Hacker News: NexRebular

VirtualGL

NexRebular — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:59:19 +0000

Article URL: https://virtualgl.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042444

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by NexRebular in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

NexRebular — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:55:11 +0000

Gotta get back in time. The Symbian S60/S80 platform will rise again!

New comment by NexRebular in "MacBook Neo"

NexRebular — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:50:18 +0000

https://www.macports.org

New comment by NexRebular in "You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer"

NexRebular — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:44:38 +0000

> vibe coded

s/vibe/slop/;

New comment by NexRebular in "WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026"

NexRebular — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:33:00 +0000

> Later on i once went to Helsinki to watch with my own eyes what people can program in a restriction of 4 to 64 kilobytes.

The Demoscene will save us all

New comment by NexRebular in "The RAM shortage comes for us all"

NexRebular — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:45:59 +0000

> works great with your Linux distro of choice.

...or you could go with FreeBSD. There's even a brand new release that just came out!

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/announce/

New comment by NexRebular in "Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available"

NexRebular — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:36:54 +0000

And there's also Triton[0] and vanilla SmartOS[1] it's based on

[0] https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/triton

[1] https://docs.smartos.org/

New comment by NexRebular in "Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change"

NexRebular — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:01:42 +0000

And as linux is becoming more and more a corpo controlled monoculture, the time has never been better to switch to *BSD and illumos where true freedom awaits.

Mattermost v11 Changes in Free Offerings

NexRebular — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:49:25 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.mattermost.com/t/mattermost-v11-changes-in-free-offerings/25126

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698429

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by NexRebular in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

NexRebular — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:04:27 +0000

>...I wish a new company or a community open-source project would pick up from where Apple left off...

There's the Hello System[0]... not sure if it counts.

[0] https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

New comment by NexRebular in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

NexRebular — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:58:04 +0000

I miss the Powerbook G3 series. That was some fantastically modular design.

New comment by NexRebular in "Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state"

NexRebular — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:44:42 +0000

for *BSD and illumos too

Meta suspended business's social accounts – it took month to reach a human

NexRebular — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:02:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/funktasy-meta-ban-9.6932525

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45596313

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by NexRebular in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

NexRebular — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:23:06 +0000

...and unofficial support for FreeBSD

https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/davinci-resolve-freebsd-ja...

New comment by NexRebular in "NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System"

NexRebular — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:06:25 +0000

> SMB is a nightmare to set up if your host isn’t running Windows.

It's very easy on illumos based systems due the integrated SMB/CIFS service.

New comment by NexRebular in "Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' – Lina Khan"

NexRebular — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:52:12 +0000

At least the two Descent: FreeSpace titles...

New comment by NexRebular in "Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features"

NexRebular — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 08:03:31 +0000

Or if you'd prefer not to contribute to linux monoculturalization, FreeBSD is available in addition to the other BSD variants and even illumos-based systems.

New comment by NexRebular in "Bought myself an Ampere Altra system"

NexRebular — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:12:03 +0000

Unless you are running SUN CoolThreads(tm) servers!

New comment by NexRebular in "Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed (2021)"

NexRebular — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:55:57 +0000

> Or you know... just use Linux

...where namespaces provide excellent technology for hiding malware making linux one of the best platforms to turn into a evil host.

New comment by NexRebular in "New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros"

NexRebular — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:39:00 +0000

I've even seen namespaces used for hiding malicious software in Ubuntu systems too.