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The Darwin kernel (XNU) has been open source since 1999. But "open source" and "you can actually build and boot it" are very different things. XNU depends on proprietary tooling, k…

John, Thank you for supporting and encouraging me to push the envelope further. NixBSD was already in great shape, I just wanted to add a little bit of polish and make it easier fo…

I've been working on getting NixBSD (Nix package manager + FreeBSD) to boot alongside NixOS on a shared ZFS pool. The result is a What works: - GRUB chainloads FreeBSD's bootloader…

Michael MJD did a video on this recently :) https://youtu.be/5MZljgXW2WA

While I agree with you that a lot of sub-par technical people are relegated to the role of QA, just because you haven't seen one proper QA person in your life, doesn't mean they do…

Here is a community-maintained list of banking apps that can work without SafetyNet: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa... Last time I was looking for a n…

Hey vermaden, great article! I saw you had some problems with virt-manager, and I did too! There is a solution your problem: > I was able to start FreeBSD 13.2 installation … but i…

The justice system has many flaws including incompetence and corruption, they don't always get it right. Assuming the parent poster's guilt is fair, but god help you if the system …

> current trend of people just doing extreme stuff to try to get views. A few people have been killed This is just natural selection at work.

I believe you can install LineageOS on any old Pixel and still get updates. Though the type of updates will be limited. https://www.lineageos.org/

Of course you are correct that supporting Twitter or any service is a moving target, so long as it changes. But that doesn't mean specific bugs can't be captured in a test case. Wa…

Thank you Paul for your excellent work on Ardour!

If you are using LVM on all of your filesystems, it seems like a bad idea to use a file residing on LVM block device as another PV. And actually I'd be surprised if this was even a…

For anyone curious to know more about usage of ECS in Overwatch, check out this GDC talk from one of the developers: https://youtu.be/W3aieHjyNvw

Wouldn't that kinda defeat the whole purpose of signing the app?

Hopefully they weren’t trying to hire you for a QA position...