Readit NewsGeezus42 commented on Writing a RISC-V OS in Rust: System Calls osblog.stephenmarz.com/ch... · Posted by u/azhenley
Geezus42 commented on Writing a RISC-V OS in Rust: System Calls osblog.stephenmarz.com/ch... · Posted by u/azhenley
I imagine it's going to be an exokernel that can run pretty arbitrary user lands as if they were containers, built on cap based security.
If anyone agrees with me and wants to help out making that happen on an open source code base, hit me up.
What kind of help do you need?
> NextDNS (I'm not confident enough to "roll my own)
- Install knot-resolver
- Done.
Geezus42 commented on Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service anonaddy.com/... · Posted by u/willbrowning
According to a friend at a large ISP who engineers their anti-SPAM, 93% of all email they receive is SPAM and dropped before routing to your junk folder. So for each 1 you receive, several dozen were sent to the bit bucket.
I work for a company that sales anti-spam and this is absolutely true. It is an unending battle between spammers and the people building the filters. We are also constantly getting RBL'ed by groups including Google and Symantec who know who we are as we have had business agreements with them in the past.
Geezus42 commented on Dear Email Industry, We’ve Got a GDPR Problem jacquescorbytuech.com/wri... · Posted by u/iamacyborg
Not surprising at all. It's become clear that what they've been doing with iOS all along is bootstrapping a new operating system. They started with Unix, not because Unix was optimal for what they wanted to do, but it's what they had and it worked well enough. Copland and Taligent and the rest failed because of Second-System Effect, which Apple was smart enough to avoid.
(As RMS wrote in 1983, "Unix is not my ideal system, but it is not too bad. The essential features of Unix seem to be good ones, and I think I can fill in what Unix lacks without spoiling them. And a system compatible with Unix would be convenient for many other people to adopt.")
Whereas such features as "background tasks" were simply a natural consequence of the architecture of Unix, Apple didn't expose that on iOS. Now they've finally gotten around to designing the background task subsystem they really want, and it's not just an emergent property of the generic Unix way. It's built for protecting battery life and privacy. It happens to be built on Unix processes (right?), but that's just an implementation detail for them.
They've been gradually deprecating Unix for 20 years, and designing the OS they want. iOS and its App Store allowed them to kill off large sections of the old interface at once. I fully expect inside of 5 years for all of Apple's operating systems to drop "UNIX" certification and become almost unrecognizable as "Unix". They've got enough market clout now that people will port Ruby/Python/Perl to a non-Unix macOS, just as they port them to Microsoft Windows.
I would like to believe that the people who use those features would make the much simpler switch to Linux but with the new WSL and (ridiculous) terminal I know a lot of them will be persuaded to transition into the special hell that is Windows.
I learnt this lesson the hard way. Solution: get a separate debit (not credit!) card for all cloud stuff. Make sure you only transfer enough money on to it each month to cover what you reasonably expect your bills to be (and that you can quickly top it up in hours if you legitimately need to).
Worst case, if AWS or Google decide to fuck you over, let the bill bounce. This way you've still got funds on hand to deal with the fall out and some leverage to negotiate a solution.
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Is there a way to limit work to Covid?