argv_minus_one @ argv_minus_one @beehaw.org

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Somehow, I don't think ruthless authoritarians are going to care about what the little people think.

Everything needs good security. Firewall devices only cover a specific, limited portion of the attack surface of machines behind them. One successful browser exploit or attack on an exposed port, and the firewall may as well be a paperweight.

No way. Plasma is beautiful.

Linux is already dominant on just about everything except the desktop, and it has yet to suffer significant enshittification.

Edit: Well, a bunch of Linux distributions have suffered enshittification, if that counts.

Yeah, that's the problem. We don't have the requisite technology to build a Star Trek utopia. If only we did…

If you have an NVIDIA video card, I would start with buying AMD or Intel instead. Attempting to use NVIDIA with Linux will result in misery.

I do believe that while programming has many ways of doing the same task, there is always an objectively best way to do it.

I've been writing code in one form or another for some 30 years now, and my observation so far has been the exact opposite: there are many problems in programming for which there is no one clearly superior solution, even in theory. Just like life in general, programming is full of trade-offs, compromises, and diminishing returns.

Dear God. It's perfect.

You know how they say AI is going to take our jobs?

They're wrong. AI is going to take CEOs' jobs.

Also, having a union makes contract negotiations simple, because the contract has already been negotiated with the union.

But here's the thing: the union ensures the contract is fair, and a lot of businesses don't like dealing fairly with their employees.

He doesnt believe his employees need a union because I dont know about you but if I owned a company Id hope that my people felt looked after well enough that they didnt feel like they needed one either.

I'm not gonna blame them for wanting to be protected. Even if I treat my hypothetical employees right, what happens when I'm gone? Will my successor treat them right? History says no. With a union, I can rest easy knowing that, come what may, my people will be taken care of.

At least it's not a poop emoji this time.

Ah shit, here we go again.

And this time the government isn't going to hand out vaccines with no strings attached. Now you have to agree to some website's grossly one-sided terms of service in order to get vaccinated. No, I do not agree to binding arbitration over something being put in my body; I'm not completely stupid.

Fleeced? Where the hell did you buy your masks?

No, it just proves that fascism is popular these days, and explains why fascist parties are on the rise around the world.

Which is really scary and sad.

I know a lot of pretty normal people that dont have terminally online views and I think almost all of them would agree with the statement that “nazi” and “fascist” have been watered down.

Then I question their normalcy.

Well, that or it's now considered normal to be a fascist. I certainly hope that's not the case, although sometimes I have to wonder.

Obviously nazi’s and fascists will say they’re watered down but to lump random people in with them is not doing you any favors.

Obviously. I'm not denying that. I'm denying that that's actually happening to any significant extent.

Law enforcement routinely makes demands that are intentionally impossible to comply with, such as the deadly game of Simon Says that was played by the officers who murdered Daniel Shaver.

It's like a cat playing with its prey. The prey is not intended to survive.

This app may collect these data types: Personal info, Photos and videos and 2 others

From an app that scans sensitive documents? No thanks.

They can also kill you where you stand with total impunity, so I'm not sure I see how these limitations of their supposed rights are at all meaningful.

By positioning itself as the Internet's public square, Twitter seeks a monopoly over public discourse. If it is successful, then yes, it can exercise prior restraint over virtually all of your expression.

In Upstart's readiness protocol, daemons are expected to SIGSTOP themselves to signal readiness to the process supervisor. This design is extremely questionable, to put it politely.

OpenRC still relies on System V shell scripts, and therefore is not an improvement.

“[T]he intrusiveness of systemd” means nothing to me. I care about what it can do and how well, not whether it's liked by change-fearing graybeards.

The number of reboots required before the effort to learn systemd becomes worth it is approximately 1. Shell-script-based shutdowns frequently hang, and when they don't, they take 30+ seconds to shut the system down. Systemd can shut the system down in 5 to 10 seconds. Hallelujah and good riddance to what was one of my least favorite parts of the Linux experience.