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[00:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:56] <exec> 08└─"Certainly, I can't see lawyers for either side being too enthusiastic about supporting a shielding of the Sacklers from further litigation..." - Obviously you don't have much experience with lawyers. A lawyer will throw his own mother under a bus if it brings a verdict that pays big.
[00:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:58] <exec> 08└─If you’re on the Sackler legal defense team, what good is a deal that has no limit on total liability because of other litigants?
[00:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:00] <exec> 08└─As much as I am loathe to comment on my personal affairs I have to say I have a horse in this race. As a sufferer of chronic pain I have done my dances with the opioids. I was told by a Dr. that what I was getting was "Top Shelf" (like it was a flipping liquor). Fentanyl. And all the percocets I cou...
[00:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 1717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:02] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia shows this: https://en.wikipedia.org <blockquote> Isaac Sackler and Sophie Greenberg Arthur Sackler, (1913–1987),[16] married Else Finnich Jorgensen 1934 and divorced,[17][7] married Marietta Lutze 1949 and divorced, and Jillian Lesley Tully 198...
[00:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:04] <exec> 08└─Some people suffer from quite severe amounts of pain. Real painkillers(read: opiates) are the difference between being functional, and being bedridden. It's easy to say pain management, but that costs thousands of dollars and many people can't afford that kind of stuff. It's easy to say insurance, b...
[00:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:06] <exec> 08└─The boom cycle for attorneys is Yale, Harvard, and Stanford graduation day. The bust cycle never occurs.
[00:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:09] <exec> 08└─Nobody respects those who burn out before they make partner.
[00:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Windows 7 Security Updates for 2020 Election for Federal Systems - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:57] <exec> 08└─*tinfoil hat on* No, they're perfectly smart enough to know the risks. They just don't care so long as they preserve their illusion that they are smarter than the other guy. What's a few tampered election between dynasties of control? *tinfoil hat off*
[00:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Windows 7 Security Updates for 2020 Election for Federal Systems - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:59] <exec> 08└─Is your vote getting uploaded to a Microsoft servers somewhere?
[00:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cuban Embassy "Acoustic Attack" Blamed on Mosquito Fumigation Neurotoxins - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:22] <exec> 08└─You forgot Disney and Jiminy Cricket.
[00:35:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Fort Collins, Colorado "Frees the Nipple" - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:38] <exec> 08└─Way to fuck up the fantasizing, ass.
[00:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fort Collins, Colorado "Frees the Nipple" - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:40] <exec> 08└─Better reason: Melanoma.
[00:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fort Collins, Colorado "Frees the Nipple" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:41] <exec> 08└─Why is it legal to expose some parts of the human anatomy in public, but other parts cannot be exposed?
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[01:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:08] <exec> 08└─Major litigation often takes years to play out, so you don't really see major short term variation. The hundreds of millions that the Sacklers are musing about possibly spending would potentially be spend over the course of decades, not just one crazy big check they would sign at a specific time. La...
[01:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:09] <exec> 08└─I never really understood the logic behind blaming a personal choice on an inanimate object. Taking away an object doesn't solve the person's dysfunction. It just makes normal peoples' lives more difficult by removing a useful tool. Be it opiates, nasal decongestants, antibiotics, guns, refrigerants...
[01:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:12] <exec> 08└─Given the direct involvement of the Sacklers in marketing oxycontin over multiple decades and in spite of evidence of its detrimental effects, I believe criminal liability ought to be on the table, especially pour encourager les autres.
[01:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered on Mars - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:19] <exec> 08└─Mmmm, phat nigger dick.
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[02:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesco Parking App Hauled Offline After Exposing 10s Of Millions Of Number Plates - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:00] <exec> 08└─Every little hells.
[02:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:20] <exec> 08└─Exactly when they get doctors to prescribe their product with sponsored studies that show it helps with pain while not being very addictive.
[02:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:21] <exec> 08└─Again, for the logic impaired : if you make a choice on pain management based on studies big pharma KNEW were flawed - is that on you? Surely not.
[02:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:23] <exec> 08└─I weaned off 75mcg fentanyl patches with weed. It took nearly an entire year, then another year using only weed then quitting that too. There no fucking way I will ever take that shit again, I'd rather have the pain. The pain level in my back after many spine surgeries is about the same as getting k...
[02:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:26] <exec> 08└─Been there, done that and have the t shirt/coffee mug. I had a back injury from a car wreck. Got addicted to their cursed product about 15 yrs ogo (I'm 47). The withdrawal symptoms were pure hell. Made sure to tell the nurse and doc to never ever prescribe those meds again. Followed up with my doc t...
[02:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:28] <exec> 08└─a Vietnam draft eligibility related case still going in 2006
[02:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Windows 7 Security Updates for 2020 Election for Federal Systems - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:18] <exec> 08└─Can you post on /. anonymously without logging in? No? Then you are not anonymous.
[02:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered on Mars - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:39] <exec> 08└─Which timezone is this location in? Tharsis Mean Time? Elysium Daylight Time?
[02:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered on Mars - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:40] <exec> 08└─Better give it to Martian Geographic. Or is it National Marsographic?
[02:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered on Mars - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:42] <exec> 08└─> Is Martian beer any good? Do you like chlorates with your beer?
[02:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Quantum Processor Reportedly Achieves Quantum Supremacy - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:03] <exec> 08└─Quantum computers don't break all kinds of encryption, although it does break the current widely-used ones. But there are many alternative approaches that are quantum-resistant. I wouldn't expect encryption to just stop working. Mostly, I'd expect it to become possible to break present-day encryptio...
[02:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Nanochains" Could Increase Battery Capacity, Cut Charging Time - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:16] <exec> 08└─If you use battery power tools it's amazing how batteries have improved over even the last few years... cheaper, longer running, less prone to degradation and failure... even on the same tools (so it's not more efficient motors etc...).
[02:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Lunar Gateway Could be Killed to get More Money for Space Launch System - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:30] <exec> 08└─It should read: "Lunar Gateway Could be Killed to get More Money for WA state Public Education System" Embezzlement & swindling at the state level: McCleary, et al. v. State of Washington - Supreme Court Case Number 84362-7: https://www.courts.wa.gov
[02:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cuban Embassy "Acoustic Attack" Blamed on Mosquito Fumigation Neurotoxins - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:52] <exec> 08└─Imma not gonna use Occam's razor, someone told me it creates hysterical contagion.
[02:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fort Collins, Colorado "Frees the Nipple" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:11] <exec> 08└─For now. They'll warm out after a while, tho.
[02:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fort Collins, Colorado "Frees the Nipple" - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:12] <exec> 08└─Who's that? Trump's wife or his daughter?
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[03:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesco Parking App Hauled Offline After Exposing 10s Of Millions Of Number Plates - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:02] <exec> 08└─Around here we call them 'parking Nazis'.
[03:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:27] <exec> 08└─So you're saying ... ... the FDA were asleep at the switch, but because they're "public servants" (whatever the hell that means) they're off the hook? Great. First place to cut the federal budget starts with those wastes of space. Oh, wait, it's only private individuals that get fucked by piercing t...
[03:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:28] <exec> 08└─Not all branches of the clan are involved with Purdue Pharma. The same wiki has more info: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[03:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:30] <exec> 08└─The withdrawal symptoms aren't too bad if your doctor leans out the dosage over time. Weed helps too (my comment above). I do remember seriously bad withdrawals the couple times my Rx was delayed and I ran out. It was hell and a half for the few days I was out of meds, and just like a junkie I could...
