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by rollcat 3y ago
I checked, and it was Win3.11 that came on 8 floppies! https://archive.org/download/dos-622-3 Windows 95 was almost 30: https://ia803207.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22... Another fun
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by rollcat 3y ago
Mesa alone is like 50mb of tightly optimized x86-64 machine code (Windows 95, by comparison, came on 8x1.4mb floppies); and that's just to talk to the actual kernel drivers - you need that for the GPU to draw things on the screen (unle
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by rollcat 3y ago
Neither this nor an external SSD are very practical - ask me how I know. Meanwhile NVMes are a dime a dozen, and some laptops can fit two .
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by rollcat 3y ago
At one org, we went for the highest-tier Google Drive plan (with unlimited storage), because we've had this 1% of our internal users who would really, really benefit from having it. We could only go all or nothing (and the lower tier w
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by rollcat 3y ago
The problem with GNU is that whenever faced with a trade-off between simplicity and comprehensiveness, they chose the latter; in doing so, they made their software harder to understand and modify, and thus for their users to exercise the fr
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by rollcat 3y ago
> or is it just security theatre? WAF in general is security theatre. If your operation genuinely benefits from one, I dread for what's sleeping underneath. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
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by rollcat 3y ago
You could also run CP/M in an emulator using less resources than the Arduino IDE. I think it's entirely fine to use modern and powerful parts, as long as you learn new things, or inspire others to tinker.
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by rollcat 3y ago
Interesting that you bring this up; pkgs/desktops/plasma-5 in nixpkgs is 3300 LOC (not including helper/library code); x11/kde-plasma in the ports tree is 1260 LOC. I don't think either effort was trivial.
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by rollcat 3y ago
I have a simple and very fair solution to that problem: make each consecutive fine for a repeated offense grow exponentially. If you make an honest mistake (or even are just testing the waters to see what you can get away with), the fine sh
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by rollcat 3y ago
> People may say that Discord and similar will compensate, greatly, as the number of interactions can grow a lot. Are Discord discussions indexed by any public search engines? What about communities that are invite-only (without much act
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by rollcat 3y ago
> it's absurd to compare most of the others to wirth and hoare You're the one trying to directly compare achievement, not me. If you're looking for top achievers, I'd have to name PHP or systemd, and THAT would be out
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by rollcat 3y ago
In no particular order: 100r.co, OpenBSD (& its many individual contributors such as tedu or JCS), Suckless/9front, sr.ht, Alpine, Gemini (&gopher) & all the people you can find there, Low Tech Magazine, antirez, Fabrice Be
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by rollcat 3y ago
> wirth was the greatest remaining apostle of simplicity, correctness, and software built for humans to understand; And yet far from the last. Simple, correct, and beautiful software is still being made today. Most of it goes unnoticed,
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by rollcat 3y ago
No chvt on OpenBSD ;)
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by rollcat 3y ago
So there's one idea that sent me thinking: that actually sounds reasonable, even if inconvenient - remove self from wheel/doas/sudo, and switch VTs to escalate privileges. The reason why this is more secure is because no soft
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by rollcat 3y ago
How do you solve sync? If it can't be achieved with rsync or ZFS send/recv, I honestly doubt a web browser will change anything.
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by rollcat 3y ago
What a load of crap. How about you get a treat, after a slap in the face? My cats are scared of fireworks regardless of the amount of treats I give them. Wildlife doesn't get treats at all. Animals deserve our compassion and respect, j
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by rollcat 3y ago
When projects like Sway only enable NVidia support behind a flag named --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia, I have sincere doubts that a different gift wrapping will change anything.
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by rollcat 3y ago
I'm a big fan of the idea behind Sandstorm. There's (theoretically) nothing standing in the way of making self-hosting of serverside apps as easy and painless as installing mobile apps, except someone has to do the infrastructure&
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by rollcat 3y ago
What's the trade-off? I'm giving up performance and simplicity (well, what's left of it in a kernel as complex as Linux), for what exactly? To run the same apps I can already run natively? Which apps exactly - TUI apps that c
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by rollcat 3y ago
> Especially if you-the-employee approach the situation with a natural and genuine desire to fix or heal the situation, in the face of the (unbeknownst to you) deliberate and ongoing undermining coming from management. I've only tri
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by rollcat 3y ago
NVidia on Linux is an unholy mess, and always has been (at the very least since 2004, which is my earliest memory of fighting it). It's true even on NVidia's own SoC (Jetson). It almost feels like they're trying hard to make
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by rollcat 3y ago
Not if your / filesystem lacks the /nix directory to use as a mountpoint, and happens to be a read-only image. Something that needs a workaround on macOS.
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by rollcat 3y ago
Since this is now a personal preference/setup thread, I use a single 43" 4k display at 1x. Stacking window compositors do much better than tiling, it's quite natural to just spread things around, wherever the best place may b
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by rollcat 3y ago
Yes, "simpler" often means "don't do things you don't have to". A laptop doesn't really need sshd, and OpenBSD makes for an OK laptop OS.
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by rollcat 3y ago
Kristaps is an OpenBSD developer. These guys are notorious for having five heads each - two remote holes in 30 years, OpenSSH, PF, etc. That said, the actual secret is to write simpler code. (And maybe use pledge+unveil, if your OS has it.)
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by rollcat 3y ago
StarCraft II (2010) also still looks great, and scales well from low-end to high-end systems. CPU utilization in team games (with lots of units) is the bigger issue, but that's a hard problem in RTS games.
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by rollcat 3y ago
A/B boot is old, good, and proven, but what do you do when you have dozens of separate microcontrollers, each governing a semi-independent subsystem, all running their own software that needs its own updates? It would make sense from s
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by rollcat 3y ago
Go already implements many of these ideas. There's os/exec (and syscall.ForkExec), and io/fs (albeit it's a family of interfaces, rather than a descriptor you could pass between processes). It had to ban forking, because
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by rollcat 3y ago
> Many people say the same thing about Hyprland. I think they don't understand that what you call eyecandy allows important usability feature. Bingo. Mac has had (crude, by today's standards) animations from very early on, beca

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