They need to do way instain mothers

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No, if you knock it over it holds nothing you useless prat! God dammit this is why we can never have anyone over! Ten years. Ten. Years! I kept thinking, maybe this is the time you’d be able to- to- fuck it. It’s not worth it anymore. I’m done. I think I’ve been over this for a while now, but it’s real now. You can be here, with your cans and your beans and your fucking shit mess everywhere! Without me.

No, it’s fine. It’s fine! You just go do exactly what you want. What you’ve always done. Just without me now. It’ll be even easier for you. Goodbye.

If you have some solution that doesn’t involve time travel, the world is all ears. As always, the only options available are to do as much as you can where you can, and realize you’re up against a tide of people who aren’t going to put in that kind of effort.

If you really think the the situation is that dire and that the solution is so obvious and easy that it justifies the kind of snark you’re displaying, it reflects more on you than anyone else that you’re here shitposting instead of taking the direct action you think is so critical and obvious. If you’ve got the answer, go and prove it.

Sure, and that’s just as valid points against them as well. For my part at least, none of this is meant as some sort of death knell, or direct damning evidence that some software is some sort of terrible piece of garbage.

I just refuse to believe that someone would literally be entirely incapable of comprehending any of the reasons people dislike systems to only be capable of engaging with the criticisms in bad faith.

That only has impact on the security risk surface exposed for your own install and for troubleshooting on your own machine. The maintainers and other coders on the project still have far more space, complexity, and features to cover.

It’s not a death knell by any means, but still a valid cause for concern.

As someone who designs systems as part of his job, “it violates Linux philosophy” is a perfectly valid reason to hate something as critical and low level as an init system.

I think “hate” is a strong word, mind, but following consistent design patterns and constraining scope matters. The problem is that it’s one of those things that doesn’t tend to matter until shit hits the fan.

The scope creep exponentially raises the efforts needed to properly test, troubleshoot, secure, and just generally work with the project code. The unique design creates rough edges for integrations with other pre-existing systems and tools, while also raising the effort needed for troubleshooting when something goes wrong.

There’s also the whole “Chesterton’s Fence” aspect to a lot of it, where the project runner’s overall attitude has been dismissive of existing conventions and separation of functionality.

There’s a lot of perfectly valid reasons to dislike it. That said, I think full on hate is extreme for an aspect of the overall Linux “system” and “user experience” that most users never interact with. Like having an opinion on the order your BIOS handles things in.

Controlled opposition anyone? Reminds me of some of the anecdotal shit that happened around Occupy Wall Street

I, uh, definitely would have worded this with more care, but if anyone believes their side is somehow immune to corporate interests funding or manipulating drama and outrage? It’s dumb to think that the rich sociopaths would uniquely mess with one political side while leaving another completely alone.

Nothing to do with any side being right, wrong, better, or worse. Everything to do with rish assholes being rich assholes.

For #1, it absolutely is possible, but the technique has changed over time. You pretty much have to look it up every time, and check older methods until you find the way that works with the version you’re using. Last I checked you needed to disconnect any NICs, then hit one of the F keys during setup to get to the command prompt, then put in a specific command, then reboot into setup again. Been years though.

For #2, Command Prompt doesn’t because it’s still the same shit it was from the 90s. They have an open source program called Windows Terminal that supports tabs, multiple environments, most of the nice stuff you’d expect from a good Linux Terminal, but they don’t include it by default so you have to install it yourself.

#3 and #4 are pure bullshit. 1 and 2 are as well, but at least they have reasonably reachable workarounds.

How can purity go above 100? Is this concentrated cocaine? Supposed to water it down first or something?

For what it’s worth, they’re referred to as directories by command prompt and PowerShell (effectively the new Windows command prompt) tools as Windows as well.

Nice fuckin model!

Image is gone.

You’re telling me the Spider Sense doesn’t go off for pee getting on yourself?

I’m more than OK with weird. I love weird. I’m even ok with strong political opinions that I don’t always agree with. I’m fine with Lemmy staying small in the hopes it never ends up becoming an eternal September situation.

Those aren’t the issue.The problem is the violent rhetoric combined with the intense and constant bad-jacketing. Constant jumping to bad conclusions about other users and arguing against those straw men instead of trying for good faith.

At least you only jumped to the conclusion that I wanted Lemmy to stop being weird and grow unsustainably popular. I was honestly expecting someone to call me a corporate stooge or that I’m just a butthurt MAGA chud upset that Lemmy leans left-wing, then tell me to kill myself.

And the statement that it wasn’t encrypted, just compressed, is an entirely antagonistic reframing.

There were multiple block lists. Some right in the open, and one that was stored as a monolithic .dat (I assume the one he called “compressed”).

The end result is that the second list was obfuscated from not only end-users, but also “admins” hosting it, and developers attempting to work on the project.

The compression decision only holds if all of the filter lists were compressed and this decision was clearly documented.

Plus the circumstantial evidence that the “enable toxic mode” option did not in fact disable the filtering that relied on the .dat file.

I can’t even say that I’m in theory against his openly stated goals of making the fediverse more approachable to normies. But this is not the way to implement it, and it’s not the way to react when called out about it.

Eh, besides a handful of specific subs that didn’t take good root here, I don’t miss it.

Yeah, seconding the other person. At least give them 11 LTSC. And instead of worrying about activation, just use MASgrave to activate it and they’re golden. It’s a real activation as far as MS is concerned.

I’d have to guess it’s something weird with how they’re using web fonts or something. Looks fine on my end.