Gnu/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way

Post by CRConrad » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 6:20 PM UTC

taeric wrote: post #250

klodolph wrote: post #238

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> I didn't say they were being dishonest, I said it feels dishonest. The phrase “it feels” is not carte blanche to say what you want. I could say, “Someone reading this post might think that you’re an axe murderer.” Certainly not me, I don’t think you’re an axe murderer. But someone reading this post might think so. What this does is introduce a new topic of conversation—that topic is you , and whether you’re an axe…

This form of rhetoric for criticism is silly, though. For one, you are giving no charity to the side of my conversation. For two, you have to take it to the absurd caricature of claiming that others think someone is an axe murderer to try and make your point. Literally a type of rhetorical fallacy. I flat out feel it is dishonest, in the vein that it is cherry picked data to further support a point that they agree wi…

Post by CRConrad » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 6:27 PM UTC

taeric wrote: post #54

klodolph wrote: post #41

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If your WiFi driver crashes and restarts, at the minimum, I think it could be treated as if you lost network connectivity for a short time. This is a situation that applications should be able to handle anyway, since it happens all the time on laptops. There are plenty of applications out there that just don’t respond to configuration changes gracefully. For example, if you have a music program running, and then you…

It really depends on what all is done "in the driver," though? Since, per the application, the data may have been passed off to the driver with a successful message pass. And if I have to have secrets in the driver for it to be able to connect to access points and such, it seems dubious how protected from all of my secrets the system can be between all parties. MIDI is actually an easy example, all told. If I unplug…