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Re:The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations on Friday November 07, 2025 @11:48PM (#45854222)
WAG in WAG out
Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts on Saturday January 11, 2025 @09:48PM (#42670863)
steam-run seems to be able to run everything. It uses bubble wrap to keep the OS isolated and add /usr/bin stuff most exes want.
Re:Build Systems, Not Heroes on Saturday October 12, 2024 @01:48AM (#41816748)
> If you have strong enough rules, you don’t need to worry about the skills of the programmers.

lol. lmao, even.

Re:MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMs on Monday January 08, 2024 @01:12AM (#38908817)
> a simple multi-processor round robin (SMP)

> the kernel is very small and does not block, so does not need to be preemptible

I don't believe you and I don't even need to look at the code to know this is false.

Likely they have humans review the images (or even touch up). Same thing with the dataset scraped from the internet.
Re:Alpine Linux does not make the news on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:48PM (#36869244)
I've been migrating to nixos. I think it makes news in that everyone is obligated to hate it publicly for at least 6 months before resigning themselves to it.
Re:Alpine Linux does not make the news on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:47PM (#36869228)
still true it doesn't make news I suppose
Re:LXD is now under Canonical on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @10:37PM (#36594934)
Why LXD over podman? I've found podman to be a pretty great docker lite.
Re:LXD is now under Canonical on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @10:36PM (#36594930)
Have you tried nixos? Its a totally different paradigm and definitely an acquired taste, but I used gentoo for ~2 years, then used Arch for ~5 and now am switching everything to nixos.

Main benefits is setting up a new machine is much easier, and updates are easier because almost all the normal configuration is managed by nixos (in the nix language) as opposed to regular files floating around etc.

Re:LastPass: Notice of Recent Security Incident on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:59PM (#34099387)
right, they need to know whether to offer you a password or not regardless of whether you have re-locked
Re:dwm on Friday January 14, 2022 @05:28PM (#29941384)
I cycled through dwm at one point. The thing that killed me was that on my nvidia machine, for some reason it would flash when I changed desktops, like the draw order was wrong. i3 is the only tiling window manager that didn't, I think because it uses xcb instead of xlib.

I love the magical bullshit in the description. Each line contains some face palm.

> dwm doesn't distinguish between layers: there is no floating or tiled layer. Whether or not the clients of currently selected tag(s) are in tiled layout, you can rearrange them on the fly. Popup and fixed-size windows are always floating, however.

Ok so it does have floating then?

> Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. There are some distributions that provide binary packages though.

Ok so you can package then....?

> dwm is only a single binary, and its source code is intended to never exceed 2000 SLOC.

Strange flex but ok.

> dwm has no Lua integration, no 9P support, no shell-based configuration, no remote control, and comes without any additional tools, such as for printing the selection or warping the mouse.

It uses x, x warps the mouse.

> dwm is customized through editing its source code, which makes it extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which isn't known at compile time, except window titles and status text read from the root window's name.

ok so there is input that could hacked (not saying there IS, but if you process strings or floats from the user those can contain unexpected values).

All that said, suckless tools are nice, just think the mindset is hilarious.

Re:Wave Function Collapse library in pure C on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:21PM (#29812835)
Its a slow to compile idiom. The only reason to use it is if you expect people to download the header and plop it in. Basically its an end-run around build systems.
Re:Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:17PM (#29267870)
Ok I'm not crazy
Re:Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:17PM (#29267865)
It took me a full minute to realize this wasn't the Los Angeles Police Department's R&D division
Re:SUBLEQ and DawnOS (2017) on Monday April 12, 2021 @01:28AM (#26776295)
The fu? This guy has no idea what he is talking about.

> there are also lack of technical knowledge at linux side, for example, most linux distributions cant even detect the cpu type, and force a kernel using PAE or SSE kernel on a 6x86 cpu, which of course will crash at boot.

Uh yes it can? cat /proc/cpuinfo? What he is saying (incorrectly) is that Linux is compiled for i686 -- which it often is, so that you don't get illegal instructions when you run programs. No one is preventing you from recompiling with optimizations and -march=native.

Theres so many levels of crazy in just the first paragraph.