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New comment by gtech1 in "GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown"

gtech1 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:48:08 +0000

Because I don't trust someone else to not train or steal our source code, or, even legally, introduce some silly cause after we are invested/locked into their infra, that allows them to do whatever with our property.

And on equal footing, I trust our security more than theirs. Case in point.

New comment by gtech1 in "GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown"

gtech1 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:38 +0000

Ah, you assumed I meant SaaS GitLab. I meant the self-hosted version. I would never host our source code on a remote service.

New comment by gtech1 in "GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown"

gtech1 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:00:39 +0000

GitLab ?

New comment by gtech1 in "The RAM shortage could last years"

gtech1 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:16:17 +0000

ok...there's no 'general' IQ afaik

New comment by gtech1 in "The RAM shortage could last years"

gtech1 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:15:43 +0000

> I think Douglas Hofstadter satisfactorily answered this question.

He didn't prove anything. It's a theory, just like many others: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-higher/

> Sure we can, it's just that most people don't like the answer.

Again, not proven

New comment by gtech1 in "The RAM shortage could last years"

gtech1 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:19:55 +0000

We don't even know what human consciousness is. We can't even answer if we have free will or not. And you are proposing that AGI..is what exactly ?

New comment by gtech1 in "Back to FreeBSD: Part 1"

gtech1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:05:53 +0000

Weird, I feel I'm talking to an LLM with a limited context window.

>>Centos didn’t go away. It changed. Rocky (et. al.) took the old centos role, and >>I see this as a win/win for everybody. >>Ubuntu is the disaster Linux distro, I won’t touch Ubuntu if I have any other >>option.

>> All I said was I hated ubuntu

(???)

take care now

New comment by gtech1 in "Back to FreeBSD: Part 1"

gtech1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:27:22 +0000

You actually said Rocky was a successor to CentOS as well, which is what I responded to. As someone that tried to upgrade CentOS to Rocky, I can tell you that it may succeed it in name only, if that's what you meant. Physically you have to start over. If you re-read my first reply, I said as much originally.

New comment by gtech1 in "Back to FreeBSD: Part 1"

gtech1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:55:55 +0000

So what's your point then ? That these are toy/homelab distros ? If so, then we are in agreement

New comment by gtech1 in "Back to FreeBSD: Part 1"

gtech1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:44:40 +0000

And knowing all this you still can't see what the use case might be for BSD ?

New comment by gtech1 in "Back to FreeBSD: Part 1"

gtech1 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:27:18 +0000

So then what's the point of mentioning Rocky as CentOS's successor ? In what way is it 'succeeding' ? That you can do a fresh install of Rocky ? And those stuck on CentOS can't upgrade ? Really useful those decades of support if your distro goes belly up

New comment by gtech1 in "Back to FreeBSD: Part 1"

gtech1 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:49:00 +0000

I actually laughed out loud. Try upgrading CentOS to Rocky vs FreeBSD 11 to 15 ( that's FOUR major versions from 2017 I think ), and tell me again how good it is.

In LTS environments where I need to upgrade OS's, FreeBSD is a no-brainer.

New comment by gtech1 in "Back to FreeBSD: Part 1"

gtech1 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:51:29 +0000

*everything. I've really been using it since 4.x. Imagine this: being able to upgrade a system in-place with freebsd-update from minor to major to minor version without everything breaking or having to say a prayer before. And that's just one thing I love about it. Clear separation of userland (/usr/local/etc), rock-solid stability in networking, zfs on root.

I had to do 'bonded' interfaces on Debian the other day. It's what, 5 different config files depending on which 'network manager' you use. In FreeBSD it's 5 lines in /etc/rc.conf and you're done.

And don't even get me started on betting which distribution (ahem CentOS) will go away next.

New comment by gtech1 in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

gtech1 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:59:50 +0000

Bingo. Most of my employees come from big tech (not faang, but big corps ) where they felt they couldn't really deliver what they wanted and what they're capable of. These guys love to not just code, but to create and deliver stuff.

New comment by gtech1 in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

gtech1 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:00:45 +0000

My team of 6 people has been building a software to compete with an already established piece of software written by a major software corporation. I'm not saying we'll succeed, I'm not saying we'll be better nor that we will cover every corner case they do and that they learned over the past 30 years. But 6 senior devs are getting stuff done at an insane pace. And if we can _attempt_ to do this, which would have been unthinkable 2 years ago, I can only wonder what will happen next.

New comment by gtech1 in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

gtech1 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:47:27 +0000

Just hired a 45yo who excels and loves and thrives doing this stuff. Proxmox, local storage, local backups + offsite backups. 1Pb of data, colocation costs are 5k/month. Guess AWS costs for similar

New comment by gtech1 in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

gtech1 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:22:45 +0000

What a joke of a comment. Trump and Musk and Vance explicitly support every anti-EU party in a half-dozen EU countries. Cuz they wanna make EU stronger, durrr.

New comment by gtech1 in "Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows"

gtech1 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:49:12 +0000

Italy, the core remnant of the Roman Empire, has unmatched language diversity, often varies even from town to town. It's a colorful mosaic of micro cultures and customs where people from one region using different words for venom/poison is completely normal, in their local dialect. Everyone speaks standard Italian though.

You've never visited Italy ? They're not that far away and I'm sure you'll love it.

New comment by gtech1 in "Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows"

gtech1 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:05:21 +0000

This is fascinating, assuming you are both natives of Poland. Is there as much language variance in Poland as in, say, Italy ?

New comment by gtech1 in "Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows"

gtech1 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 03:51:56 +0000

How does this happen ? The poster above you isn't really Polish ? How can someone that claims to know Polish not know there's two different words ?