If a search engine can’t crawl it so you could search up posts, like a good ol’ forum, than yep!

Same with any member pages past a login. (Hence why nobody can just ‘google’ your bank account balance lol.)

DemenTIA, from CompTIA. Some of those exam questions really make you wonder. . .

…and I will NOT stand for it!. . . Won’t stand for much, lately. It hurts.

Can’t believe people don’t link sources anymore. Anyway yeah it just happened today.

SO important. They’re always under some kind of attack, and they’re pretty much the most accessible way we have to access a web that keeps disappearing and getting replaced.

… Then you get to file system and the analysis paralysis REALLY sets in.

Here. Let me help: BTRFS with Timeshift or Snapper snapshots. Enjoy. ❤️

I love Debian, I love Void, Ubuntu can die in a fire, etc.

“You’re cool, you’re cool, screw you tho , you’re cool…” XD

Have I been on 10 years? I dunno, but I like to think I’m pretty experienced for an amateur.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed! It rolls! It games! It works with newer hardware and gets along sorta reasonably with Nvidia!

Best part? If any of that ISN’T true (rarely after an update), it seamlessly integrates BTRFS snapshots with the boot menu, to just roll back and wait like a week til the wonderful souls working on it, fix stuff.

The community is also very supportive.

This has such a “Barbenheimer” composition lol.

For that reason VGAs could make really good grappling hooks. 😂

I imagine people trying to run aged applications through WINE?

Two was supposed to protect one. :(

Sorry I didn’t articulate myself well here at all.

What I meant was, I’ve heard this particular contributor’s history is slim to none, and suddenly he shows up and PR’s this age form into the kernel.

That’s what’s weird.

You’re exactly right, most of us probably haven’t looked at kernel PRs. Such a major component in such a major project isn’t really a “My first contribution” territory, right?

So it should raise some eyebrows when this guy just pops up and PRs it and it gets merged so quick.

I’m not the most brilliant at this stuff so I’m happily open to being educated here if I’m way off, though.

Yeah, I fear you’re right. Evidence doesn’t point to benevolence here.

I’ll be honest I haven’t dug into the GitHub transcripts.

Are you sure you’re not reading something into this that’s not there?

Absolutely not sure! In fact my first inclination leans towards the cynical “This is totally a pro-authoritarian virtue signal move.” Because that’s seemingly everything nowadays.

But also I know things are seldom as they first seem. So I’m at least curious about this guy’s actual motives. Coming out of nowhere just for this contribution is hecka sus though.

I don’t like any of it. I looked to the Internet and open source to escape that petulant normie-verse of endless rage and braindead legislation. And they’re coming to assimilate us like they do everything else. :(

That’s something I wondered about the person who implemented this too, I wonder if it was an attempt to install a bare minimum to say “There. We did it. Leave us alone.” Instead of leaving it up to the government to force the issue, and he’s getting absolutely raked over the coals for it.

If that’s the case, I feel terribly bad about this backfiring so hard on him. I do think we should be putting up a lot more resistance before resorting to something like this though.

…if you do it wrong you can bring your entire organization down.

In theory, but also we just don’t hear of this actually happening to organizations very much. Why? (I could be wrong, I don’t constantly dig through news to find instances of this happening.)

Everything from tax issues to personal data retention and protection policy gets overlooked all the time, with very real consequences, and we don’t hear of those organizations getting “taken down” for it. (Like when Equifax lost all our Pii and were just like ‘whoops.’ They’re still forcibly embedded in our lives anyway.)

Maybe this would get used to bring down a tiny small business if it caught legal attention, but anything larger could likely shrug it off.

Organizations don’t seem to bother with such inconveniences unless it’s actively enforced and audited. Is California really going to do that with this? Seems like it’d be prohibitively expensive.

So it’s just a little weird to me when legislation is proposed to infringe on end-users and suddenly there’s this huge rush to “get compliant” ahead of time. It seems like a lot less IT due diligence and more virtue-signaling agreeance with totalitarian politics.

Sincerely, thank you for spelling it out to the rest of the class.

These things are always worded ‘agreeably’ enough that by the time we’re done going back and forth debating it all day, they’ve pushed even more invasive policies on us.

I think back then it was generally assumed this simply assisted with office communication.

Imagine telling a UNIX engineer in the 70’s how almost everything you enter into a machine would eventually be used to manipulate or entrap you by the State and surveillance capitalism.