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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Those decisions include layoffs, most notably Caroline Henrikson, Creative Director, and, Melissa Wu, Director of Community Development.

Seems they might be listening. If their first two hits are 'community development' and 'creative director', then we can only assume they have probably come to the same conclusion you have stated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Back when Bill Gates was still in his dad's ballsack, I was using UNIX on mainframes.

When he finally got out, and was flapping around on the lounge room rug, we were using PDP-7 and PDP-9's (which were 18 bit..)

Arguably, the OS on these were lesser-UNIX style and more FORTRAN.

But then came the PDP-10 and PDP-11, a bunch of DEC hardware which cemented the way forward to UNIX(like) OS.

None of this hardware cared about Bill's "DOS".

In fact, the last "upgrade" (sad to say) I did, was a BSD based Solaris SunOS around 2005 (at which point MS had acquired it as Santa Cruz Operations (SCO). Where the company I worked for had let go the 'unix' software for "modern" windows and no longer supported the customers in the old version.

So to answer your question about locking down bootloaders, it made no difference. MS DOS was never gonna run on the main steam hardware that was prevalent at the time. Not because it was locked in with us, but because we were locked in with it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

Well, you are subscribing to the Sun.

Its your own shitshow.

No one fucking cares.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

To be fair, X didn't "miss the deadline".

They never gave a shit in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Quantum Computing is still climbing the slope from TT to the Peak of Inflated Expectations. There is still little to no major hype, as its still in "R&D/testing" it is slow, it is expensive (Very) limited due to all the surrounding tech required to make it work like cooling, containment etc..

Compare this to AI.

AI is at and heading down from the Peak towards the Trough of Disillusionment. It was easy (relatively) to implement, easy to evolve as how nVidia did, simply throw more silicon at it. The Hype was easy to generate because even while totally misinformed, media and other people out there thought they could easily sell it. Even though most of what they claimed was turd, it sounded amazing and a game changer even in the early stages, and businesses lapped it up. Now they are feeling the pain, and seeing that there are still major hurdles to get past.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Software as a Suspension.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Was that price change overnight? Like its $14 today, and last week it was only $5?

I'd find it very hard to believe that a change of $9 at a shit sandwich shop would happen overnight. But lets call it $2 per year, that means it was from 2020 and that doesn't make sense either.

Lets call it $1 a year, with a covid bump in 2019. That would be from ~2016, with a bump in 2019, and assuming that this year is not included since you have not completed you fiscal year yet in the US. So that is a change over 8 years.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (4 children)

If you must use Windows, download it legitimately from MS website. Use RUFUS to burn the ISO image to a USB. Remove the restrictions you hate.

Dual boot a Linux variant, and move over apps at your leisure, until you are no longer Win OS dependent.

 
 

Might be of some interest to those who moved away from ownCloud to Nextcloud.

https://owncloud.com/news/owncloud-becomes-part-of-kiteworks/

 

This comes with some fixes to the new openVPN system, and route-gateway was added (a big oversight imo). More updates to wireguard and improvements have been added, and are still ongoing.

Here are the full patch notes:

system: correctly set RFC 5424 on remote TLS system logging

system: remove hasGateways() and write DHCP router option unconditionally

system: avoid plugin system for gateways monitor status fetch

system: remove passing unused ifconfig data to Gateways class on static pages

system: remove passing unused ifconfig data on gateway monitor status fetch

system: remove the unused "alert interval" option from the gateway configuration

interfaces: calculate_ipv6_delegation_length() should take advanced and custom dhcp6c into account

interfaces: teach ifctl to dump all files and its data for an interface

interfaces: remove dead link/hint in GIF table

interfaces: avoid duplicating $vfaces array

interfaces: introduce interfaces_restart_by_device()

firewall: remove old __empty__ options trick from shaper model

firewall: update models for clarity

firmware: update model for clarity

ipsec: omit conditional authentication properties when not applicable on connections

ipsec: fix key pair generator for secp256k1 EC and add properer naming to GUI (contributed by Manuel Faux)

ipsec: allow the use of eap_id = %any in instances

openvpn: fix certificate list for client export when optional CA specified (contributed by Manuel Faux)

openvpn: add CARP VHID tracking for client instances

openvpn: add tun-mtu/fragment/mssfix combo for instances

openvpn: add "route-gateway" advanced option to CSO

openvpn: use new File::file_put_contents() wrapper for instances

openvpn: updated model and clarified "auth" default option

mvc: remove "non-functional" hints from form input elements

mvc: uppercase default label in BaseListField is more likely

ui: add bytes format to standard formatters list

plugins: os-ddclient 1.16[1]

plugins: os-frr 1.36[2]

plugins: os-wireguard 2.1[3]

plugins: os-tinc 1.7 adds support for "StrictSubnets" variable (contributed by andrewhotlab)

lang: update translations and add Polish

src: bring back netmap tun(4) ethernet header emulation (contributed by Sunny Valley Networks)

src: axgbe: gracefully handle i2c bus failures

src: bnxt: do not restart on VLAN changes

src: ice: do not restart on VLAN changes

src: net: do not overwrite VLAN PCP

src: net: remove VLAN metadata on PCP / VLAN encapsulation

src: if_vlan: always default to 802.1

src: iflib: fix panic during driver reload stress test

src: iflib: fix white space and reduce some line lengths

src: ixgbe: define IXGBE_LE32_TO_CPUS

src: ixgbe: check for fw_recovery

src: net80211: fail for unicast traffic without unicast key[4]

src: pcib: allocate the memory BAR with the MSI-X table[5]

ports: php 8.2.10[6]

ports: python 3.9.18[7]

ports: unbound 1.18.0[8]
 

This is an open ended question, it seems we need to encourage people to join here as well as being on their preferred platform (which is not ours to discourage or be derogatory about).

I still frequent the "that site" because I want to help - but honestly I dont want to help "that site". Not that I am really doing so.

However, it feels weird if I do have to say "we are also on fede.. blah blah" and lets be honest about this -- its less support, but by more knowledgeable people (??probably I believe so).

How do we get them (and lets face it, Franco) over here to support OSS.

I know Franco has paid subscriptions but opnsense is OSS, the community is more than happy to help out if it is not paywalled.

 

"What would you like?" says the bartender.

The seal replies, "anything but Canadian Club".

 

No perches necessary.

 

I stay up all night wondering if there really is a dog.

 

The Laminator.

 

Unfortunately the company folded.

 

Does that mean there is one person who enjoys it?

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