[03:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:32] <exec> 08└─You need to distinguish between short term use and long term use. Short term use is dangerous. Long term use is...well, you keep needing to take more and more to have any effect until you reach the lethal dose...unless you have a bad reaction.
[03:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, let's throw the baby out with the bath water.
[03:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:37] <exec> 08└─You guys with mod points, mod down the gp comment. I am the dumb AC that posted it.
[03:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:39] <exec> 08└─15 years on fentanyl and norco. The 15 75mcg patches cost between $250-$600/month depending on whatever bug flew up the Sacklers ass. Never again.
[03:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lunar Gateway Could be Killed to get More Money for Space Launch System - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:39] <exec> 08└─Gee it must be frustrating
[03:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lunar Gateway Could be Killed to get More Money for Space Launch System - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:41] <exec> 08└─NASA is actually at the intersection of the military-industrial complex and Eisenhower's [mu.edu] other warning, the scientific-government complex: Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same...
[03:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cuban Embassy "Acoustic Attack" Blamed on Mosquito Fumigation Neurotoxins - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:03] <exec> 08└─Or maybe it's more like, those assholes will complain like hell if they get zika so make sure they fumigated thoroghly. The poor brown people, meh. Don't bother so much.
[03:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0616-Core Ryzen 9 3950X and 24-core Threadripper 3 Will Launch in November - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:11] <exec> 08└─All these stats about the number of cores and threads are very interesting. But how big is its dick?
[03:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Call-Center Scammer Loses $9m Appeal in Stunning Moment of Poetic Justice - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:34] <exec> 08└─On the plea bargaining thing, consider this from the original story: one 85-year-old woman ended up paying the fraudsters $12,300 after she was threatened with a stretch behind bars for phony tax violations
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[04:33:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03black6host [3827] 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 1082 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:12] <exec> 08└─As much as I am loathe to comment on my personal affairs I have to say I have a horse in this race. As a sufferer of chronic pain I have done my dances with the opioids. I was told by a Dr. that what I was getting was "Top Shelf" (like it was a flipping liquor). Fentanyl. And all the percocets I cou...
[04:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:33] <exec> 08└─...is wholly consuming a crack legal team 200 man hours per week...
[04:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:34] <exec> 08└─Fortunately, I personally have not been addicted to opioids. There was a time in my past when I had access to as much Vicodin as I wanted, but honestly, I felt it made me sleep more than get rid of the actual pain I was in. However, a little over 2 years ago, I was hospitalized for longer than I car...
[04:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:36] <exec> 08└─Bankruptcy judges take a dim view of people extracting money from a corporation when bankruptcy is on the horizon.
[04:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:38] <exec> 08└─the FDA were asleep at the switch, but because they're "public servants" (whatever the hell that means) they're off the hook?
[04:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fort Collins, Colorado "Frees the Nipple" - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if you're trolling or serious or just having a little friendly fun with this question, but I'll reply. Why are some some parts illegal to show? Because it's about power and dominance. There should be no good reason why nakedness should be completely banned. With that said, there is a re...
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[05:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:54] <exec> 08└─I'm doing my part: I've stopped using air travel for anything except overseas travel. So instead of dozens of trips in an airplane every year, I make maybe one round trip. I'd much rather hop on a train or drive my PZEV myself. Anyway, air travel has in my lifetime gone from a wonderful way to trave...
[05:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03sfm [675] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:56] <exec> 08└─Assuming real life follows the predictions for future air travel, where does that leave us for options? It is a given that airlines will continue to push for better fuel economy in planes. The only other "knob" we can turn is to reduce the demand for air travel. Not an easy pill to swallow.
[05:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:58] <exec> 08└─Simple. The poor and middle class should notbe able to fly but the rich and politicians (but i repeat myself) MUST fly to show how bad it really is and promise they are biting the bullet because its uncomftorable. #greennewdeal
[05:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 2142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:40] <exec> 08└─The average patient to whom pain medicine is prescribed has made no "personal choice". Imagine that you collapse from a medical condition, or you are in an auto accident, or you are mugged, or carjacked and shot. You have no "choices", really. An ambulance arrives, they find all your missing bits, t...
[05:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:41] <exec> 08└─You radicals liberals always want to absolve ppl from personal responsibility.
[05:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:44] <exec> 08└─i thought it was a internet meme when i first heard about "painkiller" in lollipop form. later i put two and two together and ... well yeah ... getting pretty dumb girls to suck on a lollipop is easier then getting them to stick a needle into their forarms, so yeah, it's really real.
[05:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:46] <exec> 08└─The real crime committed by the Sacklers and Purdue is the fraudulent studies that convinced doctors that addiction was unlikely. As a result, instead of getting appropriate treatment to taper off, patients got cut off cold turkey and ended up turning to street drugs. Addiction is a significant risk...
[05:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Windows 7 Security Updates for 2020 Election for Federal Systems - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:36] <exec> 08└─The sad thing is these relative amateurs believe they're implementing the safest systems possible
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[05:35:22] <exec> 08└─no worries, the next os update will break it. acctually one wonders sometimes if them qubit computers dont exist already and are being used with great success to frustrate users applying "upgrades" maximally...
[05:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fort Collins, Colorado "Frees the Nipple" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:36] <exec> 08└─It's also a form of insulation in these here parts!
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[06:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Launches "Hide Replies" Feature - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:56] <exec> 08└─They should implement some kind of cowardly anonymous tweets...
[06:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Launches "Hide Replies" Feature - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:58] <exec> 08└─Everyone wants to be part of the WWW, and to have their voices heard. Nobody wants to hear any dissenting voices. It's almost like each and every person is his own little god-figure, with some important message to get out. All dissent comes from heretics, right? Or, we might just conclude that Twitt...
[06:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:08] <exec> 08└─I haven't flown since TSA.
[06:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:09] <exec> 08└─Aircraft fuel is basically the cheapest fuel available, because governmentd don't tax it. Make it cost $5 per gallon, like gasoline (in Europe, anyway) and fewer people will fly.
[06:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:12] <exec> 08└─"Climate protesters have said they plan to gather in Montreal next week" So, how many of them have decided to drive their individual cars cross country so they can avoid the pollution from flying?
[06:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:14] <exec> 08└─I haven't flown since TSA.
[06:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:16] <exec> 08└─"Climate protesters have said they plan to gather in Montreal next week" So, how many of them have decided to drive their individual cars cross country so they can avoid the pollution from flying?
[06:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:18] <exec> 08└─Don't be silly. They have all left home already, in their horse and mule drawn carts!
[06:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm the most radical liberal on this site. Just ask Azuma Hazuki, Aristarchus, and the other left-minded members. Grow up, Sonny boy.
[06:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:07] <exec> 08└─I didn't know the Sacklers had the power to write prescriptions. It's their first amendment right to advertise their product, and in our capitalist society manufacturers of legal products naturally want to sell more of it.
[06:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:09] <exec> 08└─will have to waste "hundreds of millions of dollars" on legal costs
[06:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:11] <exec> 08└─It's fraud when you knowingly lie about it.
[06:34:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Free Windows 7 Security Updates for 2020 Election for Federal Systems - 1070 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:31] <exec> 08└─Everything is going to the cloud. FFS, everything! Office 365, blah blah blah, everything, CLOUD!!! Coming soon, all federal voting, state voting, and local voting will be handled *somewhere* in the cloud? Who will win that sweet, sweet contract? MS? Amazon? Google? Bharat's Garage Cloud Service, ho...
