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by spijdar 5y ago
As someone who finds this a bit appealing and perhaps speaking for others with similar "taste", it's a mixture of this, but also the sense that the BSD userland is smaller and less bloated than the GNU userland. It's the
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by spijdar 5y ago
It's present in the EULA for many databases, etc in http://download.microsoft.com/documents/useterms/SQL%20Serve... "e.Benchmark Testing. You may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of either
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by spijdar 5y ago
People who think Apple is killing MacOS generally do because they think Apple is sacrificing the utility of the desktop in favor of sharing code/UI with their mobile platforms. I don't think these people will be fond of the sweepi
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by spijdar 5y ago
Question is, what alternatives do you plan to use that are better for you? Many of the same sorts of interface and "unification" changes seem to be coming to Windows, and Linux is sort of in another world as far as usability goes.
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by spijdar 5y ago
Sure, I linked it in. I posted the first response from my phone, took me a bit to find everything on my computer... The PDP-11 has an MMU and supports what's essentially segmented memory ( https://gunkies.org/wiki/P
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by spijdar 5y ago
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned that UNIX from Bell Labs was first developed on a 16-bit system, the PDP-11. 1BSD and 2BSD were both consequently 16-bit, and it wouldn't be until a separate small team from Bell Labs ported it t
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by spijdar 5y ago
> Who outside of Apple is using WebKit at this point? Gnome/GTK, at least. The one bundled with Gnome (previously called Epiphany) still uses it. I was going to say Midori, but apparently it's recently-ish switched to Electron,
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by spijdar 5y ago
Last time I used a QtWebKit browser, I could get around this easily by user agent spoofing. Not sure if the experience was totally perfect, but there were no glaring problems. Doesn't change the fact that it's been deprecated&#x2F
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by spijdar 5y ago
Oh, for sure. I didn't mean to suggest it's a common or respected belief, only that there are some who support it. (and probably more who use examples of it in bad faith arguments presuming that such groups exist in larger numbers
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by spijdar 5y ago
There are some (fringe?) groups who'd argue against this, evidenced by variant spellings like "womxn" and "womyn" that are attested since the 70s, in order to remove "man" from the words. Different in that
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by spijdar 5y ago
There's some wiggle room here, depending on how you "count". The first HTTP client and server were certainly created as NeXT apps, and I love NeXTSTEP so I love mentioning this trivia, but the reality IMO is the web that peop
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by spijdar 5y ago
Ironically, even Chromebooks allow you to use a guest account, while you absolutely must use a Microsoft account on Win11.
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by spijdar 5y ago
> you have 4 years of notice that you'll need a TPM 2.0. It's very uncharacteristic for Windows. Totally unprecedented, both for consumers with no tech knowledge and for the more technically inclined. This is the first time i
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by spijdar 5y ago
Windows 10 has a decade of support but devices that were sold relatively recently will have significantly less time supported. You could have bought a new laptop just 3 or even 2 years ago that will now be effectively obsolete in 4 years. I
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by spijdar 5y ago
Well, the screenshot does say "by MattKC" :-)
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by spijdar 5y ago
As you alluded to, I think telling the cops someone has your phone and telling the cops someone is about to shoot up a bunch of people should get different responses. Now, I'm not saying cops don't abuse their power nor what respo
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by spijdar 5y ago
You'd get stuck at the same place as the author, at the kernel driver/module level. Chrooting to a Mac image wouldn't load the needed IOKit modules, although I'm not familiar enough with Darwin/OSX/iOS to say i
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by spijdar 5y ago
AFAIK none of the (current) apple produced processors do 32 bit, even the apple watch. Which is interesting, as it is very memory constrained, the usual reason for using 32 bit code. Judging by some LLVM patches by an apple engineer, they s
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by spijdar 5y ago
The situation is complicated. I want all our software to be free and hardware easily modifiable, but I'm also aware of why radios are regulated the way they are. This is sort of a separate issue from the locked bootloaders on the phone
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by spijdar 5y ago
Well see, that’s the thing. They do intend to shoot you, but only if you don’t do what they want. No idea what the context here is, but I’d assume military (adjacent? Do uniformed servicemen protect DoD sites and co?) security wouldn’t he
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by spijdar 5y ago
That's why I said you'd probably need to use a GENERIC_TINY kernel, which is "supposed" to work on 4MB systems. Now, it's entirely possible that even with this minimal config it'll take up too much space, but i
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by spijdar 5y ago
Fun fact, the earliest versions of UNIX were, in fact, written in assembler, and rewritten piecewise into the bootstrapped "C" language, partially for portability (and sanity's) sake.
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by spijdar 5y ago
For anyone interested in trying, remember to cut down your kernel. The default kernel on my (64 bit, granted) laptop is 12MB, compressed, without any modules. NetBSD is a bit easier to run on 8MB systems these days. Still not super easy, bu
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by spijdar 5y ago
People are downvoting this, maybe because of the fact-of-the-matter'ness, but I think this is probably true, coming from someone who despises Facebook. Especially for certain age-groups, Facebook is one of the few social networks you c
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by spijdar 5y ago
SMB isn't necessarily case-insensitive. You can configure Samba to be case-sensitive, and I believe it defaults to case sensitivity for UNIX-y clients. Aside from being "Microsofty", Samba is just a good overall option, and I
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by spijdar 5y ago
It's also pretty tasty fried and salted, although its nutritional value goes out the window, so to speak...
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by spijdar 5y ago
Not GP, but pretty frequently, although my situation is not normal. I'd still suggest that sharing your keys by default is ... a bad idea. Sure, fingerprints help, but there's the chance of accidentally or maliciously being redire
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by spijdar 5y ago
> Not to mention them not knowing basic facts like Moldova and Romania being in fact 2 separate independent countries. Maybe this is from a language barrier/confusion? I know that the modern state of Romania comes from a union of th
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by spijdar 5y ago
I've gotta second this. Maybe it's just being a grouchy pedant, but this "just" produces a polyglot x86_64 executable with a polyglot program header that rewrites its payload into the appropriate executable format for on
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by spijdar 5y ago
I find it interesting that prices seem to have roughly reached close to their lowest points around 2015 -- it's gotten a little cheaper at times, but it's hovered around that ever since. And it wasn't that much cheaper even i

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