No surprise. They are so full of themselves that they completely ignore what is already there and _solved_ unless they have no choice. This is of course unprofessional in the extreme.
Linus tires to stay out of userspace stuff and rightfully so. He clearly has enough on his plate. Unfortunately, systemd is trying very hard to break userspace and to wrap the kernel, so this cannot go on for much longer.
Ah, yes. I stopped using DJB's daemontools when the problems caused by his unwillingness to accept leap-seconds finally broke more things than what they fixed. Have written my own wrappers ever since. DJB is really smart and capable, but not a team-player at all. A pity.
As before by "fixing" more things that are not broken. It is really time to stop this abomination. Sure, there are some (few) things it does that actually have merit, but it doe them in the wrong way, and most of it is just plain bad for security, reliability and user choice. Why so much of the Linux infrastructure is handed willingly to this one bad actor is beyond me.
The same as MS Windows. It is just the one people know. That does not make it a good choice for the cloud, just a familiar one. Judging technological quality from numbers used by a non-expert or mixed crowd is not a valid way to judge merit and suitability.
I have some too. All self-hosted on a rather cheap vserver. No ads on it ever. I had flattr on it for some time, but removed it again as nobody seemed to care.
Very much so. Advertising is a plague and deserves to be eradicated. And don't tell me "it finances content", because so can crime, and apparently the distinction is not entirely clear anymore. There are other ways to finance content, and if you do not qualify, maybe your content was not valuable in the first place.
Thanks for this explanation. As nobody in their right mind wants ads, anybody looking for a solution will arrive at complete blocking. The underlying problem is of course that the whole market structure is fundamentally broken, much like the stock market in 2008 with the sub-prime crisis: People brokering things without knowing anything about quality. If enough of that happens, the market collapses.
I expect that in the not too distant future, complete blocking of all ads will be a security best-practice.
Advertising companies obviously cannot ensure clean ads or do not care. Users are responsible for protecting their machines. The only sensible thing is to block all ads without distinction and permanently. This industry has nobody but themselves to blame for their inevitable decline.
And on the plus-side, if somebody dies as a result, a hospital is an ideal place for that to not attract notice until the numbers become significant. Sure, errors are made and if for every 100 dead from human error, you have 1 dead from computer compromise, I can live with that. As long as it is not targeted. (And I know that wherever decisions are made, errors are made and that is just as it is and we have to live with is. Not making decisions is far worse.)
These days, most hackers to not have the knowledge to attack medical information or industrial sites in a way that does real damage, but it is only a matter of time before some do.
This has zero surprise value to anybody active in the IT security field. And yes, the numbers are scary, but they have been building up to today's abysmal state over several decades, as companies noticed they could get away with it and nothing was happening to them. I now even have heard the head of IT security of a large company serving a lot of customers say that a data-breach was not a reputational risk, because it happened so often these days that customers forget fast.
Your brain is defective: This means almost nobody did anything bad over the site. Thinking about having an affair while being married does not make you infidel, having one does. But now all the people in the data-dump are regarded as if they actually have had an affair via the site, when that is not true for almost all of them.
You know, like spending 100 years to clean up the mess, large areas that become inhabitable, and people that have to relocate under emergency conditions? Cancer is just one thing here, there is a ton of other problems.
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Read your posting again, and then be embarrassed as to how stupid it is.
No surprise. They are so full of themselves that they completely ignore what is already there and _solved_ unless they have no choice. This is of course unprofessional in the extreme.
Linus tires to stay out of userspace stuff and rightfully so. He clearly has enough on his plate. Unfortunately, systemd is trying very hard to break userspace and to wrap the kernel, so this cannot go on for much longer.
Ah, yes. I stopped using DJB's daemontools when the problems caused by his unwillingness to accept leap-seconds finally broke more things than what they fixed. Have written my own wrappers ever since. DJB is really smart and capable, but not a team-player at all. A pity.
You are seriously claiming that Debian is a desktop OS while Ubuntu is not? You must be the "far-left side of the graph" Dunning-Kurger specimen here.
You mean the nuclear and fossil power industry? Bizarre way to describe them...
Deciding what a full login comprises is the shell's responsibility, not your init system's job.
And certainly not the job of one Poettering, who still has not produced one piece of good software in his life.
As before by "fixing" more things that are not broken. It is really time to stop this abomination. Sure, there are some (few) things it does that actually have merit, but it doe them in the wrong way, and most of it is just plain bad for security, reliability and user choice. Why so much of the Linux infrastructure is handed willingly to this one bad actor is beyond me.
The same as MS Windows. It is just the one people know. That does not make it a good choice for the cloud, just a familiar one. Judging technological quality from numbers used by a non-expert or mixed crowd is not a valid way to judge merit and suitability.
For some I already do, for the others I do not care if they vanish.
I have some too. All self-hosted on a rather cheap vserver. No ads on it ever. I had flattr on it for some time, but removed it again as nobody seemed to care.
They seem to have forgotten that they are parasites and must not do any real damage to their hosts or they will be fought and neutralized.
Very much so. Advertising is a plague and deserves to be eradicated. And don't tell me "it finances content", because so can crime, and apparently the distinction is not entirely clear anymore. There are other ways to finance content, and if you do not qualify, maybe your content was not valuable in the first place.
Thanks for this explanation. As nobody in their right mind wants ads, anybody looking for a solution will arrive at complete blocking. The underlying problem is of course that the whole market structure is fundamentally broken, much like the stock market in 2008 with the sub-prime crisis: People brokering things without knowing anything about quality. If enough of that happens, the market collapses.
I expect that in the not too distant future, complete blocking of all ads will be a security best-practice.
Advertising companies obviously cannot ensure clean ads or do not care. Users are responsible for protecting their machines. The only sensible thing is to block all ads without distinction and permanently. This industry has nobody but themselves to blame for their inevitable decline.
With the abysmal state of IT security these days? No you will get no argument from me.
And on the plus-side, if somebody dies as a result, a hospital is an ideal place for that to not attract notice until the numbers become significant. Sure, errors are made and if for every 100 dead from human error, you have 1 dead from computer compromise, I can live with that. As long as it is not targeted. (And I know that wherever decisions are made, errors are made and that is just as it is and we have to live with is. Not making decisions is far worse.)
These days, most hackers to not have the knowledge to attack medical information or industrial sites in a way that does real damage, but it is only a matter of time before some do.
"The accountant tried to install a screensaver." does not usually generate a security incident.
Very true, unfortunately.
This has zero surprise value to anybody active in the IT security field. And yes, the numbers are scary, but they have been building up to today's abysmal state over several decades, as companies noticed they could get away with it and nothing was happening to them. I now even have heard the head of IT security of a large company serving a lot of customers say that a data-breach was not a reputational risk, because it happened so often these days that customers forget fast.
The good thing is that licensed professionals have to adhere to professional standards or become liable.
Your brain is defective: This means almost nobody did anything bad over the site. Thinking about having an affair while being married does not make you infidel, having one does. But now all the people in the data-dump are regarded as if they actually have had an affair via the site, when that is not true for almost all of them.
You know, like spending 100 years to clean up the mess, large areas that become inhabitable, and people that have to relocate under emergency conditions? Cancer is just one thing here, there is a ton of other problems.
Would be interesting to know. My Net here is still pure IPv4, but that cannot last.
Of course, I have already done that. But doing so is way beyond the capabilities of an ordinary user.