Notices by THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD (icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network), page 3

Do any of you, my fellow deranged fedi schizo soldiers, use SSH over Tor? How usable is it? Is mosh a necessity or can I just yolo it?

The story is usual. I have a server behind a few NATs and I don't want to bother with port forwarding.

@amiloradovsky the point of wayland is CADT

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

I propose Winamp test for determining if an OS/windowing system is good enough.

If it can run Winamp 5, then it's good. If it doesn't, then it sucks donkey balls.

Windows: pass
MacOS: pass
L'Eunuchs+X11: pass
L'Eunuchs+Wayland: EPIC FAILURE

There was an anecdote from someone working at Microsoft in the early 2000s. The story says, Microsoft Office code due to legacy reasons stemming from the 90s was incredibly fragile and building it was a no easy feat. Office team had a bunch of carefully maintained build servers with carefully controlled version of Windows, MSVC compiler, and other software. Whenever a new build server was needed, they simply made a copy from an existing one (literally, copying the HDD contents) rather than install a system from scratch.

I heard this story from someone in my uni and I used to laugh at it, because surely having something like this today would be totally ludicrous. Now I see people use Docker and I don't laugh any more.

I love hearing stories about people who laugh at nerds using open source shit, as opposed to using Best In Class Enterprise Solutions.

Then it always turns out that those Best In Class Enterprise Solutions are just the same rebranded open source shit, but poorly maintained and worse in many regards, but also totally locked-in and with no option of easy exit.

:akko_aaaah: "Hey! HP brought us a bunch of failed HDDs as replacements and then told us politely to fuck off. What do?"

Every time :gigachad:

I hate C preprocessor and how it isn't even a part of the language. You can't possibly write something like

#if sizeof(some_type) > 123
<SOME CODE>
#else
<SOME OTHER CODE>
#endif

I really hope C dies together with everybody who adores it.

If you think that Google or Microsoft are Evil Corporations, you haven't really seen Evil.

Meet Larry Ellison, who is almost 80 and somehow still alive. Larry heads Oracle Corporation since founding it. Every single product that Oracle has ever bought was either killed or turned to shit.

Oracle bought MySQL (mostly to kill it), which in turn resulted in MariaDB fork. In 2023, I can say I haven't seen MySQL/MariaDB used for quite a while for anything except PixelFed (for some reason) and Amarok (yes, the music player).
Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and KILLED EVERYTHING SUN HAD EVER MADE WITH FIRE with the sole exception of Java. SPARC? Dead. Solaris? On life support. In fact, Solaris was open source/free software/whatever you wish to call it before the acquisition. After the acquisition, no Solaris code was ever published again.

Let's talk about the main product of Oracle Corporation, the Oracle Database Management System. Did you know that Oracle explicitly prohibits publishing any benchmark results without prior approval? That's right, if you own a licensed copy of Oracle DBMS, you can't tell anyone how good it is. Because if you do, your license will likely be revoked and you might even get a fat lawsuit. So far, this is the one of the two databases I know of with the license having this clause. IBM has a similar thing in their DB2, but only to an extent. IBM DB2 license requires that all published benchmarks must provide full information for reproducing the results, including hardware specs, OS settings, et cetera. MSSQL is the other DBMS with a license clause prohibiting sharing benchmark results without their prior approval, but this is Microsoft we're talking about.

The feud between benchmarks and Oracle goes back to the early 80s. In 1983, Dr. David DeWitt benchmarked Oracle DBMS and published results, which made Larry furious. To the extent that Larry wanted DeWitt fired from the university where he worked. Rumour has it, for years after that DeWitt couldn't land jobs because many companies were afraid to lose Oracle licenses for hiring him. Imagine being that petty.

Anyhow, I'm glad Oracle doesn't own any product I use or I am forced to use. I hope Oracle dies from cancer filled with cancer, yes, the entire company. They deserve it.

@hj regardless. JavaScript is a bad language and everyone using it must feel bad.

@hj i don't have myself nearly enough to use npm

@hj fuck you

Choosing a programming language for a small thingie feels like:

Python - slow and total ass to build and launch
Golang - Google's a bitch and I hate them with all my soul
Rust - too much drama, most code is littered with .unwrap(), async implemented in the most horrifying way possible
Java/Scala - JVM doesn't fit into the memory budget
Haskell - no, I just want to get away from Haskell, even for a bit
C/C++ - C/C++
Zig/Nim/HaRe - I'll be crucified by my coworkers

This all sucks, you know :(

Remember the times when Linux Foundation actually concerned itself with making Linux a good OS kernel? Instead of creating vaccine passports, fighting climate change, and pushing for "diversity through code" whatever the fuck that means. Good times!

According to the foundation's latest annual report [1], they spent ~1.5x more money on Blockchain than on Linux Kernel. Instead...
>For 2023, we will continue to focus on impact, diversity, and moving the needle on solving big, complex problems, such as climate change, software security, and food security, to push the envelope of technology.

Linux? What Linux?

[1]: https://project.linuxfoundation.org/hubfs/LF%20Research/2022%20Linux%20Foundation%20Annual%20Report.pdf?hsLang=en