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by eeZah7Ux 5y ago
Distributions do dynamic linking and also unbundle dependencies in order to have only one copy of each library. This is crucial for security. Otherwise backporting security fixes and/or rebuilding would become impossible.
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by eeZah7Ux 5y ago
> I'll listen to that sanctimonious crap from the first person who posts their tax return showing the line where they added on some extra money they didn't owe. You are conflating voluntary donations (which actually happens) wi
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
No. Unsurprisingly, essential goods like food and housing follow the market. If the poor get richer and housing gets more expensive slightly faster, the poor will be homeless in 30 years.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Meanwhile inequality and poverty are skyrocketing in wealthy countries that have more than enough for everybody. Also job and food insecurity. https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/ https:&#x2F
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
99% of the time a directory with your projects is all that you need. If you really need a "container", debootstrap + systemd-nspawn does the job and provides much better sandboxing with 10x less complexity. You don't need Doc
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> death industry engaged in a giant transfer of wealth from dying people to the medical establishment This is the problem: in US the first priority for medical care is profit. All other aspects are not the first priority, including ethic
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
No, that's only the client.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
On the contrary, it's very good design.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> just $65/mo "just"? That's very expensive.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> forcing all calling code to be released under the AGPL No. If you modify an AGPL network service you have to share the changes. If you call the API from a client you have no obligations.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Then say "person with bad dental hygiene". Don't single out homeless people: one can have bad dental hygiene without being homeless. (speaking about toxic language...)
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
No, it's not. You can deploy a very minimal Linux while also keeping the services that are actually good for security, like logging, IDS/IPS, certification compliance tooling, monitoring. Unless you are running unnecessary daemons
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> It can sound almost like a conspiracy if I put it like that, but it's just the economics incentives Talk about market failures! It's completely obvious that this economical system is not placing the good of the whole human sp
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The email workflow is objectively, measurably simpler and it works really well for kernel development. Look at the examples on sourcehut. Yes, it takes a moment to get used to something different, but that's a human problem.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> ideologically motivated camp The idea that GPL is ideological and other licenses aren't is false. Allowing companies to proprietarize software and not caring about user's freedom is just a different set of values.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
There's a reason why human society replaced charity from emperors, kings and aristocrats with taxation: public oversight. Those who control the money flow have huge power. Charity was always about giving money while keeping power. In t
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> is objectively a smaller attack surface No, you have to understand what is really part of the attack surface and what the attacker wants. For example, on a properly built system with a single application running with its own user the a
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> just a kernel + Go binary running as init This is hardly reducing the attack surface compared to a good distro with the usual userspace. It's been decades since attackers relied on a shell, or unix tools in general, or on being to
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Amazingly, that pattern is very easy to implement and yet nothing across Mastodon/Lemmy/Reddit comes even close.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
...or the projects would have to accept not-so-good engineers. :( Unfortunately, money brings in risks around project quality and integrity.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
g. Reader had a reshare feature that made your account a RSS feed. Your peers/friends/colleagues would feed from you and to you. Together with reshared count, it implemented a very effective peer review mechanism. Having high adop
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> $10,000 per month might pay for two full time engineers A good kernel engineer is paid well above $60K a year.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
The last thing we need is to reward libraries by popularity and quantity rather than quality. Just like in academia and industry, our work should be reviewed by peers with relevant and proven experience. The fact that some thing of NPM inst
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> instead want RMS especially because he does not submit to what feels convenient at the time? That's some cheeky phrasing. > FLOSS is permanently under attack, from the industry Sure it is, and having a spokeperson that act very
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Why the silent downvotes without explanation?
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
First, I've never meet a FLOSS developer that wants a "leader". A spokeperson would be ok. Second, organizations like Conservancy, EFF, FSFE, and many others don't seem to have any difficulty finding good public speakers
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> The Linux philosophy isn't important to them > They want the ability to make modifications, and they want the freedom and transparency that open-source... Look at all the answers about caring about the user's freedom, priv
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Plenty of people in the Free Software community don't feel represented by RMS. A lot of us were complaining about his behaviors even 15 years ago.
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
Not much tinfoil: big corporations successfully coopted the Free Software movement into Open Source and finally into unpaid labor for SaaS corporations. Then, they start banning GPLv3. Next, the same "Linux is cancer" microsoft no
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by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
I had only very good interactions on Mastodon. It's been the best social network I've ever seen so far.

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