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I have to disagree with this guy.

Sure, the corruption can occur, but if the memory is not faulty, ZFS will detect data corruption in-situ during a scrub. It's just that ECC errors can introduce their own corruption that is separate, during write operations only.

I believe if you have no choice but to use non-ECC (e.g. existing hardware that is limited by Intel's stupid design choice of "ECC is only for servers"), ZFS is still much better than using ext4. It still protects against a different class of errors which is HDD degradation. When used in RAID-Z it can even recover for them.

For perfect protection ECC is necessary. But this is not always possible financially. I think it's a bit of a wild statement to say that if you can't afford a server with ECC you should forget about ZFS entirely.

Securelevels are not just this. FreeBSD has its own SELinux equivalent called Mandatory Access Control:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/mac/

It goes far beyond making files immutable. I haven't really done a deep dive to see if it's on par with SELinux but the description in this thread doesn't do it justice.

They're just different. It's a different OS. I agree some things don't make sense but some things on Linux don't make sense either. It's just a long heritage of things that have organically grown. Consider 'dd' for example, with its 'if=xxx' whereas other tools would use the format '-if xxx'.

But it's a different OS. Solaris tools were different from the GNU toolset. HP-UX' tools were very different (try compiling something on HP-UX CC lol). MacOS' tools are also different.

If you expect things to be GNU, use GNU/Linux. Or Hurd :) Or install GNU coreutils.

That link has been posted here many times already.

I use FreeBSD as a daily driver on my desktop. Very happy with it. My reasons to choose it were more that I feel like Linux has become a toy of big tech. If you look at the kernel contributions, most of them are from people working for all the big names. Linux has become Big Business and each company is trying to safeguard their interests in it. Linus is still in charge of the kernel officially but all the steering groups are dominated by big tech. Look at the Linux Foundation for instance: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/board-of-directors/ . These are not the kind of people you'd expect to lead 'free software', these are all boardroom types. Maybe Linux has outgrown the beardy hacker culture but I have not :P

Of course, Linux is not much worse for it... Yet. I think this is for 2 reasons: Linus' benevolent dictatorship, and the fact that they won't be able to agree on much given that these guys are all competitors. But in the long term I'm sure this will take its toll. For example, would these guys ever have approved the GPL-3? Everyone in business is pretty universally against it.

And in fact it's the very BSD license that makes big business shun FreeBSD. Which I think is a good thing. FreeBSD still feels like a grassroots development and as such I feel more in control. The excellent and consistent documentation and friendly community is another plus for me. And the combination of stable OS with rolling third-party software (but this is something that was also mentioned in the article). ZFS on Root is another one (though Ubuntu is now catching up to that).

But simple window managers for Wayland exist. Like sway (i3 clone for Wayland)

Personally I also still use X11. Mainly because KDE on Wayland is currently broken on FreeBSD. And I'm not in a hurry anyway.

Work around how? As a developer?

I'm sure there will be developer options for this too. After all, Microsoft is not going to make all the software themselves.

But they could restrict this too. For a lot of platforms you now have to sign up for a developer account and license agreement. Like on iOS, Oculus Quest..

Try to install a BitTorrent client on your iphone, or a game emulator, a sexually explicit game or even a browser with a different engine.

All this has already happened since 2008 when the app store came out.

But the new new generation won't even remember the old internet. They won't know any better. I think this generation is now emerging and this is what the OP refers to.

BMCs can also be patched. HP updates iLO regularly. I even got a major update on my servers adding things like HTML5 consoles (previously it only had .NET and Java which is a pain in this day and age)

And this is for a server I paid $150 for after cashback from HP.

But a company like Google would want supreme control. They're not inclined to rely on a community for anything

Wikipedia shows it can work at scale.

Don't worry, at the speed at which IRCv3 is being implemented we won't see the effects on real-world servers for another 20 years anyway :P

I know I exaggerate but I'm sure that traditional IRC clients will be supported for a long time to come as a fallback.

Personally I'd like some mod cons, like the server keeping state and not needing a bouncer. Server side scrollback would be another one.

However I'm not sure if these are in the standard. Not a fan of the typing indicator either.

Probably like a meteor, mostly burning up in the atmosphere

Personally I think they should not be able to decide such things. A payment provider should be forced to accept all legitimate customers. It is absolutely unwanted for a private business (in an unrelated category no less) to be playing the role of legislator.

The problem is once a majority of payment providers (especially in this category where there's only really 2 major ones) starts blocking things, it becomes really difficult for fringe groups that are in fact perfectly legal. I understand that porn payments are a bit more risky but the providers can simply have a policy to deny chargebacks for this category and shift the risk to the customer. Similar to the way returns of sex toys are not accepted for hygiene reasons.

Recently there was a lot of news in the Netherlands about prostitutes not being able to open bank account because all banks refused them. Think of prostitution what you will but over there it's legal work and they pay their taxes. But not being able to get a bank account gets them into very difficult situations and pushes them to shady people (which was exactly what the legalisation was avoiding).