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[07:33:10] <exec> 08└─Bike. Train. Bus. Busses are lousy for multiday trips but actually superb for 8h legs. Take a night bus and sleep. Ships for intercontinental, takes a couple of weeks so I haven't crossed either Atlantic nor Pacific yet.
[07:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:12] <exec> 08└─And yet even those sore thumbs would be saving gas, compared to flying. So... ok? It's not telepresence, but fine. Hm.
[07:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:14] <exec> 08└─Greyhound can be a shitshow, but it works.
[07:33:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 2142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:56] <exec> 08└─The average patient to whom pain medicine is prescribed has made no "personal choice". Imagine that you collapse from a medical condition, or you are in an auto accident, or you are mugged, or carjacked and shot. You have no "choices", really. An ambulance arrives, they find all your missing bits, t...
[07:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fort Collins, Colorado "Frees the Nipple" - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:52] <exec> 08└─I am highly sanitary, use a bidet, and do not leak. Your objection seems to be that you are offended by exposed genitals. Fair enough. Others are offended by exposed breasts.
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[08:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Twitter Launches "Hide Replies" Feature - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:58] <exec> 08└─It's to accommodate the prez. You see some of the responses he gets? Well deserved, but they harsh his high.
[08:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Launches "Hide Replies" Feature - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:59] <exec> 08└─President Snowflake? That puts a whole new meaning on the "department of defense". You would think they might take a more active role in combating "global warming".
[08:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 2711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:10] <exec> 08└─The problem with these greasy dirtbags (the Sacklers, not Purdue Pharma in particular) is not that they ran this company that produced these opioids. For people with chronic pain, they need things like this. You'll note that the other opioid producers are not being sued anywhere near the extent that...
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[08:34:11] <exec> 08└─A prescription is a choice. You can refuse ambulance service, you can refuse any service you want. The only way your anecdote makes sense is if you're unconscious and the drug is administered without your consent. This just sounds like, "oh, that kid had no choice but to shoot up that elementary sch...
[08:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:13] <exec> 08└─Errmm, "all judges"? I'm a bit worried about some of the latest appointments, particularly on the Federal level.
[08:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:16] <exec> 08└─"... in good conscience ..." Wait - what? I thought we were talking about lawyers!
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[09:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The '$4.4m a Year' Bug: Chipotle Online Orders Swallowed by JavaScript Blunder - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:57] <exec> 08└─Shitty food in, shitty code out...
[09:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The '$4.4m a Year' Bug: Chipotle Online Orders Swallowed by JavaScript Blunder - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:59] <exec> 08└─this case, the ui-mask="99" attribute limits the expiration date input field to two characters, but it provides the wrong ones. "When autofill tries to enter 2023, this ui-mask only lets the first two characters be entered,"
[09:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The '$4.4m a Year' Bug: Chipotle Online Orders Swallowed by JavaScript Blunder - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:01] <exec> 08└─I guess it's up to Chipotle which is more important to them, being technically correct or an extra 4.4 million a year.
[09:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Launches "Hide Replies" Feature - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.salon.com/2019/09/19/a-strange-twitter-glitch-is-censoring-the-left-and-no-one-knows-if-its-a-bug-or-a-feature/ [salon.com] I submitted this yesterday but it is still pending, it is far more significant than this discussion of a trivial feature.
[09:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:31] <exec> 08└─More importantly, how much pollution is cut out of the equation by driving individual cars rather than flying?
[09:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 2125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:27] <exec> 08└─I suppose there is truth in what you say. You CAN refuse medical treatment. From experience, when you are lying on the floor, or the ground, helpless, your judgement changes. With or without pain, the helplessness is more than enough to "force" you to accept the help being offered. Add some medium p...
[09:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Windows 7 Security Updates for 2020 Election for Federal Systems - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:19] <exec> 08└─microsoft is securing the elections, how many of their executives are 'former' spooks? the fact that their latest OS is not even considered as an election machine should really inform you that they aren't into that kind of non-cloud computer anymore, so why are they being treated like some sort of e...
[09:37:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Fort Collins, Colorado "Frees the Nipple" - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:29] <exec> 08└─Anti-nudity laws should be struck down as unconstitutional anyway, since what clothes you do or don't wear is a form of expression.
[09:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ron [5774] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fort Collins, Colorado "Frees the Nipple" - 1430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:18] <exec> 08└─It's good to be old. You get to see a lot of history happen. Way back in the 1960s and early 1970s, it was legal and common for women to bare their chests in Austin Texas. I remember the thrill of going to Barton Springs pool and Zilker Park and seeing topless female swimmers and sunbathers. (If you...
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[10:32:58] <exec> 08└─Programmer got e.coli and died mid-project.
[10:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The '$4.4m a Year' Bug: Chipotle Online Orders Swallowed by JavaScript Blunder - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:00] <exec> 08└─being technically correct or an extra 4.4 million a year.
[10:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Launches "Hide Replies" Feature - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:12] <exec> 08└─It's pretty telling that the left doesn't expect to be censored on Twitter. The shock! The horror! Only those evil Trump supporters are supposed to be censored. The right has long gotten used to censorship just being how things are. Note that this doesn't actually force them to have "correct" opinio...
[10:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:32] <exec> 08└─I'll reply to this question too, Another question: how much was pollution reduced by the climate activist Greta Thunberg traveling by boat to give her speech at the UN?
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[11:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crown Sterling Demos 256-bit RSA Key-cracking at Private Event - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:56] <exec> 08└─"Crown Sterling Claims to Factor RSA Keylengths First Factored Twenty Years Ago" https://www.schneier.com [schneier.com]
[11:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:41] <exec> 08└─Planes burn about 2l/100km
[11:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered on Mars - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:54] <exec> 08└─Meet me, meet me at Midnight, Among the Queen Anne’s lace Midnight is not a moment Midnight is a place When, when shall I meet you When shall I see your face For I am living in time at present But you are living in space Time is only a corner Age is only a fold A year is merely a penny Spent from...
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[12:32:57] <exec> 08└─256 in 50 seconds 257 in ~100 seconds? 258 in ~200 seconds... ... 512 in ~1.8*10^71 years? Even if it doesn't scale linearly with the search space, it scales. Moore's law has scaled up computing power by a factor of 100,000 in the last 30 years or so. Quantum methods might put a dent in the scaling...
[12:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Launches "Hide Replies" Feature - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:21] <exec> 08└─That means people who come into a conversation to cause drama, make inappropriate remarks or bully and abuse others won't have their voices heard
[12:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Launches "Hide Replies" Feature - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:23] <exec> 08└─Community moderation - what an innovative idea!
[12:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:46] <exec> 08└─TSA was always there, they just ramped up with each new "terror strike" - meaning: perpetual growth. 1989 - London Heathrow pulled me aside for a patdown due to passing a metal detector with a PDA in my pocket - they were already ramped up due to whatever "terror strikes" had happened there, maybe L...
[12:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:47] <exec> 08└─The only other "knob" we can turn is to reduce the demand for air travel.
[12:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:49] <exec> 08└─Now, the owners of the boat, they flew in a replacement crew .... sad ... but you can't control everything
[12:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:52] <exec> 08└─They would have to get there in full buses, which makes it about 0.5l/100km. Almost anything else, except fully packed cars, is more polluting than the planes.
[12:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:54] <exec> 08└─Aircraft fuel is basically the cheapest fuel available, because
[12:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:56] <exec> 08└─The only other "knob" we can turn is to reduce the demand for air travel. Not an easy pill to swallow.
[12:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:58] <exec> 08└─Fun fact, driving solo actually uses more fuel per person-mile than flying commercial. Not to mention the higher infrastructure costs supporting ground travel. If you get into a multi-day ground trip, you should also be considering the cost of building, supplying and staffing your lodging and restau...
[12:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:00] <exec> 08└─Man, talk about greenhouse gas emissions... I hope they're feeding those horses and mules a low methane blend. The decision by Greta Thunberg, a young climate activist, to sail across the Atlantic rather than travel by air ahead of her speech at the United Nations next week, has refocused attention...
[12:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:57] <exec> 08└─Given the direct involvement of the Sacklers in marketing oxycontin over multiple decades and in spite of evidence of its detrimental effects, I believe criminal liability ought to be on the table, especially pour encourager les autres.
[12:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:58] <exec> 08└─What fault of it is the FDA, if all the mandatory studies handed to them contained flawed or incomplete data?
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[12:36:16] <exec> 08└─Is Martian beer any good?
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[13:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:54] <exec> 08└─That systemd is a Microsoft conspiracy? All your personal data are belong to systemd!
[13:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crown Sterling Demos 256-bit RSA Key-cracking at Private Event - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:04] <exec> 08└─MOORE'S LAW IS THE CONSTRUCT OF A HUMAN MIND. SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS.
[13:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crown Sterling Demos 256-bit RSA Key-cracking at Private Event - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:06] <exec> 08└─Did you look at the 'Related' in the main story? That was based on the original story [soylentnews.org] we published on 11/09/19, which was itself based on reporting from various sources including Scheier. An a few days ago Schneier added the following: Others are laughing at this [arstechnica.com]...
[13:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03drgibbon [74] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crown Sterling Demos 256-bit RSA Key-cracking at Private Event - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:08] <exec> 08└─Please fix the headline.
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[13:33:20] <exec> 08└─Lot of Y2K bugs were caused by somewhere limiting the year to 2 digits. In the 1990s, limited memory was the lame excuse for that. 2 more digits might mean a whole extra byte of memory per date was needed. in a database containing 1 million rows, each with one date, that was a whole megabyte! And so...
[13:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Launches "Hide Replies" Feature - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:35] <exec> 08└─I'll go you one better. I've designed a Twitter feature that hides not only the replies but the tweets being replied to as well.
[13:34:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pav [114] 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:33] <exec> 08└─Exactly when they get doctors to prescribe their product with sponsored studies that show it helps with pain while not being very addictive.
[13:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:04] <exec> 08└─The "just tough it out crowd" either haven't experienced anything like truly severe pain (they felt a 3/10 but thought it was a 10) or they haven't had to endure it long.
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[14:32:56] <exec> 08└─I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, systemd/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, systemd plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd system made useful by the...
[14:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:57] <exec> 08└─RMS died for their sins.
[14:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:00] <exec> 08└─like /etc needs to be writeable,
[14:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:02] <exec> 08└─I know there will be lots of negative comments and downvotes, but what precisely at this point is actually wrong with systemd at this point, and what exactly are you going to do to fix it? Everyone uses it by now and nobody's come up with a better solution on Linux specifically. There's a really goo...
[14:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:04] <exec> 08└─Can anyone alive now explain what the hell systemd even currently is, let alone where it is going? Is it a replacement for init scripts? Is it some kind of daemon? Is it some kind of meta-kernel or kernel replacement? Is it a general kernel services interface? Is it a daemon service provider? With w...
[14:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbernardo [300] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:06] <exec> 08└─The "good video" you're babbling about is basically repeating the debunked "biggest myths" post by LP. It has had all comments removed and blocked when people started pointing this, and asking who was paying for that bunch of tripe served as under guise of a simple presentation. If you want to talk...
[14:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:08] <exec> 08└─You turned one small folder of readable shell scripts into one humongous set of binaries and packages that, even with the source available, are basically unable to be modified at all by anyone without trashing their system. And all under the guise of utilising *kernel* interfaces that exist now and...
[14:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:10] <exec> 08└─I am not a admin and my years of participating in distro development seem over. However, I really disliked fedora occasionally breaking on me and I am really at a loss of how to debug systemd breakage. Perhaps its my own unfamiliarity with the various subsystems, but it seems other init systems at l...
[14:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:12] <exec> 08└─[quote]Ugh... keep reinventing the wheel... who pays this guy?[/quote] Clearly either Microsoft or one of those companies that provides paid support for Linux.
[14:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:14] <exec> 08└─Well, /etc contains files that are not strictly configuration (e.g. /etc/mtab) and files that are technically configuration but may need to be changed dynamically (e.g. /etc/resolv.conf), which means that /etc has to be on a writeable filesystem — unless, of course, these files are placed somewher...
[14:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crown Sterling Demos 256-bit RSA Key-cracking at Private Event - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:26] <exec> 08└─There are several RSA challenge numbers that no one has yet factored. The highest one that has been factored so far was RSA-230. Let's see them factor: 1332943998825757583801437794588036586217112243226684602854588261917276276670542554046742693334919501552734933431407182284074635735280036866652127405...
[14:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:24] <exec> 08└─Trains? In America? Only if it is over our cold dead bodies! Oh wait, that sounds like a movie ... Snowpiercer
[14:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:25] <exec> 08└─Lots of things are more efficient than aircraft - but only in theory. The thing is that aircraft make it possible to travel long distance more quickly, which makes it easier to tolerate the conditions necessary to achieve that fuel economy. Everyone complains about flying cattle class, but you can p...
[14:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:25] <exec> 08└─If they took a dim view of this sort of corporate malfeasance, they wouldn't be nominated for those courts. The Democrats aren't quite as shameless about it as the Republicans are, but both parties routinely nominate judges that fall well short on key constitutional issues.
[14:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:27] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter whether it's good or not, that's not a power that the courts have. Each person that the Sackler family harmed has a legal right to file suit to seek compensation for that harm. Whether or not they accept this settlement should have no impact on other, unrelated, court cases even ov...
[14:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:29] <exec> 08└─I think it's a combination of good intentions and bureaucracy. Having an approved list is important in terms of preventing unforeseen interaction between different pills. There's definitely a belief that patients need pain management without always considering the needs of the particular patient. So...
[14:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered on Mars - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:47] <exec> 08└─Solar time I'd imagine. You know - the universally relevant time system wherein noon is when the sun is at the directly overhead, and midnight is when it's directly underneath you (well, highest and lowest points anyway)
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[15:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:56] <exec> 08└─I just listened to "Taurus" and agree with the U.S. Government, because the two songs sound nothing alike. You really, really have to stretch your imagination to say that the songs are similar. It's like saying the composer of Super Mario World was ripping off Supertramp, or that the final Kefka bat...
[15:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 2096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:14] <exec> 08└─I understand the systemd hate to be mostly political as peoples felt is was rammed down their throats and that created long lasting resentment but I side with the distro maintainer on this because there are measurable benefits to the systemd approach when it come to treating servers like disposables...
[15:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:16] <exec> 08└─It's not a Microsoft conspiracy per se. More like, it's the C++ thought process trying to abstract and generalize everything that leads to this convergent "evolution" where engineers disregard the edge cases they're paid to solve when describing the issue at hand. The whole registry-like "JSON user...
[15:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:18] <exec> 08└─I know your probably kind of sarcastic but systemd is a collections of system daemons and an init system that are configured in an homogeneous way. The init system is named systemd-init, the logging deamon is named systemd-journald , the networks resolver is named systemd-resolved and I hope by now...
[15:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:20] <exec> 08└─Sorry I accidentally modded you overrated when i meant underrated, please accept my apology
[15:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:22] <exec> 08└─Gentoo. Nuff said.
