Except it's not terribly insightful, nor is it particularly truthful. There's a big gap between "abridging freedom of speech" and "not giving assholes a platform for their bullshit." Let them provide their own, with hookers and blackjack, etc.etc.
It's not any different dropping spammers and that asshole who keeps trying to dictionary attack your SSH teergrube into a blocklist: crying "censorship" because you get smacked down for behaving like a tit isn't "insightful," it just makes you look like a 12 year old.
As far as quotes go, the only thing that one has over the bog-standard contents of C++ vs Java, PHP vs Python, and Ruby vs. EverythingElse, etc.. net flamewars is that
A) It was made by "a big name." B) It's more eloquent
So is this all just people acting on some philosophical principle, rather than picking the best tool to complete the job they want?
No. That's just how it's presented to minimize the functional shortcomings and design flaws on which many people, myself included, base the decision not to use systemd for practical reasons.
e.g.
* It's in "rapid development.": Presumably, this is thrown out by proponents to counter that the crufty old init systems are stagnant and old. To anyone responsible for maintaining production servers, this is likely a huge red flag. It's not for dramatic reasons that the "rapid development" version of Debian is called "unstable," for instance. I don't want to provision 3 servers with the same Linux distro over a 3 week period and find that they have 3 different versions of systemd on them. Add to that the fact that the devs behind the project don't have the best reputation for stable, well-functioning software, and you don't have an ad hominem, as much as the systemd salesmen might try to claim so; you have people who don't want another pulseaudio debacle that lives in the startup process now.
* SysV init/initd/upstart/etc.. all suck: No argument here, but using this dodge to handwave away the design flaws of systemd feels like the Congress Fallacy. i.e. "Something must be done to improve the init system." "Adopting systemd is something, therefore adopting systemd must be done." It completely ignores the fact that systemd sucks, too, and it sucks in new, exciting, and unpredictable ways, without actually solving any of the *actual* problems with the old way of doing things (changing the format are just changing one arcane incantation for another) and just adding "solutions" hoping they find a problem to go with.
* "My skill set/use case/worldview doesn't see X as a problem, so X isn't a problem": The devs are just as (or more) guilty of this even than the proponents are. Binary logs, everyone's favorite dipshit stick in the whole mess falls here. The problem isn't that it's "like Windows" (it's not), and not that those who dislike it are "afraid of change" (we're not). The problem is that a system log facility that only works when nothing goes wrong is tits-on-a-bull useless. System compromised and the intruder corrupts the log? Oh, that's a feature, because otherwise he could edit the log and feed you misinformation -- that kind of reasoning suggests that the developers understand neither security (if it's trivial for the admin to unpack the log, it's trivial for the intruder - binary storage != encryption) nor system administration. It doesn't help that you run the same risk if a UPS or thermal sensor fails and the server powers down ungracefully -- the kind of situation where you'd damn sure WANT access to your log files. It seems none of the devs have ever worked on the other side of the switch.
* "I AM TRAPPER KEEPER": At best, systemd's ever-expanding feeping creaturism demonstrates an especially solipsistic "NIH" mindset. More cynically, I'm led to to wonder if the thought process isn't more along the lines of the devs being sloppy or incompetent and unable to figure out a "neat" way to work alongside the rest of the system, so they just roll their own network stack, DHCP client, and even console into what was, ostensibly, an init replacement. Either way, I'm not willing to risk my systems to RedHat's whim nor Lennart&Co's track record.
There's just a few of my personal, completely pragmatic reasons to eschew systemd and any distribution that includes it by default - the latter not out of principle or dogma, but because there's no telling when they'll let their package manager require systemd for some software I'll actually need.(Ian's GR tried to address that possibility for Debian, and had it passed, I would be transitioning to Debian rather than FreeBSD).
I find it hard to imagine a scenario where you will have access to the file on disk but lack access to a program to unpack the log files. Sure, such a scenario can be concocted to prove a point; however, in the real world, you are going to be able to unpack the binary logs.
If your imagination is that weak, you have no business doing server postmortems. Sadly, the systemd devs' imaginations are, apparently, no better than yours.
Freedom of speech is not freedom to be an asshole to anyone at any time.
Yes, it is, in fact, exactly that. Freedom of speech is utterly useless if it only applies to speech "everyone (or, more likely, "you and people who agree with you") approves of."
They can't make you sign it, all they can do is fire you if you don't. But since it's a "severance agreement," it probably includes severance pay and other consideration for the outgoing employee - otherwise there's no reason to sign it.
Since the system works like an old-school video arcade (how much you can get done is directly proportional to how much money you have to dump into it), I'm not quite sure what you're getting at.
Except you're not. You're responding to someone who has begged off of voting to elect (but still vainly tries to keep shit like Florida's 2008 "Amendment 2" out, for some reason) because there are exactly zero options that don't equate to fucking himself over.
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Except it's not terribly insightful, nor is it particularly truthful. There's a big gap between "abridging freedom of speech" and "not giving assholes a platform for their bullshit." Let them provide their own, with hookers and blackjack, etc.etc.
It's not any different dropping spammers and that asshole who keeps trying to dictionary attack your SSH teergrube into a blocklist: crying "censorship" because you get smacked down for behaving like a tit isn't "insightful," it just makes you look like a 12 year old.
I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead...
As far as quotes go, the only thing that one has over the bog-standard contents of C++ vs Java, PHP vs Python, and Ruby vs. EverythingElse, etc.. net flamewars is that
A) It was made by "a big name."
B) It's more eloquent
You on the G600 bandwagon, too? This thing spoiled the hell out of me.
but could someone please throw some light on what would be a purported English advantage
I think "widespread usage" is what AC was getting at, keeping in context to contrast with D, which is ostensibly rather nice but obscure.
