port forwarding/firewall issues that most people don’t know how to deal with

This sort of thing makes me want to tear my hair out when I hear “Why bother rolling out IPv6 when IPv4 just WORKS!?”

NAT, port forwarding and the problems they cause are seen as expected, just the way the internet works instead of the dirty hacks they actually are. Most people aren’t old enough to remember the time when everything connected to the internet had a routable IPv4 address.

It generates an answer that looks correct. Actual correctness is accidental. That’s how you wind up with documents with references that don’t exist, it just knows what references look like.

At least they aren’t trying to get Steam to work on Kali.

You couldn’t crank your CPU in the olden days, it’d make games run in fast forward.

Nobody wants to deliberately use the wrong compression type when extracting, so modern tar will figure out the compression itself if you just point it at a file. So tar -xf filename works on almost anything. You don’t need to remember which flag to use on a .tar.bz2 file and which one for a .tar.xz file.

And we’re pronouncing it JIMP?

“Hey, here’s a useful thing that I recommend to people: <your work>”

It’s basically a compliment

I remember hearing during lockdown that sales of business pants had tanked, but sales of business shirts hadn’t.

It was originally one computer that everyone connected to, it wasn’t a fleet of separate computers like Windows PCs.

12% of humans believe we aren’t apes

All humans are apes, those people more so than most.

it’s a good beginner distro because getting thrown into deep water is how one learns to swim

That’s… not how it works, for distros or for actual swimming. Usually when someone who can’t swim is thrown into deep water, they drown and/or reinstall Windows which is much the same thing.

Isn’t this the guy who got called out for trying to use social media brigading to force Linux kernel rust patches through? There’s a good chance those stalkers are fictional.

It’s not 2024, and the inability to hide things has apparently just made it more blatant when we decide to ignore genocide.

Going along is easy until it ends with shit like the Holocaust.

Have you seen the reactions every time someone suggests it’d be nice if Israel stopped shooting people and taking their land? We’re pro-genocide now.

The benchmarks are against vanilla Wine. A lot of people are using the fsync patches, so ntsync is more about accuracy - things that didn’t work under fsync should work under ntsync.

Instead of choosing between accuracy and performance hacks, ntsync should do it properly.

Or an email client where you double click the link text to select it and press copy, and somehow this puts the link plus a trailing space in the clipboard to be pasted into a browser.

I wrote a bit of python earlier, do I have to send you a cheque?

Well, kind of.

Linus needs to call out bad code, it’s an important part of Linux’s quality control. He doesn’t need to tell people to kill themselves.