My body is ready for 1.0.

How to smuggle all three volumes of Das Kapital into prison with just thirty dollars, a condom, and some lube.

I blame Sun/Java for popularizing this. I give find a pass due to its age.

[the linux kernel developers group] bent over backwards to comply with the american government’s overreach when they kicked out russian developers.

I though that was mostly due to Linus being a typical Russia-hating Finn, but I never investigated.

I still sometimes need to use Google’s search engine, but the new default “AI Mode” is bullshit, so I use Violentmonkey and this userscript to force it to use the original default, “Web”: https://github.com/ZenithO-o/Fix-Google-Web-Search

That’s a poor analogy, because nobody is lying, saying things are on fire that aren’t.

We weren’t born yesterday—or at least I wasn’t. We know where this is going, and it’s folly to wait until almost the end before pushing back.

There are fascist governments demanding genital inspection for playing highschool sports

• That is already going on in the very same country we’re discussing.
• “Things could be even worse, so until things are just as bad as that, don’t complain or try to stop it from getting worse.”

🤷

In a few years, we may be smuggling in contraband Chinese RISC-V computers.

Unless it is fought, this corporate-driven rot will burrow all the way down to the sub-processor TEE/TPM and all the way up to the web browser/app.

You don’t need Kubernetes, Docker, or a rack of hardware to self-host useful tools. A single cheap VPS with PM2 and Nginx gets you surprisingly far.

Before containers that’s how it had always been done. Unix/Linux/BSD distros had always been designed for doing things this way, and almost all of them still are. It has its problems, which can become intractable if you pile on many services, but will you?

Containers & container management solve problems that small/hobby/personal projects wouldn’t necessarily ever run into.

With that said, I wonder if less & less effort might go into continuing support for monolithic architectures. Debian still puts a lot of effort into its standard packages working together harmoniously. The other extreme is Talos Linux, which is specifically designed to be a Kubernetes node. It doesn’t even ship with a proper package manager, but with overlays and system extensions, which mostly exist for customizations of & support for running & managing containers.

Debian is 32 years old. Arch is 24 years old. Gentoo is 23 years old. Alpine is 20 years old.

Fortunately this quixotic proposal is just some guy’s blog post.

christ i should just pin all my packages to the last pre-vibe era release for the rest of my life

Locking post. I wish someone had reported this rage-bait^[1] post sooner.

Maybe the complainers are using clients that don’t support the feature.

Hah. What are the changes of this coincidence.

https://mega.nz/file/K7BnBIob#TmFn8axPIJ2h1d8b3dGqmrr_0wTN8VCkUiB9LtoqOPQ

I stopped reading because I wasn’t sure how much smoke he might have been blowing up my ass at the time, and I don’t remember enough to say now without reading it again.