Prove it. I’m sure you can find some reputable sources to bank your claims.
luddite
Maybe you ought to also better understand that comparing one to people who stood up against exploitation isn’t really an insult. Just like the Rednecks were those fighting for the working class when they were gunned down by rent-a-cops with machine guns at Blair Mountain.
If you’ve any shed of evidence to disprove established fact, please share it. Otherwise, jog on, mate.
Feel like supporting this statement?
It was hacking according to Kevin Mitnick (RIP) so, it’s probably safe to say that your view doesn’t need to be changed.
Skip to Svalboard. It is the endgame.
Leveraging his office for profit? Yes. By definition it absolutely is
He’s already been violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
The FCC, which licenses radio spectrum and makes the rules for device certification is part of the Executive branch. So are the CFPB and the SEC, or what’s left of them. He’s literally, corruptly leveraging his office to benefit his cons and preventing regulations from applying to himself and his cronies.
Besides the naked corruption?
In a world not dominated by unfettered capitalism, sure. That’s not the one that we live in however and this tool has both been built on stolen and unlicensed intellectual property as well as being used explicitly to harm people’s livelihoods while replacing their work with objectively inferior plagiaristic amalgams.
AI companies also refuse to obey the rules of the Internet and continually DDOS sites that request crawlers and scrapers not do so, necessitating creation of whole new types of software to defend against their malicious behavior.
And on top of all that, they have substantially increased greenhouse gas emissions and are actively consuming potable water in a manner that makes Nestlé execs hard. Putting the planet’s biosphere at greater risk and unnecessarily increasing water scarcity.
Nah. Simping for AI companies is the irrational take. The value that they provide to humanity is, outside of some niche use cases, marginal at best and will likely never come close to making up for the harms that they are causing to humanity for a quick buck and to increase worker oppression.
With GenAI being used primarily as a cudgel against labor, especially organized labor, it’s a pretty accurate take.
100% guaranteed. The US does not have the manufacturing infrastructure for such products as a result of half a century of off-shoring to avoid organized labor.
You love to see it.
Why don’t distros support listing packages and system settings in text file(s)?
Short answer: Because it would be bad software design.
More detailed answer: I can definitely understand the feeling but a large part of it is that text files are not databases. Trying to use them for that purpose leads to quickly running into a brick wall of scalability problems. Seriously, that wall is hit faster than one might expect.
Why use a db in the first place? Well, when a package manager installs a package, it does a lot more than install files in their specified paths and store the name. Every package also has a ton of metadata. This includes everything from the software version number and versions that it obsoletes to repo that the package is from to signatures to verify package authenticity and checksums to verify file integrity.
Storing all of this info is the sort of thing that databases excell at and text flatfiles are terrible at. The db also includes integrity checks for itself. Since the data is already stored in a db, also storing even a subset in a flatfile would be poor software design as it is unnecessarily wasting storage space in a manner that would perform significantly worse and is much more prone to data integrity failures.
So, how do you work around that for backup? Just script a dump of the installed packages from the package manager. It’s trivial with apt and dnf/yum. Then, store it with dot files in your backups.
To restore, I’d recommend Ansible because it works nicely with lists of packages and has minimal dependencies.
If you don’t want to interact with the package manager and like domain specific languages (or don’t dislike the syntax), just use Nix and be done with it. Noone whose opinion matters is going to bully you for the choice. If, like me, you strongly dislike DSLs and the Nix syntax, the choices are pretty much Fedora Atomic, GUIX, and/or Ansible.
Yup. As jerry illustrated, this shit isn’t free.
Donations, subscriptions, etc are definitely fine. They are not invasive fuckery that inflict themselves on people without consent, nor do they seep into the space in a commercial manner. Ads do not respect consent and they fundamentally force commerce into every place that they touch.
Ads are the root of the rot in the www.
Abso-fucking-lutely not. People need to be able to exist without having hypercommercialism forced on them everywhere.
I think that TMR is now the preferred tech. It is more of a direct replacement than hall effect, resulting in less potential latency and maintaining the advantages of magnetic, contactless sticks.
I’ve done a lot of SysAdmin and DCOps stuff in the past so, thought I’d give you some plausible suggestions (haven’t dug deep into Lemmy DB stuff and DNS/Federation of the stack, so not sure all is practical).
robak.slrpnk.net and slrpnk.net and point DNS appropriately.That sucks.
TIL: Accelerating global climate change, increasing depletion of available reserved of potable water through use of open-loop cooling, intentionally eroding the ability of people to support themselves by using their own works to compete with them without license or consent to do so, and passing all economic gains upwards, with no financial benefit realized by people doing the actual work is “spurious”.
Your claim is that “everything” that I previously stated was factually incorrect and have provided exactly nothing but ad hominem attacks to “prove” your point. So, are you going to backup your claims at all, or are you just approaching this in bad faith to troll or reinforce your pseudo-religious faith in LLMs (which will never be sentient nor save us from the problems that they are contributing to).