Posts by ptribble@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AtDOYBdtmpQRPuXZku by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-04-18T12:12:40Z
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@sxa I do indeed remember IE for Unix.I think I've still got a copy of IE for Solaris kicking around here someplace. Might try and get it working, just for entertainment value.
(DIR) Post #Au3hLgJ0zRq2JudAcy by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-05-13T17:46:55Z
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A little while ago I wrote down a few thoughts On efficiency and resilience in IThttps://ptribble.blogspot.com/2025/04/on-efficiency-and-resilience-in-it.html
(DIR) Post #Au3xp1dMN0Wy8IA3H6 by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-05-13T20:54:29Z
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Achievement unlocked: Mention of Tribblix in an article from Oraclehttps://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-the-oracle-solaris-11481-cbe-release
(DIR) Post #AuiMxlCXi0aXgavKDI by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-06-02T08:35:19Z
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@freya A networked package manager is basically `wget && pkgadd`, the more interesting part is having some sort of catalog so that you know what packages are available and whether they need updating.
(DIR) Post #Auq75w5l3dQZmFJ2OG by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-06-01T19:17:28Z
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The End of 10 project is largely focused on getting Linux onto PCs that aren't capable of running Windows 11, to avoid them becoming e-Waste and possibly just ending up in landfill.I was just thinking, though, that the era of machines impacted - maybe 10 years old or so - would also make ideal candidates for running Tribblix. Run Tribblix, reduce e-Waste!https://endof10.org/
(DIR) Post #Auxfzo62jDT9kDyJRw by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-06-09T17:34:33Z
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I'm less than convinced by the concept of National Email Week. Sure, email can have value, but having a celebration of spam, phishing, and general time-wasting seems suboptimal.International Dark 'n Stormy® Day sounds much more fun!
(DIR) Post #Av9VWZDtfx67OOJ7HU by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-06-15T10:49:56Z
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Here we are faced with an ever increasing mountain of e-waste, and RHEL and Rocky go and render even more perfectly viable computers obsolete by requiring x86-64-v3 (Alma, is slightly better, because you can optionally run that on x86-64-v2).
(DIR) Post #AvAOO1coCiAkLrtoyu by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-06-15T21:11:07Z
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@charadon Oh I understand why they think it's necessary/desirable. It's unfortunate that you have a clash with what society would benefit from.Of course, the dates are when the cpu architecture was introduced. The chips persisted in the market for a while after that.Another thing is that I'm so used to having run systems for decades that dynamically optimize for the cpu found in the system that I'm somewhat surprised such techniques aren't more widely used.
(DIR) Post #AvBj5kYdDJjmOw24Bs by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-06-16T12:29:39Z
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It's entertaining when you try and visit a CyberSecurity company website and it's blocked because it uses an invalid security certificate.Why is this becoming an issue? Because Mozilla are removing trust bits for really old CAs. So there are a few CAs that are starting to drop out of the list of trusted CAs that Mozilla publish, and that propagates through to distributions as explained on the Mozilla wiki.https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Root_CA_Lifecycles
(DIR) Post #AvBj5lroLUfoSi0tiy by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-06-16T12:31:37Z
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And, if you're interested, the list of root CAs that got dropped this time around is present in this bug report:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1957685
(DIR) Post #AvDeQfp9tf4wLaqAYS by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-06-17T10:50:47Z
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A Tribblix release provides an opportunity to bump the version of a component. In the next release, for example, the default PostgreSQL version will get updated, and PHP, and go. Probably ruby too. I ought to bump gcc, but that will probably get deferred.The open question is whether I should push the default openjdk from 17 to 21. (On x86, that is - SPARC will have to stay at 17.) I'm not worried about whether old code will continue to run, but building apps with jdk21 is very noisy.
(DIR) Post #AvQwFWHEQUjcA4Gnqa by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-06-23T20:46:24Z
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@stefanlindbohm I like it, although the alien mm/dd/yyyy date format was quite jarring.
(DIR) Post #AvztoPiKOYTpN1g7aC by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-07-10T17:12:08Z
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Another #illumos distribution appears - Illumarinehttps://illumarineos.com/
(DIR) Post #Aw5yonFkXi1x5w4T5s by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-07-11T11:07:27Z
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@apam Absolutely!After all, Tribblix itself is really a personal project that, apart from being a daily driver optimised to my own needs, was all about enabling me to have fun while learning and experimenting.
(DIR) Post #AwaeEO8X1JY0sge8cC by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-07-28T10:57:56Z
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@sxa Every time I come across that sort of nonsense I immediately think "This is best avoided".
(DIR) Post #AyZGDJTvDE1lzMFgFk by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-09-25T06:26:54Z
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@matthew Indeed, there is much more that could be covered, and I may put together a follow-up that digs into the causes in more detail. The original article was aimed to generate more awareness in a certain audience, and there’s lots we could build on.
(DIR) Post #Aypq7ZwPoBsIB8VGGu by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-10-03T14:22:25Z
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Grumpy old git time.Every time I see “we’ve redesigned our website” my heart sinks. Invariably it means “we’ve replaced a simple, easy to use, attractive website with a slow, ugly, bloated, dysfunctional pile of garbage”.
(DIR) Post #Az40CgolO840hzRGk4 by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-10-10T10:39:30Z
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Another piece of security theatre - forcing you to reauthenticate (or reverify with MFA) if you log in to a service from a different IP address. It's not as if anyone ever has their IP address change, fortunately mine is reasonably stable, but in general it's a fair assumption that IP addresses are likely to be dynamic these days.
(DIR) Post #B0QxQ6yeXDjXyOFwO0 by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-11-19T18:55:39Z
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Oh, now that's interesting - Tribblix towers appears to have acquired IPv6 connectivity. That wasn't the case a day or two ago.(Yes, it's about time.)
(DIR) Post #B1JeZrQnGZbxJG1mxU by ptribble@mastodon.social
2025-12-16T14:52:33Z
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Almost every time I call a business they tell me they're experiencing a high volume of calls. If, as it seems, that's always true, then they clearly need more operators to answer the calls.Then they tell you to go to their website. If the answer to my query was on the website, I wouldn't have bothered going to the hassle of calling you and dealing with your byzantine options menu.And the ultimate insult, "we're too busy" and cutting me off. At least I didn't have to listen to hold muzak.