Also other platforms like fetlife have recently been forced to validate their users, leading to potentially serious consequences if this data ever becomes compromised. Many people there don't even show their face so the result is that they have to give a lot more personal info now than they would have wanted to.

Same here. I don't understand why someone would willingly use a 6" screen when they have a glorious 24" and actual input devices available.

At the same time many other brands are improving. I've seen ink tank based printers from HP and Epson lately, probably more brands. It's a shame Brother is going this way though because they were so great for a long time

The problem they have is not that Apple is too powerful. It's that they're more powerful than Facebook in this case.

Though I totally agree that Apple is not the privacy deity they claim to be, it's funny hearing complaints from Facebook which is far worse. It says several times that Facebook is totally right. Which is true but it ignores the bigger picture here. Facebook is by far the worst actor out of the two and their arguments are total hypocrisy.

I also don't like their approach around do not track which aimed at trying to find a middle ground between us and the advertisers that have been abusing our privacy for years. For me it's gone far beyond collaboration and trust. I don't think anything will come from this.

Yes and they even make double hopping easy. Many other VPNs don't like this, presumably because they have to eat 3 times the traffic.

Well good.. Let's kill it. Who cares if the business model works. It shouldn't work.

The idea of such regulation is to stimulate the business to move back to normal models.

In the Netherlands this is already working, Diablo immortal is not available there. It's a small market but once the whole EU does it they won't have a choice but to come up with something more reasonable. Win-win.

I prefer pikvm instead. They support cheap HDMI to CSI boards that have lower latency. And they don't make you pay for some features like tiny pilot does. This site sounds like a hobby one but it's actually a commercial product.

> A lack of good iPhone XMPP clients

And no server based push, though I'm sure someone invented an xmpp extension to fix that eventually :)

> Ireland is the only EU country with English as its primary language.

Speaking of politically correct, I can imagine some people from the gaeltacht would not approve of the description of English as the primary language in Ireland.

The good thing about flags is that they are visual icons. Country codes are usually in English and our script. How would this work in countries that can't read that? Or people visiting an ATM in e.g. an Arab country and having to find which option is "English" in Arabic. This is where flags really shine.

Apple hates offering choices. But yes this would be the obvious option. Though in this particular case I don't really care but I can imagine some people would. It's also not really nice to change this in a point-update. UI changes should remain reserved for major updates IMO.

> In terms of the UI/UX use old.reddit.com - I honestly don't understand how anyone uses the new default version. Comments are hidden, there are ads and other threads content on the page. It's literally impossible to use. It's such a disaster I can't understand how it ever passed testing.

Not to mention it brings even a powerful machine to its knees..

Well, obviously cyclists are more vulnerable. Considering that the numbers are pretty low IMO. The Netherlands have 16 million people, most of which use bicycles for daily travel. 200 died in a year, especially elderly who are exceptionally vulnerable. It's not something that warrants extreme worry. There's always risk in a life.

Also, it's something that is only a risk to the rider themselves so leaving it to their discretion is warranted IMO.

In the Netherlands we're doing fine without them though. Nobody wears one on a regular bike.

I've had a few times where I slipped so fast I didn't even remember what happened but every time my arm was there protecting my head. Reflexes are awesome.

Accidents can happen sure but the added hassle doesn't seem worth it. Of course things are different when you do high speed cycling or mountain biking.

Well, Canonical does, to be fair. They just seem to be unsuccessful at gaining adoption. Part of this is my suspicion that they just do it to get their IP on the map (like with the snap store that only they can manage). But I would imagine that RedHat's goals are similar, after all they are a commercial entity too.

Personally I don't really trust either and I lament the high level of commercial involvement in Linux. It's one of the reasons I use FreeBSD. And they are still doing very well in features. For example they had jails (real containers, not chroot) way before Linux had containers.

I don't believe in "win-win scenarios" when it comes to commercialisation. In the end the commercial interests will always trump everything. I think RedHat's recent actions around CentOS are a good example of that.

> This forced greater changes in the UI compared to the other ports, because a lot of things which are easy to implement with character mode terminals are essentially impossible in 3270.

Couldn't they just render everything to a local virtual terminal and then send the screen after updates?

The lock-in makes it impossible for me to use most of their services though. I need to access all my stuff on Mac but also on Windows and Linux.

I wish there was a good privacy-embracing cloud platform that I could just pay for directly instead of via buying hardware as Apple does.

iCloud private relay is a great idea but I need it on all my computers and phones. I use Firefox now but their VPN option doesn't hold a candle to what Apple offers with icloud relay. It's really a different thing altogether.

Even with thread reader this looks still really ranty and choppy. All the isolated sentences, the all-caps parts etc.

But it's ok, not everyone likes every type of content.

It sounds like a pain having ADHD though.

Thanks, I thought I knew all the major mesh VPN options (tinc, nebula, tailscale, zero tier, hamachi) and yet I never heard of yggdrasil.

This is the kind of comment I love HN for!