Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — PlutoIsAPlanet

PlutoIsAPlanet

HN member
Joined
Mon, Jan 01, 2018, 6:04 PM UTC
HN karma
1,619
Public activity
334 items

About PlutoIsAPlanet

cf12d3982688a14f42fa6135aa132a19fa066681726ea941eee3fdba1da9bce6c20ffae74ef46c99f1793b5d24b3d128e98a504d5e3e17ef828f2a3b4e9da45b

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #41127653

    These people wouldn't know what a fascist was even if Hitler took a dump in their cornflakes. Meaning of the word has been twisted and manipulated to refer to anyone who has a diff…

  2. comment
    Comment #41110526

    > Remind me again why we decided to do all this stuff client side? I would guess easier reactivity and state management on the client. You don't have to do things the jQuery way in…

  3. comment
    Comment #41095893

    Microsoft can kick security vendors out the kernel, but they can't sell a product that uses APIs not accessible to other vendors.

  4. comment
    Comment #41077404

    ZFS isn't a real competitor given it's not in the kernel and has legal troubles.

  5. comment
    Comment #41077398

    Defaulting to degraded is a bad default. Mounting a btrfs device array degraded is extremely risky, and the device not booting means you'll actually notice and take action.

  6. comment
    Comment #41077387

    > BTW: Even SLES SuseLinux Enterprise says use XFS for data btrfs just for the OS i wonder why Because XFS is far quicker for server-related software such as databases and virtual …

  7. comment
    Comment #41066535

    The point of "standards" is that you don't need to target platforms.

  8. comment
    Comment #41045850

    Because someone actually did the work that provided what people wanted and needed. which so far no one else has done

  9. comment
    Comment #41012582

    There are Linux distributions that have been certified UNIX, it really doesn't mean anything anymore.

  10. comment
    Comment #41012557

    > poorly architected OS worth noting Microsoft had a solution a few years ago that would of prevented this issue from happening, Windows 10X, due to atomic updates. > In Linux, sof…

  11. comment
    Comment #40948207

    Yes, iOS still uses users in the technical "Unix" sense, they're just not mapped to actual physical users, but instead to various services. Android is in a similar boat. They're st…

  12. comment
    Comment #40943799

    > Eternal shame on Google for not insisting that Android would follow the "PC model" of the user being root on their own machine and DRM .. To be fair to Google, banks don't usuall…

  13. comment
    Comment #40939467

    I don't see how this article does or even aims for anything but just more toxicity and division. > To members of the Hyprland community, I want each of you to personally step up to…

  14. comment
    Comment #40939419

    Enable/disable disk encryption or reset a machine on Ubuntu via only the UI. You've been able to do both on Windows and macOS for other a decade now without touching a terminal. or…

  15. comment
    Comment #40939259

    > Depending on correct glibc, dependencies being installed with the right settings, environment variables,makefiles being compatible with what your system has,having the right kern…

  16. comment
    Comment #40890237

    Isn't UDP over TCP a generally bad idea?

  17. comment
    Comment #40882115

    Ironically the Alternative Vote system would of likely prevented the Tory parties from having such a bad loss this election (and potentially a majority).

  18. comment
    Comment #40786502

    Keir Starmer is a human rights lawyer, would be a bit weird for him to suddenly have no regard for international law where many human rights (ECHR) come from and likely divide his …

  19. comment
    Comment #40786481

    As opposed to supporting a state that puts you at danger for even knowing crimes committed by the government is better?

  20. comment
    Comment #40785578

    Don't tell the Brexiteers

  21. comment
    Comment #40775411

    Microsoft loves pushing people to buy macOS devices it would seem. Windows really does have the potential to be ideal for professionals, the things macOS does that make it better a…

  22. comment
    Comment #40760651

    All it takes is for a driverless car speeding to hit a pedestrian for the industry to be dead in its tracks.

  23. comment
    Comment #40760638

    I'm sure emergency services would like that idea

  24. comment
    Comment #40735933

    Yeh all you need to really do is just alias sudo in the shell profile and you can steal the users password to elevate to root. Flatpak/Containers can prevent it but permissions are…

  25. comment
    Comment #40733139

    in the case of Silverblue - Pushes the use of containers for apps, /usr is read-only (mostly). in most cases Flatpak and Podman/Docker/Distrobox/Toolbox - Makes reproducible builds…