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…surprisingly sinister agendas. … Dynamic linking moves control from users to vendors and governments at ruinous cost in performance, props up bloated industr

• k__ 1y ago
  That's an even more reasonable fear than trusting trust, and people seem to take that seriously.
• benreesman 1y ago
  I didn't say anything was a conspiracy, let alone everything. I said inferior software is promoted by vendors on Linux as well as on MacOS and Windows with unpleasant consequences for users in a way that serves those vendors and the even more powerful institutions to which they are beholden. Sinister intentions are everywhere in this business (go read the opinions of the people who run YC), that's not even remotely controversial. If fact, if there was anything remotely controversial about a bunch of extremely specific, extremely falsifiable claims I made, one imagines your rebuttal would have mentioned at least one. I said inflmatory things (Docker is both arsonist and fireman at ruinous cost), but they're fucking true. That Alpine in the Docker jank? Links musl!
• computably 1y ago
  Bad incentives != conspiracy
• trinix912 1y ago
  Had they left "governments" out of there it would've been almost fine, but damn I didn't know it's now governments changing DLLs for us!
  • benreesman 1y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Olympic_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Olympic_Games https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozy_Bear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozy_Bear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_Bear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_Bear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations