caseyweederman

Oh nice, I just watched the 2024 Busan DebConf talk on livepatching, and they mentioned this, but it wasn’t ready yet.

Hmm. This thread is making me want to watch it. What’s the pitch?
I’m sure I could look it up and get a bland general description, but I’d be more likely to trust the opinion of another person in a Linux memes community on Lemmy.

Why not go for the Family Basic instead?

He also firmly denies that bittorrent can even hypothetically be used for piracy (though in his position, you probably have to)

Yeah, I was gonna say, it already exists

Ah yes. Jean Lenin.

Seconding Animal Well. I should go back and collect a few more achievements.

þlock is þliss

In seriousness, it’s supposed to poison AI scrapers.
In less seriousness, yeah it’s annoying.

Or flying into the sun?

To add a little: systemd is just a service manager. It manages services.

You can plug systemd-journald into it and now it does logging too. Or you can use rsyslog, or both together, or something else entirely.
You can treat your network connections like services (technically units) with systemd-networkd. Or you can use NetworkManager. Or both, or neither, etc.
You can treat mount points as units because somebody said “let’s define mounts in a new kind of unit file and have systemd initiate them as a service” or you could continue using fstab.
You could use systemd-resolved but you don’t have to. You could use systemd-udevd (you probably already do because most distros run it by default, though it still pulls from /etc/udev) but you don’t have to.
These are all optional extensions.

It turns out it’s really handy to have a robust service management backbone because you can plug any number of things into it, as long as you reimagine those things as services (again, technically units).

So what’s the controversy?
As far as I can tell, it boils down to “they shouldn’t have made systemd-networkd only be able to talk to systemd, they should have made it work with every possible init system”.
Which is understandable, but not really defensible.

Ooh, I’ll try that, thank you

Temmie went to git leg

It’s absolutely not. It tends to be bundled that way, but systemd does one thing. It does that one thing very well. There are many components that tie into it.
If you believe that defies the UNIX philosophy, then you must also believe that the kernel includes every aspect of a graphical desktop environment, just because the latter depends on the former.

It’s too good and people keep using it as a framework for their own tools and that’s bad for some reason

I’ve noticed sites are getting around Reader View by not loading all the content right off the bat. Just enough so you start to scroll so they can launch all the popups.
Means Reader mode only has a paragraph and a half to show.

Reminds me of those 90s Harmon Kardon PC speakers

This isn’t quite in line with your question but it’s adjacently meta:
the first time you fall to your death in Bastion the (amazing) narrator says “…and then he fell to his death. … Ahh, I’m just foolin’.” and then you respawn on the platform because videogame.

looks* like

Yeah, kids are really smart.

Outstanding
That art style looks like a cross between ND Stephenson and Brian Lee O’Malley