Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: -hh Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: This FOSS Thang :-) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:54:25 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <17bc1726b0edd43b$139925$2218499$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 19:54:25 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fc32a3f628b3083079ba0e423ffa3056"; logging-data="3215556"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/DJT/jBk0UYv79z5tHsEqexjcJf7LB12E=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:C5Ae3Py/dwewHbJkv0aBfqsnG/A= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <17bc1726b0edd43b$139925$2218499$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> Bytes: 2750 On 3/12/24 2:16 PM, Nuxxie wrote: > On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:43:52 -0400, -hh wrote: > >> >> What we've seen with some Linux fanboy braggarts >> > > Why thank you. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! > > >> >> is that one can write >> very speedy code if one optimistically assumes that there's no on ever >> doing anything malicious to hack into a system, >> > > I can state, not optimistically but with absolute certainty, that there > is/has/will no one ever doing anything malicious to hack into my system. > > Nope. Never has. Never will. That you know of. Unfortunately, when your system is absent of security crosschecks, you basically have no way of knowing. >> so there's zero overhead >> to validate/sandbox the inputs. >> > > It's not just valdating the inputs but a plethora of other things that > the distros enforct that really, truly, and unequivocally degrade the > performance of system. Sure, but one needs only but one simple example for simple minds. > Distro lackeys, like you, are using deliberately crippled systems. Where what "crippled" means is, of course, left conveniently vague. >> Fortunately, CPU power now easily exceeds the 80% use case demands, >> > > Not MY use case. Oh, for you I agree: state of the shelf CPUs from a decade ago easily exceeds 200% of what you actually use or need. > But then that's just more excuse mongering from an idiot that is forced > to use a crippled system and is helplessly trapped therein. Allegedly "crippled"...which is still conveniently unspecified. -hh