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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

    I guess we have different definitions of what "best" means.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

    Account made two days go...

    Ok, madthumbs. Sure.

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I did a wtf at dude 4 in frame 3 until I realized he was getting punched and not... well.. if you don't see it maybe I'm just net-warped.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

    Thought he was giving the zucc as well

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

    Bravo, OP, bravo.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    Closed Source is demonstrably less secure,

    Huge numbers of people are constantly testing and reworking open source security.

    Once closed source has a bad encryption found or accepts certain strings for SQL Queries, it becomes a feeding frenzy, and the people who set it up never put any counter measures in place because a small team never had any chance of approaching the vast well of human knowledge on security.

    Just look at the news: US Government Facility Hacked, Credit Company Hacked, Industrial Plant Hacked, Proprietary Vehicle Hacked, etc.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    But the joke stands on the premise that people would argue over it. We're all in agreeance that closed source is not more secure.

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    [–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Joke's on you: GNU/Linux isn't Unix to begin with (that's literally what GNU means: "GNU's Not Unix")!

    Therefore, MacOS is "the best Unix" only because it managed to squeeze by the BSDs and some dead proprietary Unixes ("Unices?" "Unixen?") -- hardly an impressive feat.

    Trollface

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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Is there some twisted definition by which you can argue Windows is UNIX? Just to intensify the violence.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Back in the 90s, Windows NT had a POSIX compatibility layer that you could enable (it wasn't enabled by default).

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    GNU/Unix/NT, as I’ve taken to calling it

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

    Secure from whom? Sure to be more government backdoors in MacOS.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    But everyone knows that Mint is the best Unix. (Secret giggle behind my hand.)

    I first resurrected a dead PC with RedHat before the turn of the century, mind, and that thing had UPTIME.

    I still have me a massive soft spot for Solaris back in the day, though.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Mint really is the best :)

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    I did the same, in the late 90s, and that computer got h4xx3d in two weeks through a vulnerability in Apache.

    That was a really good learning experience.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I ran Apache on a box at work, but it was configured by our insanely intelligent sysadmin. Nothing got past her. Never met a sysadmin as brilliant as her. I don't know how they managed to hire and retain her, but she was given a lot of freedom to run things how she liked - she even had a custom firewall between us and head office!

    I also had an insanely cheery yellow iMac G3 at the same time - if it made it through the first ten minutes without crashing it would make it through the day. Somehow its stability and resilience improved over time. Not so my windows PC. If you left that on too long, memleak.dll and slowdown.dll would take over and everything would get shakier and shakier. I never quite got used to only having one button though on the mac.

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