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  • I love how the same people who try to drag me towards using Git are the only people who seem to have serious problems working on their code when a website goes down.

  • But Git is so great because it is so decentralised. Everyone says that. I should use Git, they say, because Git still works offline and it's so decentralised. And doesn't depend on centralised servers like ‘the evil SVN’. Then that shouldn't be a problem for anyone ;-)

  • A mac would be a nightmare, in the worst case it “would just work”. Unacceptable.

    That sounds exactly like the reason why Linux behaves like it does. ;-)

  • Sounds like you should get a Mac.

    Be that as it may, I would like to be constructive for a change:

    Why does every distro need yet another package manager? Yay/pacman I get because it seems to build it. Though I don’t understand why, other than AUR. APT is so nice and easy… I hope DNF is the same.

    RPM - which DNF uses - is the standard package format for Linux ;-) The problem seems to me to be that every distribution does not attach any importance to something like common standards.

  • Oh no, two of the worst companies have left, all we have left now are (...) Google, apple, Microsoft, Uber

    So, all that's left is even worse? ;-)

  • Wait, people still use Twitter?

  • That's not too hard, given that NetBSD is a niche in a niche. But a permanent Plan 9 server account which I do not have to keep running sounds intriguing... thank you!

  • What happens with the Plan 9 system after the boot camp has ended? From what I can see on that site, their Plan 9 shenanigans will end by mid-September. (SDF is NetBSD-centric AFAIK.)

  • Venti/Fossil are awesome for a Plan 9 network. Sadly, the world isn’t Plan 9. TIL about gefs though.

  • I wish someone would port Python and BorgBackup to it. Venti/Fossil are not quite as nice for multi-OS backups.

  • OpenSMTPD is the default OpenBSD “sendmail”

    Not quite. OpenSMTPD is OpenBSD's default smtpd though (and it is portable!).

    Rspamd - basic spam filter

    It can be configured to be rather complicated if you wish. :-)

  • Or XFS.

  • Surprisingly many people don't need the "modern" "web" for daily driving.

  • 7.14% unknown!

    The year of Plan 9 on the desktop!

  • ... who, ironically, co-founded reddit and wrote its first second version.