[15:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:24] <exec> 08└─Nobody's stopping me. I use them on my Gentoo-based distro every day.
[15:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:26] <exec> 08└─Alsa was only "working" if you tack on the adjective "poorly". I can't tell you how many times I had to deal with an audio source refusing to play or crashing the program it was part of because something else had the entire damned audio system tied up under alsa; hundreds at least. Yes, pulseaudio's...
[15:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:29] <exec> 08└─"who pays this guy?" RedmondHat.
[15:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:31] <exec> 08└─"The feature creep of systemd is completely out of control." That was the whole point. They couldn't proprieterize the kernel, so the proprieterized the next best thing: the init system. I knew it was a fuckfest shill for Redmond the first time I saw the INI file format. I have always been flabbergh...
[15:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The '$4.4m a Year' Bug: Chipotle Online Orders Swallowed by JavaScript Blunder - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:55] <exec> 08└─Hey, leave the Indian programmers out of this!
[15:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:44] <exec> 08└─Could we please stop making up lies about Obamacare? It did not make prices 10x worse. If your rates went up that much, you didn't have real health insurance in the first place. You were nominally insured and probably wouldn't have gotten benefits if you got sick in any meaningful way. The insurance...
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[16:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:56] <exec> 08└─You could even say that Ethanol-fueled is a ripoff of a tired old wino.
[16:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:57] <exec> 08└─And just like Metallica, I keep on going even though my content sucks and I should have retired a long time ago. NIGGERS.
[16:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:59] <exec> 08└─It almost like "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" ripped off the first 5 notes from "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
[16:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:01] <exec> 08└─The sooner this riff is outlawed - especially in guitar stores the world over, the better.
[16:33:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 1303 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:16] <exec> 08└─You turned one small folder of readable shell scripts into one humongous set of binaries and packages that, even with the source available, are basically unable to be modified at all by anyone without trashing their system. And all under the guise of utilising *kernel* interfaces that exist now and...
[16:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:29] <exec> 08└─I know there will be lots of negative comments and downvotes, but what precisely at this point is actually wrong with systemd at this point, and what exactly are you going to do to fix it?
[16:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:30] <exec> 08└─Your post implies systemd is merely system software. It is not. What gets owned by systemd is not being relinquished to user discretion. If it cannot be done by tweaking config files it cannot be done at all. Say goodbye to a programmable environment. Say hello to a configurable environment. It will...
[16:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:33] <exec> 08└─I did hours long sets with alsa, not a single dropout even with cpu under stress. I used the default mpv and pulseaudio, presentation worked fine at home, failed in the field without error messages, likely because of no network, which was the only differing aspect. Yes default alsa can do only one a...
[16:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:35] <exec> 08└─I've always used rsync and shell scripts to image servers. Why use card houses like puppet and ansible?
[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:37] <exec> 08└─And the older version was a lot easier to use, and had fewer problems.
[16:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:39] <exec> 08└─Works well, solid as hell. Was an Ubuntu/Debian guy, but had issues with ZFS and networking crashing randomly. So went over to FreeBSD, then eventually FreeNAS; way more solid and no systemd.
[16:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:41] <exec> 08└─You've got it wrong. What you are refering to as systemd/Linux is, in fact, Lennartix
[16:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The '$4.4m a Year' Bug: Chipotle Online Orders Swallowed by JavaScript Blunder - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:07] <exec> 08└─In the 1990s, limited memory was the lame excuse for that. 2 more digits might mean a whole extra byte of memory per date was needed. in a database containing 1 million rows, each with one date, that was a whole megabyte! And some management didn't want to spend the money to buy bigger hard drives.
[16:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The '$4.4m a Year' Bug: Chipotle Online Orders Swallowed by JavaScript Blunder - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:09] <exec> 08└─Now, with terabytes of storage capacity, that excuse is long expired. For this to be happening in 2019 is pitiful and embarrassing.
[16:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:57] <exec> 08└─The California Air Resources Board is going to require all aircraft be retrofitted with a catalytic converter, EGR valve, and smog pump.
[16:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:58] <exec> 08└─It would have been a lower footprint if the corporate media had let Greta Thunberg stay at home, and gave Macaulay Culkin a climate preacher job stateside, given both their showbiz roots.
[16:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:00] <exec> 08└─Nobody is riding a fully loaded bus for three days, nobody is riding a packed train for three days
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[17:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:03] <exec> 08└─I just listened to "Taurus" and agree with the U.S. Government, because the two songs sound nothing alike. You really, really have to stretch your imagination to say that the songs are similar.
[17:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:04] <exec> 08└─Some moderators seem to have a big problem with your endorsement of Ralph Northam and Justin Trudeau.
[17:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:06] <exec> 08└─It's like saying the composer of Super Mario World was ripping off Supertramp May want to rethink that comment :) https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] The bit they are talking about is at about 57 seconds in https://www.y...
[17:33:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:18] <exec> 08└─like /etc needs to be writeable,
[17:33:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jbernardo [300] 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 535 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:21] <exec> 08└─The "good video" you're babbling about is basically repeating the debunked "biggest myths" post by LP. It has had all comments removed and blocked when people started pointing this, and asking who was paying for that bunch of tripe served as under guise of a simple presentation. If you want to talk...
[17:33:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 699 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:28] <exec> 08└─It's not a Microsoft conspiracy per se. More like, it's the C++ thought process trying to abstract and generalize everything that leads to this convergent "evolution" where engineers disregard the edge cases they're paid to solve when describing the issue at hand. The whole registry-like "JSON user...
[17:33:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:37] <exec> 08└─I know there will be lots of negative comments and downvotes, but what precisely at this point is actually wrong with systemd at this point, and what exactly are you going to do to fix it?
[17:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:45] <exec> 08└─I can speak about Puppet but Ansible favor description over imperatives programming. A normal playbook is self-documenting and idenpotent while a shell script is not unless you take the time and the effort to make it so. Does your scripts edit appplication server xml using xpath ? Do they configure...
[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─ok, I underrated it back for you
[17:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:50] <exec> 08└─SMF [freebsd.org]. FreeBSD moving to ZFS-on-Linux [freebsd.org].
[17:33:51] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 18 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:52] <exec> 08└─who pays this guy?
[17:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:54] <exec> 08└─I thought he was paid by SCO?
[17:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:56] <exec> 08└─Who the hell modded you troll for this? +1 coming momentarily. I started my Linux journey on Gentoo more than 15 years ago (back when a 1 GHz T-Bird was top of the line...) and credit it with teaching me to look at *why* things work, not just how.
[17:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:58] <exec> 08└─So long as Artix, Gentoo, Slackware, Devuan etc. exist I'm not going to abandon Linux. Yet. But when this whole systemd debacle started, I knew that at some point Linux would become a corporate wasteland and it would be time to move on to *BSD, probably FreeBSD. That day is approaching with increasi...
[17:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:00] <exec> 08└─The bot can take over it will free us from system maintenance and give us more time to spend on developers tooling and workflow automation... Your servers play store already exists and its called the docker registry. But for security reason you should rebuild the images on your servers, sign them an...
[17:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:02] <exec> 08└─Once Microsoft comes out with a Linux distro, we'll see how true this is!
[17:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:05] <exec> 08└─Seems like we need a distro that's focused on SOHO systems instead of enterprise computing. Luckily, systemd does seem to be pretty modular, so distros are free to pick and choose which components they want to use. Some parts of it make sense for SOHO computing, other parts (like this) really don't,...
