To be replaced by Nazis. A sad and embarrassing choice by the people of Finland.

That’s not how you spell “imprison the C-suite of”. Last time I read the Constitution, giving aid and comfort to America’s enemies was treason.

Dynamic typing is insane. You have to keep track of the type of absolutely everything, in your head. It's like the assembly of type systems, except it makes your program slower instead of faster.

Windows is malware.

“I like trains.” —some kid, moments earlier

it has to be said that a lot of systemd’s features are broken if you’re operating a system without a dbus-enabled desktop manager

Huh? Most of systemd’s features, including all in the above list, work even if you have no GUI installed at all.

I do wish there were a good alternative that did not (via network effects) give firm control over a big portion of the Linux userland to a big corporation like IBM and its associated development practices

I’m not seeing it. This isn’t Chromium, where it takes an army of world-class developers just to keep it up-to-date enough to be fit for its purpose. If systemd were hard-forked right now, and the new maintainer did little more than the occasional bug fix, systemd would still be useful for the foreseeable future.

Dear Russian warmongers,

You’re welcome. Happy to help.

Love and warheads,

An American citizen.

Feature, not bug.

Because it looks cool. That’s seriously the only reason.

And it does look cool, although yeah, it is also harder to parse visually, which I suppose is why CSS has a media query specifically for asking whether the user wants reduced transparency.

As for suckless, the biggest target of their hate seems to be systemd, and there are quite a lot of reasons to recommend it. A few off the top of my head (all but one of which I have used at one point or another):

• Faster startup/shutdown
• More reliable shutdown (it hangs less often than the old shell-script-based shutdown procedure)
• Being able to see at a glance which services failed to start (systemctl --failed)
• Being able to see at a glance a service’s status including its last few log entries (systemctl status)
• Keeping track of (systemd-cgls) and optionally cleaning up (KillUserProcesses in logind.conf) user sessions
• User services started on boot (requires loginctl enable-linger)
• Easy sandboxing/deprivileging of services (ProtectHome, InaccessiblePaths, SystemCallFilter, CapabilityBoundingSet, etc)
• Service→device dependencies (Requisite=sys-subsystem-net-devices-wlan.device + WantedBy=sys-subsystem-net-devices-wlan.device = “don’t start hostapd unless the Wi-Fi dongle is plugged in, and stop it if the dongle is unplugged”)
• Querying the logs like a database (journalctl -p warning -b -u smbd = “give me all log entries made by smbd, of warning level or higher, since the last reboot”)

If you’re pathologically opposed to software complexity, you probably shouldn’t be using a GUI at all. Many millions of lines of code are involved in turning UTF-8 into pixels on your screen, laying out widgets, driving a GPU, and so forth.

Can’t say I’m overly surprised. They always did strike me as irrationally angry at harmless things and irrationally afraid of anything different from what they’re used to, which is exactly who right-wing ideology appeals to.

The progress on Asahi Linux is a demonstration of the difference I mentioned. People have been working on open-source NVIDIA drivers for ages and still can’t get the GPU out of first gear, whereas the M1 GPU driver is mostly functional after only a couple of years.

Cryptocurrency in general is a scam.

as a gen zer myself I would follow it up with WHY? give me a reason WHY.

So that spooks and advertisers can’t read your messages and use the information to help them brainwash you. Isn’t that reason enough?

Then maybe they aren’t worth talking to.

“Not your keys, not your crypto.” Doesn’t only apply to cryptocurrency.

It’s a matter of time before E2E doesn’t cut it and law enforcement and governments possess keys.

That’s why you only use open-source E2EE like Signal. There’s no way to slip in a back door without a bunch of people noticing, sounding the alarm, and forking the project.

if they haven’t circumvented that to spy on you yet

You mean the government breaking encryption? If the government could break encryption, it wouldn’t be trying so hard to make encryption illegal.

Why would you want SMS in Signal? The whole point of Signal is to be secure. SMS is not secure.

Proprietary messenger programs, even if they do encrypt your messages, probably do so in a way that allows the vendor and the government to read them.

Desperate circumstances call for desperate measures. Smoking will ruin your life.