That's what an interview process is for. Personality tests are garbage - some people just LOVE Myers-Briggs, but it's complete hokum.

Even California can ban dupes or force Slashdot editors to... read Slashdot.

Yeah, I think there's a pretty big difference between paying somebody to put your brand name on a product they create and produce and designing something and contracting out manufacturing. I don't _think_ the Onn/Durabrand stuff is actually designed and managed under a Walmart-owned company, they just go to Funai or whoever and say "we want a line of 4K TVs that we can retail for $299" (and next year they may pick a different supplier). Support and warranty handling is independent of Walmart; Vizio may contract that out, but again, they still manage it which IMHO is different. If Walmart doesn't like the TVs they get from Vizio in 2025 (assuming this goes through), they can't just call someone else for the 2026 line (unless they want to write off the purchase or fire a bunch of people and hire replacements).

Many (if not most or even all) of those are not actually made by Walmart, they're made by other companies under contract (like most "store brands" at grocery stores and such). There's a big difference in paying someone else to slap your label on the box and actually manufacturing the contents.

Xbox tried HD-DVD with an external drive for the Xbox 360 in 2006 and cancelled it shortly after. I don't think any games used it, it was just for video discs. The Xbox One and later models use Blu-Ray (or no optical drive at all)... the One X and Series X support UHD Blu-Ray video discs, unlike the Playstation.

MONOPOLY!

How can this pass even the barest scrutiny?

The discussion in question is purely about virtual filesystems like /proc and /sys, where inodes don't really exist or matter (you already can't just tar up those filesystems, so unique inodes don't matter). The reason Linus got hot is that the same person keeps making broken code submissions to "fix" something that is not a problem (and instead making more problems in the process), and has so far apparently mostly ignored the more gentle approach.

On the other hand, someone else has been working on another virtual FS, and he and Linus (and Al Viro, the lead VFS dev) have had a long back and forth and productive discussion about issues and how to fix them.

If you do your homework on how to integrate with the existing systems, can describe what you are doing, and take productive feedback, Linus and most of the other kernel developers are just fine to work with. This is not "news", this is somebody looking to MAKE news of "see Linus is a bad person!" because someone else repeatedly poked him until he got mad.

wuarchive.wustl.edu (Washington University in St. Louis) which gave us the wu-ftpd server software that was widely used on other sites

sunsite.unc.edu (University of North Carolina) was another large FTP repository for free software

sciences.sdsu.edu (San Diego State University) had a bunch of music (like movie/TV themes) in Sun AU format... if you had a fast enough connection, you could get them straight to /dev/audio - streaming music before anybody called it that!

Okay, but common consumer storage is not durable. Not floppy, not CD/DVD/Blu-Ray, not flash.

T-Mobile is a wireless provider - it's a 5G cell service.

I use it just about whenever it's available, and I very rarely have an issue (less than once per year I'd say). I had something double-scan last fall, took like 30 seconds to get the person over to show and clear it.

While there's still occasionally queuing, I don't have to pick one line and hope it doesn't get blocked by a slowpoke (because self-checkout usually has bank-style single-queue for multiple checkouts), I don't have to have idle chit-chat with a clerk or bagger, and I get to bag things my way (so don't throw a gallon of milk in a bag with bread or something dumb like that). It's also not like clerk check-out is 100% perfect, they'll occasionally double-scan something, run out of receipt paper, etc. I find that self-checkout is faster and smoother for me.

This sounds like it's saying that FreeBSD's drivers suck, but that's okay because Linux's drivers suck. Except... I run Fedora Linux on some Pi 4Bs, and I don't have any problem with drivers (and they're not "half-assed proprietary blobs" either, Fedora uses what's in the upstream kernel). Some things didn't work in Fedora at first because the necessary drivers weren't upstreamed yet, but I think that's all past now.

I haven't tried FreeBSD in ages (been running Linux since before FreeBSD existed), so I don't know how good or bad the hardware drivers really are.

Four gets a rising emphasis, five is just an afterthought.

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Yeah, but them some weird desert guy with a random collection of kids shows up and steals your machine and engineer.

OpenSSH is far from the only SSH client or server implementation. Dropbear (MIT license) is widely used in embedded systems. libssh (LGPL v2.1+) and libssh2 (BSD 3-clause) also implement the protocol and are used by a number of software projects for SSH client access (although I don't think there's currently a straight terminal client, or a server, based on either, but the hard part is there should someone want it).

And funny you mention zlib as a project that is "done"... there's a fork of zlib to roll up a bunch of updates and optimizations that the original author hasn't accepted. Fedora for example is in the process of switching over to zlib-ng.