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by t43562 9mo ago
Commercial interests. Linux has benefited greatly from companies adopting it and paying developers but at the same time there has been a price to pay and this kind of thing is it. Since it's all open source, I think we're reasona
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by t43562 9mo ago
e.g. Starting something in the background and having to stick sleep statements into the script to wait till it is ready to receive requests on whatever port it uses. The sleeps are fine on one machine and on another they aren't enough.
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by t43562 9mo ago
That's the way open source works. The people that think there's a point go and fork and those that don't stay put. Linux distros have become extremely complicated IMO. Systemd is not the worst example of this - the packaging
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by t43562 9mo ago
Init scripts were horrible Here's a dinit service file for starting my bluetooth daemon: type = process command = /usr/lib/dinit/dbus-wait-for -s -f 4 -n org.bluez /usr/lib&#
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by t43562 9mo ago
In any such situation there's never going to be 100% acceptance by the losing side. Hence Devuan. Hooray - everyone gets a choice.
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by t43562 9mo ago
Why provide systemd if devuan is just debian with systemd alternatives? What would be the point - if you want systemd use debian?
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by t43562 9mo ago
which current alternatives have you tried?
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by t43562 9mo ago
... or other niches like my laptops and desktops that I'm writing to you from.
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by t43562 9mo ago
What you define as "one thing" is not seen as one thing by those of us that aren't systemd fans. That's all it is really.
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by t43562 9mo ago
It lacks the UNIX philosophy really. Binary logs are a sort of example of the attitude it has. That's why there has been kicking and screaming that you mention. I have lots of 30-year old books on "Modern XXX" which makes you
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by t43562 9mo ago
There are other things just work too.
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by t43562 9mo ago
Other systems are getting used. They're just not getting adopted by the major distributions ...presumably because they've decided that conformity helps. But I'm happily not using systemd and it's not something that cau
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by t43562 9mo ago
There were other innovative systems - they just weren't adopted by the major distos - other than I think Ubuntu.
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by t43562 9mo ago
The great thing is that there actually ARE options that are far better than init scripts and they don't have to be like systemd.
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by t43562 9mo ago
I haven't used Devuan for a while but I use another systemd-free distro and I think all such distros have benefited from work that Devuan has done to keep the option on the table. I think you can even get my favorite init system on Dev
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by t43562 9mo ago
The problem with the 3 laws is the suggestion that they would have been universally embedded in all robots. Some idiot somewhere will decide not to do it and that's enough. I think Asimov sort of admits this when you read how the Solar
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by t43562 9mo ago
React gets used because no matter if there is a better way, that's what the company mandated. They want to hire "react devs". Perhaps AI will help us by allowing us to swap to simpler and better solutions without the same le
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by t43562 9mo ago
In the UK I've never seen the hailo hats (which are quite old BTW) advertised for LLMs. The presented usecase has been object detection from lots of video cameras in realtime. They seem very fast and I certainly want to use that kind
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by t43562 9mo ago
Framing it as "fanatical" is a way of not understanding people's needs sometimes and that makes it harder for oneself to admit when they got it right - after all you don't want to find that you've turned into "
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by t43562 9mo ago
Even within the range of Linux distros there are some that feel more agenda-driven than others. That's the absolute wonder of it. One can sidestep the flamewars and just use another distro that suits likeminded people. On the other han
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by t43562 10mo ago
You cannot replicate the situation where the US was the workshop of the world at a time when other major industrial powers had been smashed by war...unless you try to smash them or encourage them to have a war.... Other countries develop an
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by t43562 10mo ago
The supply may be limited because the people who own property want it to remain so.
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by t43562 10mo ago
I learned C in about 1989/1990 and have used it a lot since then. I have worked on a fair amount of rotten commercial C code, sold at a high price, in which every millimeter of extra functionality was bought with sweat and blood. I on
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by t43562 10mo ago
I've always wondered at the motivatons of the various string routines in C - every one of them seems to have some huge caveat which makes them useless. After years I now think it's essential to have a library which records at leas
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by t43562 10mo ago
....but you have to be able to get UV and on some platforms (e.g. a raspberry pi) it won't build because the version of rust is too old. So I wrote a script called "pv" in python which works a bit like uv - just enough to ge
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by t43562 10mo ago
The subprocess module is horrendous but even if it was great bash is simpler. I just think about trying to create a pipe of processes in python without the danger of blocking.
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by t43562 10mo ago
Sounds like a competitor for Micropython on all those little RP2350 and ESP boards.
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by t43562 10mo ago
Errors can be recovered automatically sometimes but at the level at which you log them you don't know if that's going to happen. I therefore think this suggestion is not easy to follow. Even if your libraries use nothing but exce
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by t43562 10mo ago
Seems extremely dangerous to be doing those kinds of things with software from someone politically hostile. Perhaps the EU should be weaning itself off that too?
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by t43562 10mo ago
The first computer I touched, and I'm not that old, had 1kb RAM (ZX81) so the pico is a supercomputer next to that. It has all happened gradually but in a way I feel a little bit sorry for the whippersnappers that haven't experien

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