[17:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:07] <exec> 08└─He plans to introduce JSON... Oh my dog! We're doomed! Why don't we just let Trump (sorry) write the code from now on? He'll write the best code, beautiful code... did nothing illegal
[17:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:09] <exec> 08└─Let's just bring back COBOL... Should be stable enough by now
[17:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 1696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:11] <exec> 08└─Poettering's ideas are decent. But basically he is reinventing the the windows/VMS subsystems that do these exact things. He just described good swaths of active directory and ldap. But the problem is he half asses these huge ideas. It takes *ages* to fix the damage he does. Then after 10 years of *...
[17:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:28] <exec> 08└─There are almost no 747s still in service for passengers these days. It's an old plane, a really huge plane, and a fuel guzzler, so it's not a good example to use for airplane fuel efficiency numbers. A 777 would be a better choice if you want to look at something commonly used for intercontinental...
[17:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:30] <exec> 08└─If you ignore the electric bit (or assume electricity is generated from fossil fuels, as much of it is), ships are probably the least polluting transport. Of course, ships are also pretty slow, so people don't use them for intercontinental travel much: most people don't have the luxury of being able...
[17:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:32] <exec> 08└─In places like Japan and Germany, they certainly do. In America, not so much.
[17:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:34] <exec> 08└─Bingo! That was exactly my point. Individual transport usually pollutes more per passenger mile than group transport like planes, trains and buses.
[17:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:38] <exec> 08└─1) AC was being deeply sarcastic, and 2) Hell, even *you* manage to get something right now and then. I'll be upmodding that post of yours because it damn well deserves it. Why can't you be like this all the time?
[17:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:39] <exec> 08└─My mother had a hospital charge her 400 dollars to hand her, her own purse. In which she pulled out a bottle of generic ibuprofen and took them.
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[18:32:56] <exec> 08└─OOOOO I love flaimbait!
[18:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:57] <exec> 08└─Film at 11 [youtube.com]
[18:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:59] <exec> 08└─"Hello there, children!" "Hey, Chef!"
[18:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:02] <exec> 08└─A AC loving flamebait. That unpossible.
[18:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:04] <exec> 08└─I dislike almost everything about Chef: It try to look like it's declarative when it is imperative, chef recipes are ruby scripts. It requires a server to be useful. It pull libs at runtime since according to the article the repo going down impacted some paying customers. Ansible is a bette...
[18:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:06] <exec> 08└─Freedom to use the software, by any person, for any purpose. But today's leftists don't care about freedom. Instead ideological conformity rules the day. The ideology is so extreme that the *United States* is considered "evil." No doubt they would prefer Iran or North Korea. It's not surprising, tod...
[18:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:08] <exec> 08└─There are two major screwups here. First screw-up: The developer. Under what license did they release this code? Was it a standard well known license? Had they ever read that license to see what was and was not allowed? Answer: likely no. The license they choose very likely allowed for this in whic...
[18:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:10] <exec> 08└─Ivan isn't getting his money's worth out of you...
[18:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:12] <exec> 08└─"Ivan" is the democratic party. Fuck you Ruskies, we will beat you Hillary 90%-ers down!
[18:33:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 18 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:50] <exec> 08└─Gentoo. Nuff said.
[18:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:16] <exec> 08└─Epstein dindu nuffin.
[18:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:17] <exec> 08└─When debian went systemd, I felt that the fight was over.
[18:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:20] <exec> 08└─If we could just get Trump to tweet something positive about it, systemd could be completely done.
[18:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:22] <exec> 08└─It comes to be too much of a stretch to consider the thing Unix-like at all. Its having a common binary format with traditional GNU/Linux should be considered legacy and not commonality; like OS/2 and Win9x/NT both having EXEs.
[18:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe he didn't, maybe they all blew him willingly. But that's not what matters here.
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:26] <exec> 08└─" If there are better solutions, where in the FOSS ecosystem are they, and who precisely is stopping everyone from using better solutions?" They were replaced by SystemD, and the people stopping us from using them (easily) are the same people pushing SystemD, trying to sink their hooks into everythi...
[18:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:28] <exec> 08└─GamerGate 3.11 for Workgroups
[18:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:30] <exec> 08└─When you're writing a new OS, it is a worthy enterprise and you're welcome to it; but hijacking an existing one and morphing it into something it by definition should NOT be, is a violation.
[18:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:33] <exec> 08└─Since Lennart wants to take over everyone's home directory, I believe that it is only fair that someone publish the home address of his residence. Does anybody know? Asking for a friend of course...
[18:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:35] <exec> 08└─The situation with GNU/Linux and systemd/Linux at present is resembling the one when Microsoft stopped collaborating with IBM on OS/2 and rolled out Windows NT.
[18:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:37] <exec> 08└─You spelled FreeBSD wrong. Also, fuck you Pottershit.
[18:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PlasticCogLiquid [3669] (Score: 1) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:39] <exec> 08└─I bet Poettering is a CIA agent and his real task is to introduce backdoors into Linux amongst the chaos of SystemD.
[18:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 2259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:41] <exec> 08└─I just don't get the systemd hate here. Many of us here use FOSS, a linux distro or perhaps a flavour of BSD. We like the fact that we can modify it however we please. We can recompile it, rewrite it, fix bugs etc. We can make and configure our software to do exactly as we please. But Linux doesn't...
[18:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:43] <exec> 08└─Redhar doesn't want to provide a Linux enterprise environment. They want to provide THEIR enterprise environment. Embrace extend eradicate. Other linuxes worked just fine without his shit. Redhat is not Linux, not in implementation, not in the Unix small individual tools that do one thing and do i...
[18:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PlasticCogLiquid [3669] (Score: 1) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:45] <exec> 08└─I feel like I said it better on SD, quoting myself: "I bet at some point in the future Poettering will turn out to be CIA/FBI agent, and made SystemD as crazy as it is so that backdoors could be implemented among the chaos. I mean how did he even weasel into the scene in the first place? Suddenly bi...
[18:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:48] <exec> 08└─POS.
[18:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:50] <exec> 08└─Trump is the ultimate example of change for the sake of change being a fucked up rationale.
[18:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:52] <exec> 08└─RedHat uses systemd. Debian uses systemd. Ubuntu uses systemd. It is not a single distro - it has business benefits for many distros. But you don't have to use it. You probably downloaded it for free, so choose another distro that doesn't use systemd. Your problem has just gone away.
[18:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:54] <exec> 08└─It was - you can choose whether to use a systemd distro or not. What is there to argue about?
[18:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:56] <exec> 08└─If there are better solutions, where in the FOSS ecosystem are they, and who precisely is stopping everyone from using better solutions?
[18:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:58] <exec> 08└─Actually, since Red Hat was bought by IBM [redhat.com], IBM pays him. Apart from that, what you say makes sense.
[18:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:20] <exec> 08└─"Nobody is riding a fully loaded bus for three days" Really? I've certainly done it on charter buses, tour buses, etc. Nobody is a pretty strong word. A couple days on Greyhound isn't that uncommon for me and though it varies as passengers get off and on at stops the bus is usually far from empty. I...
[18:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:22] <exec> 08└─This is what all the sound and fury is about; or do you really believe the puppeteers zipping about in private jets are troubled by the 2% carbon emissions?
[18:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:28] <exec> 08└─Why can't you be like this all the time?
[18:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:30] <exec> 08└─even though they are basically the ones responsible for this You are not wrong. But lets not forget the addicts and doctors and pharmacies in this too. I know a few dozen addicts. Every last one that I know *willingly* took these pills to get high. They freely admit it and even offer to hook you up....
