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Comment · 5 years ago
There is fairly new Zeiss camera that implemented the whole "camera OS" with Android and even included mobile Lightroom editing capabilities. I guess it's as close as it gets right now. My theory is that the main Japanese companies are extremely conservative and they don't pick up such changes easily - see how Canon and Nikon completely missed mirrorless and suffered huge market loss to Sony.
Comment · 5 years ago
But of course they have - every major smartphone manufacturer is eating the whole consumer camera market alive for quite few years now.
Comment · 5 years ago
One of very important reasons why FreeBSD haven't incorporated the patches from HardenedBSD was that their code quality was disputed and historically the author had issues with undergoing reviews and applying requested changes. HardenedBSD may do a very good job for the PR about their "superior security" but one may wonder if a system without badly implemented feature isn't more secure than the one with it.
Comment · 5 years ago
You need to be aware that while pledge is a security technology, linux containers aren't. Pledge was designed as another security layer, while containers were designed as "management" or "separation" layer, but not strictly as security measure - read up on how bad is to run things as a root in a container.
Comment · 5 years ago
You may not be aware, but recently Uber drivers have been recognised as actual employees in UK by the court.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I wouldn't be so hasty in saying that Jails implementation doesn't suffer either - there are dragons there too, it wasn't all just designed and written in one go, there are layers upon layers and it is not all pink and unicorns as it perhaps initially was ;)

RunC isn't "their own implementation" but rather an OCI (Open Containers Initiative) standard that world seems to be adopting and I wish FreeBSD Jails would be a part of it.

Comment · 5 years ago
No, it doesn't and this is where an initially "superior" technology (Jails existed years ago, I was using them at least 15 years back in time) gets overrun by "inferior" tech (Linux containers), because the latter gets a user oriented tooling, packaging and so on (no flame war intended at all). Now the Linux container is much more "superior" as it catch'd up and exceeded Jails in many areas, especially user oriented readiness and integration.
Comment · 5 years ago
Actually, you don't need another copy of userland. You merely need a dedicated space for the jailed OS (assuming we're talking OS-style jails, not process-style ones) to write the things OS writes to (devices, logs, etc.). You could get away with null mounting your host filesystem and then mounting writeable space on top of it. Once I've had read-only mounts for my jails, for funsies.
Comment · 5 years ago
While I agree it's easy in hindsight, you're not comparing apples to oranges here: comparing the comment author to a person running a business, with very high expertise in particular subject (chip making) and general subject (technology), having access to information not accessible to others (Apple plans and visions about the product, tech specs required, price asked, etc.) is not even close to being the same thing. I can see how a much better decision could be made very realistically given that expertise and information no one else had and yet the worst possible was made.
Comment · 5 years ago
What's the point of using Pi 4 when it is also ARM cpu? You can use the Docker beta on your M1 mac and it's going to be a better experience.
Comment · 5 years ago
I've experienced something like that as well. Depending on what you can do, try a different monitor and/or different cable and/or different dongle. I've managed to find a combination that doesn't do that anymore.
Comment · 5 years ago
They don't let engineers design and implement UX/UI's but instead have them create properly designed UX/UI by UX/UI people who know what they're doing? It does make sense, I have no idea where does the notion of engineers doing UX/UI came from, would we want UX/UI people to actually code the software delivering their designs? ;)

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