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  • Mikrotik is pretty decent but their configuration method drives me up a wall. Ansible helps mitigate the annoyance, at least (in that I only have to figure out/remember the arcane incantation for configuring VLANs once, and then subsequently just have the machine do it).

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  • You think you can just go into starbucks, and present your butthole, to all who look at you, while also sleeping on their counter?

    I mean, anybody can do pretty much anything they want at least once.

  • Linus Torvalds is "fed up" with making kernel changes to address faulty hardware
  • There are chipset design issues and there are firmware issues. The former is much more difficult to address quickly than the latter, sure.

    Torvalds's point, though, is that hardware developers (Intel specifically) keep making changes that "fix" imaginary problems while screwing over compatibility, and trying to shift the onus of making it work to the volunteers who contribute to open source instead of just paying their engineers to produce working firmware.

    If the problem were only with defective silicon, I'd agree with you (to an extent), but this is not really an issue with the circuits.

  • Network Switch
  • Point of clarification: DAC is copper, AOC is fiber.

    A lot of 10G equipment will support 5G/2.5G SFPs as well, so it can still be beneficial to go 10G on the core equipment.

  • Are there any negatives side effects to using PGP all the time with email?
  • Signing every message should have zero effect for people who don't use PGP; they'll just have a cryptic block of text at the bottom of the message you sent.

    It's overkill to ship your pubkey with every email. Most people just publish to a trusted keyserver and call it a day since pretty much every client worth its salt can look up your pubkey directly.

  • Why are politicians doing nothing for first time home buyers?
  • One way they could increase the housing supply is by severely taxing corporate ownership of single-family homes (and possibly low-occupancy multi-family homes like duplexes).

    Give it a grace period, say... 3 months (to cover the cases where a bank forecloses and is sole owner while the house is auctioned), then charge like 95% tax on market value every quarter.

  • Contribute, they said. It would be fun, they said.
  • Ted Ts'o was way out of line in that conference and was clearly channeling his inner ca. 2001 Torvalds.

    I think Rust is a better path forward for a majority of the kernel/driver code maintained currently, but it is definitely going to take time for it to gain a foothold. I also think there is some condescension on both sides that is completely unjustified and needs to stop.

    The hardline C devs that don't want to learn Rust need to accept that at some point they will have to either adapt or pass the torch, and that no amount of whining or bitching in public forums is going to change that.

    The Rust devs that are getting upset because people are "attacking" their favorite language need to accept that there will be substantial and impassioned resistance to making broad language changes to a set of projects that have existed for decades. It would be an uphill battle for any language to try to supersede C in the kernel; this is not a condemnation or attack on Rust or its zealots, it's a matter of momentum and greybeard stubbornness.

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