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That's not nice and totally uncalled for. Three years is a very short time. The original comment did not compare xbps to BSD package managers. What it said was that xbps was writte…

Why are you comparing pkgsrc to pacman. The orginal comparison suggested in the parent comment was between xbps and nixpkgs or other Linux package managers. pkgsrc boostraps itself…

Care to be more specific than "underlying stuff". The code and design of xbps looks nothing like the code or design of pacman or apk.

If the cost to students attending universities that have adequate subscriptions is small -- previously, commenters suggested this portion of their tuition amounted to only a small …

Yes. As yet, there's still no foolproof way to verify/authenticate an endpoint on the internet. Not to mention the issue of so-called "host security". Checking for a file on the re…

If you are using your own DNS cache listening on a loopback interface, then the risks of "DNS cache poisoning" are not what they are when you use a third party cache like your ISP'…

If you got a free 32-bit version while while the terms were "shockingly liberal" then maybe those are the terms that govern the use of that binary? I don't know for sure. I do know…

If you follow the "API war" hyperlink, it's under the heading "It's Not 1990". When consumers are upgrading their hardware regularly as they were in the 1990's, then developers can…

Here's my tl;dr: 1. Interix/SUA subsystem was not developed by Microsoft. It was acquired from a company called Softway. It was used internally to transition Hotmail from FreeBSD t…

The only problem is if one uses UNIX instead of Windows to do development. Fortunately there are still some people doing development on UNIX and sharing their software tools. http:…

No, I do not think you are being negative. Assuming you are approaching HTTP/2 from the user's perspective. Honest opinion: HTTP/2 benefits advertising companies* like Google more …

Assumption 1: the primary customers of increasingly expensive subscriptions from academic publishers are universities. Assumption 2: the cost of the subscriptions is passed on to t…

I became an admirer of this man's software aesthetic when I first discovered and compiled libero. In my opinion, this is a great loss to the world of programming.

tinysshd does not have the 90's crypto by default. It is optional. Nor does it have the "extreme complexity".

Is generating ed25519 keys slower or faster than generating self-signed certs? Nothing wrong with OpenSSH supporting the option to use certs. They can be useful to some users. But …

Clarification: By "authentication" I mean keys that the users generate using ssh-keygen. I do not mean certificates or "certficate authorities" (CA's).

Idea: Maybe it's the "sh" in ssh that make it so useful. Environmental variables instead of "HTTP headers". envdir Opinion: In terms of "authentication" I still think ssh has the e…

Say what you will but I still prefer the VAX to Windows.

Generally, very little is "turned on by default" which sets this OS apart. Where are you getting your rc.conf? This looks reasonably conservative: 1 line. /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-releas…

You forgot to mention the option of half flush or full flush.