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stormking··on SpeedCrunch 1.1
I like the UI changers. But how do I select a different font?
stormking··on Blindsight (Watts Novel)
It was an interesting read because it's from a very different culture but at the same time "western" enough to be read comfortably. But it's "science" is just bullshit, both the physics and the sociology.
stormking··on Germany: Ex-spy chief arrested for espionage
Of course it is both, are you stupid?
stormking··on Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time
There was a Shareware tool called Executive that would manipulate task priorities to, amongst other things, prioritize the active application.
stormking··on In Emacs, everything looks like a service
Yes, running software that is not authorized can get you fired.
stormking··on In Emacs, everything looks like a service
Over the past 15 years, I worked for 4 different companies in 4 different industries and I never had any trouble getting Emacs approved.

They were all rather smallish, always around 200 employees, though.

stormking··on In Emacs, everything looks like a service
Emacs is a LISP refugee in Unixland. It doesn't follow the Unix philosophy, it follows the LISP philosophy. But it integrates.

Forgot where I found this.

stormking··on Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers
Someone else here already pointed out the problem with that approach: After the second or third candidate, the interviewer is very familiar with the problem and may become unfairly judgemental with later candidates if they don't immediately see "the obvious". Which wasn't obvious at all to him as well, two weeks ago.
stormking··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
Bullshit, and you know it.
stormking··on Where Is GPT in the Chomsky Hierarchy?
And an unlimited life span.
stormking··on MinIO is now in maintenance-mode
How would you run a project like this? People come and go. People do a one-time contribution and then you never hear from them again. People work on a project for years and then just go silent. Honestly, credit where credit is due, but how is a project like this supposed to manage this?
stormking··on Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
AmigaOS supported both. Each drive and in addition each medium had it's own name. If GAMEDISK was in floppy 0, you could reference it either as DF0: or as GAMEDISK:

You could even reference media that was not loaded at the time (e.g. GAMEDISK2:) and the OS would ask you to insert it into any drive. And there were "virtual" devices (assigns) that could point to a specific directory on a specific device, like LIBRARIES:

stormking··on Serflings is a remake of The Settlers 1
It has been completely playable for the past 10 years, what exactly are you missing?
stormking··on Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor
Elegant, schmellegant. If you want your software to be usable in an enterprise environment, you have to support OIDC out of the box.
stormking··on Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor
I love the ability to directly run docker containers.

I think their approach to authentication / authorization is insane (not in a good way).

stormking··on Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor
Besides VMs and LXC/Proxmox-style containers, it can also run docker containers out of the box.
stormking··on Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor
It can do VMs, "system containers" like LXC and Docker/OCI-compatible application containers.

There was a project to implement a dockcer-compose compatible "incus-compose" but unfortunately, it looks dead, right now.

You can even set up a kubernetes cluster entirely composed of containers: https://github.com/lxc/cluster-api-provider-incus

stormking··on FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
When you don't know who runs archive.is, you can also never know if he sold it to someone else (except if either party publically announces it).
stormking··on What does Palantir actually do?
Gaza Health Ministry === Hamas.

Stop spreading terrorist's propaganda.

stormking··on What does Palantir actually do?
It is Hamas who does not allow free press in Gaza. Instead, their terrorists regularily dress up as "journalists".
stormking··on [dead]
"Gaza officials" === Hamas
stormking··on [dead]
That's because terrorist supporter's propaganda lies are anything but "Hacker News".
stormking··on A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union
You mean: It has never happened once, no matter how often tried. How many communist experiments, how many ruined lives will it take until you and your kind finally get it? But I know the answer already ...
stormking··on A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union
Capitalism can be inhumane, especially if it is not controlled by democracy.

Communism is always inhumane. It cannot be established democratically, it cannot be run democratically. It will always end in misery, poverty and death.

stormking··on Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released
Proxmox supports ZFS and ZFS has disk encryption.
stormking··on The trap of "I am not an extrovert"
You're mistaking introverts for autist. Introverts are not having any difficulties in social situations and they are not afraid of them. They'rte just not that interested.
stormking··on The trap of "I am not an extrovert"
It's very simple: As an introvert, I'm neither afraid of nor bad at social situations. I'm just not (that) interested.
stormking··on Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read
A book that was even made into a TV miniseries does not fit my definition of "you may never heard of".
stormking··on 'They refused to let me go': Japanese turn to resignation agencies to quit jobs
I'm pretty sure giving notice works the same in Japan as everywhere else: You give notice. Your employer does not have to agree to it.
stormking··on Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?
A modern display engine.
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