I'm actually building this

But there's lots of good stuff on the Internet that isn't the web or web-adjacent.

Well, that name pretty much dooms the project to a slow death in obscurity.

I think FreeBSD has some interesting technical merits, but like it or not Docker is the default for a lot of open source software, and I have neither the time nor the inclination to translate everything to freebsd jails.

I have never seen a helpful ad, anywhere, in my life.

"Ads help people discover new products" is a lie that people who work for companies supported by advertising revenue tell themselves. If $deity exists, and they were to delete all ads from the world tomorrow, never to return, everything would be just fine.

Truly great products sell themselves by word of mouth.

>After all, C/C++ is not a memory safe language.

Far from being just "C with classes", modern C++ is very different than C. The language is huge and complex, for sure, but nobody is forced to use all of it.

No HN comment can possibly cover all the use cases of C++ but in general, unless you have a very good reason not to:

- eschewing boomer loops in favor of ranges

- using RAII with smart pointers

- move semantics

- using STL containers instead of raw arrays

- borrowing using spans and string views

These things go a long way towards, shall we say, "safe-ish" code without UB. It is not memory-safe enforced at the language level, like Rust, but the upshot is you never need to deal with the Rust community :^)

My understanding is that Netflix used to use FreeBSD to serve video, but I read somewhere they're no longer using it. Not sure how true that is.

Some game consoles like the Playstation run a modified FreeBSD as their OS.

Noted, thanks.

Their claim to fame ("only two remote holes in the default install in X number of years") is definitionally only valid for the default install in its default configuration which means: no httpd, no smtpd, no unbound, etc. etc. etc.

The default install isn't very useful, because it doesn't do a lot, and so "only two remote holes" or whatever isn't really saying much.

For example: there are still CVEs popping up: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11148

Linux has more CVEs because it's orders of magnitude more popular. OpenBSD has appalling performance, and more or less nobody uses it, so there just isn't a large focus on auditing and fixing it.

It's a great research project, but I would not run it on my personal devices. Not because it's "insecure" but because the putative security benefits do not merit the shockingly poor performance.

Why is the left lung smaller, then?

My take is that when they added extra factors to the Bayesian model, the plot was such that humans were no longer outliers.

Whether or not that's scientifically rigorous, or even interesting, I leave to others to determine.

They're all e-signature.

I have not once in my entire life had to scan 40 pages at once. I bet I've never done more than 15 at once.

For the once in a blue moon that I need to scan 40 double-sided pages I'd just go to my local print shop.

But the printer comment was actually a reference to a meme about how different groups of people relate to technology.

Nobody on the Internet can ring my doorbell because it's a dumb button that connects to a dumb, literal bell.

I sit firmly in the "only smart device is my printer and I keep a loaded gun next to it in case it makes a weird noise" camp.