The_Decryptor

On a more serious note, having a CTO at Microsoft, of all places, jump in on your side is kind of embarrassing.

That comment was from a few years ago and wasn’t in relation to Linux, and the company he co-founded made some pretty useful things (And revealed the Sony rootkit in 2005) before MS bought them.

He named the recovery barges after sci fi spaceships (modern sci fi, not old nazi stuff)

It’s pretty clear to me that Elon’s never read a Culture novel, they’re antithetical to him.

NTFS was designed back in the mid 90s, when the plan was to have the single NT kernel with different subsystems on top of it, some of those layers (i.e. POSIX) needed case sensitivity while others (Win32 and OS/2) didn’t.

It only looks odd because the sole remaining subsystem in use (Win32) barely makes use of any of the kernel features, like they’re only just now enabling long file paths.

I think it’s a good thing that telcos NAT their customers. The last thing we want is for the Internet to be able to easily connect to those devices.

That’s the job of a firewall, not a NAT.

That a NAT also blocks connections is incidental, it’s blocking them because it just has no idea how to handle them.

If you think the comments about Rust are bad, you should check out any article about X11/Wayland or systemd.

They’re in liquidation.

Reading the article I’m honestly not surprised.

Both 4G and 5G support low frequencies.

Yep, and they’re in use too. Telstra/Optus/Vodafone all run 4G at 700MHz (compared to 850/900MHz for 3G). It’s slightly different for 5G, Telstra use 850MHz while Optus/Vodafone use 700MHz.

Australian Mobile Network Frequencies (Whirlpool)

I absolutely adore the art styling of the Loki show, half the time while watching it I was focused on background props. I hate to say it, but one of the reasons I bought the 1:6 TVA Loki figure is that it comes with a tempad and TVA computer.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/124646129/TVA-Multifunctional-Computer

That’s a fan recreation, but still.

To me it’s the tech equivalent of painting yourself into a corner, sure it works at the moment but what are the hidden costs of sticking on a dead end technology? What’s the upgrade path from a C64, a C128? What happens if a chip on the circuitboard fails, or the power supply? Can’t exactly order a new one, they stopped making them over 30 years ago and the company has been defunct for basically the same amount of time.

I wish I could remember more details, but I remember years ago reading about a company that had a core product that depended on an old 286 era laptop with a special software/hardware combo for maintenance, and all I could think of was that a single accidental bump of a table was all it’d take to shut down that product for months until they could find the exact replacement.

Plan 9 even extended the “everything is a file” philosophy to networking, unlike everybody else that used sockets instead.

c2rust: Am I a joke to you?