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ruslan

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About ruslan

C/C++. Unix. Electronics. HAM. CNC. Ice hockey.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48826297

    I wish these guys luck in finding their customer. Really. Because real solution to the problem would be to hire old-style developers to rewrite the whole slop from scratch without …

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    Comment #48526575

    I would expect CDE (or NsCDE).

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    Comment #48526551

    Cannot find what are the min HW requirements ? What min RAM/HDD/CPU to get simple X11 environment ? Will it run on 486DX2-66 ?

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    Comment #48509688

    > Fastmail reads or analyzes users email to sell ads? Fastmail trains ai models on their user's email messages? Even though they have not been caught, it does no mean they are not …

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    Comment #48509637

    Delta Chat is an email client I use and advise to my correspondents, it does GPG stuff quite comfortably. Yet it still requires understanding of the process.

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    Comment #48505168

    > The second is AI assistance: tools that summarize your inbox, surface action items, draft replies, and in some cases take actions on your behalf. That is the most evil part. Fina…

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    Comment #47927549

    I think I know quite some things about OS internals, but not that much as a guy how writes device drivers daily. Would happily read such book to get in par with the author.

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    Comment #47927377

    > This book has negative value. It is actively destructive to FreeBSD, even if in the short term it boosts the author's public profile. I won't be that radical, the book still has …

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    Comment #47927270

    > This book is a dishonest AI scam. Indeed! I read through a couple of paragraphs. Each begins with a bloated introduction where each sentence repeats same idea many times in diffe…

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    Comment #47697958

    How about demo-design ? I mean good old PC demoscnece. Try to fit something feasible into 64K.

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    Comment #47581417

    Do not pay for premium accounts, use their freemium service to death! Let them die hard!

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    Comment #47316099

    Excuse me for being ignorant, is Seccomp what SELinux is based on ? Also, what is well-known piece of software that uses Capsicum on FreeBSD ? Can someone name a few ?

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    Comment #46706902

    When I was watching that Lunduke's video a couple of days ago initially I was thinking he's just making a joke of that Vendefoul Wolf distro on 200MB box. I recalled using FreeBSD …

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    Comment #46669013

    That's interesting, thanks. I feel a need for simple multitasking/networking OS for synthesizable RV32I core (not RTOS like, but more like Unix or CP/M). Would be nice to try Plan9…

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    Comment #46668938

    I use one written in SpinalHDL. :-) Next question is how much RAM it needs to boot and can it be used without rio ?

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    Comment #46668753

    Is there Plan9 port for RISC-V (RV32I) ?

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    Comment #46431678

    Ice hockey player also here. Defence. Pretty neat analogy with Google. :)

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    Comment #46221898

    Did you see tamatoes harvested that way ? They are suitable only for producing sauce.

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    Comment #45805807

    Exceptionally good reading!

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    Comment #45708522

    Get two FTDI FT232RL chips, connect them together on serial side (RXD->TXD, TXD->RXD, GND GND). Plug into USB ports of your computers, run terminals (or any other software that sup…

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    Comment #45244762

    No pointers ?

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    Comment #44907761

    Right. But I would still prefer markdown file format, so I could simply open it in web browser. :)

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    Comment #44907312

    How about social.md which is gpg signed ?

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    Comment #43113407

    Nice reading. But... > And of course, we must defeat git. What's wrong with this guy and Git ?

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    Comment #43090199

    How does F8 compare to RV16 in terms of resources (die size) used and performance ?