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[19:33:04] <exec> 08└─*sigh* How 'bout shitcanning that Russian BS? It's so worn out. And the point is true. Once it's released, it's out of your hands, and is none of your business. Now, I would like to know why drawing up old code to keep the system running is the "wrong approach". It seems you do what you can until yo...
[19:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:06] <exec> 08└─That second screw-up does not bode well for a server configuration tool.
[19:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:21] <exec> 08└─Nuts. Creators gain nothing from nutty copyright law. Drop copyright term to 3 to 5 years. Sanity might return.
[19:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:22] <exec> 08└─Ir it's just that there is a large but finite combination of notes that people find musical and so composers in isolation will occasionally come up with similar combinations. That's why there have been infringement claims against videos featuring the sound of wild bird song. A fair number of these c...
[19:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe in the virtue signaling world, but not in the real world.
[19:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:34] <exec> 08└─/etc/mtab -> ../proc/self/mounts If you are writing to /etc on a regular basis, you are doing it wrong.
[19:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, pulseaudio's a fucked up pile of monkey turds. But it still works more reliably than alsa ever did.
[19:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:39] <exec> 08└─Not so much. VOID is fighting the good fight. There are only a few guys working on it, but it is amazing how good their stuff is. It's runit based, rolling release, and more stable than Arch. The guys who are behind it wanted all the software of Linux, but more of a BSD package system. So it is Linu...
[19:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, what you say is true in principal, but not quite so, in practice. It makes me really sad that Debian went with systemd, by default (when using a linux kernel). Debian always called itself the, "universal operating system'. In the past, there was more truth to this claim. You used to be able to...
[19:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:43] <exec> 08└─"So when RedHat do exactly the same we get howls of derision. Why?" There were already probably twenty or more well known configuration syntax's on Linux to do any number of jobs. Redhat decided that none of them were good enough and so they had to introduce an archaic Windows INI file format. Rolli...
[19:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:45] <exec> 08└─Alsa supports (since forever) setting up a software mixer, if your hardware does not natively support this. You don't need pulse audio to achieve this. It is a bit arcane of a config, it you want to set up from just docs, but there are tons of examples around, if all you want is a mixer, or just a m...
[19:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:47] <exec> 08└─Many of us have been around for a long time. We know what the Unix way is, and how it is superior on engineering grounds. Many of us are dismayed that the decision to adopt SystemD is being pushed via backroom deals. Many of us are professionals, and we care little about how SystemD speeds up bootin...
[19:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:49] <exec> 08└─The new systemd nazid. It spams your console with messages, that are mostly random racist rants and threats to steal your small children and babies, and put them into cages. But, every 3rd message goes on for pages about how great systemd nazid is. "The best, the greatest, no bedbugs, and with total...
[19:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crown Sterling Demos 256-bit RSA Key-cracking at Private Event - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:02] <exec> 08└─Since the density of primes is not the same as the density of the ordinals, the growth isn’t quite equal to a power of two. It is generally accepted (and noted by RSA itself) that for an equivalent security AES128 it would require at least RSA 3072. And for comparison RSA2048 is equivalent to 112...
[19:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:14] <exec> 08└─Not in America. It would be restricted to 80 mph max and have to stop at every farm in Big Joe's constituency.
[19:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:16] <exec> 08└─And, per passenger mile, the Space Shuttle is one of the most efficient (and safe) forms of transport ever created.... The real question is: how much do people really NEED to travel. It's not an easy one to answer, for instance: sales, definitely more effective in person, but, is sending one sales r...
[19:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:23] <exec> 08└─To hold the ideas, not to attempt to believe them. To hold and *believe* two opposed ideas at the same time is less F. Scott Fitzgerald and more George Orwell...
[19:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:25] <exec> 08└─That seems an indication that you didn't understand either Fitzgerald, or Orwell as well as you might have.
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[20:33:07] <exec> 08└─Freedom to use the software, by any person, for any purpose. But today's leftists don't care about freedom. Instead ideological conformity rules the day. The ideology is so extreme that the *United States* is considered "evil." No doubt they would prefer Iran or North Korea. It's not surprising, tod...
[20:33:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 1058 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:08] <exec> 08└─There are two major screwups here. First screw-up: The developer. Under what license did they release this code? Was it a standard well known license? Had they ever read that license to see what was and was not allowed? Answer: likely no. The license they choose very likely allowed for this in whic...
[20:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:14] <exec> 08└─From TFA: The Chef CEO did add that he didn't agree with the ICE's practices of separating families and detaining children, but that "Chef as a company that transcends numerous U.S. presidential administrations." Well, IBM sold tabulating machines to the Nazi and they're still around. Why would Chef...
[20:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:16] <exec> 08└─How 'bout shitcanning that Russian BS? It's so worn out.
[20:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:18] <exec> 08└─Don't care. That's no excuse.
[20:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:21] <exec> 08└─Well, it's none of your business as long as you didn't foresee the abusive uses, or design it to enable the abusive uses, or continue to maintain it despite the abusive uses. If you do any of those things, you need to balance the good vs. the bad, and decide whether it is proper to allow use to cont...
[20:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:23] <exec> 08└─Freedom to use the software, by any person, for any purpose.
[20:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:25] <exec> 08└─You don't put little kids in jail. Parents commit a crime, go to jail, guess what: parents separated from their kids. Which part of the word "illegal" do people not understand, when talking about illegal immigrants? Dragging kids along (often not even their own kids) is not a "get out of jail free"...
[20:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:42] <exec> 08└─It's Hazzard County's national anthem.
[20:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:43] <exec> 08└─You realize the coincidence of about 50 notes in a row being the same is fairly astronomical in nature right? This is not black midi set to random and seeing what pops out. You may want to click on the links I put in my post. You will find it is very different than what you want it to be. More than...
[20:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> 08└─Not Randy Wolfe, but the descendants of Randy Wolfe. I think there lies the key. They are not musicians, or involved. They just caught a whiff of the dollar breeze, a highly contagious disease. Fanned on by a greedy lawyer of three, the sue wagon was boarded, ticket or no ticket. Sad, and it ties up...
[20:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 2426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:48] <exec> 08└─3 to 5 isn't really enough for a common person to adequately disseminate a work, particularly to the global markets - but it is about the right timeframe for a major label like Sony to finish a rollout and extract significant sales volumes/profits. I like a "pay to play" approach to copyright. Decla...
[20:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:50] <exec> 08└─20 years, or even 50 years, would be a vast improvement. I'm not even sure when a modern blockbuster without a sole creator goes out of copyright.
[20:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:52] <exec> 08└─This is literally the worse idea I have ever heard. The idea of some sort of copyright system is to encourage innovation. Not make protecting your intellectual property impossible for the little guy nor to suck trillions of dollars from artists into the hands of accountants, lawyers, and law makers.
[20:34:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 1383 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:05] <exec> 08└─Can anyone alive now explain what the hell systemd even currently is, let alone where it is going? Is it a replacement for init scripts? Is it some kind of daemon? Is it some kind of meta-kernel or kernel replacement? Is it a general kernel services interface? Is it a daemon service provider? With w...
[20:34:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 989 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:11] <exec> 08└─Well, /etc contains files that are not strictly configuration (e.g. /etc/mtab) and files that are technically configuration but may need to be changed dynamically (e.g. /etc/resolv.conf), which means that /etc has to be on a writeable filesystem — unless, of course, these files are placed somewher...
[20:34:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chewbacon [1032] 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:26] <exec> 08└─Works well, solid as hell. Was an Ubuntu/Debian guy, but had issues with ZFS and networking crashing randomly. So went over to FreeBSD, then eventually FreeNAS; way more solid and no systemd.
