>Nice to see you post defamatory posts using your real name on a public forum Johnathan. >https://github.com/jondubois >Matt is a nice guy, shame if this comment got to him directly. I noticed this reply to your comment…
An interesting counter-point, but rather poorly written, and far too short. You need to flesh your ideas and accusations out properly, and your ending line makes for a lazy and frankly rather pathetic conclusion. You…
Thank you for reminding me why I read HN comment sections. I appreciate this sort of earnest, well-intentioned dialogue. It is unfortunately not so prevalent on the wider web.
The issue of official binpatches is not a critical problem, but it is still a problem. It is a security and usability issue simply not present in the vast majority of nix systems, and that should be acknowledged rather…
We are not talking about the same thing. I am not arguing they should be more responsible for third-party codebases, this is not an issue of ports vs base. This is far more an issue of infrastructure, of source vs…
The fact that virtually every other nix system, large and small, can provide this standard functionality, and the OpenBSD project cannot. Having to rely on third parties for convenient updates is an obvious potential…
Does it seem a little embarrassing to anyone else that this is necessary? OpenBSD is supposedly the most secure nix platform available, and yet users have to resort to third-parties to get functionality that is…
What he seems to be getting at is a much larger, more revolutionary approach to not just "the web", but "the internet" as we know it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking
>Nice to see you post defamatory posts using your real name on a public forum Johnathan. >https://github.com/jondubois >Matt is a nice guy, shame if this comment got to him directly. I noticed this reply to your comment…
An interesting counter-point, but rather poorly written, and far too short. You need to flesh your ideas and accusations out properly, and your ending line makes for a lazy and frankly rather pathetic conclusion. You…
Thank you for reminding me why I read HN comment sections. I appreciate this sort of earnest, well-intentioned dialogue. It is unfortunately not so prevalent on the wider web.
The issue of official binpatches is not a critical problem, but it is still a problem. It is a security and usability issue simply not present in the vast majority of nix systems, and that should be acknowledged rather…
We are not talking about the same thing. I am not arguing they should be more responsible for third-party codebases, this is not an issue of ports vs base. This is far more an issue of infrastructure, of source vs…
The fact that virtually every other nix system, large and small, can provide this standard functionality, and the OpenBSD project cannot. Having to rely on third parties for convenient updates is an obvious potential…
Does it seem a little embarrassing to anyone else that this is necessary? OpenBSD is supposedly the most secure nix platform available, and yet users have to resort to third-parties to get functionality that is…
What he seems to be getting at is a much larger, more revolutionary approach to not just "the web", but "the internet" as we know it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking