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Re:AI coding agents and a rerun of the operating-system wars on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:01AM (#50005910)
Thanks for posting!
Re:FreeBSD: The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration on Monday May 26, 2025 @05:10AM (#44095480)
Agree, FreeBSD works great for its use cases.
Re:ZFS 2.3.0 released with ZFS raidz expansion on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:03AM (#42695204)
If you delay upgrading the kernel on occasions, it is more or less fine.
Re:ZFS 2.3.0 released with ZFS raidz expansion on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:02AM (#42695195)
Several reasons, but major ones (for me) are reliability (checksums and self-healing) and portability (no other modern filesystem can be read and written on Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and macOS).

Snapshots ("boot environments") are also supported by Btrfs (my Linux installations use that so I don't have to worry about having the 3rd party kernel module to read my rootfs). Performance isn't that great either and, assuming Linux, XFS is a better choice if that is your main concern.

I have a website [1] on GitHub Pages. It's extremely easy to move out of GitHub, since it is on a domain I control, which is not the case with e.g. social profiles. That fact that the site is static makes it really easy to host it basically anywhere where a web server exists.

The site is deployed using a GitHub Actions workflow, which happens to be the only GitHub-specific feature, but a similar script could easily be written in the future for another hosting if necessary.

[1] https://group.miletic.net/

Half is definitely an exaggeration for LinuxKPI modules that cover WiFi and GPU drivers.

Still, most of radeon/amdgpu DRM driver is MIT-licensed and doesn't require abiding by the GPL (not sure about other drivers as I don't use them, but I assume licenses vary).

Re:Transforming Material for MkDocs on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @02:26AM (#41297351)
Good read and good direction for the project to take. I hope that the solutions to these challenges end up materializing (pun fully intended).
Re:Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @01:08AM (#40973782)
If you are going the "open standard" route, SYCL is much more modern than OpenCL and also nicer to work with.
Re:Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites on Monday June 24, 2024 @09:16AM (#40775660)
> - Helpful 404s. If you mistype a url, the 404 page compares it to working urls and shows you the closest match. All done using clientside JS (no web server needed). For example: https://breckyunits.com/pcr.html

Very neat! Many other are cool too.

Re:Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites on Monday June 24, 2024 @08:59AM (#40775476)
On the topic of showing page progress with table of contents, author's description matches exactly how it is implemented in Material for MkDocs [1]. I moved my blog from WordPress to it (for unrelated reasons) and I immediately liked how going through longer blog posts felt with highlighted entry in the table of contents moving together with the page.

[1] https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up...

Re:Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites on Monday June 24, 2024 @08:52AM (#40775412)
Do you mean blogroll?
Re:Computer Networks: A Systems Approach on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:56AM (#40596827)
My group used to teach Computer Networks at a university ([1] gives a fair overview of the scope if you know Croatian or use a bit of Google Translate). We used CORE and PHP built-in web server [2] for the basic course. IMHO, stuff like Shadow is too overwhelming for the introductory course, but we planned to use it together with ns-3 and SimGrid for the advanced course (which in the end we never got a chance to develop for unrelated reasons).

[1] https://group.miletic.net/hr/nastava/kolegiji/RM/

[2] https://coreemu.github.io/core/

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