Do you have a reference for this?
So is this all just people acting on some philosophical principle, rather than picking the best tool to complete the job they want?
No. That's just how it's presented to minimize the functional shortcomings and design flaws on which many people, myself included, base the decision not to use systemd for practical reasons.
e.g.
* It's in "rapid development.": Presumably, this is thrown out by proponents to counter that the crufty old init systems are stagnant and old. To anyone responsible for maintaining production servers, this is likely a huge red flag. It's not for dramatic reasons that the "rapid development" version of Debian is called "unstable," for instance. I don't want to provision 3 servers with the same Linux distro over a 3 week period and find that they have 3 different versions of systemd on them. Add to that the fact that the devs behind the project don't have the best reputation for stable, well-functioning software, and you don't have an ad hominem, as much as the systemd salesmen might try to claim so; you have people who don't want another pulseaudio debacle that lives in the startup process now.
* SysV init/initd/upstart/etc.. all suck: No argument here, but using this dodge to handwave away the design flaws of systemd feels like the Congress Fallacy.
i.e. "Something must be done to improve the init system." "Adopting systemd is something, therefore adopting systemd must be done." It completely ignores the fact that systemd sucks, too, and it sucks in new, exciting, and unpredictable ways, without actually solving any of the *actual* problems with the old way of doing things (changing the format are just changing one arcane incantation for another) and just adding "solutions" hoping they find a problem to go with.
* "My skill set/use case/worldview doesn't see X as a problem, so X isn't a problem": The devs are just as (or more) guilty of this even than the proponents are. Binary logs, everyone's favorite dipshit stick in the whole mess falls here. The problem isn't that it's "like Windows" (it's not), and not that those who dislike it are "afraid of change" (we're not). The problem is that a system log facility that only works when nothing goes wrong is tits-on-a-bull useless. System compromised and the intruder corrupts the log? Oh, that's a feature, because otherwise he could edit the log and feed you misinformation -- that kind of reasoning suggests that the developers understand neither security (if it's trivial for the admin to unpack the log, it's trivial for the intruder - binary storage != encryption) nor system administration. It doesn't help that you run the same risk if a UPS or thermal sensor fails and the server powers down ungracefully -- the kind of situation where you'd damn sure WANT access to your log files. It seems none of the devs have ever worked on the other side of the switch.
* "I AM TRAPPER KEEPER": At best, systemd's ever-expanding feeping creaturism demonstrates an especially solipsistic "NIH" mindset. More cynically, I'm led to to wonder if the thought process isn't more along the lines of the devs being sloppy or incompetent and unable to figure out a "neat" way to work alongside the rest of the system, so they just roll their own network stack, DHCP client, and even console into what was, ostensibly, an init replacement. Either way, I'm not willing to risk my systems to RedHat's whim nor Lennart&Co's track record.
There's just a few of my personal, completely pragmatic reasons to eschew systemd and any distribution that includes it by default - the latter not out of principle or dogma, but because there's no telling when they'll let their package manager require systemd for some software I'll actually need.(Ian's GR tried to address that possibility for Debian, and had it passed, I would be transitioning to Debian rather than FreeBSD).
I find it hard to imagine a scenario where you will have access to the file on disk but lack access to a program to unpack the log files. Sure, such a scenario can be concocted to prove a point; however, in the real world, you are going to be able to unpack the binary logs.
If your imagination is that weak, you have no business doing server postmortems. Sadly, the systemd devs' imaginations are, apparently, no better than yours.
But seriously, PHP is a dying language. We should let their developers pass.
No no no, you did that wrong!
Kosh: It is a dying language. We should let it pass.
Sheridan: PHP, or Node.js?
Kosh: Yes.
Freedom of speech is not freedom to be an asshole to anyone at any time.
Yes, it is, in fact, exactly that. Freedom of speech is utterly useless if it only applies to speech "everyone (or, more likely, "you and people who agree with you") approves of."
To be fair, McDonald's DID bring back hot mustard sauce recently, according to a sign I saw.
Don't try to do that with a browser reading /. though. Doesn't seem to work right (something to do with wonky CSS, I suspect)
And if you don't think that's a backronym, I have some swampland in Florida to sell you.
Actually, USPS does derive quite a bit of its revenue from "bulk rate" mail.
Sounds like we need more bots.
I doubt it. "Duress" is pretty well-defined in most jurisdictions, and rarely extends to "living beyond your means."
They can't make you sign it, all they can do is fire you if you don't. But since it's a "severance agreement," it probably includes severance pay and other consideration for the outgoing employee - otherwise there's no reason to sign it.
and, for Tolkien fans only, "weregild" (as in "This I will have as weregild for my father's death"
Or Norse/Germanic mythology, from which Tolkien wasn't too shy about generously "sampling".
Look at the road fatalities french are better driver, than , say , USian
That counterpoint is only valid if the poster claimed that American's AREN'T terrible drivers.
He does not appear to be that delusional.
Sounds great. I think I'll be all over it if/when I can get a copy of it uncoupled from Steam.
Since the system works like an old-school video arcade (how much you can get done is directly proportional to how much money you have to dump into it), I'm not quite sure what you're getting at.
Hasn't the KKK (or what's left of it) been way more concerned with "The Jews" than blacks for, like, decades now?
Because Slashdot is run by the corporate whores at Dice, not Anita Sarkeesian.
Except you're not. You're responding to someone who has begged off of voting to elect (but still vainly tries to keep shit like Florida's 2008 "Amendment 2" out, for some reason) because there are exactly zero options that don't equate to fucking himself over.
So you're preaching to the choir.
That's why GOG gets $2-300 from me every fall sale. I'm so weak...