We need to start realising that nobody is perfect forever. People can be really cool and insightful and intelligent for decades and go on to be frequently wrong about stuff later.

Linus sadly trends ever more to levels of lacking critical thought.

Linux has always been a tool of principle, and has long been an anomaly in what was the ‘unstoppable trend’ of monetizing usable software.

LibreOffice is one of the most impressive pieces of software to just… ever exist. Can’t believe less than 1m euro/year has been sustaining them 'til recently, these guys make a product equivalent to (and in many cases, exceeding) the product of a $100bn company.

standing or squatting births, or other positions which are much safer

Interesting, I was initially skeptical but this does seem probably the case. Western culture is so weird, dangit.

The answer is almost certainly because of how much brain we’re trying to fit in our heads.

Evolution has already given us hugely weakened jaw muscles, shrinking jaws, painful birth, years of helpless infancy and chronic sinus problems, all in the singular pursuit of MORE ROOM FOR BRAIN.

To be honest I’d say all of those are higher up on the priority list than thicker mouth skin for when I eat a thing too hot too quickly once every couple years.

This was why Lenin advocated for instant-recall for elected politicians. It’s been a problem for over 150 years.

The USA is 9 million square kilometres. Europe is 10 million.

The USA is way more crazy unstable than the EU and Russia combined. Twice as many civilians in the USA die every year from gun homicides than the actual fucking Russo-Ukrainian war. And I’m guessing USA gun homicides stat is already significantly short because of all the police shootings they don’t count.

Posts like this are why Americans are seen as loudly ignorant supremacist nerds.

I’ve been using Fedora for over 10 years. I used to have Nvidia issues, but those are all solved now.

Using it seems to be fine, but I would advise being wary and not giving Fedora/Red Hat any code or financial support. They do a lot of work for the US DoW, helping enable war crimes like murdering hundreds of school girls.

Yes

Of course the whole bourgeois class share common interests. But not entirely so. Else… why do tech giants oppose this move?

Good. This will be a good thing.

Uncontrolled social media has a lot of problems but pre-megacorp internet was at least one metric fuckton better than whatever this shit is we have now.

Basically all the tech giants oppose this move, though. This is pure government surveillance baby.

And rightly so, but I don’t think we’re blaming the individual here. Certainly shouldn’t be.

And the bit where they criminalised over ten opposition parties?

there have been referenda to determine if elections should be held

??? I can’t find evidence of any such referenda. This seems to just be false. Do you just mean ‘survey’?

I am (and most people are) not saying Ukraine MUST hold elections tomorrow. But the meme’s point stands - that none of these people have a meaningful democratic mandate.

If you’re just doing normal sheet, you should ideally basically not even notice SELinux. And in that sense it’s good.

If you’re doing any dev or running any server software or some kind of freaky setup, my advice is disable it. At least all you have to do is turn a true into a false.

In a lot of distros at least, you can just reinstall in place, which has the same effect. But a different place for /home does feel a potentially more reliable method.

Linux permissions are obvious, straightforward, and very easy to change - They rule.

SELinux permissions are impossible to see, seemingly pointlessly more complex, and I don’t know how to check them or change them i.e. They drool.

As a power user who is constantly changing system stuff, installing weird stuff, running weird servers, disabling SELinux is like, step 2 of installing Linux for me (and honestly, even if you’re not a power user, I can assure you at least ONE issue you’ve faced was actually caused by SELinux under the hood). I have wasted whole days working out just that SELinux is causing my fucking issue, and then days more on how to fix the permissions, and then days more doing those again when those permissions RESET as it is wont to do and days more trying to make my needed changes permanent. And let’s not even get started on how to transplant an SELinux permissions structure from one disk to another. So instead of a week’s worth of frustrating work every year, I can spend one minute disabling SELinux.

Its implementation feels contradictory to the most basic principles of understandable and workable systems. It’s like the NSA wanted to make software that was the diametric opposite of the Zen of Python. It’s ugly, it’s implicit, it’s complicated, nested, dense, unreadable, full of special cases, and silent errors, it constantly guesses in the face of ambiguity (which is why I have to constantly correct it).

Basically, I have wasted too much of my life faffing with an opaque and ludicrously complex permissions layer that seems to be there solely as a ‘just in case’ my already existing permissions aren’t good enough.

I end up very concerned by this kind of thing. Big money in the Linux space very frequently (though not always) creates more closed, proprietary Linuxes, rather than expanding and improving the open-source wider ecosystem.

I assumed it was a foreign thing, but no, it was actually made in America.

Kimball and Mattis formed the acronym GIMP by adding the letter G to “-IMP”