Posts by resuna@ohai.social
 (DIR) Post #B4ipUAOIXF6N8VfKcK by resuna@ohai.social
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       @stux It depends on whether the phone app or the website is more shit, and whether I have to research anything. Researching anything on a mobile device is getting worse because both Apple and Google are making their operating systems more aggressive about killing background processes which kills any transactions in flight. So you really need two devices.It also explains why in Star Trek you get  people juggling a handful of tablets.
       
 (DIR) Post #B59PtpV3TihoKhJwlU by resuna@ohai.social
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       @ska @mia Not generally a fan of s6 but it does get a lot of stuff right.
       
 (DIR) Post #B59Ptq5DJHd48qEp7o by resuna@ohai.social
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       @ska @miaThe scripting language 'execline' is really strange, it's not as strange as the one that nix came up with, but it's pretty strange. I just find it existentially unpleasant to work in.Okay the standard shell is kind of a security nightmare, but couldn't it have used for example a lisp derivative which would be comparatively sane.Or maybe Postscript? Smalltalk?
       
 (DIR) Post #B59PtqUjmO2tQ0BCuO by resuna@ohai.social
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       @ska @mia I am supporting a system that was built by other people, so I don't have the luxury of changing the scripting language it uses, and it uses execline.And right now I just Googled it and found the documentation on S6 and it goes on about how execline is a better scripting language than the shell and how horrible the source code to the Shell is and yes I agree Bournegol is insane.Which doesn't exactly read like execline is an internal tool and you don't have to actually touch it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B59PtqoaaZvQPZT3qq by resuna@ohai.social
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       @ska @mia It reads more like "Technically you can build without it but this is what we recommend and man it's so much more secure than the shell look how cool it is."
       
 (DIR) Post #B5SAF9TSVEYF6FxS64 by resuna@ohai.social
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       @SwiftOnSecurity Remember all those old sitcom episodes... they were still doing them as late as Buffy the Vampire Slayer... that only worked because people weren't carrying cell phones everywhere.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5haKWfZCcysfMF9hg by resuna@ohai.social
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       @gregeganSF The confession is of course fanfic about its own non-existent reasoning.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7jIYV5fKqoAc4iHbc by resuna@ohai.social
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       @fribbledom - ed is the standard editor
       
 (DIR) Post #B8EVCWIloZOon8HE5w by resuna@ohai.social
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       @quixoticgeek 15 years ago I was waiting for a co-worker in the carpark and sweating and when he arrived I said "you know, if we put solar panels all over this space it would be cooler and we'd save money" and he goes "Peter, we're an oil company".
       
 (DIR) Post #B8sTd6B4hZ3xqohm2y by resuna@ohai.social
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       @ariadne In Vinge's novel Rainbow's End it was called the "Librareome Project".
       
 (DIR) Post #B8xgVRcD8jhAgujHSS by resuna@ohai.social
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       @itsfoss I did install Slackware at some point, but I was already doing 386BSD patch-kit releases and contributing to FreeBSD by then.I think my first real use of Linux was Alpine in a container.
       
 (DIR) Post #B9chy7CuyqRy9y89rc by resuna@ohai.social
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       @stux Actual minimum requirements for Linux.https://interestingengineering.com/culture/vape-pen-repurposed-web-server