You are making it sound like China and its large corporations weren’t also very interested in profits and market domination.

I’d have to get used to the syntax and writing my own scripts but if the majority of Linux distros switched to it tomorrow I’d enjoy it.

I don’t think I wrote more than one or two init scripts during my years of using Gentoo, the packages usually come with them. The newer syntax looks like you can get by with just a few variables and a dependency definition, not that different from a unit file I think.

Do you have to write and maintain your own init scripts, or is that created during installation?

Packages should come with the necessary scripts (on Gentoo and Alpine they do), but if they don’t for some reason then writing them is pretty simple. I think the updated layout really only needs dependencies and a couple variables defined.

Void uses Runit which is even simpler, you have one directory per service and at least a script called “run” in there which gets executed by the supervisor. The is usually just one line, that’s all it takes to make a service work. It also has the supervisor take care of handling logging, similar to what Systemd does. I think it’s a very clean, modern take on classic init, except that dependency/ordering doesn’t exist - it just retries until things fall into place. Works well though.

I’m just glad I chose arch instead of Gentoo. I got plenty of will power to learn something new but waiting hours or even days for a bunch of software to compile was too much for me.

But the documentation is really good and I like the simplicity of OpenRC. Give Void or Alpine a go if you want to dip your toes into something similar, but without all the compiling.

You already are on a Linux sub, so… Maybe you can start here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHyaFBsxy1s

I love how a software bug that scrambled his newsgroup subscriptions introduced him to the fandom, that’s so unbelievably nerdy.

But honestly: Those pipeline memes kinda rub me the wrong way. It feels like fucking with people’s identity by way of stereotyping for… I don’t know, a laugh, if that’s even the point? Saying this as someone who completely fits the furry in IT stereotype.

Add: many people seem to be calling Fascistist “Nazis” nowadays. That’s so confusing to me, as if they don’t know that Nazism is a particular form of Fascism. While Fascism in all its varieties and guises should be the true denominator for trouble, and is the enemy of democracy.

The AfD has been taken over by literal Neo-Nazis that see themselves in the tradition of the NSDAP though, calling them that is correct.

several eyewitness sources maintain Hitler was a vegetarian because of his concern for animal suffering, noting that he was often distressed by images of animal cruelty and suffering, and was an antivivisectionist.

Fucker should’ve gone one animal further.

your obvious magabias

You are jumping at shadows something fierce.

Mechanical locks CAN be designed well.

So can even the most superfluous IoT devices, though. It’s just that they aren’t.

they can be way more secure than any digital “smart” lock

Typical mechanical locks are fundamentally flawed. Think of it like this: They are opened by a short combination of digits, represented by the key. There is no lock-out mechanism if someone keeps trying to guess the combination, even if they try many per second and there is no user-friendly way of resetting the combination if it has been compromised.

The tolerances, even in good locks, have to be high enough to enable attackers to guess the combination digit by digit, not as a whole, significantly reducing the time needed to guess it. You can try to mitigate this a little with special pins and weird key ways, but it’s ultimately a necessity, otherwise the lock would constantly fail to open or even break.

When you have a master-keyed system, the digits represented by the master key (the root password, essentially) will always be lower or equal to any non-master key you find. This, too, can be exploited, allowing an attacker to safely derive a master key from any other key in the system.

Also, keys can be reproduced from photographs. That alone is a disastrous flaw. Just imagine the CVEs that would be written about the flaws above, and the manufacturer’s response. “But you need skills for that” is never an excuse in the digital realm, it shouldn’t be in the analog either.

Meanwhile a well-implemented digital lock has all the important components on the other side of the door, exposing only a contactless card reader to interact with. The cards or tokens aren’t dumb data storage, they support public/private authentication, meaning they can not be copied by someone walking up to you with a high-powered reader. There is no port to connect to, no pins to jiggle, just a dumb NFC reader that you can’t even open non-destructively.

Mechanical lock manufacturers are a fucking clown show and the very concept is fundamentally flawed. I don’t know if I hate it more than the IoT/cloud bullshit, but it’s up there.

Violence is supposed to be the last resort to deal with them, I don’t see how this is in any way helpful, good or justified.