a stick to play the drums. Or defretting a guitar. Or a happ
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by rollcat 2y ago
It's endemic. I should put "Expert at Writing Compliance Copypasta" in my CV.
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by rollcat 2y ago
FreeBSD made many cool moves in the 14.0 release, like finally getting rid of sendmail and adopting DMA (the irony), so perhaps there's a chance? But FreeBSD has always been much less focused on polish/cleanliness than OpenBSD; I
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by rollcat 2y ago
> [...] there are use cases where dynamic linking is actually usefull, and achieving the same via OS IPC is too resource demanding. Exactly my point with Mesa, it would be a huge mess to try to statically link it into your game, and it g
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by rollcat 2y ago
Eh, here we go again, there's yet-another custom license, "Winamp Collaborative License (WCL) Version 1.0". Quick skim: > No Distribution of Modified Versions: You may not distribute modified versions of the software, whet
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by rollcat 2y ago
...or a stable/sane OS interface in general. While OpenBSD loves to break ABI between releases, source-level compat is actually great. Most porting issues I've ran into were careless instances of #ifdef __LINUX__ or similar.
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by rollcat 2y ago
There are distros (like Alpine) that link everything against musl, and provide a separate library (gcompat) for glibc-specific stuff. Alpine is crazy popular in the "lightweight containers" world, because of the small download siz
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by rollcat 2y ago
> Bootstrap started as something like this [...] Exactly, and meanwhile relied on jQuery until the most recent major release (3 years ago). Once you're starting with one framework (no matter how "lightweight"), you can&#x2
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by rollcat 2y ago
I really wish we had something resembling a "native" UI toolkit, but for the web. Just throw together a couple <button>s or <input type=checkbox>es with absolutely zero additional JS/CSS, but have it actually look
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by rollcat 2y ago
What? An LLM that verifies facts? Even humans don't do that !
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by rollcat 2y ago
Oh. That's actually a good point. In my defence, I stated my ignorance upfront ;)
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by rollcat 2y ago
I don't see how it changes the situation. You can never know the exact life situation of any particular individual. I may be a member of one (or many) marginalised groups. I'm aware I'm ignorant of many issues, including even
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by rollcat 2y ago
Easy, we wake up one of Theo de Raadt's clones to take over.
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by rollcat 2y ago
I don't have the broader context (like the exact situation for LGBTQIA+ people in Tanzania), but... > Yah I'm sure the African pycon was planning to ask every attendee if they are LGBT... You're passing judgement on people
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by rollcat 2y ago
Yeah my own Win95 machine had 32MB and ran super happy. The 4MB machine was frankensteined from very random parts for a friend who fried the PSU on their 8MB - the difference between all 3 setups was crazy, I think at 4MB you had to use a 1
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by rollcat 2y ago
Yep that's my line of thinking, if you have physical access it's game over for security anyway (evil maid etc). Whether the kernel recognizes SysRq or CAD or whatever else is a matter of a patch, X11 or Wayland can't intercep
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by rollcat 2y ago
I think an index of all documents (including the contained text etc) should be a standardized component / API of every modern OS. Windows has had one since Vista (no idea about the API though), Spotlight has been a part of OS X for two
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by rollcat 2y ago
Do you see any feasible way of re-fitting a modern OS with similar capability? It would likely require a lot of vertical integration between the kernel, display server, task manager, etc
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by rollcat 2y ago
What? You can do a fresh install of an older macOS version whenever you like (you need to enable that option in the rescue system tho). You can also run older macOS in a VM (the hypervisor framework keeps getting new features that make gues
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by rollcat 2y ago
I'm usually met with a mix of shock, disbelief, and sometimes a little bit of joy, when I speak Greek with a Greek person outside of Greece - which was at first odd, considering the origin of the word "diaspora". Some reactio
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by rollcat 2y ago
Well "modern" and "longevity" are kinda at odds with each other, so it may depend on where you choose your arbitrary cut-off point, but I'd say OpenBSD could be one such example. They do sometimes drop support for a
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by rollcat 2y ago
Not necessarily. The car key seems inevitable in retrospect. Both Voyagers have had decades of opportunities for something to go irreparably wrong. Let's see if that car key will still be functional in 50 years, and then pass judgeme
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by rollcat 2y ago
> What wins big is to remove useless stuff entirely. This. And there's even a project (targeting mainly RasPi) that does just that: https://gokrazy.org (And yes, you can also deploy code that wasn't written in Go, a
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by rollcat 2y ago
Apologies for going further off topic, but > IIRC Amazon fees/taxes/something like that which would actually lose him money from having it for sale there. Holy hell, I've heard of Amazon effectively pocketing something lik
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by rollcat 2y ago
As someone who's dabbled a little bit with OpenSCAD, SolidWorks, etc: > Because it unlocks the ability to reason about the shapes you're creating, within the code that creates them. You can for example place a feature in the ce
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by rollcat 2y ago
> What are the practical choices for people who do not want to cosplay as sysadmins? The specific complaint is not at all about the kernel identifying itself as tainted, the specific complaint is about the kernel developers' unyie
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by rollcat 2y ago
> So modify the ZFS source Way to miss the point
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by rollcat 2y ago
Can't comment on bcachefs (I think it's still early), but I've been running with bcache in production on one "canary" machine for years, and it's been rock-solid.
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by rollcat 2y ago
There's an infinite amount of ways you can lose data. Here's one of my recent stories: https://www.rollc.at/posts/2022-05-02-disaster-recovery/ Just among my "personal" stuff, over the last 12
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by rollcat 2y ago
> we should stick to filesystems with data checksums such as ZFS, as well as ECC memory. While I don't disagree with this statement, consider the reality: - APFS has metadata checksums, but no data checksums. WTF Apple? - Very few L

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