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New comment by munchlax in "Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?"

munchlax — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:28:02 +0000

Only in English.

New comment by munchlax in "Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?"

munchlax — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:12:18 +0000

Perhaps because they is plural. Plural is reserved for the royal family in some cultures.

New comment by munchlax in "Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?"

munchlax — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:09:55 +0000

There exists makefiles that don't allow DESTDIR, as in

  mkdir derp
  gmake install DESTDIR=$PWD/derp

Distribution maintainers have to patch this :(

New comment by munchlax in "Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works"

munchlax — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 07:55:38 +0000

That was almost never the case. We just didn't know any better

New comment by munchlax in "Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files"

munchlax — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:47:16 +0000

I've replaced all my GPT disklabels with Sun disklabels because I refuse to let them talk.

UEFI still boots. Spec said it can boot from fat in an eltorito floppy image and sun disklabels sit in the second or so sector. Spec also said it abstracts the type of volume so all boot methods always work for all drives. ISO images don't use the first 4kB so it doesn't see there's disklabel at all

So now I can mount the ssd as iso9660 but there's also partitions on it of which the third spans the entire drive (of course, because that's the c partition)

New comment by munchlax in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

munchlax — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:19:26 +0000

And ridiculously expensive

New comment by munchlax in "Keep Android Open"

munchlax — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:27:45 +0000

Not neccesarily a guise of security, but perhaps a different means of security. E.g. securing stock investments, profits, monies, etc. Nothing is 100% secure, you can't be in the void and still call it a void, etc

New comment by munchlax in "Keep Android Open"

munchlax — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:23:23 +0000

I bet those are just a rounding error to their profits.

New comment by munchlax in "Keep Android Open"

munchlax — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:22:28 +0000

I think it is and it doesn't just end there. It's develop and distribute binaries.

Everyone is still free to develop and distribute source code.

New comment by munchlax in "Keep Android Open"

munchlax — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:17:21 +0000

And good lock unlocking anything over 5 years old because the updated website doesn't support what you've got. Been there, it sucks.

New comment by munchlax in "Keep Android Open"

munchlax — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:14:06 +0000

It doesn't make sense to choose between a snake that bit you and another that bit you earlier.

If you don't want to be bitten, get out of the snake pit.

New comment by munchlax in "Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud"

munchlax — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:22:58 +0000

Of course! Sell the disease and the cure.

New comment by munchlax in "Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)"

munchlax — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:38:07 +0000

Yup. There's always some kind of tool anyway so why not. I mean, even if you read the logs as they come out of a screaming line printer, the tool is the thing that takes log messages and spits them out the printer port.

How hard can it be to write a log cat utility in awk?

New comment by munchlax in "Recall for Linux"

munchlax — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:34:28 +0000

*the goverment and foreign espionage agencies

FTFY

New comment by munchlax in "OpenBSD C/C++ Toolchain in the Browser"

munchlax — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:27:32 +0000

Thanks. That may well be enough to trash firefox all day.

New comment by munchlax in "Recall for Linux"

munchlax — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:24:13 +0000

Who knows how many ways there are to exfiltrate data. Without software (and hardware) freedom, you can never tell what's going on.

New comment by munchlax in "Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends"

munchlax — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:55:23 +0000

It's the amount of BSD you have from gross BSD after paying all the technical debts.

New comment by munchlax in "Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends"

munchlax — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:47:21 +0000

And let me guess... You haven't had to replace them since?

New comment by munchlax in "The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel"

munchlax — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:34:49 +0000

The author of the work can call it whatever he wants

New comment by munchlax in "An Update on TinyKVM"

munchlax — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:32:50 +0000

I admit I havent investigated this thoroughly, but I suspect the low hanging fruit in the tinykvm case is having rw access to /dev/kvm

I think it should be possible to pass /dev/kvm as an open fd to daemons like kvm server and mark it as non-inheritable. As long as the vm is in a subprocess it would be okay I guess.