chart doesn't seem to show up on lemmy. Not sure what I did wrong there, but it's the first time I tried an image in a comment. I guess this way works better.
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Meanwhile if you're curious how reddit has been doing, just look at this chart
Yeah yeah, Mozilla pays its clueless CEO and other execs way too much, mismanages its finances in general, fired the wrong people, fell for the hype about AI, has a board full of former Facebook and Twitter execs, relies excessively on telemetry to justify their worst UI design decisions, and occasionally has delusions about someday becoming an ad platform.
If it weren't for all that we'd all be better off. But sometimes you gotta vote for the lesser evil, and at least they don't do all this shit.
Yeah I'm not really convinced that systemd is less secure than anything else would be in actual practice. But if you want to address the theory that its much-maligned style of software development methodology leads to worse outcomes, the usual high-level argument would be that well-defined interfaces between replaceable components is what leads to a more robust system. For example having several available alterternatives for logging, such as syslog, syslog-ng, rsyslog, et cetera as opposed to everyone being pushed into additionally having systemd-journald running because the other systemd components just assume that it will be there.
There are certainly costs to the systemd style, it's just a question of whether the benefits are worth it for you.
Sure its complexity and feature creep lead to endless bugs, dependency hell, and limited system configuration options, but such is the price of progress. The initial goal of saving multiple seconds of boot time on older hardware compared to the slowest of the older init systems has been finally achieved. Imagine if startup took 5 seconds instead of 4. Then where would we be? Probably still waiting for the Year of the Linux Desktop in 2024.
** for one very specific version of "best"
It seems unlikely that a 51% attack will do anything worse than the ~30000% attackers we currently deal with.
That seems like an extremely sensible idea. I've signed up for a few events via the usual websites, and every time it seems like a cruel indignity to have some wannabe technofeudalist upstart forcibly injecting itself into the process as an intermediary.
Make is simple, easy, and effective. It's just "configure" that's full of black magic.