winterayars

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[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She's definitely going after the Republicans because they're the ones who have the power to force this release. The Dems have no real impact as long as the Republicans vote as a bloc, which they are likely to do. This is basically a threat to people who might step out of line that their records might be next.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He hasn't been found guilty of anything, yet, but that's largely (imo) because the Merrick Garland DOJ has refused to prosecute and blocked attempts to independently figure out what the hell he's doing.

I think it's highly likely he's guilty of sex trafficking minors and both the DOJ and the ethics committee know this.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If he had an "R" next to his name, no doubt.

She's not, i don't think she wants this to happen and i think she knows that people won't agree to this kind of thing.

But what she's saying is right. The people deserve to know what our representatives are up to.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If this guy could focus on what he's good at and keep his damn mouth shut he wouldn't be in this situation.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That is a flaw. Flatpak is great where it works but Flatpak doesn't solve all problems, neither does any one solution except os level modification. It can be a last resort by it should be a last resort that works. The layering system could be put together such that you don't get side effects of installing packages like that. It might be tough to fix but that doesn't make it not a flaw.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It isn't, though. Package layering modifies the install itself. See: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/getting-started/#_flatpak_command_line

The big problem with the way ostree works is that installing things has side effects. Every item you install with ostree makes all future items slower to install, including regular os updates. This is a significant flaw in the way they designed it and really makes immutable oses less attractive.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

Got any recommendations?

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Immutable is fantastic in theory. Where it falls apart is having to basically rebuild the whole distro every time you want to make a change. It should be there your base distro is immutable, then any extra changes go on an additional mutable layer but that would be difficult to set up. (You'd need a package manager like Nixos or something.)

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

There are hundreds of Linux developers, including companies like Red Hat, Intel, IBM, Google, and more. You want all these people to up and move to... where? Somewhere. Russia, or a Russian ally presumably but hell if i know. Anyway you want them all to move so a handful of people working for Russian weapons manufacturing companies can keep maintaining pieces of the Linux kernel?

This is obviously a non-serious suggestion.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 weeks ago

Switzerland is currently sanctioning Russia. Let me say that again to be clear: moving to Switzerland, the most neutral country in the world, will not prevent you from having to abide by sanctions against Russia.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago

"A lot of companies" completely left the sphere of influence of basically any country except Russia? Doubt.

I know the company i work for has to take similar steps when the sanctions went into effect, for example. Same as almost everyone.

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