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New comment by dokyun in "Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager"

dokyun — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:16:58 +0000

Wonder how this compares to Venti[1]. It looks a lot more complicated (not really a good thing).

[1]: https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/venti/

New comment by dokyun in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"

dokyun — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:58:48 +0000

These startup names are starting to get real fuckin' stupid.

New comment by dokyun in "The Mechanics of Steins Gate (2023) [pdf]"

dokyun — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:13:31 +0000

El Psy Kongroo.

New comment by dokyun in "Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network"

dokyun — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:27:19 +0000

Mastodon spoke OStatus in the beginning as did GNUSocial and Pleroma before it, but EEE'ed it once it got big enough. OStatus isn't even relevant to fedi anymore, since there's only like one GNUSocial instance left and only a couple older Pleroma instances can still talk to it.

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

dokyun — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:43:25 +0000

So much for "digital soverignty".

New comment by dokyun in "BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs"

dokyun — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:07:27 +0000

Love to see just a simple compiler in C with a Makefile instead of some amalgamation of 5 languages 20 libraries and some autotools cmake shit.

New comment by dokyun in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

dokyun — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:28:50 +0000

Saving logs is gross, chats should be ephemeral. In any case there's HistServ and IRCv3 /chathistory nowadays, so if you really want it you can have it.

That all the minute garbage everyone posts is preserved forever in an unfiltered state I think is a root cause of the mental degradation that results from using Discord: kids don't have anywhere to 'post into the void' anymore. Preserving past events and relationships through oral history as opposed to a big monolithic search engine entails a far more human element to IRC.

New comment by dokyun in "The coming war on car ownership?"

dokyun — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 09:33:36 +0000

Fun read, shame it's flagged. The midwits in this joint don't appreciate transgression.

New comment by dokyun in "Linux from Scratch"

dokyun — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:32:30 +0000

> Slackware unfortunately lost out to the modern world. But heroic effort by Patrick.

I dunno man, a lot of people still use it! Been on it every day about 4 years now, there's a modern ARM port in development, so it might not end up going away for a long time.

That Slackware is difficult to use on the level of Gentoo or LFS I think is mostly a meme and an overstatement; it's just very old-school. It has a nice installer and a good wiki.

Many of the gripes that I hear of managing other linux systems I seldom or never have experienced on Slackware. It doesn't get in your way or flippantly change things from one release to the next. It's a rock-solid choice.

New comment by dokyun in "Eat Real Food"

dokyun — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:11:17 +0000

> It's pretty absurd to imagine a diet in which the largest food group is just meat and dairy

Ever look at Mongolian cuisine? That's the bulk of what they eat. Most of those guys seem pretty healthy to me.

New comment by dokyun in "You have reached the end of the internet (2006)"

dokyun — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 09:09:13 +0000

You should play Metal Gear Solid 2, or at least watch the last codec call[1]. See how much you can apply what it talks about to the current year. This game came out a month after 9/11.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKl6WjfDqYA

New comment by dokyun in "Coursera to combine with Udemy"

dokyun — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:47:37 +0000

Snake oil

New comment by dokyun in "The web runs on tolerance"

dokyun — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:34:00 +0000

What the web runs on is freedom, the freedom to express and disseminate any information one pleases with impunity. That prominent figureheads embrace the hateful ideologies that you speak of is merely a tide of the current times, and will change as soon as they become unpopular, just as they had quit embracing this "tolerance" which was in full force a few years prior. Because they are not about a hate of people, but hate of freedom: hate is merely a pretense, a convenient vehicle through which freedoms can be taken. I think freedom is the most important thing worth fighting for, and you had my support up until now. But then you go on to say that those outside your own window of ideology have no place here. It's much the same methods that the people you complain of employ: to be disingenuous about what you really want-- it's your inability to force your will upon others that you're frustrated with. You have missed the forest for the trees, and the context has already been created for you: you are projecting a battle for the rights of certain groups onto a battle against the rights of all, and you've been turned against yourself. Freedom is something, if you believe in it, you must believe in in its entirety: not almost-freedom, or a convenient sliver of freedom that fits into your own ideological window. You lack the qualifications to exercise tolerance.

New comment by dokyun in "Why use OpenBSD?"

dokyun — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 18:09:04 +0000

Slackware

New comment by dokyun in "Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel"

dokyun — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 02:37:13 +0000

Rust's technical choices seem to make releasing GPL software with it cumbersome and unattractive. Also the implied goal of a lot of Rust projects is to replace GPL'ed programs with permissive ones.

New comment by dokyun in "Hard Rust requirements from May onward"

dokyun — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:36:18 +0000

It's a toy. Cool project, but it's a replacement for something that already exists and does its job well. All it demonstrates is "we micro-optimized our libraries more than GNU". It doesn't say anything about the advantages of Rust itself.

New comment by dokyun in "Hard Rust requirements from May onward"

dokyun — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 09:10:08 +0000

News flash, but Lisp compilers have gotten better since the 80's. In general, normal, unoptimized Lisp is probably on-par with Java, while optimized Lisp with a good compiler can get on par with C++. SBCL is a very good compiler, and GC technology has come a long way.

New comment by dokyun in "Hard Rust requirements from May onward"

dokyun — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 08:59:03 +0000

Oh wow a replacement for a tool I already have. It's slightly faster, even if I seldom ever worry about its speed. Who cares?

New comment by dokyun in "Hard Rust requirements from May onward"

dokyun — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:32:52 +0000

Rust isn't 'delivering value', people are just drinking the koolaid. CL has its niches, and it still fills them well: it's never been that successful as a general-purpose language.

New comment by dokyun in "Rick Beato is right to rant about music copyright strikes"

dokyun — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 07:33:38 +0000

+1 for Soulseek