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olgeni··on Ask HN: Have you ever not done anything on work whole day?
If you are forced to have "daily meetings with your manager" you might have spent the whole day drinking Jack Daniel's and planning a prompt exit :D
olgeni··on ZFS 2.2.0 (RC): Block Cloning merged
Was ifconfig made to be hostile too? :D

(/s)

olgeni··on Perl 5.38
Perl, like Tcl, comes from the Walter Bishop Era of IT, where things were apparently batshit crazy at times but they managed to do things we now fail to replicate :D

Now, much effort is spent in making sure that a single team member cannot get weird ideas and do too much on their own.

olgeni··on The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI
> The good news is that we have a say in shaping what they will be like.

Not really, if you look around you very carefully...

olgeni··on An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac
While we are here, is there a way to completely disable (not just reduce) the stupid, useless desktop switching animations? \o/
olgeni··on OpenBSD: Shutdown/reboot now require membership of group _shutdown
SCO OpenDesktop installation manual had something to this tune about booting and drivers :D
olgeni··on Rust has been forked to the Crab Language
Dear God it's always drama, drama, drama, and bullshit.
olgeni··on No_color
Also, please don't barf random emojis on the terminal.
olgeni··on Ask HN: Examples of desktop software with 20+ years of longevity?
Also GNU/Octave
olgeni··on ChatGPT app for iOS
"Not available in your country", as usual.
olgeni··on Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage
/usr/ports/sysutils/dua-cli
olgeni··on Ask HN: Why aren't you using an entirely free distribution of GNU/Linux?
Stopped caring about GNU/Linux 20+ years ago.
olgeni··on Homeless students at LB college can sleep in their cars in parking structure
“This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.”

So hard at work... for years...

olgeni··on Ceefax from an old Raspberry Pi
RAI has a tangled mess of stuff, including a content manager written in Python 2 and running on FreeBSD 10, and a ton of Windows things. Some clients are based on wxPython (!)

It used to run on VAX hardware long, long ago... now it's all VMware on the servers.

In the '90s they had 'interactive teletext' services, like a few banks did, where you would phone in, get assigned a teletext page, and use it as your screen while interacting with DTMF: teletext 'apps'.

Those where the Red Hat 5 days and there was a system that would fax error reports to the other room :D

PS: some of the live captioning you can see around runs on Erlang too.

olgeni··on An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor
I got 2 - try the smartctl short test on them if you have one available, then record it and send it to your friends :D
olgeni··on Ceefax from an old Raspberry Pi
Trivia: teletext was really popular in Italy, and a large fraction of small TV broadcaster ran teletext equipment based on Erlang (R14B, FreeBSD 8.something, custom ISA board for the signal). If anything bad happened to the software you'd see the teletext page counter "restart" as the gen_servers came back up \o/
olgeni··on Ballerina: An open-source programming language for the cloud
FreeBSD port needed btw :)
olgeni··on New 16-inch MBP with M1 Max to feature High Power Mode for intensive workloads
Or Ctrl+Alt+- if your turbo button wasn't actually wired on the cheap XT clone...
olgeni··on Italy’s draconian vaccine laws are terrifyingly popular
“Virtually no one heeded calls to blockade major railway stations on 1 September when the ban was extended to long distance travel. Large numbers of police waited in vain.”

That's because news outlets are ignoring the real protests, so when they try to promote “a blockade” everybody knows it's a trap. Hence, large numbers of police waited in vain.

olgeni··on A Port of “The Last True Unix” to x86
> you had to pay thousands for extra modules like the C compiler

You could build gcc by means of the "hidden" C compiler in SCO Open Desktop, which was used to rebuild spaces.c and then relink the kernel when changing the configuration \o/

olgeni··on EU beckons Indian tech talent
“and an economic system where kids aren't necessary to take care of you when you get old.”

Until you get terminal cancer and you are sent home to die. Then, I assure, a “kid” might be useful, because nobody else will give a flying fuck.

olgeni··on Assholes: A Probing Examination
I always get the impression that it's "technical assholes" vs. "wise managers who should be brave enough to fire the assholes."

In practice: I see lots of assholes in management up to the director level, and the CEO doesn't do anything because they just hired their friends. Then, people just leave. Nobody cares because the issue of "tech assholes" is trendy these days.

olgeni··on If you want to find out who at your company sucks at their jobs. ask the ops
"dev" also keeps a list of things "ops" would prefer to hide.
olgeni··on We changed our apply page to no longer allow students from windows
With all that funding they might as well afford a proper PostgreSQL license.
olgeni··on VirtualBox 5.1.8
FreeBSD guest under OS X host: 5.1.8 broke something with NAT, and sockets get closed randomly. 5.1.6 is ok.
olgeni··on Ask HN: How do you deal with boredom at work?
http://www.robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/ - good for some meetings.
olgeni··on Cron checker
Let's have a "registry".
olgeni··on Linux ate my RAM
It did not eat my RAM, but ext4 had breakfast with production data.
olgeni··on Poll: Why do you use free antivirus?
Because my seldom-used Windows box sits on a zvol with snapshots.
olgeni··on Hasn’t the problem of Windows updates being partially installed been solved?
"No ext4" might be a feature.
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