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by tosti 7mo ago
How far does this "Ofcom" got to have their head up their arse not to see they're just doing free promotion for a website they disagree with? How far must the politicians have had their heads up their arses to enact such a br
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by tosti 7mo ago
That's the false assumption that unmaintained is insecure. Any old DOS game in Dosbox would be insecure by that logic. So if I run Dune2 in dosbox, is that a security issue? Of course not, but if you were to load a bitmap from the netw
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by tosti 7mo ago
Damn. I feel old and must've missed that boat. Several other boats too, I guess. Here I was thinking 16GiB is pretty good. I get to compile LibreOffice in an afternoon. QtWebEngine overnight. Doesn't 128GiB make rowhammer much mor
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by tosti 7mo ago
In pkgsrc, building packages isn't done by default and 100% optional. I'm not sure what logic you're ascertaining here. There were operating systems before package managers and AFAICT IIRC the first package manager "repo
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Kexec handover and the live update orchestrator(lwn.net)
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by tosti 7mo ago
Wait until Linux can run itself from the top while keeping your work intact. See https://lwn.net/Articles/1033364/
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by tosti 7mo ago
A private equity firm aptly named EQT bought SuSE from their previous owners in 2018. Now they want to sell it off. Ofc the distro can be installed for free. Owning the business sets you back some $6 billion.
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by tosti 7mo ago
I see security as a stopgap measure when there's no peace. The best "security" is not to need any in the first place.
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by tosti 7mo ago
SuSE doesn't ship ventoy and the installer does boot and work just fine. It's likely a bug in ventoy. SuSE doesn't test that and why would they? Perhaps ventoy doesn't like SuSE.
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by tosti 7mo ago
Exactly. Yes, I've used them and it was horrible. For me, the difference is in do I get to compile this from sources myself or do I get someone elses compiler output? IOW it's not comparing vastly different vehicles, but rather a
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by tosti 7mo ago
> commodity > zen 5 > 128GiB Are you from the future?
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by tosti 7mo ago
Sure they're different. They all download blobs and can then execute them. Exactly how, when and why is completely different but they still get you blobs.
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by tosti 7mo ago
Who besides Joyent and NetBSD would ever do a bulk build? Portage can also do binary packages. That doesn't mean you have to have them. You can just not ever enable them and be fine.
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by tosti 7mo ago
I know, but it's ironic imho
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by tosti 7mo ago
I just use pkgsrc from netbsd
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by tosti 7mo ago
It even has a template engine! Because the one thing PHP really needs is a good template engine.
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by tosti 7mo ago
Linux runs faster and has recent GPU drivers. OpenBSD is reliable and has useful server stuff in base.
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by tosti 8mo ago
Get off of FB, Twitch and Discord. There's still choice. My 6 online friends are on signal and they're 5 real people I interact with irl and 1 guy I never met irl.
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by tosti 8mo ago
There's a meta tag for that, but hardly anyone uses it.
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by tosti 8mo ago
Right. Never come up with a technical solution to a social problem.
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by tosti 8mo ago
Shit like this is why I run Gentoo on the desktop, OpenBSD on the server.
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by tosti 8mo ago
New IPv6 allocations happen all the time so this is also problematic on a technical level.
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by tosti 8mo ago
Those parents were kids in their youth. Their kids may become parents someday. This is the mechanism that allows for a recovery process to occur naturally. Politicians have a limited duty cycle which entices them to act like the world is on
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by tosti 8mo ago
The cloudflare thing is insane. Like overnight a while ago, normal everyday websites are suddenly inaccessible (yes I have JS on, no it won't work.) Sometimes only the first page loads. Can't complain to CF either, because that to
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by tosti 8mo ago
Free software doesn't have a lot of trademarks, with the notable exception of Linux. Also, the name is the algorithm. Bzip2 has versions and bzip3 is something else which has its own updated versions. Programs that implement a single a
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by tosti 8mo ago
Technical expertise that most journalists don't have.
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by tosti 8mo ago
Random pepper. Or just, y'know, randomly generate the effing string. Can't be that hard.
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by tosti 8mo ago
Moderation here sucks and doesn't really work well imho.
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by tosti 8mo ago
It was possible on the Acer model I got when it first came out, but it was still useless. A switch that wiped the whole thing back to defaults was needed to open a terminal and from there a shell script could install Ubuntu. It still ran th
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by tosti 8mo ago
Regarding misaligned reads, IIRC only x86 hides non-aligned memory access. It's still slower than aligned reads. Other processors just fault, so it would make sense to do the same on riscv. The problem is decades of software being writ

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