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zokula··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
> Andy gno and timcast IRL has been streaming news on these attacks and riots for just as many many months.

Do people really believe anything those fake news spewing idiots say?

zokula··on New Linux port for the Nintendo 64
You assume microkernel means small, which is a bad assumption. Microkernels can be fat too, There are dozens of monolithic kernels smaller than the average microkernel.
zokula··on Does ISA Ownership Matter? A Tale of Three ISAs
This article is pure FUD.
zokula··on Philosophy of the GNU Project (2018)
> BSD and pcc started 10 years before GNU, and if it wasn't for the failed law suit against it by AT&T there wouldn't have been any need for Linux either.

People still believe this myth? 30 years on and still sour grapes from the BSD folk who were too slow and to elitist to adapt.

zokula··on EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants
Never go full Trumptard.
zokula··on Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died
I know right? directX is abomination.
zokula··on Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems
tldr - Java is a better language to write good and safe code in than C++.
zokula··on Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems
Because it's easier to write good Java code than mediocre or better C++ code all things being equal.
zokula··on Java is better than C++ for high speed trading systems
> .NET was slower than the JVM before .NET Core but nowadays it's faster.

Nope .NET is still slower than molasses in comparison to most JVM implementations.

zokula··on What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
Elon is a mini Hitler.
zokula··on Gimp is 25 years old today
> I never had a pleasant experience using GIMP and it almost never failed to frustrate me.

Funny! I hear the same complaints about Photoshop only the amount of complaints are 10 times as much.

zokula··on An Introduction to ZFS
Too bad FreeBSD is a crappy operating system.
zokula··on An Introduction to ZFS
ZFS sucks do not use it .
zokula··on .NET 5.0
Huh? The saying "Microsoft is evil" is as valid today as it was 20 years ago.
zokula··on Dual-flush toilets 'wasting more water than they save'
LED bulbs were not around 20 years ago bub.
zokula··on Microsoft had a secret Windows XP theme that made it look like a Mac
> XP was the peak of desktop customizations.

XP theme customizations wasn't even close to what you could do on Unix at the time.

zokula··on Project Oberon
Ze cult of ZFS strikes again.

Comment is funny in assuming ZFS is objectively better than NTFS or APFS or FAT16.

zokula··on Redox: Unix-Like Operating System in Rust
40 years in the making.
zokula··on Redox: Unix-Like Operating System in Rust
The XNU kernel in macOS is not a microkernel.
zokula··on Apple is starting to use Rust for low-level programming
Don't get ones hopes up about rust module code shipping with the kernel for at least a decade, or until you can build rust code with GCC.
zokula··on Apple is starting to use Rust for low-level programming
The Rust Evangelism Strikeforce is out in full force.
zokula··on Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust
Cowards love cowardly licenses like BSD, MIT, ISC, and the like.
zokula··on Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust
LMAO none of the BSD's have not been superior to Linux in over 20 years. Linux has been faster, more stable and more secure then any of the *BSD's for over a decade now.
zokula··on Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons?
> I never quite understood why it failed to gain marketshare 10 years ago while Firefox did.

Firefox was free and Opera wasn't. Geeks don't trust proprietary garbage.

zokula··on ARX, Arthur and RISC OS (2012)
You assume ROX was better than anything on the Linux desktop the time, that assumption would be false. Rox didn't do anything extraordinary or better than the desktops or window managers of the day.
zokula··on Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020
The DeathStar name was never used when Hitachi made the drives. Deathstar was used omwhen IBM used to make the drives
zokula··on Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster
> To best of my knowledge, Nvidia GPUs works just fine in all other laptops.

Nvidia bumpgate says hello.

zokula··on Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary kernel modules
Lol no.
zokula··on Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary kernel modules
BSDs lost the war because of their crappy licenses
zokula··on Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary kernel modules
Imagine believing in it's not.
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