TIL openssh, xorg, apache, nginx, all of *bsds are cuck-licensed.

While GPL-licensed linux, used by every corp out there, is not.

but since it’s protected under the GPL, Busybox developers were able to sue them and gain some money in the process.

Don’t need to steal anything. Lots of today’s usage doesn’t involve giving a binary to the customer. Thus Google, FB and who else don’t have to share any of their internal changes to Linux.

Google some sites, visit some empty IRC channels, dream of the future for a bit, then turn it off

I’m using ipv6 when I occasionally connect to Yggdrasil.

And I think I’ll use ipv6 if we ever need to build a new earthnet.

It’s a fine technology.

There were a few good lenses for Unity, like the porn one.

May have something to do with computers as they exist being defined by male psychology. Well, it’s understandable why swords, guns, rockets are, and same with computers.

Basically sending instructions to change state. I don’t know how can a computer exist which doesn’t work like this and is still usable for the humanity, but this seems to be psychologically a bit more of a male thing. Maybe there’s nothing problematic for women but aesthetics there.

If it’s something deeper, then maybe some analog optical\quantum\whatever computers of the future will push us to change paradigms for some drastic change in efficiency. And maybe those new paradigms will be more appealing to women.

I actually don’t remember why I lost my patience and just tried Void then (4 years ago). Maybe had something to do with installing a Linux on a laptop after using only FreeBSD for some time, and sound setup and brightness control being confusing (actually everything in Linux is more clumsy and messy, so wanted a simple distribution).

Debian I like, but it has a bit older versions of packages, as everyone knows, and also kernel versions, thus hardware support.

Fedora - I don’t like the culture.

OpenSUSE - I like it, but didn’t bother back then and now why change anything.

Arch - I don’t like the idea of regularly solving problems which can be avoided by maintainers. AUR is attractive. The culture of clueless people proud of the fact that they installed Arch is a bit irritating.

Gentoo and Funtoo - I like them, but time spent on compilation could be used better.

Slackware - my favorite distribution, but it’s a bit manual, so even more chores than with Arch. I think I might try it again.

And also Void has something just a bit similar to FreeBSD ports. I’d prefer it to be a real ports collection like in CRUX (which I might try some day), and I use pkgsrc anyway for such things now.

By importance, descending:

First, I don’t like people promoting systemd. I don’t need it more than other init systems. It’s about picking the right group.

Second, I want a simple distribution so I use Void, which famously uses runit. It’s about being lazy.

Third, I don’t like the idea of it sprouting dependencies which it shouldn’t. It’s about paranoia. See recent news with a backdoor which wouldn’t work if not for this.

Even under FreeBSD and OpenBSD they use GCC for things requiring it, which kinda highlights Gentoo philosophy’s problem in this regard. Setting USE flags mostly globally seems like a cool idea, but when for customization it gets down to setting them for every package - one could as well use FreeBSD ports.

I think there were binary packages for it and Firefox, I wasn’t completely unprepared.

12 hours, yes? My first Gentoo install took like 3 times that for all the things stupid me wanted to have.

Same.

Ubuntu. Couldn’t use Unity, so then installed Mint with Cinnamon.

Maybe you’re grown and still dealing with that, but either way: using the term normies is not going to help at all, I assure you.

This seems common sense to you, right?

Well, I, being almost 28, am just starting to realize that you should carefully measure both respect and disrespect, and there may be too little or too much of both.

Maybe not “social butterfly”, I’m just thinking of all the people thinking they now know what is serious in life. A surprising amount don’t have complex hobbies or even deep cultural familiarity with their own profession.

And if that profession is more about talking to people than about conceptualization (many typical office jobs), or maybe it is descriptive, not creative (like many liberal arts degrees), they are going to be dismissive of people who actually make things.

Watching and doing is different, and people watching often think too much of their ability to do stuff, just like with sports or music or cars or warfare or porn.

EDIT: The point was that sometimes it’s better to be honest and use such means to inform people that they don’t know what they are talking about.

It implies them having that complex, thinking they know better than, as another comment pointed out, some nerds.

You know, that kind of people thinking their degree of social anthropology or whatever makes them smarter than you in every area. Because whatever they are doing is important and whatever you are doing is toys for nerds.

Some people seem to think you can just Google stuff

If you are a junior sysadmin - sure as hell you can and you will. Not everything has good manpages. Not every configuration of something is trivial to imagine, and it is useful to see what somebody else did.

I could freeze like that because of being only shy/nervous, just saying. Over things I knew.

Say, “what it does” may bear different weight when you are autistic. You try to grasp the thing from iron to logic to computers to B-trees to database itself etc.

To know that you only have to say a simple thing also requires experience which juniors may not have.

The main reason I’ve never done anything illegal online (not counting piracy) is that I’m confident I’ve been that stupid many times and will be if I do.

It would appear then that no MacOS before 14.0 Sonoma is a certified Unix. Which is obviously false. Which means that your implication that this page lists everything certified is wrong.

I said “releases”, because these were specific versions a few years ago. Perhaps nothing relevant today was certified, still what I remember is not that different from the mundane Red Hat of the same year.

Which is all useless talk cause when we say Unix as something important, we mean “genetic Unix”, as in something of being derived from the same code base, culture, philosophy, etc, not “legal Unix” as a trademark, because that’s not the only cool-looking word one can imagine to name an OS.

So obviously BSDs are real Unix then, Linux is something weird and MacOS is bullshit.

Certification is irrelevant really. There are Linux distribution releases which have been certified, just like MacOS.

I use Void Linux because I don’t have too much free time (for figuring out all the little moments with configuring something more automated like Debian for my laptop, or for compiling stuff in Gentoo, or for micromanaging Slackware).