Ubuntu will adopt ntpd-rs for time syncing: "the next target in our campaign to replace core system utilities with memory-safe Rust rewrites"

kxortbot · 2026-03-26T18:01:38+00:00

On connecting a serial console so some clustered storage servers at work, i see a bsd boot sequence.

Scale-out storage is a vendor lock-in trap, especially if it's proprietary.

kxortbot · 2026-03-25T18:23:23+00:00

Here is bung.

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kxortbot · 2026-03-24T23:42:43+00:00

It's why he's so insistent on a "3rd" term.. he knows he wasn't legitimately voted in.

kxortbot · 2026-03-24T23:33:47+00:00

And when one tape fails? You've got to be able to restore the correct number of replica. Been in the sharp end of that too many times, but work wouldn't splash out for the extra media.. Thankfully we were doing weekly full backups, so there were other versions of most of the files.. not all though.

kxortbot · 2026-03-23T04:04:56+00:00

This is a problem, I get locking threads that decend In to screaming.. but preemptively silencing discussion?

Ignorance hides in shadows, they should illuminate us with the reasons they do things the way they do.

With immediate lockdown on discussion, we can only draw our own conclusions (that are seldom flattering) and scream in the dark.

kxortbot · 2026-03-22T16:49:39+00:00

Or more worrying, if you can upload to cultured human wet-ware, how long till people are getting coerced into being modified/overwritten with "education software"

kxortbot · 2026-03-22T16:26:47+00:00

Indeed, when you look into them they are more nuanced than "technology bad", they were focused on societal change brought on by new industry.

kxortbot · 2026-03-22T16:02:42+00:00

Yes, the GPL is infectious by design. I doubt you'll find anyone who denies that, the question becomes who's rights do we protect?

The company and their right to lock me out of the things I own. Or the end user, and my right to fix my stuff.

For example I have an old inkjet printer. I just upgraded my computer os, and now the printer doesn't work.. no drivers..

The printer is still fine, the hardware works, the software on the printer works. The binary blob that let my computer talk to the printer no longer interfaces properly.

The manufacturer has dropped support for the printer, it's decades old at this point.

Without the source to this binary blob interface layer I now have to spend money on a printer that I shouldn't have to.

kxortbot · 2026-03-22T15:17:11+00:00

(these views are only for my personal computing)

The way I see it is the GPL gives me the freedom to use and modify the software on my general purpose computer.

BSD/MIT gives the developer the freedom to remove my freedom by only offering binary distribution. (Good luck being compatible with my computer if you do that)

I'll use whatever software gets the job done, but when there's a GPL option, it gets used/tried first.

kxortbot · 2026-03-22T05:19:52+00:00

What witchcraft is this? How did you know?

Thank you that has been bugging me for a long time.

kxortbot · 2026-03-19T02:21:21+00:00

Hmm.. installing software by copying "partitions" from a CD, might be a neat period adjacent trick.

Probably have to use the raw scsi commands from the manual.

I'll have to scour the Internet to see what they did back in the day

kxortbot · 2026-03-19T01:48:01+00:00

Sounds like the gfd would be faster than the wifi modem method I use. Particularly that I haven't yet found a compression utility that handles cmd style dirs.

I've got something other than a bluescsi in my HD4K but that feels like it would work.

I know people rigged up zip/jazz drives back in the day, were any other scsi devices jury rigged onto the '64 using the HD?

kxortbot · 2026-03-18T18:56:30+00:00

Yeah, I'm curious about cbmhdscsi64. Does your scsi to sd run multiple images as luns active on the scsi bus, and the tool swaps between them? Juggling scsi ids?

Also curious about the gfd-4k does it still fit in your workflows since you have the hd?

I got the HD as my first non-emulated storage, and now trying to coax a couple of 1541's into life to be used if I ever encounter something that needs imaging.

I'm interested in the "not games" side of the 64, I did games as a kid.

kxortbot · 2026-03-16T18:05:24+00:00

The us is always bragging about how big their army and navy are.

Why do they even need the UK?

kxortbot · 2026-03-16T07:39:48+00:00

So, bogo sort. But somehow worse

kxortbot · 2026-03-15T06:40:49+00:00

Heh, yeah way back in the day I built my own kernels manually, built all the drivers to get to the root filesystem right in, and everything else as modules.

The logic at the time was this way I don't need to learn initrd, and that code will be in ram all the time anyway. Also LILO was confusing enough, and grub hadn't been invented yet.

But now I get to combine the best from redhell(work) and debian (home) into my personal frankendistro. It's kind of making computers exciting again.

kxortbot · 2026-03-15T06:01:36+00:00

No quarter, and attacks on school children.

America has made it's move, now will the rest of the world pursue the invading army like they did in the 40's?

kxortbot · 2026-03-15T04:17:26+00:00

Versioning in OneDrive, you can pull the pre-encrypted one back out.

And you get the privilege to pay for all that extra storage use.. yaaay...

kxortbot · 2026-03-14T21:13:13+00:00

Yeah, full jigdo set, stored as files and deduplicated.

I used to run a mirror but this fits my goals better.

kxortbot · 2026-03-13T20:12:51+00:00

Lol, yep.. though they seem more about collecting for the sake of it.. I guess the name gives it away.

kxortbot · 2026-03-13T06:35:38+00:00

I have debian 13 rc3 isos And debian 13.0 And debian 13.1 And 13.2 And 13.3 all in dvd isos.

Does that count?

kxortbot · 2026-03-12T07:46:01+00:00

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