John Richard

He’s like, your GPS isn’t bad. I can track you just fine.

Inflatated social media influence? Does that include the tens of thousands MAGA bots on X?

Now Drew Devault can finally work on PizzaHut.

Sysv didn’t have to have a lot of documentation. It was simple to understand what it did, and the underlying system was mostly shell scripting. It didn’t try to be and do everything.

I don’t hate systemd. I prefer it now for the most part. I really do think Lennart Poettering is incredibly skilled and intelligent. I am just frustrated that so much gets pushed without adequate resources and support to weigh what is production-ready, and what is bleeding edge. I’ve already had systemd bite me in the ass at least once where they made a significant unannounced change to systemd-cryptsetup. I had to go find answers by reading through pull request and GitHub issue comments, and it wasn’t easy to find either. The community acted like it wasn’t a big deal that it caused systems to no longer boot. Move fast & break things isn’t the message that will win over larger companies.

Lennart Poettering is no doubt smart, but learning all the ins and outs of systemd with terrible documentation and half-baked solutions, and just “trusting” it to do everything from UEFI booting, immutable partitions, system imaging, networking, home directory and resource management, init and daemon processes, sockets, etc. using “INI-like” files… hmm, I’d almost prefer another global outage.

This is what NameCheap does too. It’s freaking stupid. Domain registrations should not be managed by corporations.

I have never met a flat earther, but if I did and she was hot I’d see what else I could convince her to believe.

If this baked Barstow, would LA be happy or sad?

I shit on JavaScript for years… but Deno (built around Rust) is honestly one of the most pleasant tools I’ve used for development, and you get all the completion in VS Code.

They already have, and they can do it in secret and hold people without trial. Once you give someone power, it’s hard to take it away.

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Hm… I dunno:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/what-is-momo-challenge-800470/

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No, they received a subpoena and complied and it turned out to be a case involving abortion. Meta may suck when it comes to privacy for its own users, but I blame the states and not Meta for this particular issue.

Did you read the post? Blocking an instance isn’t going to prevent what you post from being accessible. Also, companies in the US are legally required to abide by subpoenas for the most part. The issue with the abortion case had much more to do with the failures of states and the US than with Meta itself. I don’t use Facebook or Instagram, but I don’t think making a decision for the entire community to block others because someone is offended is the right approach. I’d much rather see the option for users to decide what they see and don’t see… that way you pick for yourself.