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X86BSD··on Purism Collaborates with Cryptocurrency Monero to Enable Mobile Payments
Thank god, finally, someone embraces the most secure, anonymous coin out there. WHY people throng to bitcoin ill never know.
X86BSD··on Five Minute Guide to Software Security
Maybe but I would think if you want to be taken seriously you would add it to the list.
X86BSD··on Five Minute Guide to Software Security
Wow did I miss arguably the most important box to check, KISS?

Seriously, keep it EFFING SIMPLE. The more complex and involved it is the more things can and will break.

Does no one follow that anymore?

X86BSD··on Dietary Carbohydrates Impair Healthspan and Promote Mortality
It takes about a week of < 20g/carbs a day for the body to go into ketosis. This is born out by buying keto strips and testing your urine.
X86BSD··on Project-FiFo cloud orchestration adds FreeBSD support
It does, I was a bit confused at first as well. It should be noted when project fifo says "lx jails" it does not mean LX branded zones from SmartOS. It means FreeBSD's native Linuxulator. Which has been in FreeBSD for.. many many years. It's a similar take on LX zones, but FreeBSD native. It does the same thing. Runs native Linux binaries.
X86BSD··on Project-FiFo cloud orchestration adds FreeBSD support
As a huge fan of erlang/elixir I'm glad to read this.
X86BSD··on Project-FiFo cloud orchestration adds FreeBSD support
This is a huge boon for both SmartOS and FreeBSD. Furthering collaboration between the two. This is such a great piece of work that is such a great fit on FreeBSD. The community will love this and appreciate all the hard work dumped into this. It even has the Linuxulator (Linux binary compatibility) working for FreeBSD jails! Woo!!

Absolutely fantastic work by the fifo folks! Just stellar! The future is bright.

X86BSD··on Why can't the IT industry deliver large, faultless projects quickly?
Complexity. As many others have also listed reasons why, systems today are made using needlessly complex designs because of a lack of skill and for speed of deployment.
X86BSD··on PostgreSQL 10 Released
You know what's even easier? Zfs snapshots and zfs send/recv.
X86BSD··on PostgreSQL 10 Released
Zfs snapshots and send/recv are even easier for making backups or copying databases.
X86BSD··on Senator to Ex-CEO: Equifax Can't Be Trusted with Americans' Personal Data
That is HILLARIOUS coming from the government that spilled MILLIONS of classified background checks from the OMB offices a few years ago. Absolutely hilarious and ironic and hypocritical.

Also, the wife and I were one of the millions whose personal details were stolen from the OMB hack.

X86BSD··on RISC-V based 64-bit quad-core application processor
Risc-V has been supported in FreeBSD since 11.0.
X86BSD··on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai accused of cherry-picking data to repeal net neutrality
That has been a problem for them for some time. How many projects have they killed they folks relied on? Some engineers inside create an app or service and then they must move on internally and the app or service suffers from neglect for years then they kill it. You can't count on them to finish anything.

They are bound to be replaced. They have nothing but ad revenue.

X86BSD··on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai accused of cherry-picking data to repeal net neutrality
Yeah, google jumped in way over their head with fiber. They didn't know what they were getting into. And their cloud-based TV service is a tire fire.
X86BSD··on FreeBSD 10.4-Release
You might also be interested in something better like Project FIFO[1].

[1] http://project-fifo.net

X86BSD··on A Map of Native American Tribes
Those are not where the tribes lived. That may be where they are now.
X86BSD··on A Map of Native American Tribes
Those are the names the tribes call themselves. Half of the midwest is named after local tribes of the area.
X86BSD··on A Map of Native American Tribes
Wow that is one horribly incomplete map. Where are the Kansa, the Wichita, the Osage, etc
X86BSD··on Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of Linux tracing [video]
No that's the UNIX philosophy. And Linux threw that out the window from day one. From file systems to solving /dev/poll and containers.
X86BSD··on Tax Plan Punts on a Loophole for the Wealthy
What would solve all "loopholes" is just going to a damn flat national sales tax. Period. End of story. Thank you drive through. Stop trying to mangle this demonic beast of a tax code we have now, it won't work and never has. And simply toss it. One paragraph as the replacement.

38% or whatever agreed upon percent as a national flat sales tax. And for the bleeding hearts that will scream this hurts the poor, Sentence two: The first 5,000/year in clothing tax free, and the First 10,000/year in food tax free.

IRS? Dissolved. H&R block? Dissolved. No more audits. No more income tax. You keep your entire paycheck! No more asset seizure by the IRS. No more tax fraud. No more tax evasion.

X86BSD··on FreeBSD cloud management with FiFo 0.9.3
This is such great news! Spread far and wide! Well done and so many thanks to the fifo folks! First rounds on me!
X86BSD··on Privacy
You won't see this from Google or Facebook or Twitter or...
X86BSD··on FaceID Security [pdf]
And they could also install a hardware keyboard. Neither of which is going to happen. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
X86BSD··on Essential has sold just 5,000 phones since launch
Keep in mind Apple was in the same position before the iPhone. Remember what palm said about apple becoming a player in the mobile space?

"PC guys are not just going to walk in here and.."

And yet they did.

How about the phone just sucks? And essential just really has no idea what people want?

X86BSD··on Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative
I do not see the difference since Linux is not synonymous with Open Source but IS synonymous with the GPL.
X86BSD··on Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative
To be accurate, it was not the cancer of "Open Source", it was the cancer of the GPL.
X86BSD··on What should follow the web?
I'm honestly waiting for the return of Gopher. I'm not kidding.
X86BSD··on GM is launching a $5K tiny electric car in China made for city commuters
Really??? Wow, I thought about one when Nissan first hit the market with them but the price for a limited range car? No thanks but if they are that cheap I would grab one for a commuter! Are these certified nissan resales? Or just on the open market?
X86BSD··on India unveils $2.5B plan to electrify all households by end 2018
I've been to NCR, my wife is from there. I find this effort laughable considering the lack of infrastructure and absolutely ZERO building codes including electrical codes. They need 1) electrical codes, 2) building codes, 3) where is the power coming from?
X86BSD··on What we need from Apple to make standalone Apple Watch podcast apps
Oddly the wife and I bit57 and moan about the same experience with google fiber tv. I swear we are watching 80% ads for 20% content. It's to the point we can't watch anything live anymore. We just record it and wait at least 30 minutes before playing it off the dvr so we can FF through all the freaking commercials. It's insane how were paying $70/mo to watch mostly ads. Advertising has gotten so out of control, on the web, podcasts, tv, etc.
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