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Lay the crack pipe down.
> We need state power and willingness to forcibly commit heroin/meth addicts and mentally deranged people to institutions.

No so fast Hitler Jr.

Because proprietary messaging apps are sad and unnecessary.
Re:Notes on BPF and eBPF on Sunday January 02, 2022 @08:13PM (#29776151)
I call bullshit! Ebpf programs cannot crash the kernel since they cannot be run if they contain bugs in the first place.
Re:State of Valhalla on Saturday December 25, 2021 @11:37PM (#29689735)
Kotlin is a PITA to work with and code compared to modern Java.
Re:Steam has been banned in China on Saturday December 25, 2021 @08:24AM (#29683141)
Lenin wasn't a communist. China doesn't even practice real communism.
> The next thing you hear her one of her children are going to Harvard."

FTFY

Nah... Anti vaccine nutjobs still look like crazies.
Re:Singapore’s tech-utopia and surveillance state on Thursday November 18, 2021 @08:59PM (#29272982)
Says the person who never had guns drawn on them just for their skin color.
Lol Graham Hancock is one of the biggest frauds and a liars.
Re:FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @02:17AM (#29077705)
Slowlaris: /slo'�lahr�is/, n.

[Usenet; poss. from the variety of prosimian called a “slow loris”. The variant ‘Slowlartus’ is also common, related to LART]

Common hackish term for Solaris, Sun's System VR4 version of Unix that came out of the standardization wars of the early 1990s. So named because especially on older hardware, responsiveness was much less crisp than under the preceding SunOS. Early releases of Solaris (that is, Solaris 2, as some marketroids at Sun retroactively rechristened SunOS as Solaris 1) were quite buggy, and Sun was forced by customer demand to support SunOS for quite some time. Newer versions are acknowledged to be among the best commercial Unix variants in 1998, but still lose single-processor benchmarks to Sparc Linux.

Re:Debian's Which Hunt on Thursday October 28, 2021 @09:26PM (#29034184)
Meh... The majority of the largest and most popular CDNs are all running Linux stacks.
BeOS wasn't a microkernel.
Re:OpenBSD 7.0 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:45AM (#28864116)
That would assume that OpenBSD is secure the first place.
Re:OpenBSD 7.0 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @09:43AM (#28864096)
I already have that with Linux.
Re:Can the legacy of trauma be passed down the generations? on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:09AM (#28840676)
Our children and grandchildren are shaped by the genes they inherit from us, but new research is revealing that experiences of hardship or violence can leave their mark too.
Re:So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel? on Monday October 11, 2021 @07:57PM (#28834455)
Shame about the license.
Re:Are SSDs More Reliable Than Hard Drives? on Thursday September 30, 2021 @11:48PM (#28714257)
Show me a 15 or 20 year old SSD that's still working! I worked with 20 year old hard drives that still run like new.
Google is objectively a better search engine then it was 10 or 15 years ago.
Using bangs defeats the purpose of using DDG in the first place.

And DDG tracks your clicks just like Google does.

Re:Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk (2018) on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @05:30AM (#28537037)
> Lobster fed to prisoners was grounded whole, with the shell,

No they weren't! It's a myth.

>In all my research on this subject, I cannot find a single source of lobster shells being crushed in the entire history of lobster canning, between a dozen books on the subject, encyclopedia entries, and two dozen articles about lobster canning. Lobster shells are made out of chitin and are entirely inedible. Furthermore, there is no economical reason for trying to mash up rock-hard lobster shells to ‘stretch’ an abundant product, especially in an era before industrial grinders were available.

>In the colonial times, lobsters were harvested from tidal pools by hand, and were in extreme abundance. They were fed to children, prisoners, and indentured servants. They were also often used as fertilizer and animal feed. According to food historian Kathleen Curtin, prisoners and indentured servants enacting laws to limit how often they were fed lobster is also a myth, and there isn’t a shred of documentation of it actually happening.

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/emcx69/the_history...

Re:PipeWire: A server for Linux audio and video streams on Monday September 13, 2021 @02:43AM (#28508490)
> Similar thing for me. Pulseaudio sometimes takes a bunch of CPU with audio playing.

Run the same audio without pulse and the CPU usage will be higher.

Re:PipeWire: A server for Linux audio and video streams on Monday September 13, 2021 @02:41AM (#28508471)
Run all of your apps without pulseaudio and you will see even more CPU useage than.

Pulseaudio lowers CPU usage by 5 to 25 percent depending on CPU architecture.

Re:Jeff Varasano's NY Pizza Recipe (2008) on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @04:51PM (#28306801)
Not to mention Americans invented pepperoni.
Nobody was being harmed on Pornhub. Don't feed the lying anti-sex work media.
Re:Airyx OS on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:44AM (#28071963)
Gnome was good enough until the Gnome 3, by then it lost the plot.
Elon Musk will use child slave labor to build a Pyramid.
Re:Posix hardlink heartache on Thursday July 08, 2021 @05:07PM (#27777623)
A filesystem without symlinks is a crippled and dead filesystem.

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