But they made half a million.

And there are literally hundreds of similar companies raking in billions in investments that magically vanish while the founders live a luxury live and move on.

The real question is: why do VCs shit so much money into obvious frauds? Are they this stupid or do they just hope to pass it on to the greater fool?

I’ve done the horrible deed of updating Debian, for example.

Distros like Arch get a pass, but Debian screwed me over several times. For example a few years ago, some driver decided to make itself clinge onto old kernel versions. So the boot partition got full and left me in a weird start where I had to manually remove old kernels and track down the driver at fault.

Recoverable, but annoying, and on a system I use for work it would be really really expensive.

Fedora used to nuke itself sometimes if you upgraded an install from version n to n+1, n+2, … Like a config not being migrated properly, a package conflict because of renamed packages and versions, yada yada yada.

If you didn’t experience that, you either were very lucky, only used enterprise distros, or simply reinstalled often enough for it not to be an issue.

That’s not the argument. The argument is rather that good employees can easily find new and better jobs. So the remaining people are on average worse.

It’s also called Dead Sea Effect. The good ones evaporate, only salt remains.

Especially in sales and finance: every call is potentially on the record, and that’s a problem.

A lot of internal communication in these departments is, to put it mildly, legally not without interest. A quick chat after a meeting is completely off the record, an email is not.

First of all the nitpicky stuff: Mac OS never used anything FreeBSD in the kernel. The kernel is XNU/mach, FreeBSD only supplies the user land. Pedantic, but we have a cliche to defend.

Anyway, I think you got the update part backwards. Apple doesn’t update its side of the deal. MacOS ships with old bsd apps, simply because apple doesn’t care all that much about it.

No. Large organizations suck at managing IT, simply because it’s not crucial for them to keep it managed and they usually have enough institutional insulation to mitigate the impacts. Whether that insulation is money or disregard of the public doesn’t matter all that much.

Facebook is huge and has very diverse teams/departments. It’s absolutely possible the guys who know what security is, and the guys who build app xyz are in different departments, countries, continents.

The capitalists want us to believe otherwise, but large corporations are just as convoluted and inefficient as a planned economy.

2 days per frame.

That’s a question a hacker shouldn’t ever ask.

I mean, what is his point? We should have worse software because then the devs are volunteers?

Is Linux now supposed to work like early Olympics?

Yeah, but we are the real™ Linux community, not like those splitters from the community of Linux!

Public private partnership ♥️♥️♥️

Linux filled a gap. There was hardly any way to get something unixy running on commodity hardware.

What gap does Redox fill? What’s its USP? Just being written in rust can’t be it.

But why?

Which company can justify the expense for an esoteric OS with probably just philosophical benefits?

Google maybe, they have Fuchsia, but that’s also completely in their control.

Linux is not perfect, but for most companies and products, absolutely fine.

None of this drama affects those people who could reasonably be expected to support any OS.

Maybe a handful disgruntled devs will look into Redox, but ultimately, it’s a toy project without any real use case. Not that that’s bad, but it’s not exactly the best motivation to invest your free time into.

Don’t let scammers hear that. They’ll sell 16TB “SSDs” for cheap and defraud thousands of people.

And who does that?

I think you don’t really get my point. I’m not arguing that there are no ways to archive data. I’m arguing that there are no technologies available for average Joe.

It is hardly a good strategy to basically set up half a datacenter at home.

Thin concrete slabs are extremely brittle.

Is it? It’s rather expensive and would you really know, if the data is gone or corrupted?

You’d have to download every single file in certain intervals and check it. That’s not really low complexity.

But what actually is “archival”?

Like, what technology normal person has access to counts at least as enthusiast level archival?

Magnetic tape, optical media, flash, HDD all rot away, potentially within frighteningly short timeframes and often with subtle bitrot.