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We need to start realising that nobody is perfect forever. People can be really cool and insightful and intelligent for decades and go on to be frequently wrong about stuff later.

Linus sadly trends ever more to levels of lacking critical thought.

Linux has always been a tool of principle, and has long been an anomaly in what was the ‘unstoppable trend’ of monetizing usable software.

standing or squatting births, or other positions which are much safer

Interesting, I was initially skeptical but this does seem probably the case. Western culture is so weird, dangit.

The answer is almost certainly because of how much brain we’re trying to fit in our heads.

Evolution has already given us hugely weakened jaw muscles, shrinking jaws, painful birth, years of helpless infancy and chronic sinus problems, all in the singular pursuit of MORE ROOM FOR BRAIN.

To be honest I’d say all of those are higher up on the priority list than ‘thicker mouth skin for when I eat a thing too hot too quickly once every couple years’.

This was why Lenin advocated for instant-recall for elected politicians. It’s been a problem for over 150 years.

The USA is 9 million square kilometres. Europe is 10 million.

The USA is way more crazy unstable than the EU and Russia combined. Twice as many civilians in the USA die every year from gun homicides than the actual fucking Russo-Ukrainian war. And I’m guessing USA gun homicides stat is already significantly short because of all the police shootings they don’t count.

Posts like this are why Americans are seen as loudly ignorant supremacist nerds.

I’ve been using Fedora for over 10 years. I used to have Nvidia issues, but those are all solved now.

Using it seems to be fine, but I would advise being wary and not giving Fedora/Red Hat any code or financial support. They do a lot of work for the US DoW, helping enable war crimes like murdering hundreds of school girls.

Good. This will be a good thing.

Uncontrolled social media has a lot of problems but pre-megacorp internet was at least one metric fuckton better than whatever this shit is we have now.

And the bit where they criminalised over ten opposition parties?

there have been referenda to determine if elections should be held

??? I can’t find evidence of any such referenda. This seems to just be false. Do you just mean ‘survey’?

I am (and most people are) not saying Ukraine MUST hold elections tomorrow. But the meme’s point stands - that none of these people have a meaningful democratic mandate.

If you’re just doing normal sheet, you should ideally basically not even notice SELinux. And in that sense it’s good.

If you’re doing any dev or running any server software or some kind of freaky setup, my advice is disable it. At least all you have to do is turn a true into a false.

In a lot of distros at least, you can just reinstall in place, which has the same effect. But a different place for /home does feel a potentially more reliable method.

Linux permissions are obvious, straightforward, and very easy to change - They rule.

SELinux permissions are impossible to see, seemingly pointlessly more complex, and I don’t know how to check them or change them i.e. They drool.

As a power user who is constantly changing system stuff, installing weird stuff, running weird servers, disabling SELinux is like, step 2 of installing Linux for me (and honestly, even if you’re not a power user, I can assure you at least ONE issue you’ve faced was actually caused by SELinux under the hood). I have wasted whole days working out just that SELinux is causing my fucking issue, and then days more on how to fix the permissions, and then days more doing those again when those permissions RESET as it is wont to do and days more trying to make my needed changes permanent. And let’s not even get started on how to transplant an SELinux permissions structure from one disk to another. So instead of a week’s worth of frustrating work every year, I can spend one minute disabling SELinux.

Its implementation feels contradictory to the most basic principles of understandable and workable systems. It’s like the NSA wanted to make software that was the diametric opposite of the Zen of Python. It’s ugly, it’s implicit, it’s complicated, nested, dense, unreadable, full of special cases, and silent errors, it constantly guesses in the face of ambiguity (which is why I have to constantly correct it).

Basically, I have wasted too much of my life faffing with an opaque and ludicrously complex permissions layer that seems to be there solely as a ‘just in case’ my already existing permissions aren’t good enough.

I end up very concerned by this kind of thing. Big money in the Linux space very frequently (though not always) creates more closed, proprietary Linuxes, rather than expanding and improving the open-source wider ecosystem.

Homosexual activity is illegal in Uganda. If they pass a law saying your OS should track that, is it moral for developers to enable compliance with it? Or do developers have a moral duty to at least not go out of their way to enable that bullshit, even if they risk a gajillion dollar fine?

By implementing a mechanism that enables this law, it becomes exponentially easier for lawmakers to then make it mandatory (as many already have/are openly planning to).

Yeah, the problem is the lawmakers. But I don’t have enough money to control the lawmakers. The creators of free software should not actively helping oppressive measures.

The PR is explicitly for the purpose of complying with age verification laws. Damn fuckin’ right I’m angry about it.

Is it cool if we start implementing tools to track users’ race and sexual orientation for the explicit purpose of complying with some country’s laws about those too? Or is it maybe the job of free software to defy oppressive systems?

Don’t forget my shitty country in the process of trying to implement this too

Is this comment a joke? That or you’re very naive about the problems these things did cause.

As someone who deals on rare occasion with Linux PCs, both TPMs and Secure Boot have been a fucking PITA that have done nothing but help solidify the Microsoft/Apple/Google grip.

I know nobody asked for this - I live in the UK. Feels like we basically agree, but your solution is “why don’t the countries making stupid-ass laws implement it in a way that doesn’t bother me”, which like yeah sure, but just isn’t going to happen in any universe. Nobody will bother to fork stuff, countries will just continue to try overreach and make peoples’ lives hell until they comply.

Region-blocking is the lowest-effort, but actually achievable response, that protects devs from legal attacks, while giving the offending regions a strong incentive to undo these laws. As soon as it starts hitting profits, the capitalist class will get it reversed, no question.

In my mind, region-blocking is actually probably the best solution for this in every case.

Cut off every legitimate operation in these regions (including my own) from using your genuinely useful software. Software isn’t compromised, saves on unnecessary work and law compliance. Then everyone with a VPN flourishes anyway. And then maybe it hurts profits so much that lawmakers actually decide to reverse course. Wins all around.