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what in the fuck is this? is windows 11 trying to detect supply chain attacks now?

@graf use Linux you faggot

graf@ryzen-elf ~ $ cat active_hardware_by_asn | wc -l
145

okay so I need to use it on 145 servers and my gaming laptop?

Isn’t Linux that thing made by the libertarians?

@BarelyEagle @graf @Kagekokoro Linux distros are made by a lot of people, ranging from based chads to reeking faggots.
Really just depends on what distro you use

Can you explain this like I’m someone whose last meaningful engagement with computer technology involved punch cards and vacuum tubes?

poast hosts a mirror for gentoo because I have used gentoo for 20+ years, it is my distro of choice when I can deploy it (example the database this poast is about to be poasted to is running gentoo) so to give back for 20+ years of giving me my freedom back I have given them some hardware we own to host packages for people to sync

> poast hosts a mirror for gentoo

Nice. Now that I've got 500Mbps fiber I could actually do that for Slackware.

But honestly I think seeding the Slackware torrent is probably an even better way for me to pay them back. I also seed the Linux Mint Cinnamon and XFCE torrents.

as an XFCE user since I first installed gentoo on my thinkpad I think t42 or t42p I cant remember back in 2004 that same install has made it to every thinkpad I've had since. everything is exactly the same except I use a dock similar to elementary os's dock on it now (still xfce4). I can open that laptop and it's exactly the same as the day I really started to learn how to use linux. rolling release distros rock

one of our jannies uses strictly slackware, I will also host a mirror. poke me about this tomorrow and I'll make sure I get it done

fun graf lore fact: I first used/learned linux in the late 90s with Caldera OpenLinux 1.3. my brother bought a "linux for dummies" book while in high school. ncurses based installer called LISA (linux install and system administration) and I think slackware still uses that to this day, or at least they did the last time I installed it

@graf @James_Dixon @BarelyEagle @Ronnie21093 @Kagekokoro Dragon book, compilers, devil book, unix bible, NSA trusted networks also the big ugly book that doesnt fit on a shelf, pink shirt book...guide to IBM pc's.

you older than me?

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 you're around 40 right? We about the same age...lol

just turned in april ya

I didnt get hardcore into anything until unironically 9/11. I was installing progeny linux (a debian fork that sucked major balls) and I was like fuck this time for something new and swapped to freeBSD. daily drove that until I found out about gentoo and I've been using that since

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 I was an open solaris man myself for a while.

I also had two sparcstations. never got to fully utilize them because of the stupid proprietary display and keyboard connectors and being a teen with no job. sold them for supier cheap. look on ebay now, ones that look like somebody ran over them 400$ +

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 I was so broke back then man. I had this shit tier toshiba and solaris was only thing that ran on it.

I used gak at sparc shit in computer shopper. I wanted one so bad lol

my high school comp sci teacher literally just gave them to me, he also gave me my first real video card. number 9 32MB. I was so pumped to play gta 3 on pc you have no idea

take me back bro

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 shit yeah man. My ISP handed out shell accounts back then, rare even in like 99. My school was busted bro, if you wanted computer you had to fight for it.
07 Fight for Your Right.m4a

remember when you got NNTP(usenet) access for free with your internet and they just took it away from everybody in like 2003 or 2004

@graf @ins0mniak @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093
Oh, yes...
My first home internet connection was a cheap, shitty dialup provider, but they had an NNTP server as it was the custom at the time...

I learned a lot of shit reading threads on there bro. a lot of shit
i also saw a lot of fake celebrity porn. a lot of celebrity porn

@graf @quercus @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 any Sydney Sweeny shit send it my way.

no this is back in the julia roberts days

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @quercus @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 meh not my type. but there was a lot of solid artistic and tasteful stuff I did download.

the first naked woman I ever saw was a fake nude from usenet of julia roberts finger blasting some other bitch in a bathtub made it the wallpaper on my family pc too

@graf @ins0mniak @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @quercus @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 what causes this

being like 10 or 11 with unrestricted access and knowing that i could just ctrl+alt+delete and close netnanny and have unrestricted admin access to the pc