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I don't disagree, but you can cite anything other than a meme.

I thought it was kinda wise to tie Ukraine funds with Israeli funds. Because, funding Israel was in the interest of Republicans.

It didn't work, though. House Republicans couldn't agree on it. Now, Bibi went way worse with genocide than the West feared, and so even Dem voters have shown strong disapproval on funding Israel (understandably so).

It's now chaotic. I, for one, have lost track on how the Ukraine funding proposal in Congress is going now, despite me having been a donor to Ukraine for multiple times. One might even say Biden's now doing service to Putin at this point.

Basically, Xi's personal end game is North Korea-nization. He doesn't want it, probably, but I see no other option for Xi. And that also means Russia would become NK, and thus in turn possibly also the US because of their komplomats, and then also other nations.

Recently, my wife asked me how many people in total actually use the software I develop in my free time (mostly thunar).

Wait, what.

It's like Apple syncs videos with explicit lyrics in Apple Music when you play a song.

They discovered another way to delay the court?

Ah... I think I will ban cache for sites in my black list like Medium.

Micro OSes are designed for this. IFedora has one atomic OS, SUSE have two immutable OSes.

Have you looked onto Pop OS? It combines VMs and you can delegate specific apps to a specific VM.

I tend to use Debian for VM clients because essentially all blogs assume apt-get and I hate Ubuntu.

The weakness of Alpine is that anything relying on glibc probably won't work. Yes, I know there's glibc simulation, but that's far from perfect.

Maybe just get rid of cookies instead. Can't one disable them?

I think I won't be able to convince you, but one could say RH is leaching on FOSS projects anyway. Well, that's also what FOSS is about. Products people use should be open source, and this extends to business products. (And free as in freedom.)

One problem the blog missed is that it becomes next to impossible to migrate a build system after some time.

Just considering autotools, configuration is written in an obscure macro language to describe the resulting sh lines.

Boost has been "migrating" to CMake from their B2 (that nobody uses) for like a decade if not more.

The blog says people should move on from autotools, but that's an impossible solution for too many libraries at this point.

The blog says this, too, but the configure script generated by autotools can become very different depending on the autotools version. Therefore, checking the git diff for security reasons is very difficult. You get thousands of lines of diffs (in sh!) often without proper comment. The git commit message doesn't help because the best you can understand from there is that someone used their own autotools version.

Nobody has the time to check the thousands of lines of crap in one git diff. Or maybe millions of them.

This blog is great. I wish they did comparison with CMake or meson.

Tbf CMake does many checks like autotools does, but the advantage of Cmake is that the check will not be embedded in the project source like autotools does. It's in the CMake program. That's why the project source ends up leaner.

Agreed. One flaw of autotools imho is that writes the configure script in sh. The rational was that the target system might not have other stuff installed.

However, it resulted in a machine-generated (very complex) shell script often without any comment. People also modify the generated shell script itself, because it's committed in the project's git repository. This is one reason why the problem explained in this blog got unnoticed.

The statistics itself is probably of good quality, but I dare argue that the media are disrespectful to the original report.

57 oil, gas, coal and cement producers

Err... yeah, I mean, yeah? Sure? Are there 1000,000 producers? Just count the big miners and soon you'll reach 80% of emission. Of course.

Indeed, this "just 57" seems to be a view that The Guardian added. The project webpage does no sensationalization of this number. This means, The Guardian did read the report, but chose not to focus on the main contribution. I hate this attitude, being a researcher myself. Well, they saw a professional study and sold it as an amateur argument! I'm sure the authors were disappointed.

The Carbon Majors research has helped to change the narrative about responsibility for the climate crisis by apportioning emissions to the entities that profit from taking fossil fuels out of the ground rather than the individuals that later burn and discharge them in the form of emissions.

I'm fine with the narrative, but if I wanted to lead it, I'd not hack this honest statistics, unlike media are doing this time. I'd instead study how these 57 producers trap and lobby the consumers.

Kudos on the researchers revealing what Exxon is actually doing behind their PR campaign that claims otherwise.

I like that, but they forced me to use their solutions, which I didn't appreciate. The only remote communication software they prepared was a horrible free software project that has been in maintenance mode for 20 years... I was surprised to see it compiled. The connection was horrible because it assumed ~'90s technologies.

I don't like Lemmy's stance on mod features, but I still don't appreciate people who stress devs to add features because users are the most important.

It should instead be we will not use your software otherwise.

I wondered how I replied to my friends. Then I recalled that I don't have one.