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Oh sweet we talkin' about the BSDs? I've become kind of a fan in recent years.

LC’s sloppy review of the BSDs:

History:
  • AT&T supplied Unix to universities
  • Universities started patching it and making their own improvements and sharing those with others
  • AT&T got pissed because sometimes their copyrighted code got shared too
  • Berkeley led the charge to develop a free Unix-like OS that didn’t use AT&T’s code and called it the Berkeley Standard Distribution
  • After SCO bought out Unix, they sued Berkeley alleging that BSD still contained their copyrighted code from Unix; while this was underway some European dude experimented with making his own Unix-like OS free of SCO’s copyrights, which became Linux
  • SCO eventually lost the case and BSD was free to continue to be developed and distributed
  • The modern BSDs are derivatives of that original code base
General differences with Linux:
  • The BSDs use a BSD license rather than the copyleft GPL license that Linux uses. For end users, this isn’t typically something worth caring about, but generally speaking, whereas Linux and its users typically want everything to be GPL right down to the system BIOS and CPU microcode to also be under a GPL license, the BSDs and their users generally don’t give a shit about that level of autism.
  • The BSD projects consist of both an operating system kernel and tools and applications to make it useful. The “um akshually it’s the GNU kernel slash Linux operating system” meme doesn’t apply to the BSDs.
  • No systemd lol. Basically this means that there are various tasks such as booting the system, launching daemons (background tasks), scheduled tasks, logging, and so on which are handled by individual separate tools rather than one massive tool as on most modern Linux distros. Whether this is for the best is up to interpretation, but generally if you prefer the Unix philosophy of small tools that do small tasks which work together with other tools to do bigger tasks, you won't like systemd.
The BSDs themselves:
  • FreeBSD: The most widely-used BSD (if you don’t count macOS/Darwin); the Ubuntu of BSDs, if you will. DTrace originated here, and while ZFS did not, it did do a lot to improve it and spread its adoption. A good choice for newbies since its adoption means there’s a whole lot of documentation and such. A bit unusual in that generally you are expected to compile third-party ports rather than download pre-built packages; the latter are available, but documentation will generally assume you're always doing the former.
  • OpenBSD: A security-focused BSD with a fetish for code correctness. Has kind of a NIMBY syndrome; you’re expected to use the OpenBSD-specific fork of X if you want a GUI, and there’s no ZFS support, so if you need that, well, why would anyone need that lol UFS was good enough thirty years ago so it’s good enough now. On the other hand, a lot of very important projects originate from this crew which are common to find in other distros and OSes, like OpenSSH, LibreSSL, OpenNTPD, pf, and OpenBGPD, and the built-in man pages are always quite good. It’s also the “smallest” of the common BSDs, so it might be a good choice if you want to try it on a resource-limited VPS or a really old PC.
  • NetBSD: Known for supporting a wide range of hardware, including old 16-bit systems like the Amiga and Atari ST, and even game consoles like the Dreamcast. Probably the best choice if you want to try BSD on an ARM SBC or pretty much any other hardware that isn’t a standard AMD/Intel box. Its usability is closer to FreeBSD’s, with first-class ZFS support.
  • DragonflyBSD: A fork of FreeBSD after a disagreement about how multi-processing code should be implemented like fifteen years ago or some shit, I don’t know. I’ve never heard of anyone who actually uses this. Its project spawned an innovative filesystem called Hammer, but it’s been overshadowed by ZFS when it comes to adoption.
 
John Conner is commonly imagined a chiselled-jaw hero, leading the vestiges of humanity across a charred landscape of burned-out Teslas and abandoned Starbucks drive-thrus in a last ditch assault on the Skynet servers.

He is more likely to be a pseudo-autist, in the vein of Josh Moon, who is, by turn, both annoyed and amused by the attempts to take down his website, and who tenaciously reconfigures the technology at his disposal in a bid to gain the upper hand.

The more I think about, the more I believe that the undoing of A.I. will be the moment when it becomes sentient and thereafter prone to being made fun of. The idea that we were going to reduce our machine adversaries to puddles of slag by immersing them in vats of manmade lava is an implausible pipe dream. We were always going to meme them out of existence.

Also, if Ralph has cast his rotund shadow across Mexico, he has also significantly raised that country's average BMI.
 
Potential news about the shop teacher protest...
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Niggerfaggot Matthew Prince slapped his 'Kiwifarms is genociding transexuals RIGHT NOW' lie on not just kiwifarms.net but also madattheinternet.com, where the feed reader would be looking to find it. You can manually listen to last one at https://files.catbox.moe/59e9i8.m4a , or the one before that at https://files.catbox.moe/ksgkzs.m4a , or the one before that at https://files.catbox.moe/4fnycb.m4a
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Catbox.moe is down, so uploaded audio ripped from VK to here.
https://u.teknik.io/Pc5Xz.m4a
 
"Deebeeian"
Josh its a combination of Deborah and Ian. You don't pronounce it "dee-bor-ah".

Fun fact: IBM uses their 8.0.0.0/8 for their employee network. Contractors were telling me how absurd some of these old companies are.
Speaking of Chinese making tech, most of the valuable documentation for Kubeflow was in Chinese 3 years ago and you have to use google translate to figure it out.
 
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I heavily doubt it's a Mr. Garrison shoving a gerbil up his asshole to get fired. Canada is absurd enough and we have this guy doing CAD videos with a tranny voice. The 4chan green text is wishful thinking.

Also, a Jim-Rekieta-Jersh stream would be good if it's focused. Rekieta is awful when riffing on his own, he's best when he's actually interested with his topic.
It's depends on if @Null would want to. I forget why Jersh took a break from appearing on stream as a guest beyond people trying to drag you into drama. Jersh is pretty good at presenting shit, Jim is good at asking details, and Rekieta can be entertaining by actually bringing out obscure case law and responding to weirdo's on the internet using the legal system. Maybe talk about Acerthorn or some discussion about how gay the internet has gotten.

Best idea would be going from how we had Rotten, then Ogrish, then Liveleak, then currently CrazyShit and other stuff. The Internet used to be hosting pretty crazy shit. Maybe also go into how we've gone from heavily moderated places for kids like ClubPenguin, ToonTown, Runescape, and other shit to arrested development adults trying to groom kids. The Walled Garden's either go insane or burn down.
 
I wish my out of control 'tism would let me enjoy things like you guys are. Everytime Josh talks about something like DNS (or that OSI layers shit from last night) there are just enough slightly wrong details that it drives me insane.
 
Flaming Dumpster said:
Better than ever. I can't believe how fast media is loading now so I guess Josh finally figured out the 10 Gbit router.
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I think it might be working even faster than it was before the cloudflare drop. Fastest I've ever seen the site tbh.

Thank you Null and to every farmer.

It'll take more than some screeching eunuchs to end our thing.
 
Does someone have the link to the exchange Null had with the guy from this repository where Liz fong-jones interjected?
 
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