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Peter Tribble

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<p>Theoretical astrophysicist who ended up in computing, which got a bit out of hand and resulted in Tribblix, my personal illumos distribution.</p>

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    Builds of the latest jdk17 jdk21 jdk25 jdk27, including the eMudhra CA fixes, for Solaris 11.4 on x86 https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/intel-solaris/ #openjdk #solaris

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    Build of the latest jdk17, including the eMudhra CA fixes, for Solaris 11.4 on SPARC https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/sparc-solaris/ #openjdk #solaris #sparc

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    If you&#39;re running Solaris 11.4 on Intel, and want to try out the latest jdk27 release candidate, here you are: https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/intel-solaris/ #openjdk #solaris

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    Having to suffer websites that have replaced simple search with AI. It now takes orders of magnitude longer, and fails to return anything useful. Companies are - again - spending an absolute fortune to make their customer experience worse. #enshittification

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    Something that came out of the Resilient Cambridge series was the importance of grass-roots community effort. Right on cue, the UK government agree: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/putting-people-at-the-centre-of-uk-climate-adaptation-and-resilience

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    &quot;It looks like you&#39;re using an unsupported browser&quot; No, sorry, what you meant to say was: &quot;It looks like we&#39;ve written an unsupported website&quot;

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    Went to see the England Women play West Indies at Lord&#39;s in the T20 World Cup yesterday evening. A good game, the quality of the women&#39;s game keeps improving. Getting there and back was interesting. I was prepared not to go, given a &#39;do not travel unless absolutely necessary&#39;, but in the end it worked out fine. Had to miss the last few overs to make sure I got the train home, which was a shame.

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    Interrupting your regularly scheduled programming, I&amp;#39;ve managed to get a successful build of OpenJDK 17 on SPARC/Linux (as in native HotSpot, not Zero). Very rough and ready at this point, but the build completes and some things work. https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/sparc-linux/

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    Updated openjdk builds of the latest 17.0.19, 21.0.11, 25.0.3, and 26.0.1 for Solaris 11.4 on Intel/x86: https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/intel-solaris/

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    Updated openjdk builds of the latest 17.0.19 for Solaris 11.4 on SPARC: https://pkgs.tribblix.org/openjdk/sparc-solaris/

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    Any sufficiently complex packaging system will eventually acquire unresolvable circular dependencies.