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  • Hate Systemd? A New Init System(Nitro) Debuts as a Minimalist Process Supervisor for Linux

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  • No, but the weirdos who insist on spelling it "SystemD" always seem to hate systemd.

    systemd is pretty great. I tend to start long-running processes as user services, and I've even taken to starting some apps that give an old laptop trouble with systemd-run and a slice with some memory restrictions. Easy peasy, works great, all declarative, no wibbly-wobbly shell scripts involved.

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    SHUT THE FUCK UP!

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  • But what did you learn? What are we supposed to learn? Did you get any context, like how he actually went to anger management therapy later?

    Or is this just guffawing and gawping at an old angry email from a tech celebrity?

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    SHUT THE FUCK UP!

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  • This mail is 13 years old, and doesn't seem relevant for anything? This post seems like a lazy attempt at shit-stirring.

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    Crypt Dash delivery [OC]

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  • The fourth … appendage on the left hand is being used like a thumb, and doesn't have any indication of knuckle even though it'd be the most bent finger if it was one. I'd say we can see four fingers on the right hand, while the left is in an indeterminate slop state where it's only partially a comic/Disney three-finger hand, with one extra slop appendage that's not clearly either thumb or finger.

  • Privatize or downsize the USPS? Rural customers worry either option will hurt them

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  • If usps doesn’t want to deliver to rural addresses, fine, but set up some alternatives. Create a secured remote mailbox, or offer P.O. Boxes for free.

    The fundamental problem here is that the US population doesn't really want to pay for stuff where they don't directly benefit. In "me first" politics, rural populations are screwed.

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    Crypt Dash delivery [OC]

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  • Same reason as the vampire has one hand with four fingers and fingernails, and one hand with three fingers and no nail: LLM slop

  • 1/2 off haircuts

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  • Kinda. At the last strand I expect them to switch to length.

    But yeah, at some point should be good enough

  • Yep

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  • Step one is making sure your union has the collective bargaining power it needs to get a good wage and benefits for everyone. Some striking may be involved, so the strike coffers should be robust as well.

    Beyond that, wealth taxes and exit taxes on those who want to flee to tax havens with no wealth taxes. Public ownership of some stuff like utilities.

    So more or less joining a union if you're not already a member and voting no further right than social democrat.

    Mitigations like spending less might also be a good idea or even required, like wearing dust masks in polluted areas, but just like how the dust mask doesn't make the pollution go away, spending less individually doesn't really tackle the fundamental problem of distribution and wealth extraction.

    We need actual politics for that.

  • Systemd's Nuts and Bolts - A Visual Guide to Systemd

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  • Yeah, JSON is essentially a side effect of having JavaScript already. It makes sense that it shows up a lot of places, especially web. But just like with JS, it's not really good, just ubiquitous.

  • Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed

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  • I know, I just think it's annoying. I even turned on some option to see "adult games" in Steam for a little while because I thought it meant it would shut off the age verification for games like BG3. Instead it started showing me porn games (with no age verification), while still requiring an age check for actual adult games.

    Americans.

  • Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed

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  • Side note: I wish they'd just call them porn games, not "adult games". I expect adult games to be games for adults, as in, the games that are age-restricted to 18+.

    Or are they going to start removing stuff that's PEGI 18 / ESRB M, like Baldur's Gate 3? No? Exactly.

  • Experiment finds yoghurt can lower house temperature

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  • Sun films have been available commercially for a long while. Choose how much sunlight you want reflected (generally more in bedrooms that you generally want dark and cool, less in rooms where you want a view), and either get a professional to apply or do it yourself—it just takes a bit of soap water and effort.

    Generally better to have the sun rejection happen on the outside of the window, so as little as possible energy gets absorbed.

  • Systemd's Nuts and Bolts - A Visual Guide to Systemd

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  • I've very barely dipped my toes in dbus before, and the option to have something else is on its face attractive (not a fan of XML and the late 90s/early aughties style of oop), but JSON for a system interface?

    I mean, Kubernetes shows that yaml can work, but in this day and age I'd expect several options for serialisation, and for the default to be binary, not strings.

    String serialisations are primarily for humans IMO, either as readers or writers. As writers we want something with comments (and preferably no "find the missing }" game), so for that most of us would prefer something like TOML if the data is simple enough, and actually Yaml for complexity at the level of Kubernetes—JSON manages to be even more of a PITA at that level.

    But machine-to-machine? Protobuf, cap'n'proto, postcard, even CBOR should all be alternatives to examine

  • Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out

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  • Yeah, I think the fact that the next LTS will be 26.04 is the driver here, I just get the impression that things might get a little rocky and that they might've been better off had the next LTS been further into the future.

    But it'll be a real smoke test release, at least. Hopefully they have enough resources to fix the issues that are uncovered, and don't wind up reverting for the LTS, or with a crummy LTS.

  • Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out

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  • I'm generally an en_*.UTF-8 user (even tried en_DK.UTF-8 for a bit for a reason we'll come back to), so I don't have a complete picture of it and would have to go look at the documentation or source for that, but I'd expect

    • documentation
    • date formats: en_DK.UTF-8 should give you ISO8601-formatted dates, if I can't have that I at least want DD/MM/YYYY; the US-american nonsense is just plain unacceptable
    • sorting: e.g. Norwegian will have …zæøå and expect aa to be sorted as å, the Swedes have …zåöä, the Germans …zäöü, the Turks will want ı and İ sorted and upper/lowercased correctly, and there are some options around how you deal with "foreign" letters and diacritics.
    • Probably more stuff relating to LC_* that I can't think of off the top of my head

    but in any case, an ls -l output should be different depending on your locale, and in ways you likely don't even think about as long as it looks normal.

  • Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out

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  • Yeah, I think those are just lacking in the internationalisation?

    People like me, who at most have some reading glasses needs and have their computer set to generally English utf-8 will be likely be fine.

  • Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out

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  • Between that and the uutils-coreutils, Ubuntu 25.10 sounds like it'll be an interesting experience for users, especially those with accessibility and internationalisation needs.

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    Arch Linux Breaks New Ground: Official Rust Init System Support Arrives

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  • Having had a look at the archived version linked below, it seems pretty clear that it's entirely hogwash:

  • The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice

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  • No, but a bad MS/Windows decision is often a catalyst. I came over to Linux from Windows ME. :)

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