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brirec commented on AnduinOS   anduinos.com/... · Posted by u/TheFreim
totallykvothe · 12 days ago
"The ISO is only 2GB"

0_o

brirec · 12 days ago
Have you ever seen the size of modern OS installs?
brirec commented on Debian 13 “Trixie”   debian.org/News/2025/2025... · Posted by u/ducktective
madars · 22 days ago
>I've never had a Debian system break without it being my fault in some way.

Debian is great but I can't say this is a shared experience. In particular, I've been bitten by Debian's heavy patching of kernel in Debian stable (specifically, backport regressions in the fast-moving DRM subsystem leading to hard-to-debug crashes), despite Debian releases technically having the "same" kernel for a duration of a release. In contrast, Ubuntu just uses newer kernels and -hwe avoids a lot of patch friction. So I still use Debian VMs but Ubuntu on bare metal. I haven't tried kernel from debian-backports repos though.

brirec · 22 days ago
These days all of my “Debian” bare metal systems are technically running Proxmox, which I think is a relatively happy medium as far as the base Debian system goes — the Proxmox kernel is basically the Ubuntu kernel, but otherwise it’s a pretty standard Debian system.

I’ve thought about (ab)using a Proxmox repository on an otherwise stock Debian system before just for the kernel…

brirec commented on Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems   tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/classichasclass
rbanffy · 23 days ago
Wow. Last time I did that, it was still AFP shares. Time Machine wouldn't recognize anything else.
brirec · 23 days ago
RIP AFP
brirec commented on Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest   ioccc.org/2024/index.html... · Posted by u/mdl_principle
capitainenemo · a month ago
yep. certainly occurred to me. not the most practical if you just wanted to look at a single file, and still breaks the legacy links. BTW, they also made JS required to get the "clone" link off their website, although you can of course guess it most of the time.

In any case, wasn't using w3m/lynx this time, so just whitelisted the 2 domains github requires.

brirec · a month ago
> you can of course guess it most of the time

In what scenarios is a GitHub clone URL ever different from what one what “guess”?

I’m genuinely curious — all of the GitHub git clone URLs I’ve encountered were the exact same format. (https://github.com/$user/$repository with an optional “.git” at the end of the URL)

brirec commented on Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion   xfinity.com/support/artic... · Posted by u/bearsyankees
dcow · 2 months ago
We suffer from a problem that engineers want nothing to do with politics. I 1000% agree we need a digital bill of rights. It pains me every time a “well behaved” website pops up a cookie consent banner for the billionth time after I already consented because the browser wiped all the persistent user identifiers available to it. For my protection -_-

I want privacy codified in human law. I didn't vote for standards bodies to pave the road to hell by removing every goddamned persistent handle we can find from existence. I didn't vote for the EU to reinvent an internet worse than popup ads by attacking the symptoms not the cause. I would rather have the internet of the 2000s back in a heartbeat than keep putting up with shitty “technical solutions” to corporations having too much power at scale. I don’t care if people break the law: prosecute them when they do and make the punishments enough to deter future law breakers.

There is absolutely something civilized beyond a lawless advertising wild west where the technical solution is to all be masked Zorros.

Why is it that if someone said “we need a legal solution to gun violence” the people that say “no we need a technical solution all people should wear kevlar and carry 9mm pistols” are considered the lunatics but when we ask for a legal solution to rampant non-consensual tracking for the purpose of indoctrinating the consumer class with propaganda we all laugh and say bah the solution must be technical? I don’t get it.

brirec · 2 months ago
While I agree that we should have legal codes protecting our online and digital rights, I’m convinced that there are enough Bad People on the Internet that we do indeed still need strong technical protections as well.
brirec commented on Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator   snowemu.com/... · Posted by u/ColinWright
kalleboo · 2 months ago
Ah yeah, the ones that were sold at the time would work if you passed through USB to an emulator that supported USB hardware, or reverse-engineered their proprietary protocol. I was only thinking of the modern options when I wrote my comment.
brirec · 2 months ago
You can get used Griffin iMates on eBay from time to time, but you'll want to solder in a new coin cell battery.
brirec commented on Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds   arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/_JamesA_
vel0city · 2 months ago
Some of these games are practically neck and neck for performance. I'm wondering if it's a similar situation to early Proton comparisons, where framerates were higher in Proton but when comparing still for still you could tell it just wasn't actually doing certain effects. Are there features that are being attempted in the Windows version that are just not functional and thus effectively disabled on the Proton one?

But even then, assuming that is true, if they're pretty much the same would people care about maybe some fog looks a little different but you get an extra 15-20fps in a game? I think a lot of people would still prefer the boost in frames.

brirec · 2 months ago
To my knowledge, this hasn’t been the case for years, and I’ve never noticed any extra visual glitching on Linux.
brirec commented on Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry   github.com/psviderski/unr... · Posted by u/psviderski
s1mplicissimus · 2 months ago
very cool. now lets integrate this such that we can do `docker/podman push localimage:localtag ssh://hostname:port/remoteimage:remotetag` without extra software installed :)
brirec · 2 months ago
I was informed that Podman at least has a `podman image scp` function for doing just this...
brirec commented on Negotiating PoE+ Power in the Pre‑Boot Environment   roderickkhan.com/posts/20... · Posted by u/pietrushnic
esseph · 3 months ago
That would require them to know the standard of cable they're connected with

Unless you like home and warehouse fires

Or if you want to add per port fuses. That sounds incredibly expensive.

brirec · 3 months ago
The standard is, well, a standard, and that’s why PoE is safe in the first place. Adding per-port fuses won’t stop bad cable from burning, because the fuse would have to be sized for the rating of the PoE switch.

This is why you don’t want “fake” Cat6 etc. cable. I’ve seen copper-clad aluminum sold as cat6 cable before, but that shit will break 100% of the time and a broken cable will absolutely catch fire from a standard 802.at switch.

brirec commented on Show HN: USL - A Universal Scripting Language That Outputs to 111 Languages   townsendatomics.gumroad.c... · Posted by u/usl
brirec · 5 months ago
I’ll definitely check it out if it’s ever published as open source software!

Source available isn’t my cup of tea (especially for programming languages), and I’m not exactly a big fan of Gumroad either…

u/brirec

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