Indeed, ideally we could get docker on FreeBSD using the same approach as is used on macOS — automatically run (one or more) Linux VMs under bhyve.

I wonder if FreeBSD ought to consider a WSL2-style approach to Linux binary compatibility, too.

Keeping the Linux syscall compatibility layer up-to-date has always been a resource problem, especially when syscalls depend on large, complex Linux kernel subsystems that just don’t map cleanly to FreeBSD kernel facilities.

We weren’t abandoned by Apple — Apple never contributed to upstream. Darwin and OpenDarwin were APSL projects and never fed code back into FreeBSD.

Using macOS meant we got laptop hardware that worked reliably, including Wi-Fi, running a more or less BSD-derived userspace.

The lack of graphics and Wi-Fi driver support on the *BSDs is not Apple’s fault. It has always been a resource issue.

Thanks to the AT&T lawsuit, Linux secured momentum at a critical juncture — and here we are. Path dependence and the complexities of real life mean that “winning” is never just a question of technical merit.

A consequence of the license, which allows Apple and Sony to do exactly that.

I and other FreeBSD developers are okay with that — if we weren’t, we’d be using a different license.

Looking to some complaints doesn't feel like everyone is.

do you remember opendarwin? i was also at puredarwin but the project seams death

Yes, and Apple did kill it, unfortunately — but it was never an effort to push code upstream into the BSDs.

How is this not degenerate?

You know you’re going to lose.

You know the money is wasted.

You do it anyway — and knowingly just pretend those first two facts aren’t true.

Then you lose your money. Which you knew was going to happen.

Go to a movie and you are going to be put the ticket prices, it’s a money losing proposition clearly there’s no reason to do so. Obviously, people place value on some experiences so any argument which fails to consider that is flawed.

If you happen to be at a casino, make exactly one bet in your lifetime and there’s a significant chance you’ll end up ahead. On average you’ll be out money but we don’t live out every possibility and average them. It’s just one event and you could easily end up ahead, it’s only as you repeat it with minimal gains and negative returns that things quickly become a near certainty.

With Powerball the odds are low but not astronomical that you buy 1 or 1000 tickets and end up ahead. It’s the most likely outcome by a massive margin but due to non jackpot prizes a long way from zero.

However again the odds of breakeven just reduce the cost of play they aren’t the only thing people get for their money.

If they're actual flips, you don't know you're going to lose? You know your EV is 0. As others have noted, in the hierarchy of gambling a truly 0 EV game is fairly high up in the rankings if you're looking for less harm.

How would you define degenerate?

That's not really enough, is it? I didn't say we shouldn't have proof of identity.

First, do we not have proof of identity? How often should we have proof of idenity? How many cases of fraud are there per year? How large is the problem?

Second, who should issue a different proof of identity? How much should it cost? Should the requirements be left to states or the federal government?

Third, who would administer this system. Would it be public or private, or left to states? What criminal and civil law should exist for misusing this law for witholding the right to vote on this basis? Would you trust a non-Republican leadership if DHS still was the agency verifying identity documents and storing soft-copies of them?

What you want isn't unreasonable, but you leave out so many details that your reasonable statement can be misused for ill intent and denying people their right to vote.

A fair follow up question for me to you might be "how do you feel about the additional requirements for married women to get reissued vital documents when they have changed their birth name to their husband's last name in the SAVE act?" When concerns like these aren't addressed in massive changes to voting laws, it makes lots of people uncomfortable that the changes aren't made in good faith.

I prefer to be left alone with my thoughts.

Yes, 100%. I don’t want to have a surface-level conversation with a stranger.

I’m also never going to be rude about it — unless you are first. Just pick up on the obvious hints that I’m not super into talking.

We also don’t have to forcibly insert nanny software into every 3d printer in the first place.

Not doing anything and preserving maximum agency is an entirely valid choice.

Neither you, nor I, nor anyone else here, can reasonably make such a claim.

Which claim? That Jobs was not a monster or pedophile? I'm on absolutely solid ground there.

Assuming you mean whether Jobs would intensely dislike Trump, then -- what can I say? You clearly don't know anything about the guy and that's fine. But if you doubt it, you're wrong.

We were far from personal confidantes, but I had several candid conversations with him over the decades. His personal politics were never in doubt, or far from the surface. He held a special revulsion for warmongering, dishonest, scapegoating, and authoritarian-leaning US candidates and administrations.

He was always at least a bit frustrated with US economic policy. He would abhor Trump for all of the above reasons and more.

Do you have a source for that USMC trial and that “unspoken reason”?

I don’t remember any such thing at the time, and I can’t find any source for the claim.

If memory serves, the trial was covered in a sidebar in _Pen Computing Magazine_ as well as _The Marine Corps Times_, and the whole thing was discussed on comp.sys.newton a bit, with SJ not wanting to be a defense contractor being put forward as one reason among many (not profitable, not working well, bad publicity ("Eat up Martha"), pet project of Sculley, &c.)

People gleefully speed running Weimar Germany’s normalization of political violence will never cease to be amazing to me.