How dare they. We should also demand that they bring back support for i386 and SUN-4.

You are wrong and incapable of admitting it. Downvoting your comment is an efficient way of signaling that.

Also look at animal agriculture which we also do not need

I can eat steak. I cannot eat AI.

Someone give this woman a bible:

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.

They didn’t. They are active in Mastodon.

Is this article AI generated? It seems to wander and repeat itself instead of being well-structured like a standard three-part article (background, analysis, conclusion).

It very much is. The same user has also been systematically sharing content from this blog across half a dozen communities.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a bot.

systemd devs successfully rage baited you and a bunch of others. It’s time to let it go.

But if you don’t want to, let me ask, how do you think a data field with no connection to any access control subsystem, is going to prevent anyone from logging in?

Neither does systemd. They are optional.

LDAP has had a birth date field for like 20 years now. Is it “complicit” as well?

Which part of the “Linux philosophy” does systemd “violate”.

The scope creep exponentially raises the efforts needed to properly test, troubleshoot, secure, and just generally work with the project code.

I keep seeing these words, “scope creep”, in this thread, and I don’t think most people understand what they mean.

The scope of systemd is an init and service manager, and any basic service required for a minimal, coherent system to work. If you think that it goes too far, then we should be talking about the Linux kernel and all the stuff it has that could run on userland and doesn’t, or coreutils, which essentially is the shell equivalent to systemd without the integration.

In the same sense a database is complicit.

Not sure what’s annoying about logind, but udev was introduced eight years before systemd was a thing.

A single binary? What?

Systemd changing from text to binary logs is my pet peeve.

Fast searchable compressed files is a fantastic idea.

… there is something deeply and personally disturbing to me about people who identify strongly with it

As opposed to those who call themselves gamers or trekkies?

Sure.

Maybe you just don’t get it? Or maybe you’re trying to look for differences where there really aren’t any, in order to belittle pastimes you don’t personally like.

Because, unless you’re terminally online, you must be familiar with the fact that millions of people just enjoy watching football, and follow teams and players, sometimes regardless of their performance on the pitch. It’s a social and cultural phenomenon.

But anyway, just so you know, shitting on football fans stopped being edgy circa 2010, around the same time fedoras went out of fashion.

The problem I have with Messi t-shirts, and all that shit, is I don’t know why people want to identify with Messi other than “He is the BEST.”

You wrote a long message explaining the why, yet you aren’t able to connect the final dots.

People wearing Queen t-shirts may also think that they are the “best”. People playing Minecraft may think too that it is the “best”. They enjoy listening to Queen, playing Minecraft, and watching Messi, and precisely because of that, they may think these are all the “best”.

Maybe the issue here is that you either don’t enjoy football, or don’t like Messi as a player?

Again, yeah, they will obey Swiss law, exactly what it says in their marketing material. Shocker.

I’m curious to know if you really believe that there are companies out there that would break the law in order to protect their users, and if so, which ones.

Oh no, Proton PR is pro Bernie Sanders?

You can’t say Proton is legally mandated to violate privacy while pushing a Proton-backed page that says

I can absolutely say that. Because as much as a trumper you think the CEO is, Proton wouldn’t collaborate with the DOJ under such scenario unless they wanted to be screwed in the courts of the country they operate from. But if they receive a lawful requirement that, under Swiss law, needs to be fulfilled, then they must.

You believe that Switzerland is some sort of haven where international law doesn’t apply. That’s not true. You believe that Swiss law only applies in one direction, i.e. individual privacy protection, but not in any other, i.e. lawful data sharing requests from law enforcement. Then the issue is what you chose to believe. Here’s the thing: any company offering a service must comply with the laws of the country they are based on. And if you think that there are commercial mail providers that would rather cease operations before handing data to law enforcement, oh boy do I have news for you.

At the time it was true, corporate dems were way more likely to be in bed with big tech. That’s just a fact.

The “it doesn’t matter” part of the blog post is also dangerously inaccurate, implying any privacy violation in Switzerland is illegal while, in reality, Swiss authorities have gotten Proton to disclose user data several times in high-profile incidents. Here’s the biggest one in my mind. And another and another.

Ah, I remember you now. You’re the guy who thinks that privacy equals absolute immunity from court orders! That’s never the case and will never be.

I suppose we read different things, because what they said is that republicans aren’t “friendly with big tech” and that’s a good thing. There are other blog posts where they explain their position in detail, like https://proton.me/blog/trump-control-nsa-privacy

I’m familiar with this link though.

Yours doesn’t load for me.

You may be familiar, but you refuse to argue on its merits and sources, of which there are plenty.

And by the way, if we were to talk astroturfing, there are a handful of accounts in this community that consistently post negative comments about Proton. I’m not saying this is an orchestrated attack against them, but it’s really damn suspicious that in every topic tangential to privacy or VPNs, there’s always someone mentioning how awful Proton is.

The CEO didn’t support Trump: https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e