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zokula··on Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary kernel modules
FreeBSD and NetBSd are quite toxic places.
zokula··on Netgpu and the hazards of proprietary kernel modules
Oh stop the bullshit and hyperbolic hand waving. The Linux kernel community is way more friendly place to work than any of the BSD kernel communities.
zokula··on Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity (2010)
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/26/science/geochemist-says-o...
zokula··on Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem
Just know you can run a full Linux desktop experience on top of twenty-year-old spinning rust just fine. Micro$oft drooped the ball big time if one needs a ssd just to use a OS.
zokula··on WireGuard Merged into OpenBSD
Because OpenBSD is security snake oil. Linux and FreeBSD are more secure than OpenBSD.
zokula··on My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence
I would bet a million dollars that there are no other intelligent civilizations in the universe.
zokula··on iXsystems Announces TrueNAS Scale as a Linux-Based Offering
Thank you.
zokula··on iXsystems Announces TrueNAS Scale as a Linux-Based Offering
When did Whatsapp change/switch? I read nothing about it.
zokula··on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
The middle east excluding Africa is still Asia in fact the Middle East was Asia before China was Asia.
zokula··on Is MIPS Dead? Lawsuit, Bankruptcy, Maintainers Leaving and More
No modern GPUs use VLIW. Ati/AMD switched from VILW to RISC-SIMD 8-9 years ago, NVIDIA a few years before that. Mobile phone GPUs gave up VILW for RISC too in the last 5 years or so.
zokula··on How coffee took over the world
Instant coffee is the real stuff.
zokula··on Company threatens to sue volunteers who 3D-printed valves for coronavirus aid
Late stage capitalism
zokula··on AMD is determined to gets its rightful datacenter share
Jim Keller didn't design Zen.
zokula··on DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use
DuckDuckGo works with the CIA so whatever.
zokula··on PipeWire 0.3 – JACK compatibility layer with comparable performance to JACK2
>PipeWire is meant to be a complete replacement for not only JACK, but also PulseAudio.

A laughable pipe dream.

zokula··on PipeWire 0.3 – JACK compatibility layer with comparable performance to JACK2
I wouldn't be too quick to assume that Pipewire will be the default anywhere.
zokula··on Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux
""However, overlapping windows and toolbars and launchers and mousey-mouse-mouse for everything ... it's bad usability and very inefficient.""

Citation needed.

""The high water mark for GUI design is something like ion3/ratpoison, xterms running screen/tmux and a "desktop" that you never see ...""

Says who? Again citation needed.

zokula··on Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where?
Gemeindebau in Vienna Austria.
zokula··on BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
BeOS did not use a microkernel, it was a straight-up up boring monolithic kernel.
zokula··on The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis
Since climate change is a myth you can't really make that argument
zokula··on Alone in a Crowded Milky Way
One would have to assume that UFOs are piloted by aliens which since there is no proof alien life exists it's a Fool's errand.
zokula··on AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide bad results
Broadband has nothing to do with speed.
zokula··on Siberia: 18,000-year-old frozen 'dog' stumps scientists
Huh? the Soviet Union did not exist in 1901.
zokula··on Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo
It's too bad gullible people are falling for duckduckgo's so-called privacy promises.
zokula··on AMD is having its day
Jim Keller is not the person behind Zen Mike Clark is!

Mike Clark is the person who designed Ryzen . He is the guy who came up with the name Zen as well.

https://www.statesman.com/business/20160904/amid-challenges-...

zokula··on AMD Rome – is it for real? Architecture and initial HPC performance
It was Mike Clark who is the Lead man for Ryzen and Epic designs.
zokula··on AMD Rome – is it for real? Architecture and initial HPC performance
Mike Clark is the person who designed Ryzen and not Jim Keller. He is the guy who came up with the name Zen as well.

https://www.statesman.com/business/20160904/amid-challenges-...

zokula··on Vulnerabilities exploited in VPN products used worldwide
Wireguard does not have better performance or is faster verses Openvpn in any independent Benchmark released up to now.
zokula··on From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love
Older AMD? Any AMD card or igp made in the last 14 years works out of the box with Linux, save their newest GPU arch.
zokula··on Kaspersky in the Middle – what could possibly go wrong?
Windows Defender is the worst-performing antivirus on the market so that logic flies out the window.
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