In fact I’ve used a 100 foot fiber optic DisplayPort cable that I “just bought” on Amazon, admittedly for a LOT of money (like, I think it was about $100 USD, 3 years ago or so).
I just wish they sold the transceivers separately from the fiber. Being able to use any random length of cheap off-the-shelf SMF/MMF fiber would be so much more convenient than having to get a custom one-off cable.
They exist for medium-speed HDMI (see for example [0]), but I haven't seen them for modern high-speed DP yet.
Huh, I thought I had mine earlier. Mine was from May 2021. They were very very new and had very few reviews, and it was $56. For a 100' fiber optic cable that promised 8k60 and was light.
This cable is absurdly long. I have no idea how to coil it nicely. At my last place I had three stories, and would sometimes just dangle most of it down to the ground then wind it up from the roof.
Whoa, this sent me back. I cut my teeth on Red Hat Linux 5.2 (pre-RHEL), and I remember when they first added Bluecurve… oh jeez, this means im old, doesn’t it?
If you want point-to-point communication between two network namespaces, you should use veths[1]. I think virtual patch cables is a good mental model for veths.
If you want multiple participants, you use bridges, which are roughly analogous to switches.
That would create an excessive amount of bridges in my case. Also this is another trivial suggestion that anyone can find with a quick search or asking an LLM. Not helpful.
I'm not sure why people are replying to my comment with solutioning and trivial suggestions. All I did was encourage the thread OP to publish their notes. FWIW I've already been through a lot of options for solving my issue, and I've settled on one for now.
During Vista times MS introduced this modal window spawning shortly after system was booted for the first time.
It was asking user to join Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program (lovely classic MS name by the way) [1]. By default top option was marked and clicking bottom one with "No" would still keep the "Save Changes" button grayed out up until you clicked twice on it and only then it would allow you to made the decision.
I think the parent comment means that Ladybird is fighting to be an additional browser engine in the current ecosystem of “Chromium and a couple of tiny, unimportant competitors.”
However, on the subject of the other meaning of “diversity,” and whether or not it is in the business models of either of these projects, I think we have pretty conclusive evidence that actually it is NOT a core value to either of them:
As someone directly affected by this sort of thing, I really want nothing to do with either project.
I also can’t help but notice that this “tech-right smell” is about the only thing that these two projects seem to have in common with one another, making me question Cloudflare’s intentions with this.
Netgate are _terrible_ at open source, though — they’re shit at accepting contributions, they’re shit at providing attribution, and they’re shit at providing any support whatsoever to anyone who prefers other hardware (even with their paid software).
Well there was that time you guys paid that absolute nutjob to write a 60,000 line of code disaster Wireguard client. Which you then shipped to customers and tried to force-commit to the FreeBSD project because you wanted a marketing advantage
Your behavior in this thread and this comment especially reflect poorly on you and your company. You've come swinging with something irrelevant to the conversation at hand. I'd never heard of this company, but I'll keep this in mind for the future, and I will perform similar espionage to what you've done.
yes, I contracted with Matt Macy, and I'd do it again, but he's well-employed now.
Funny how you didn't complain about his current employment at AWS, or his previous work at iX Systems (trueNAS, primarily responsible for the port of ZFS on Linux to FreeBSD) or the fact that the whole epoch based reclamation in the FreeBSD kernel is based on his work.
I don't know about newer devices, but the older ones (the Edge* devices) had software based on Vyatta. Not sure if that was in turn based on Debian, though.
This is kind of neat. I appreciate how well it falls into the whole Unix philosophy of small tools that do one thing really well.
One thing I’m kind of curious about from a UI standpoint is why the exponential argument isn’t a double-hyphen flag. It kind of feels like it should be, given all of the other arguments are flags.
Thanks! That was the intention. There's a tool called `retry` which does an even better job by caching stdin so that it can be integrated into shell pipelines.
I was thinking of it as a subcommand, like `git pull`. I think of the backoff schedules as different "modes" the command can be put into, each with their own set of arguments. I also made some questionable design decisions and coupled too closely to the CLI argument parser (`clap`), which would make it a big pain to back out of that decision.
