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Poul-Henning Kamp

@bsdphk@fosstodon.org
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Author of Varnish-Cache, a lot of FreeBSD and various other stuff.

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Homepage:
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https://people.freebsd.org/~phk
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@bsdphk@fosstodon.org · 1d ago

If you program, you should read this piece.

"Ada's successes — the aircraft that have not crashed, the railway signalling systems that have not failed, the missile guidance software that has not misguided — are invisible precisely because they are successes. The languages that failed visibly, in buffer overflows and null pointer exceptions and data races and security vulnerabilities, generated the discourse. [Ada did not]"

https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html

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The Quiet Colossus — On Ada, Its Design, and the Language That Built the Languages

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@bsdphk@fosstodon.org · 3d ago
@oscarfalcon @pluralistic And the fundamental problem with IT-bros is that the only read until they got to "Fuck robots," and thought "that's actually not a bad idea...
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@bsdphk@fosstodon.org · 5d ago
@bms48 @davidsonsr @jawarajabbi @pluralistic Not to mention EU's revision of the Product Liability Directive, a revision they undertook only and specifically to apply "no-fault" product liability to software in the consumer market. Coming to your EU-country later this year...
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@bsdphk@fosstodon.org · 6d ago

I wonder if Guinness Book of World Records is paying attention tonight, because there's going to so much beer rented out, that it may well become a world record.

#OrbanOut #ThanksHungary

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@bsdphk@fosstodon.org

Author of Varnish-Cache, a lot of FreeBSD and various other stuff.

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@bsdphk@fosstodon.org · 6d ago
@CarstenBoll @jeppe Journalisterne forstår engelsk, men ikke fransk og tysk ?
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Author of Varnish-Cache, a lot of FreeBSD and various other stuff.

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@bsdphk@fosstodon.org · Jan 20, 2026

#FOSS in Ukraine during a war, and some other countries.

Warning: May contain me & #beerware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOn-L3tGKw0

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Author of Varnish-Cache, a lot of FreeBSD and various other stuff.

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@bsdphk@fosstodon.org · Jul 30, 2025
@eri FreeBSD user: Yeah, as if...
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