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matrix12··on OpenBSD 7.2
Yeap, works great on the m1 macbook air. Everything works. The only thing missing is support for /dev/csam :(
matrix12··on OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop
Wait til you have to fsck a 3TB drive on UFS.
matrix12··on OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop
ZFS runs on NetBSD, and FreeBSD. NOT OpenBSD.
matrix12··on Joe Rogan Interviews Steve Jobs
Steve jobs is spinning so fast in his grave that Apple will no doubt add generators. This should make them carbon neutral.
matrix12··on Morton Subotnick
How am I suppose to explain this to my daughter!?!?! :P
matrix12··on Iran Using Surveillance Cameras to Identify Women Breaking Hijab Rule
This stands in such stark contrast to its view as a "freedom of religion" here in the USA.
matrix12··on San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics
Especially the joined hyphens, they represent marriage. And as in bash, means the end of options, and the beginning of arguments.
matrix12··on Clasp: A Common Lisp implementation using LLVM for compilation to native code
Benchmarks here from 2020 https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp/wiki/Benchmark-Res...
matrix12··on The Last Days of Sigmund Freud
His little sister "Rosa", aka Pink Freud would agree.
matrix12··on Is there hope for Linux on smartphones? [video]
GNU is not a boolean value. One can use portions of it without throwing away everything they use.
matrix12··on Most Texans pay more in taxes than Californians, data suggests
Anyone who has owned property in Texas, and then sold it, and moved to SF, and bought a house might not concur.
matrix12··on Is there hope for Linux on smartphones? [video]
Very fine point. GNU runs on many operating systems, and so to conflate GNU and Linux seems absurd.
matrix12··on Is there hope for Linux on smartphones? [video]
I think they conflate GNU with Linux kernel.
matrix12··on The Jank Language: LLVM Hosted Clojure
And Pixie ran on Pypy. Hy just uses what you have.
matrix12··on Ask HN: Do you worry about CPU backdoors like IME?
Raspberry PIs closed binary blobs are far from documented. At least the Pine stuff is fully documented, and has no requirement for a binary blob to operate.
matrix12··on The Pine Formula
Ditto all the Pine items.
matrix12··on New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone location data tracking
Or just go after the data brokers. It's a pot of honey that the USG and others will get. Secret executive order or otherwise.
matrix12··on Nyxt 3 Pre-release 1 (a Lisp powered web browser)
For a lighter experience there is https://github.com/drewc/gurf
matrix12··on How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson
You would not seek out newish laptops typically in this case.
matrix12··on How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson
Live img.
matrix12··on How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson
As a follow up, I'd suggest taking a livecd of OpenBSD to a place that sells laptops. Test boot it, verify it works, and purchase it. I've done this before, although your mileage may vary.
matrix12··on How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson
NetBSD has nvmm. Qemu is quite fast as as result. I run many distros ontop of it. Plus Xen. My laptop has been running Xen with pv instances for app isolation. Never as fancy as Qubes though.
matrix12··on How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson
Poorly written, if I may be honest. Having attended cookouts with Theo, and also contributed to their system. I'd say "OpenSSH BSD", if I had to sell it. Hide any of the mailing lists from potential customers. Fixate on well known supported hardware. Use what the devs use. If one must use the mailing lists, you never EVER ask a question. Instead state a contrary fact, and await the answers. The distro is Theo, simply put. So you get a regular release where most things just work.* But you must know what you plan to run it on, and exactly which chipsets are in use. The man pages on drivers for OpenBSD are superb for listing all known hardware that is compatible.

And if software, or hardware X is not supported, go do it, or get supported software/hardware instead.

matrix12··on We are removing the option to create new subscriptions
Hint: OpenAudible backup before you terminate.
matrix12··on IBM ordered to hand over ex-CEO emails plotting cuts in older workers
As an ex-ibmer it always felt the stalls were due to short sighted management decisions. That and the rampant nepotism. Age was never an issue, far less so than working in SV afterwards.
matrix12··on Tech CEOs Want Every Worker to Have a Permanent, Public Job Performance File
I have to agree with Meth e-hack
matrix12··on Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines
They brought pigs with them to eat. It pretty much rules out a lot of peoples of the Levant.
matrix12··on Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines
Except they were essentially the same language, and an alphabet. Unlike say Eblaite.
matrix12··on Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines
Read Herodotus. He's very clear about western semitic peoples not marrying greeks for what they eat.
matrix12··on Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines
And the Punic, Punicians who spoke a "Hebrew" when invading with Elephants.
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