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> apt/dnf scripts run on packages a maintainer signed and a distro gatekept

Unfortunately apt/dnf isn't much better here because random tutorials online suggest people add random repositories where the creator of any repository effectively has root access to anyone machine that adds it as a remote.


Don't add random repositories from random tutorials? Come on, it's basic Internet hygiene. Entirely different thing.

It's the exact same problem when random tutorials (and official pages) recommend to do a curl "URL" | bash to install something. Every time that I see it, I look it suspicious.

MediaTek may of caught up, but they're still associated with inefficient Chinese junk.

> Windows is orders of magnitude better when it comes to memory management on the desktop compared to Linux.

The bar is pretty low, but the windows scheduler is aware what the currently focussed app is so it can prioritise not killing it.

On Linux? Not so much.


Actually, it depends on the Windows scheduler settings. On Windows Server, the default is to kill the foreground process (on the assumption that it is just a management app rather than a critical server component).

In either case, Windows tries a lot of things to avoid killing processes. Which at least in a desktop setting is an infinitely better approach than random beheadings without warning.

yeah. a lot of the issue with Linux's approach is that until recently, the kernel was the one making the choice, and it doesn't know which processes matter. The part Linus does a lot better if not getting to oom in the first place (and with the newish compressed ram stuff is getting even better)

A lot of people swap jew for zionist or israel to cover up their antisemitism, so yes "fuck jews" could be interpreted as a threat.

There is no more succinct way to describe a Zionist than by using the word Zionist. To assume anyone who says "Zionist" means "Jew" is to make an unnecessary leap in bad faith.

“Fuck Jews” cannot reasonably be interpreted as a threat.

It’s a nasty antisemitic thing to say, but that’s all it is.


A lot of people shout 'Free Palestine' before doing some vigilante violence (shooting in DC, firebombing I'm Boulder), so wouldn't that make security officials jumpy? The whataboutism of Israel being more 'evil' doesn't mitigate the security threat.

I hear “free Palestine” shouted tens, or hundreds of times every day while walking outside on the street.

Only time violence is involved is when drunk American or Israeli tourists get uppity, otherwise the protestors just stand there and make noise.


How would you, or the protesters you hang out with daily, feel if someone shouted “Fuck Gaza”?

I wouldn’t care. I certainly wouldn’t feel threatened.

Not sure about the protesters, I usually try to keep my distance to avoid hearing damage.


I don't know about the other user, but I hear both shouted. So... the same?

Don't make this about party politics. The politics here is about if you're allowed to have a dumb SSID. IDGAF if that's "Fuck Gaza" or "Fuck Israel" or "Cheney shot a man then made him apologize" or "Obama is a Muslim".

We're talking about restricting the names of SSIDs that aren't in the category of "I'm going to blow up this plane". Seriously, this whole conversation is fucking dumb because people are acting on partisan politics and not on what's actually happening. I need a fucking beer, or 10


Racist? Yes.

A threat? No.


Eh, most Nazis that use the words interchangeably really do use them interchangeably. Like, they'll talk about the Jews controlling everything in one sentence and say it's Zionists pushing cultural Marxism or whatever the next.

You realize that calling everyone who criticizes an ongoing genocide an antisemite isn't workable, right?


> You realize that calling everyone who criticizes an ongoing genocide an antisemite isn't workable, right?

At what point did I ever mention that?


There's zero proof it's an intentional backdoor, it's just FUD spread by the exploit author which is probably not helping his case and may be reason for his ban.

Microsoft doesn't need to put in a backdoor on disk because they can make payloads that'll pass the TPM and not need a single trace on the disk.


It's not a backdoor, Microsoft doesn't need a backdoor to bypass BitLocker because they can sign payloads that'll pass the TPM.

Why would it not be? Microslop doesn't need to make such a backdoor, but it's still a lot more convenient to make one generic backdoor than many signed ones.

They'd only need to make one payload that keeps the TPM happy, unlocks the disk and provides the files for export some way.

Far safer than a backdoor and no evidence.

But the slop in your comment here indicates you're arguing in bad faith.


I don't believe Wayland makes any decisions about compositing, it's up to compositors to decide how (and if) they want to do that.

Wayland at it's core is an IPC for sharing memory buffers containing surfaces around and details about those surfaces.


I've noticed a trend that the same people who complain systemd does too much also have a strong affinity for the X server... with it's built in print server!

> Maybe systemd should have been an API + a spec instead of an unportable implementation.

There's nothing really stopping other init systems from implementing it's unit spec, some hobby ones have done so.

In the case of GNOME, KDE etc depending on it, the reason mainly boils down to "we could implement our own manager for handling desktop daemons etc or just get systemd to do it for us"


But why would they do so? That makes no objective sense.

Systemd never was "merely" only an init system. And it makes no sense for init systems to grow to systemd-size either, in order to solve non-init related issues.

> In the case of GNOME, KDE etc depending on it, the reason mainly boils down to "we could implement our own manager for handling desktop daemons etc or just get systemd to do it for us"

That's not quite true. GNOME always was close to systemd devs due to funding. KDE was less close, but even within KDE some people lobbied for it such as dave edmunson or however you spell the name, and "me-needs-a-donate-daemon" Nate, who you are not allowed to critisize on #kde reddit. But I agree that they could simplify some code by depending on systemd. Of course this now means that KDE is sold in a dead-lock with systemd. I wonder if I can still use konsole without systemd. I tend to use iceWM since it is so much faster than KDE or GNOME, but when konsole depends on systemd I may indeed need to switch to another terminal. That will be painful though, but there is no stopping systemd - it infects and taints.


> Systemd never was "merely" only an init system

There is systemd the service manager/init system and systemd the project. An alternative service manager could add support for the formers unit files.


> An alternative service manager could

I guess we would care if one showed up, no?


This really isn't about the unit spec, it's about the 100 other things systemd does.

(Some it does well, some it doesn't, and some it shouldn't.)


AppImage isn't truly cross distribution in the first place because how it handles dependencies is not truly portable.

I mean yeah, it doesn't aim to be a "cross-platform compilation/building system" so of course dependencies is up to you to solve, AFAIK AppImage only aims to solve packaging itself, not what goes into that package.

Which doesn't solve the same problem that Flatpak solves, namely having a package format that a developer can target and it run the same everywhere.

Its as portable as you make it, just like with binaries in .tar.gz archives or shar installers.

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