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I too get that IBM wants to milk Red Hat for as much as it as worth. I'd argue Red Hat was lost before that even. It used the good old M$ EEE trick with its the most direct OS comp…

The fact is if someone wants to run a Linux host for 10 years with security patches they can with Ubuntu. They cannot with CentOS Stream. Yes, they could switch to RHEL and pay for…

Ubuntu LTS has an additional 5 years of security support through Extended Security Maintenance thus giving LTS releases a full 10 year lifecycle. https://ubuntu.com/about/release-c…

5 years is half of the Ubuntu LTS and the previous CentOS Linux lifecycle. This is why many consider CentOS Stream to be a significant departure from CentOS Linux. Not saying it is…

> where did you hear that CentOS Stream didn't receive security patches? That is false... It's not false under the context of long term support which is why I highlighted so in the…

Thank you to Canonical for keeping Ubuntu a free and open source operating system with long term support! With the death of CentOS (replaced by an unstable upstream of RHEL) it mea…

200wpm and 90% accuracy is my result from typing tests while using vi-tutor. In real world scenario I would type slower (closer to 120wpm) to be sure I spell and punctuate without …

My experience learning a new keyboard layout was at age 19 an I was not typing for more than a few hours a day. It takes much longer to both break old habits and form new ones from…

Colemak user since I taught myself one summer (2012) by spending the first 20 minutes after waking up typing in vim-tutor. I made the switch because I could not stop looking at the…

I recently left Red Hat (Feb 2021). I joined from the CoreOS acquisition in 2018. For the most part I enjoyed working at Red Hat. Honestly the real reason I left because of GME but…

Chat will become the primary method of communication and will be where most work gets done. Other systems will exist sure eventually hackers will build tools for them to be interfa…

Rightwing posters on FB/Twitter/HN: "It is our right to organize an coup on your platform!!!1" Start your own goddamn website! Zuck and Jack don't owe you anything.

Zuck > Jack

If this isn't over by summer 2021 it's time to quarantine the olds an allow the rest of citizens to return to normal life. We gave it a year. we can't go on expecting younger folks…

The holier than thou these ideas are bad and we must deplatform them from the left is getting old quick. The sense of entitlement to other people's servers and code by the right is…

Beta version of software often ignore users that may have visual or motoric impairment. Plus much of the web is hositle to disabled folks already (like youtube not having closed ca…

A uninformative rant about a software beta. Personally I am tired of these sort of posts that scream about how everything new is terrible because it doesn't have X feature that is …

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hires* I'd say it would take a cold day in hell before Linus would work at M$ but since 2016 it seems anything is possible.

This is constantly brought up on HN in the WFH threads. Your employer cannot arbitrarily reduce your salary. The reduction has to be agreed upon by the employee or the employer has…

Facebook would be #1 in online advertising and we'd be using Bing on our Windows Phones.

A ton of amazing engineers and founders are born in India, China, and South East Asia also many from Eastern Europe and Russia. How would limiting the migration of these people hel…

Newsom said the American presidency, "sounds like the worst job ever." Not everyone seeks more power. Maybe Newsom is happy to lead a nation-state without a minority party blocking…

Disgusting that the America govt does nothing while every other major power is able to get prescription drug prices under control.

To everyone that thinks no ports, Qi only iPhones are the future. What if you want to use your phone while it chargers? Charge your phone in the car? I think we are another 10 year…