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Re:Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan on Sunday March 05, 2017 @02:44PM (#13798092)
They just recently started supporting OpenBSD officially as well.

I immediately switched. This way I wouldn't have to deal with the generally more messy and weaker[1] OS that is FreeBSD, nor would I have to use old pf syntax.

[1] "Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security": https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/16/0121213/theo-de-raa...

Re:Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan on Sunday March 05, 2017 @02:35PM (#13798025)
Big ups to Vultr for doing what DigitalOcean wouldn't do - supporting OpenBSD.
Re:Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @07:16AM (#13588835)
My recent findings is that it's better to not take any notes at all. Instead of adding some item to your todo list, do it immediately and don't send it off like some nasty surprise to your future self. The smaller my notes.txt the less complications I have to worry about and I can go on living a happy and fulfilled life.
Re:Irssi 1.0.0 Released on Thursday January 05, 2017 @09:42PM (#13333496)
Ofcourse Irssi wouldn't be complete without its ircII minimalist theme:

https://github.com/irssi/irssi/pull/181/commits/0494925a465b...

Also, +1 for Ruby support.

Re:Ask HN: Thinking of moving to Europe from USA on Saturday December 31, 2016 @07:57PM (#13294107)
It's short and concise spoken American, I don't see what the big deal is
Re:Ask HN: How to build a personal landing page? on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @01:32PM (#13264950)
Re:Ask HN: Where should I host my startup? on Sunday October 09, 2016 @04:02PM (#12673125)
Does DO even offer custom images? Last I spoke to the owner he said they had other priorities.
Re:Ask HN: Where should I host my startup? on Sunday October 09, 2016 @04:00PM (#12673112)
> Who wants to be patching the OS? Who wants to be dealing with package vulnerabilities?

Choose OpenBSD (and don't install stupid stuff like bash) and you won't have to deal with any of that.

Re:Ask HN: Where should I host my startup? on Sunday October 09, 2016 @03:49PM (#12673049)
I must strongly agree with this one. Just switched from DigitalOcean to Vultr myself. Vultr is the only decent one I'm aware of who'll let me run OpenBSD. No other OS is good enough for me. Strongest security in the world, and no need to update as frequently as with other OSes or distros.

Choose OpenBSD for your Unix needs. OpenBSD -- the world's simplest and most secure Unix-like OS. Creator of the world's most used SSH implementation OpenSSH, the world's most elegant firewall PF, the world's most elegant mail server OpenSMTPD, the OpenSSL rewrite LibreSSL, and the NTP rewrite OpenNTPD. OpenBSD -- the cleanest kernel, the cleanest userland and the cleanest configuration syntax.

Re:Amazon’s Ambition to Compete Directly with UPS and FedEx on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @04:47PM (#12601237)
Anybody else wishing they would set up shop in the Scandinavian countries so poor people there could earn money off their affiliate program as well?
Re:Using Gmail with Mutt on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:07PM (#12567150)
I always used what I saw as the simplest Mutt setup possible: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ca8dc3ecba60bdee41abb241e6... along with:

mutt -f imaps://imap.gmail.com

Re:GIMP development - What’s the point? on Friday September 23, 2016 @09:08AM (#12564268)
I prefer Photoshop for the UI, but boy are those Elsamuko plugins something.
Re:Maru OS becomes an open source project on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @07:23AM (#12389033)
https://copperhead.co/android/ too apparently -- a hardened open-source operating system based on Android.
Re:Maru OS becomes an open source project on Sunday August 28, 2016 @05:19AM (#12375893)
OpenBSD is simply a lot better designed than Linux, free from fancy bells and whistles. As the the world's simplest and most secure Unix-like OS, any mobile OS choosing it over Linux would have a significant advantage.

Android has bits and pieces of it, but not nearly enough.

Creator of the world's most used SSH implementation OpenSSH, the world's most elegant firewall PF, the world's most elegant mail server OpenSMTPD, the OpenSSL rewrite LibreSSL, and the NTP rewrite OpenNTPD. OpenBSD -- the cleanest kernel, the cleanest userland and the cleanest configuration syntax.

Re:Maru OS becomes an open source project on Saturday August 27, 2016 @04:10PM (#12373954)
Wish it could be based on OpenBSD instead of Linux.
Re:Ideas for getting started in the Linux kernel on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @04:24PM (#12308134)
For one, Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/16/0121213/theo-de-raa...

OpenBSD's documentation is also known to be a tad better than FreeBSD's.

Re:Ideas for getting started in the Linux kernel on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @04:57AM (#12296273)
Where does OpenBSD's kernel fit into all of this? Isn't that, in turn, lightyears ahead of illumos?
Re:Multiple Bugs in OpenBSD Kernel on Friday July 15, 2016 @06:27PM (#12104228)
Compared to other OSes and distros this is one in a million.
Re:The state of LibreSSL in FreeBSD on Sunday July 03, 2016 @08:21PM (#12028262)
It's awesome that cool things from OpenBSD are being ported over to FreeBSD, but why not just use OpenBSD from the get-go? It's already a struggle having to deal with FreeBSD's outdated version of pf.

iTWire - Crypto: FreeBSD playing catch-up, says De Raadt: http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/62641-cry...

Re:Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack? on Saturday July 02, 2016 @12:27AM (#12021370)
> libuinet is a library version of FreeBSD's TCP stack. I guess there's a theme here.

That is excellent, considering FreeBSD's TCP stack is supposed to be faster and better designed than that of Linux.

Re:Add Reactions to Pull Requests, Issues, and Comments on Thursday March 10, 2016 @06:12PM (#11263291)
Speaking about new features -- what I'd like to see is the ability to remove items from my public profile / activities list. Often I make mistakes. Often I do stuff I don't want the public to see, and I'd rather not have to email GitHub support asking them to remove them manually all the time.
Re:FFmpeg 3.0 released on Monday February 15, 2016 @08:30AM (#11103255)
Awesome! Hoping for quick updates to the OpenBSD and FreeBSD ports.
Re:Scientists have found a way to help learn skills faster on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:42PM (#11084964)
There's also Donepezil, a drug similar to the one from the movie Limitless (2011).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2593268/The-d...

    - Donepezil is used to improve memory function in Alzheimer’s patients
    - Children learn skills quickly as their brains go through 'critical periods’
    - Researchers found donepezil can revert adult brains to these periods
    - It increases the 'elasticity' of the brain making it capable of learning rapidly
    - Researchers rewired a visually impaired patient’s brain to process images
    - The drug works by boosting chemicals in the brain that reduce with age
Re:Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right on Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:52PM (#11082122)
Does this bring us any closer to warp drives?
Hasn't Peek (https://github.com/peek/peek) sorta replaced Rack-Mini-Profiler?

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