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Same here, I have been doing that for around 20 years now too and I started out with postfix and a list of vmails in a text file.

I wonder where this myth comes from. People host way more out there stuff themselves, but somehow email is too scary …

But that’s the good violence, I think he is talking about the bad violence.

I remember when browsers just showed text.

We should just throw away the web and do something new. Maybe Fidonet over Reticulum so we can use radio.

Yeah, they should do an init system instead of reinventing an operating system.

That’s the main problem I have with it.

Of course advocates of systemd will say it’s modular, but there is some kind of capture process going on - you have to relay on the systemd solution, because it fits nicely into the systems ecosystem …

I’m totally with you on that. I use systemd daily and it has enormous benefits for system administration, but I don’t like the direction it’s headed and how the project is lead. That’s what I wanted to bring across here.

That’s what the problem with systemd is. It started out as a “modern” init system but somehow we ended up with some kind of parasitic software heap that tries to replace the userspace.

I mean the latest addition is some kind of OS installer.

To quote James T. Kirk: “why does an init system need an OS installer.”

That’s something I don’t understand.

I mean there is endless capitalism out there - what prevents China from just buying a company that has one? Like if you out up one Trillion dollars on Trumps desk tomorrow they could basically choose which company they want.

If that wasn’t a rich people class institution, it would be called a title mill and closed for that …

I think we are already seeing that with Microsoft. Another 2-3 rounds of AI and they forget how to build windows.

As a fellow diaeresis user I concur.

Thinking about that, it reminds me of addiction. You replace your motivational system with another one, that gives you a faster and easier reward.

There is an easy cope out to say, these were bad engineers to begin with, but I’m not convinced.

We know that if you don’t use an ability and use it daily your brain just reallocates resources to other tasks. So if you have a machine that “outsources” thinking for you, you will be less able to think.

First they filled the web full of ads, then they let loose an army of bots and now they have to come up with solutions to identify and track real humans, so as not to waste their precious advertising.

If I understand it right you need to enrich and filter data with human input so as not to collapse the model.

Wouldn’t that imply if the human enrichment is emulating AI data too closely it will still collapse the model, since it’s now just the human filtering that’s mimicing AI data?

Have you seen Merz? Germany would instantly fall to the US side if that happens.

Of course.

Personally I have given up on that. I try to either use false information when they don’t need the real data or throwaway" emails and SEPA and one time credit card numbers for banking stuff.

I don’t trust any company with my data ever, so I’m constantly paranoid in a way.

The Chinese can do less harm with my data than the US and it’s allies.

I’m speaking about the firmware and other blobs that are there because devices wouldn’t work without it.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/WHENCE

Nice, something running in an eBPF context with a blob in the middle, what could go wrong …

Also there are already a lot of binary blobs in the kernel, that also makes me nervous a bit.

I don’t understand why they are signing it. I mean we know that Microsoft is hostile, why submit to their signing bullshit.

The more you normalise bad behaviour the worse it gets.