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  1. Re:What I don't like about this feature on iOS 12.1 Extends Controversial Processor Throttling Feature To the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and X (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm happy they helped kill the floppy drive and made USB more ubiquitous.

  2. New features include on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Released (lwn.net) · · Score: 4, Funny

    All of /etc has been moved to a flat binary database now called REGISTRY.DAT

    A new configuration tool known as regeditor authored by Poettering himself (accidental deletion of /home only happens in rare occurrences)

    In kernel naughty words filter

    systemd now includes a virtual userland previously known as busybox

  3. I'll stick with 7. I can say no to updates that randomly delete my data.

  4. Re:AIX Redux on IBM To Buy Red Hat, the Top Linux Distributor, For $34 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Redhat is damn near AIX already. AIX had binary log files long before systemd.

  5. Lol on IBM To Buy Red Hat, the Top Linux Distributor, For $34 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    With systemd how can they fuck it up worse than it already is?

  6. Re:I'm not opposed to politics as a protected clas on Tech Groups Step Away From Gab Network After Shooting (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Any true conservative would have let the banks and auto makers go under back in 2008. The free market has showed their business model as unsustainable Instead the Republicans let them drink from the government tit.

  7. Re:Free Enterprise on Tech Groups Step Away From Gab Network After Shooting (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    I dislike PayPal for other reasons. They operate as a bank but are not bound by any banking laws or regulations.

  8. Re:In before someone says it on Tech Groups Step Away From Gab Network After Shooting (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    https://arrow-journal.org/why-... Which is hilarious because that's what segregation was.

  9. Re:In before someone says it on Tech Groups Step Away From Gab Network After Shooting (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm a Reagan era conservative. My party was hijacked by religious fundamentalists and whackjobs years ago. Although these days I guess I'm more libertarian than anything. I don't believe more government or more taxes is the solution to a problem

  10. Re:Most programmers, too on Kids Think the Darndest Things About How Computers Work (acm.org) · · Score: 1

    Moore's law says nothing of speed. It's transistor density.

  11. Re:First of many on New SystemD Vulnerability Discovered (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Silly me thinking the kernel handled network connections...

  12. Re:Leonard? on New SystemD Vulnerability Discovered (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Funny

    I pronounce it as "shit head".

  13. First of many on New SystemD Vulnerability Discovered (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is the tip of the iceburg as more spaghetti code will be found. Tell me again why a startup manager also does DNS resolution?

  14. Re:Can someone explain? on Canonical Releases Statistics Showing Adoption of Snap Packages (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Give it a few releases and systemd will have some code for keeping track of dependencies like ldconfig used to.

  15. Re:Can someone explain? on Canonical Releases Statistics Showing Adoption of Snap Packages (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Linux is so splintered with a million libraries for everything under the sun. Eventually you'll need a program and find it uses some obscure library that nobody has packages for and that library won't compile without a dozen other obscure dependencies. Meanwhile Linux users used to complain over "dll hell" while touting their source code.

  16. I must know, what is everyone doing remotely that they need X?

  17. Re:Coca Cola in plastic vs glass on Microplastics Found In Human Stools For the First Time (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah a small surface area that makes minor contact versus the entire container?

  18. Re:Wonder if it's still true today? (Keyboard, etc on IBM Open Sources Mac@IBM Code (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I read an article about this a while ago. The summary fails to mention they save a ton in help desk and support staff as well. What strange times we live in when Big Blue once the ruthless king of PC desktops is buying Macs.

  19. Re:Why charge for something thats free with Opera? on Mozilla Is Reportedly Going To Sell VPN Subscriptions Within Firefox (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd rather the Chinese collect my browsing habits than Uncle Sam.

  20. Re: Most don't need a VPN on Mozilla Is Reportedly Going To Sell VPN Subscriptions Within Firefox (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    Good to know my web browser is analyzing my connection for security... Next up a scan of all local executables to be sent off for analysis. Firefox does want to be Chrome Junior.

  21. Re:Most don't need a VPN on Mozilla Is Reportedly Going To Sell VPN Subscriptions Within Firefox (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the latest buzzword to fool the rubes.

  22. Yeah we all know what that means.

  23. Re:Winamp vs Foorbar2000 on Winamp 5.8, the First Update In 4 Years, Is Released (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    I love how something is "dead" if continuous updates aren't being done. At some point you are finished. It works as intended. Quit adding shit for the sake of adding shit.

  24. No one can ever give a practical application for any of that nonsense.

  25. Re:Is anyone using OpenBSD? on OpenBSD 6.4 Released (openbsd.org) · · Score: 1

    I do. Runs flawlessly. Going to update this weekend, it should take maybe 10 minutes.