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"Because you're using adblockers, we're going to punish them." Sounds about right for Google.

> So, now you have to worry about your VPS/Internet provider deplatforming you. Or about your domain name being seized. And spam filtration, backups, redundancy... Your VPS / ISP b…

I'm still running Sendmail on NetBSD, the way I've been running it since the '90s. You'll find plenty of people telling you to not do it, but they mostly seem to think that others …

The true value of a company can be measured by our ability to communicate with them. If we can't communicate except after public outrage, then what does that say about the company?…

I'm one of those people. I compile thousands of open source packages on VAX, m68k, SuperH and other less popular architectures. I think I know at least a bit about how much of this…

You try to make it either/or in the most overly simplistic way possible. I wonder if you do, in fact, know that it's not a matter of only one or the other, but instead of acknowled…

> They have no problem with X11 coexisting You have it wrong. Rather than reuse parts of X11, like the compositors that support hardware that nobody will ever be paid to support, W…

Discussions about the corporatization of Linux largely move on emotion. Imagine getting flagged multiple times for asserting that writing code that assumes little endianness is bad…

I've preserved a number of machines by building them in to rackmount cases. It never occurred to me to make a faux product out of them. This is amazing! The graphics and detail are…

The story is confusing in that they don't link to the actual project, which you can only get to by visiting the Github link, then going to the developer's projects page, then findi…

> paving the way to building reliable IGZO transistors with a target lifetime of five years It almost makes it seem like they want their memory to last five years, as though it's a…

When you're building your own CPUs, why be beholden to US companies for GPUs? This makes perfect sense. GPUs are great if your workload can use them, but not so great for more gene…

This is beautiful. Thank you, Ken, and thank you, Marilou, for sharing :)

Binary only, and only support for certain processors makes it not very universal. I don't like getting binaries from other people :(

Maybe I should try to port this to the 65CE02 on the Commodore A2232 seven port serial card. It could use one of the serial ports for BASIC input and output. If I wanted to get fan…

Because marketing? I suppose if you're buying something for someone who is new to all of this, it might be worthwhile to have many things be RPi branded so if there are issues, the…

For starters, Linux is messy. Each distro is different from each other with little consistency. There are even distros specific to device families, like the Raspberry Pi. Sometimes…

Amazon is one of the few companies that could benefit the most. Here's an exchange I had with one of their "human" support people: "Search is broken. If I search for wwvb watch, I …

So Arnd Bergmann thinks that all future systems, embedded included, will have 64 bit CPUs? Or will embedded just stop using Linux and move to the BSDs?

No idea about Windows. No interest, either. UEFI makes it so you can boot your Unix OS, like NetBSD, without needing to have specific bootblocks that are tailored to the given mach…

The ports would easily fit in a 1U case, as would everything else, including the fan and heat sink. The metal back panel is standard. It'd be nice to have one that's made to fit 1U…

The Rock 5 ITX+ is a nice board. I wish a 1U back panel were available for it. UEFI does make things a lot easier. It's a shame that this isn't more common for Arm boards, but it's…

These days we have more meta-software than software. Instead of Apache with virtualhosts, we have a VM running Docker instances, each with an nginx of its own, all connected by a s…

A few nitpicks: * landlords aren't a good thing. * "setup" is a noun. * It'd be helpful to offer some context. For instance, talking about ufw without even mentioning that we're ta…

We do know. Don't both-sides here.