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Openbsd after install ops

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:44:09 UTC

Bullshit jobs

Fri, 03 May 2024 06:35:00 UTC

Real, productive workers are relentlessly squeezed and exploited. The remainder are divided between a terrorised stratum of the, universally reviled, unemployed and a larger stratum who are basically paid to do nothing, in positions designed to make them identify with the perspectives and sensibilities of the ruling class (managers, administrators, etc.)—and particularly its financial avatars—but, at the same time, foster a simmering resentment against anyone whose work has clear and undeniable social value.

Enough problems to go around

Thu, 02 May 2024 21:01:49 UTC

Meaningful problems are the most valuable human motivators. Made-up problems are a blight. Ensure you have not quite enough time and people available to tackle the former lest you start inventing the latter.

One way forward: finding a path to what comes after Unix

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 05:49:30 UTC

Plan 9 was intended to be Unix, done better. It preemptively replaced a lot of what we now bodge together with virtual machines, containers, and even microkernels, and it did it more simply and cleanly. But it wasn’t compatible enough to replace its ancestor. With off-the-shelf existing 21st century tech, we can fix that.

Inferno design principles

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 05:18:18 UTC

Fed up with Windows? Linux too easy? Get weird, go ALTERNATIVE

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 05:17:36 UTC

It’s hard to believe, looking at the modern computing world, but there is still more to life than Windows or Unix… and today, most of the alternatives run on vanilla x86 hardware and are free.

The curing value of creation

Tue, 08 Aug 2023 19:06:51 UTC

Make something. Participate in something. Engage with someone. All of it might feel as unnatural as strapping on those running shoes after too long of a break, but once you’re back to creating, the energy comes by itself.

io_uring vs others

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 06:05:38 UTC

The Grug Brained Developer

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 20:01:13 UTC

this collection of thoughts on software development gathered by grug brain developer

grug brain developer not so smart, but grug brain developer program many long year and learn some things although mostly still confused

Where does my computer get the time from?

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 12:21:17 UTC

Fascinating little programs

Thu, 11 May 2023 20:02:11 UTC

There is something special in simple code. Here I’m not referring to simplicity to fight complexity or over engineering, but to simplicity per se, auto referential, without goals if not beauty, understandability and elegance.

Rob Pike on the Origin of Unix Dot File Names

Wed, 10 May 2023 15:44:33 UTC

Long ago, as the design of the Unix file system was being worked out, the entries . and .. appeared, to make navigation easier....

You Want Modules, Not Microservices

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:20:17 UTC

Architecture is hard sometimes--people keep offering up some new idea that quickly becomes the mainstream “way to do it” without any context or nuance, and the industry, desperate to find ways to improve their architecture, snaps it up without hesitation. Microservices was the latest in the trend, and it’s time we dissected the idea and got to the real root of what’s going on.

La poudre verte - La solution à tous vos problèmes informatiques

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 07:49:46 UTC

* Décongestion de réseaux
* Débuggage de logiciels
* Protection contre les virus
* Protection contre les tentatives d’intrusions
* Restructuration de services
* Partage de connexion Internet sans connexion
* Suppression aléatoire de compte utilisateur
* Protection anti-spoofing basée sur les adresses MAC
* Définition de politique de gestion et de sécurité aléatoire
* Elimination systématique des fichiers de log (journaux)
* Protection contre les DoS et DDoS grâce au système exclusif InUranus®
* Support de IPoT
* Rend vos données importantes accessibles à tout moment et à tout endroit
* Débloque les claviers qui se bl

What color is your function

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 13:46:08 UTC

OpenBSD innovations

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:13:37 UTC

A curated list of openbsd’s innovations

Makefile Tutorial

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:11:06 UTC

The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 07:53:36 UTC

Did Ken, Dennis, and Brian choose wrong with NUL-terminated text strings?

The extensible scheduler class

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 08:40:46 UTC

In short, the argument goes, the ability to write scheduling policies in BPF greatly lowers the difficulty of experimenting with new approaches to scheduling. Both our workloads and the systems they run on have become much more complex since the completely fair scheduler was introduced; experimentation is needed to develop scheduling algorithms that are suited to current systems. The BPF scheduling class allows that experimentation in a safe manner without even needing to reboot the test machine. BPF-written schedulers can also improve performance for niche workloads that may not be worth supporting in the mainline kernel and are much easier to deploy to a large fleet of systems.

Just for Fun. No, Really.

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 21:37:33 UTC

There are hackers—believe it or not—who just love the art of building software. They do it for the challenge, for the fun of it. They aren’t trying to make a million dollars.