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Yeah, let's revert to 1988! Great solution! Muchly of advance!

It's not like de Raadt or Torvalds got arbitrarily dropped into their positions. People effectively chose them by investing usership and development effort into their projects.

> The overwhelming majority of C implementations additionally define the values of all-bits-zero floats and pointers. So... Clang and GCC? Regardless, you're ignoring the obvious d…

All of that useless zeroing is very painful from a performance perspective. It just isn't a reasonable option in performance-relevant code like kernels and core infrastructure. The…

Unless the zeroing is defined by the language, assuming it t is incorrect and shouldn't be done.

OpenRISC has been stagnant for many years and will probably never make it to silicon.

This was written by Miod Vallet a couple days ago. He was the main nonstandard arch developer for OpenBSD and resigned last week. So, the context is that the author was one of the …

The vast majority of MIPS systems are bargain-basement embedded systems, though. Also, the ISA is pretty messy (especially at the kernel layer) and doesn't support many modern feat…

This article suggests that there's no point in having a valid SMTP cert. However, consider end-users' clients, which store the SMTP domain (i.e. don't do MX lookups) and connect to…

> I would happily admit there is extensive room for improvement in systemd, but we UNIX folks have been working with worse-is-better and rough-consensus-and-running-code for decade…

There's so much wrong with this comment... ETFs are just a way of buying equity, not a market that can be overcrowded. The 2008 meltdown happened because of subprime mortgages, the…

No no no no no. When you do this, you are: 1) Reinventing malloc for no good reason 2) Opening yourself up to a whole world of security holes See Bob Beck's talk on the first 30 da…

I stopped reading after the first paragraph: > From September 2014 to June 2015 alone, it repelled more than 30 million known malicious attacks at the boundaries of its networks. S…

What a wonderful sentence. You can keep concocting winding philosophical sentences like that to defend the dignity of chickens, and the rest of us will keep trying feed people.

Do plants not die? Saying that people are causing death without clearly qualifying that its farm animals is childish. The environmental issue is legitimate, but they treated it as …

Christ. Has it ever occurred to these hipsters that factory farming feeds people? It's simple science that conventional farming is the only way to feed 7+ billion (soon to be 9+ bi…

It's really not that hard to install it yourself...

It's funny, one of the other top comments here is about how many features Firefox is removing. Vital, core stuff, like setting being able to set custom user agents for specific dom…

You're being pretty grim. Hello is fucking awesome, and while I don't use Pocket it isn't the end of the world. Firefox isn't Lynx, but even as a Unix guy I enjoy and appreciate it…

> For example you can no longer set the User Agent string on a per site basis natively in Firefox preferences [0]. This seems like a uselessly fine-grained control. I was surprised…

Search the OpenBSD mailing list archives. Someone there got it working but ran into some problems.

> many

Who?

Some tasteful flaming is healthy in situations like this. Many people consider systemd to be a hijacking of the projects that they base their careers and livelihoods on, and many p…