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So you are a cog, you are a watchmaker, or you just want to read the time hoping that all these cogs will tell it. Software engineers are becoming line workers, it's okay, we had a good run. But realise we needed the press to give way for mass literacy and scientific revolution. Isn't anybody at least curious how our children will leapfrog us and what they'll do once agentic thinking is engrained in their thinking?

Probably at least half of the people reading this shudder at the above. But I thank the Lord my job has been never to typeset a press.

corosync and pacemaker were my personal dark ages of distributed systems. With a well setup kubernetes clusters my faith is restored. Still not perfect but not a butt-crack sweating endeavor

Knoppix 22 days ago

Such a well-done gateway to any aspiring linux users. I think it was 2000 when i first loaded a knoppix image. I couldn't believe the 'live' concept could work and you could just start full functioning browsers! It was truly magical.

This is the first issue of a new on-line forum. Its intent is to address issues involving risks to the public in the use of computers. As such, it is necessarily concerned with whether/how critical requirements for human safety, reliability, fault tolerance, security, privacy, integrity, and guaranteed service (among others) can be met (in some cases all at the same time), and how the attempted fulfillment or ignorance of those requirements may imply risks to the public. We will presumably explore both deficiencies in existing systems and techniques for developing better computer systems — as well as the implications of using computer systems in highly critical environments.

^ 1985, 2 years before i was born, on-line still had a dash. Man, what a time that must've been.

except for the dance bars. Dear lord the sweat smell during the transition was bizarre. It as always masked thanks to the smell of smoke. I think a lot places had to start thinking about adding nice parfumes, because almost at the end of that first year of zero tolerance inside bars, it was 'solved'.

I dunno, a simple webframework with golang goes pretty far as well. With a pho stack I always get forced into phpfpm, dependency injection containers, etc. Sure its easy to roll in, but it's not simple.

I would be perfectly fine not using TUIs if only GUIs were a lot saner for keyboard driven workflows. Second thing is minimalism. I'm not overloaded with information other than the stuff i care about. Of course this is not inherent to TUIs, but just a common theme (and o.c. there are exceptions.)

I shouldn't have to roundtrip to a central server to validate if I'm up to par. I'm not saying the tooling is there already, but we've painted ourselves in a corner by tight coupling our ci to a centralized server.

I remember my first time having a laptop with bluetooth and having created a PAN in something like 2001-2002, that was magical taking your laptop to bed and surfing the web. Now i think the pervasiveness of the internet is just a nuisance. I'm probably growing old.

yes you do, the control plane is closed. Only reverse engineered by the headscale project. The control plane is necessary for the peers to find each other. If you need to rely on such a crucial part being reverse-engineered, than yes, I think it's fair to say you are ultimately relying on commercial entities.

I don't have your problems with ipv6, and I'm actively using it.

I don't have to rely on extra commercial entities to be able to reach my network.

I did have a problem with hosting my own shit because my ISP by default does cgnat. That cost me an hour of my life to convince a party to give what used to be normal, end to end connectivity.

I have to say all my negative experiences with macOS come from policies from work and endpoint security. Not being able to strace an application is just criminal