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My view: The nether update was fabulous with so much new stuff. After that they seemed overconfident and promised way too much. They delivered but it took three new versions rather…

Certainly not the only one making things worse. Software has become an enemy of the people in the last 10 years. Remember when the internet was nominated for Nobel Peace price?

Absolutely not. These are fundamental concepts in our computer world and a step on the latter towards becoming a programmer or sysadmin.

I've felt it through my guilty pleasure of scrolling instagram reels periodically. They've obviously changed their algorithm from time to time and it's crazy how I've intermittentl…

A thought in the other direction though. A lot of fields don't really have kids playing their way towards skill. Still people find their way to the frontiers and push on.

> Part of the issue is that computers today require no deep knowledge to use, unlike first or second generation PCs that genX and millennials grew up with. A point that I've often …

Thanks for the effort, that was an interesting read.

I like it. Remember when people used to have badges on their sites? Like HTML5 or XHTML or Apache or whatever. Maybe we could bring back one for "made by humans".

"If 386BSD had been available before I created Linux, then Linux might not have been born" - Linus My impression is that there was also a bit of a culture clash. BSD was the white …

My impression is that ASLR just hasn't been well regarded and prioritized. See for example this tweet by cperciva: https://x.com/cperciva/status/1528971801983823872

The OG thread: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115504720054699983

> But before Zig, there was C. For fifty years, C has been the foundation of modern computing. And for fifty years, language theory has made progress. While C, brilliant as it once…

I've worked for a company with a large code base in Visual Basic .net. Product been in development since the 90's, with rich customer that only cares about their software doing its…

Ports is a meta build system, from which packages are created. Gives a lot of convenient power and flexibility. For ready built packages, the FreeBSD equivalent of dpkg or whatever…

Sounds like the knee-jerk rules of some socialite circle in a top floor Manhatten apartment. Please let me have some of your cocaine.

For FreeBSD, given that it fulfills the tasks required: * Ease of management - more holistically designed. * Rock solid parts that fits together - more holistically designed. * ZFS…

My impression: * PF was imported into FreeBSD from OpenBSD, maybe it had problems at first. * Both implementations have been actively maintained, further developed, and diverged. *…

Addendum: I've used FreeBSD as my daily driver (I hate that term) since around 2004. Including through cs/math university. With Windows in a VM for "I need it". The longer I've use…

- firewall? PF seems to me like pretty much the most well regarded firewall there is - with a nice, sensible DSL for config. If you don't like like it, you can use use IPFW or IPFI…

Let's rebrand and try again!

Sun ceased to exist 15 years ago. Time flies.

Unfortunately not. They are calling it "phone" and ("rooted phone" or "unlocked phone").