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by spijdar 6y ago
That's the man page for OpenBSD 5.5. Bump 5.5 up to any higher number and you'll get "not found". Bluetooth was removed around ~2014 in OpenBSD.
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by spijdar 6y ago
As a US-ian who is surface level familiar with some non-US education, here in the US "college" and "university" tend to refer to the same thing, which is post-highschool education. Essentially, any higher-education that
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by spijdar 6y ago
With absolutely zero domain knowledge and not really familiar with the situation, I've got a strong gut feeling that it's gonna be easy to get burned here. Hopefully I'm wrong, for all the people involved's stakes.
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by spijdar 6y ago
Honestly I believe at this point it's partially inertia and brand recognition. In the past, when Linux support was more hit-or-miss, and the likes of Dell and Lenovo had no linux support, I think it made more sense. More charitably, th
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by spijdar 6y ago
The reality is more complicated than that. This line of "pro-Israel fanatics" goes back quite some time, albeit in different forms. Take British Israelism as an example. [0] Granted, British Israelism would morph into an even more
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by spijdar 6y ago
It's probably one of the most obscure reasons, but keep Chromium around because it's the only web browser with a JIT-backed javascript engine on ppc64le. Firefox has to run everything interpreted, which is actually fine for most s
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by spijdar 6y ago
Awesome, thanks!! Hope I get a chance to visit one day. I love that people are still keeping these giant piles of cards going. btw love your blog :-)
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by spijdar 6y ago
Exit polls for the 2020 election show that there was an almost 50/50 split between Biden and Trump across multiple ascending education levels, the only exceptions are those with a postgraduate education, who voted 62/37 for Biden&
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by spijdar 6y ago
But all this really does is prevent some google services from working. Why does that make it "no longer viable"? I use both Firefox and Chromium on ppc64le because only Chromium has a working JIT compiler through IBM's V8 por
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by spijdar 6y ago
Do you know what SMS-card based computers are still operational? Or if anyone has done anything with the spare cards (besides scrapping them, anyway) or made replica systems out of similar modular cards?
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by spijdar 6y ago
It even dominates in executable size! ;-)
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by spijdar 6y ago
Hasn't the internet and communication tools like signal been used for many years now to coordinate far worse attacks? Not to mention the various crimes it will inevitably be used for. Surely the people involved are aware it will inevit
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by spijdar 6y ago
Huh. I didn't know the SLIC was written in C++, that's ... kind of surprising to me, for some reason. Dunno. Doesn't seem in-character with the rest of the OS stack somehow. The whole thing always felt very sheltered, even fr
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by spijdar 6y ago
As an extra data-point outside the x86 world, this is also how modern POWER processors work. POWER9 integrates the PCIe and memory controllers onto the CPU die itself. This is one reason why then open source P9 computers from Raptor exist a
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by spijdar 6y ago
Yeah that really sucks for everyone involved. This was the drone I remember finding (well, the older version back then): https://www.dji.com/mavic-air-2 I'm absolutely not endorsing it especially since I never actually
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by spijdar 6y ago
Oh man, the Lilly! Waaaay back, I preordered a UAV around the same time, the "Sprite" drone [0]. I was still in my mid teens at the time, and very ... well, stupid. I wanted something to help take ortho images to stitch together f
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by spijdar 6y ago
Yeah giving it a second thought, I was too quick to praise products I haven't used. I should have said that I've heard lots of good things about. Still, given the price and performance deltas, I'm not sure the keyboard would
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by spijdar 6y ago
Man, I remember stumbling on this project every few years. 5 or so years ago I remember being tempted to preorder one, but decided I'd just wait until it was ready. Now it just kind of makes me sad. Sure, some people will be really hap
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by spijdar 6y ago
My understanding is the windows kernel is mostly C, with some highly-restricted C++ portions with most of the C++ runtime-dependent bits carefully avoided. XNU is entirely C except for IOKit AFAIK. My understanding is a lot of C++'s hi
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by spijdar 6y ago
Not to belabor the point, but what OSes are actually written in C++? Most will avoid using many if any C++ features even if they ostensibly use a C++ compiler, and most OSes I've seen (Linux, Windows, Darwin) have kernels written in ex
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by spijdar 6y ago
I think what GP was getting at is a big part of an OS is resource management (process permissions and isolation) and providing abstract interfaces over hardware (filesystems vs raw block storage). So beyond the low level drivers that direct
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by spijdar 6y ago
What's more, there were 64 bit laptops in the mid 90s. Not particularly mobile ones, but if you could tolerate a 7 pound behemoth, you could get a 200 MHz 64 bit SPARC processor with 512MB of RAM in '96/97. The AlphaBook wi
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by spijdar 6y ago
The typical POWER9 chip has between 80-100~ MB of L3 cache available, which I imagine is more than enough to hold Linux and your choice of userland application in cache. Now, forcing it to only use cache would be an interesting problem...
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by spijdar 6y ago
Win9x did actually have multiuser support -- it didn't enforce permissions between users locally, but it could at least have multiple profiles with different settings, and could restrict network share access to user accounts with Net
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by spijdar 6y ago
Just an anecdote, but I've always felt the webcams on macs I've used the past few years are worse than much cheaper Wintel PC webcams. Could just be cognitive bias though, since everyone complains about mac webcams all the time.
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by spijdar 6y ago
Just a heads up, at least several of those are supported to varying degrees. Looks like WhatsApp is supported through its web API, and slack and telegram's protocols are supported. Facebook messenger is no go, though.
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by spijdar 6y ago
> the pi was probably faster than it. If we're talking about 90s or early 2000s Sun, probably. Even then, though, these systems probably had substantially better I/O performance. I have a SPARC laptop lying around from 1995 tha
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by spijdar 6y ago
Did it? I've always had more trouble throwing up quick FTP servers vs a quick "python3 -m http.server" for a throwaway HTTP server.
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by spijdar 6y ago
Yeah, I'll concede that "decent" is too much credit. Even on "true multi user systems" the simplistic models *nix don't really work, and you end up seeing people using combinations of virtual machines and conta
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by spijdar 6y ago
Am I missing something? 10 unionized employees out of 2,000 total being laid off? I didn't catch any mention of any evidence they were specifically targeted. I didn't read super thoroughly either, though. Is there a smoking gun?

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