just pure gaslighting

it does look very promising, and nice that it’s easy to self host too

It looks like Trump is determined to make sure there is a global energy crisis.

I’m not sure who regards RedHat well actually, they’ve always been doing shitty things like trying to charge for Fedora hence why people ended up forking it as CentOS. They’re a poster child for the problems with Linux getting commercialized. Saying Linus uses something is just appeal to authority by the way.

The problem, once again, is that a lot of the development is now driven by commercial companies like RedHat and Ubuntu that are in it to make money. So, in a way these things are actually pushed on the community because you either adopt them or it becomes increasingly difficult to run software on your distro.

Fragmentation in init was a real problem, but it could’ve been solved much better by just creating a common standard for configurations while keeping the original modular design. Systemd approach is very heavy handed, and introduces a whole bunch of new problems which didn’t exist. The fundamental Unix principle is having small programs that do a single thing well and that can be composed together. Systemd goes directly against this principle.

My understanding is that you’d end up with two divergent histories and you can’t tell which one is the original. I don’t know how it could be abused off top of my head, but generally speaking people tend to find ways to abuse these kinds of things.

don’t think so

Fly wheels are pretty cool too, it could be that this is just easier to build and maintain though. I imagine the primary considerations are around how cheap it is to produce and whether it holds enough energy to make it worthwhile.

But you do that once, and the thing lasts 35 years, somehow I can’t imagine environmental impact would be worse than mining and refining rare earths for regular batteries here.

cats are smart :)

Oh it is, once the US economy crashes due to energy shortage. He already blurted out they only have 4 weeks of oil left.

that would be my intuition as well

as I recall it does actively randomize machine-id?

but looking back you have no way to tell which branch is the real one

Yeah, since OpenBSD doesn’t use systemd, that points to dbus origins for the file.

I would guess it’s because it’s likely very low cost and easy to build, but there are obvious environmental savings that fall out of it naturally.

the article says it’s recycled though…

Right, it’s not a serious exploit which would allow changing code, but it does allow compromising integrity because changing the id mutates history.

The whole context here is that Linux philosophy and principles are being gutted by companies trying to make a buck off it. In my view, benefits of wide adoption need to be balanced with actually retaining the principles which make Linux a good platform.

Again, Linux has been around a long time before commercial interests started fucking with it. And I don’t think chasing adoption for the sake of it is healthy. I’d rather it grows at its own pace. It’s already a big enough community to make it sustainable indefinitely, there’s absolutely no rush to gain market share here.