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by throwaway7356 11mo ago
Debian doesn't ship files in /usr/local. You can of course add your own "apt" binary in /usr/local/bin/apt which can be written in any language you like, say COBOL, Java, Common Lisp or Python.
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by throwaway7356 11mo ago
> A minimal Debian installation doesn't contain bash, but rather dash, which doesn't support bash extensions. Please don't make up wrong facts that would be trivial to check first. All minimal Debian installations include
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by throwaway7356 11mo ago
> my point is it would be more sensible to say "I'm going to introduce an oxidized fork of apt and a method to use it as your system apt if you prefer" and then over the next year or so he could say "look at all these
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by throwaway7356 11mo ago
> systemd was similar and for similar reasons (commercial interests by some key stakeholders) False claims don't really make the claims about the evils of Rust more believable.
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by throwaway7356 1y ago
Both HTTP and even ancient protocols like FTP support that. So it must be something else.
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by throwaway7356 1y ago
> >Ah, so not blocked. Thanks for confirming. > > A killfile is blocking, thanks for confirming. Lol, charliebrownau's antisemitic mails don't get blocked, they get approval: - https://www.freelists.org&#x2F
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by throwaway7356 1y ago
Ah, emotionally stable adults like https://www.freelists.org/post/xlibre/Hosting-git-for-xlibre... ? Sounds about right. I guess the Lunduke and XLibre community proudly branding preteen children as "pedophil
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by throwaway7356 1y ago
> Killfile and all, same as it ever was. Ah, so not blocked. Thanks for confirming. > Is this LLM hallucination? The victim of the pedophile was 11. Sad to see even LLMs will twist themselves into hallucinations defending pedophiles.
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by throwaway7356 1y ago
> You mean the troll that in that same thread is called out for being an off-topic spammer and blocked? Where was this valued community member blocked? I thought the Xlibre project rejects censoring people for their political positions..
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by throwaway7356 1y ago
Meanwhile on the Xlibre mailing list: https://www.freelists.org/post/xlibre/Proposal-Standards-for... The official telegram also has antisemetic memes, messages mentioning "gene therapies" for COVID and
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by throwaway7356 1y ago
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f43-change-proposal-x... Have fun with the Xlibre community. The fact that the proposer has to include such disclaimer also says a lot about the Xlibre upstream community.
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by throwaway7356 1y ago
> News sites that have praised the xlibre author for countless articles are suddenly doing a 180 Which news sites praised the xlibre author for posting anti-vaxx stuff the the linux kernel mailing list and now shun him for posting other
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by throwaway7356 1y ago
No, people flock to Xlibre because of Weigelt's political opinions. They are unhappy because Wayland is developed by "woke" people, thus the need to continue to use X11.
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by throwaway7356 1y ago
There is a significant community for which these are not insane conspiracy theories, but real concerns. Just take anyone watching Lunduke or from anti-systemd/anti-Red-Hat/anti-woke distributions like OpenMandriva or Devuan and yo
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by throwaway7356 1y ago
Aircraft are connected to the internet. So no problem there. Other vessels too.
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by throwaway7356 2y ago
> I saw years of uptime on those systems This just means security updates were never installed. (Or you claim that all those operating systems never had kernel-level security issues which seems doubtful...)
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by throwaway7356 2y ago
> Companies that produce software What about companies that deploy software with the level of quality that Crowdstrike has? Or Microsoft 365 for that matter. That seems to be the bigger issue here; after all Crowdstrike probably says it
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by throwaway7356 2y ago
But do you ever get free world-wide advertisement that everyone uses your product? Crowdstrike sure did and I'm sure they'll use that to sell it to more people.
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by throwaway7356 2y ago
> About all I need are tabs and bookmarks and a history and thats it I'm impressed you don't even need a HTML renderer component and all that comes with it.
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by throwaway7356 2y ago
> It doesn't take away the fact that they did not check xz, and probably only few of their other dependencies. Xz is also used by Debian's package manager (both dpkg and apt). Or tar. Or the Linux kernel. Or... It already was a
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by throwaway7356 2y ago
But userv requires code to be written specifically to work with userv, even for seemingly simple tasks as reading files. See 6.6 Error handling and input streams (eg stdin) on https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/use
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by throwaway7356 2y ago
> which must be in the running for one of the largest bodies of code that must run as root Have you ever heard of the Linux kernel? Or X11 (which does traditionally run as root until systemd made it possible to not do so)?
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by throwaway7356 2y ago
> journalctl... it takes me 18 seconds just to type it. Sounds like you don't use a keyboard often enough to even remember where the keys are. Not sure I would expect deep (or even shallow) knowledge on UNIX system administration fr
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by throwaway7356 2y ago
Is xmodem still used outside of computer museums (including private computer museums)?
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by throwaway7356 2y ago
Will you install a new systemd version on such an old system with wrong termcap/terminfo settings or attached to a physical vt100?
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by throwaway7356 2y ago
> Much of this was enabled by a willingness to throw out compatibility with nearly everything. Backwards, forwards, sideways. If I were making a bold and breaking change like this, I would sacrifice compatibility but try to make up for i
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by throwaway7356 2y ago
> Unix domain sockets are just files, so they have an owner, group and mode bits. The answer to "who is potentially allowed to run a differently-privileged command?" is just `ls -l /path/to.sock`. Yeah, except that is
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by throwaway7356 2y ago
> Gentoo does not accept art contributions of any kind (human/ai), there is just no place for this. Okay, let's do a short fact check on that: 1. Visit https://gentoo.org , notice logo in top left: a first sign of co
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by throwaway7356 2y ago
The claim here was this: > "Jia Tan" was pushing hard to get systemd updated to use the new xz Which is different from your claim "changes in upstream systemd would limit the timeline for them"
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by throwaway7356 3y ago
> There are simple usages like shifts to divide/multiply by 2. Clean code should not do that as the compiler will do that. Clean code should just say what it wants to do, not replace that with low-level performance optimizations. (A

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