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Comment Re:I don't get it... (Score 1) 187

So take this chance to educate yourself.

As I said, comics is both a genre and a medium.

Due to the format of comics (generally 30 pages, once a month, emphasis on illustration over dialog), there are certain characteristics specific to that genre.

Yes, Superheroes are a genre, but that doesn't mean that comics are not also a genre. Superheroes do not define comics books.

The tropes specific to comic books define comic books, and there are enough that comics has become it's own genre.

It doesn't matter if you want horror, superhero, fantasy, or even a realistic story. They all will have things in common if told in the medium of comics, making them fit in the genre of comics.

Comment Re:Hope! (Score 1) 522

I was an exclusive slack user for about 8 years.

At some point they started trying to compete with Ubuntu and the like, and many packages had weird dependencies which to get around you had to install the dependency or recompile. An example would be mplayer now requiring samba.

The community is also far less willing to offer support if you didn't do a full install.

Comment Re:Some Sense Restored? (Score 1) 522

You couldn't be more wrong. Improving an dauditing code is a noble goal, but OpenBSD haven't done enough in that regard. They were vulnerable to heartbleed just as everyone else, were they not?

SELinux isn't the nicest implementation, but the idea is sound. Take away the legacy concept of an all powerful user. Don't have processes automatically inherit permissions, instead assign them only the permissions they need.

There have not been many SELinux exploits and you generally need local access anyway, with the ability to run executable. If SELinux is in place, that actually becomes a hell of a lot harder.

I'd much rather have a system that protects against unknown future attacks than a system which does nothing to protect against attacks and instead tries to remove them all..leaving little to deal with to contain a compromise.

Comment More feminist FUD (Score 0, Flamebait) 239

Maybe, just maybe most games appealed to more males, so males were more drawn to them. This is of course a consequence of sexism in early decades discouraging women from taking up programming and making games themselves.

This is all being corrected, naturally, it's just going to take time.

There isn't disdain for women in gaming, it's just that women are the minority in games and tend to play games that the majority looks down upon (The Sims, Candy Crush etc), although even this is changing. There are plenty of girls who play GTAV, Injustice, COD etc and are amazing at them.

Articles like this don't help, they hurt. They spread FUD and misinformation without any facts, only serving to promote a continuation of the idiotic war of the sexes.

Comment Re:So we can't call anyone stupid anymore (Score 1) 622

A young woman dressing provocative in a dangerous area where rapes are known to occur is stupid, and is partly at fault.

Just like if I wear expensive jewelery and flash it around a neighborhood known to have muggings.

Ideally the victim is never at fault. In reality, when there are multiple choices of what to wear and which neighborhoods to walk for, the victims are not always faultless.

Comment Re:Slackware (Score 1) 303

This is nonsense. It certainly used to be true, but it isn't anymore.

Slackware has fallen prey to trying to compete with Ubuntu and ilk. Now you need to have a full install and the community isn't willing to support uou if you have anything less than that.

This used to be fine, but now they have made it so that there are crazy dependencies. You can't install mplayer without installing Samba for example, because mplayer was compiled to be able to play files over SMB shares.

It was important to me to have a clean, well maintained, minimial unix system.

Arch looked perfect, but I don't like the fact that it is a rolling release/bleeding edge. Alpine Linux seemed interesting, but it's really more suited to a firewall type device. The rest of the Linux distros don't really meet my requirements and OpenSolaris is dead, which means I had to look to the BSDs.

I will never run OpenBSD, as I don't think they understand what security is, and do a lot of showboating. They are great OpenSSH maintainers though. FreeBSD is just too big, and s hard to get minimal. There is no advantage in running FreeBSD over NetBSD for me.

Enter NetBSD. It seems absolutely perfect. It has package sets like Slackware and a full install still fit's on a CD. It's under 300MB without a desktop environment. It's stable, and only has major releases about once a year. Security updates are pushed out, it can run linux binaries for software you can't compile, and it has some very interesting security features. Specifically kernel level file monitoring for executable and config files, full disk encryption, and a port of PaX which I think is a superior implementation of ESP when contrasted with W^X.

Of note to me also, is the Linux teams attitude towards security. Linus and Greg K-H have gone on record multiple times stating that security issues do not deserve special treatment and do not need to be fixed sooner than other bugs, since they are "just bugs". That is a dangerous attitude, and leads to things like the 'Wunderbar Emporium' exploit allowing root across many major kernel version releases.

The NetBSD team takes security seriously, and issues security updates as a priority as needed.

For anyone truly looking for a secure, minimal and clean *nix system as a replacement for Slackware, I can't recommend NetBSD enough.

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