[20:34:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 318 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:34] <exec> 08└─So long as Artix, Gentoo, Slackware, Devuan etc. exist I'm not going to abandon Linux. Yet. But when this whole systemd debacle started, I knew that at some point Linux would become a corporate wasteland and it would be time to move on to *BSD, probably FreeBSD. That day is approaching with increasi...
[20:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:12] <exec> 08└─POS
[20:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:14] <exec> 08└─It's starting to look like Gentoo is a possible for me: I love Manjaro, but it seems that removing systemd is a pain in the ass there. I might have to look at dual booting Gentoo and go from there.....Gentoo, it seems, has changed from when i used it, but not a whole hell of a lot. I wish they'd lea...
[20:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:16] <exec> 08└─That's an idea I can get behind. A language that was simple and did the job. The antithesis of systemd, and a lot of the fad-ware that Web 2.0 has subjected the world to.
[20:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:18] <exec> 08└─who pays this guy? It is obviously the work of Il Diablo.
[20:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:20] <exec> 08└─Well, what the fuck DOES matter?? It's been all downhill since Kennedy died. Has anything changed dramatically? No, it's the same old bullshit since the Gulf of Tonkin...
[20:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe Red Flag Linux and Huawei Linux are systemd-free? Inquiring minds like to look for material that makes systemd look like an NSA plot ... and it's the only real reason to have systemd if you're not Redhat selling support services.
[20:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:25] <exec> 08└─The whole extensive effort at lockin, err, "integration" of every unrelated essential thing to systemd is openly demonstrating that. Were it not for that, any one of us could not care less about what flavor of interchangeable init system a specific distro is running. But alas, the world of rainbows,...
[20:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:27] <exec> 08└─Oh c'mon... Who needs a "distro"? Just write a script to collect all the source files and compile from that. What's this obsession with market share? Everybody wants to make a million bucks off their favorite hobby. Just be satisfied your electronic contraption runs without Microsoft. But, if you in...
[20:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:29] <exec> 08└─Really, this is very true, but where else do we get the chance to come out and throw tomatoes?
[20:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crown Sterling Demos 256-bit RSA Key-cracking at Private Event - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:43] <exec> 08└─Since the density of primes is not the same as the density of the ordinals, the growth isn’t quite equal to a power of two. By the time you get up to 2^256, the density of primes is pretty close to constant, yes it continues to drop as you go up, but by a very small fraction, I'm sure it has been...
[20:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesco Parking App Hauled Offline After Exposing 10s Of Millions Of Number Plates - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:06] <exec> 08└─Most Tesco stores don't charge for parking, like other supermarkets. Of those listed, I'm only familiar with the Chester branch. The supermarket is on the edge of the city centre, and has a car part on top(?) of the store. I've never parked there myself, but I could understand them wanting to ensure...
[20:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:09] <exec> 08└─I’m talking about good from the point of view of Team Sackler which is surely trying to get out of all legal jeopardy at minimum cost. Indeed, the courts have nothing to do with the decision the defendants make on how to settle. And of course all plaintiffs should have a right to sue (or be includ...
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[21:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Vampire Bats Help Unravel the Mystery of Smell - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:02] <exec> 08└─Bat zooks! Niggers are vampires on the success of the White man.
[21:33:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 2426 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:45] <exec> 08└─3 to 5 isn't really enough for a common person to adequately disseminate a work, particularly to the global markets - but it is about the right timeframe for a major label like Sony to finish a rollout and extract significant sales volumes/profits. I like a "pay to play" approach to copyright. Decla...
[21:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:48] <exec> 08└─Probably you seen Pachelbel rant [youtube.com], if not, it does indeed explain quite a bit about chords being "stolen". Which is like saying it's all musical notes and they used the same ones as me!
[21:34:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 409 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:34] <exec> 08└─Seems like we need a distro that's focused on SOHO systems instead of enterprise computing. Luckily, systemd does seem to be pretty modular, so distros are free to pick and choose which components they want to use. Some parts of it make sense for SOHO computing, other parts (like this) really don't,...
[21:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:18] <exec> 08└─Yep, another systemd-free Gentoo user here.
[21:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Launches "Hide Replies" Feature - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:04] <exec> 08└─Except it isn't community moderation -- it's original poster moderation.
[21:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered on Mars - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:18] <exec> 08└─Yes.
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[22:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vampire Bats Help Unravel the Mystery of Smell - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:58] <exec> 08└─"Vampire" bats feed on stock animals, mostly, and they are super tiny minorities of bats. Most bats feed on insects and fruits Do you like mosquitoes? Do you like malaria, japanese encephalitis, etc. etc.? No? Then you should love bats. Bats eat them fuckers. All hail bats. And Batman. Robin is gay,...
[22:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vampire Bats Help Unravel the Mystery of Smell - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:59] <exec> 08└─"Which beings are conscious? Which ones have immortal souls worthy of protection by right-thinking people?" "Only humans and mosquitoes." http://www.smbc-comics.com [smbc-comics.com]
[22:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:24] <exec> 08└─you fail to account for the responsibility for those children.
[22:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:25] <exec> 08└─The certificate was shown to be a forgery and the person who validated it was the only casualty in an ‘accident’. I guess the NPC meme is apt here.
[22:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:28] <exec> 08└─Warren! Warren! Warren! Tear down the wall!
[22:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:52] <exec> 08└─3 to 5 isn't really enough for a common person to adequately disseminate a work, particularly to the global markets - but it is about the right timeframe for a major label like Sony to finish a rollout and extract significant sales volumes/profits.
[22:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03CheesyMoo [6853] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Years Later, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Copyright Lawsuit Is Still Going - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:53] <exec> 08└─is one of the greatest cover bands of all time
[22:34:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 1312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:04] <exec> 08└─I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, systemd/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, systemd plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd system made useful by the...
[22:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 1869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:24] <exec> 08└─I do hate systemd … and rightfully so because I am caught by it. I am administering a number of systems that has not been able to be converted to any of the non-systemd distros without dependency problems that would require too much effort to solve. Apart from that, most non-systemd distros are ve...
[22:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:25] <exec> 08└─A commentary or reflection on the technological civilization. A barren wasteland. An homogeneous dystopia. Proverbially jumping the shark.
[22:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 3285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:27] <exec> 08└─TL;DR: In the process of making Linux dynamic-IP and mobile-friendly, Linux vendors are making Linux almost totally inaccessible, for use as static-IP servers. Not a problem, if you're a customer of an enterprise Linux vendor and have support, but not a tenable long-term situation for the rest of us...
[22:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:29] <exec> 08└─I don't think mtab is a good example, because it's outdated. I eliminated mtab in Debian around 8 years back now, along with the util-linux maintainer who made it use procfs for everything. resolv.conf is fair enough; though most modern distributions make it a symlink. Overall, the direction has bee...
[22:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Trilkhai [8530] (Score: 1) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:32] <exec> 08└─On my part, it's because the situation as a user is using a distro that either relies on systemd *or* has a large reasonably-current repo, in part because far too many programs rely on a library that's somehow tied to systemd and are therefore a huge PITA (or impossible) for distro devs to package a...
[22:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:34] <exec> 08└─I gave up entirely last week. systemd-resolved died and broke the system badly, losing a good bit of time and work in the process. Not for the first time, and it was essentially the straw which broke the camel's back. That was on Ubuntu 19.04, and I didn't even want that silly resolver. I ended up m...
[22:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:36] <exec> 08└─If you think that Ansible is idempotent, then you've not been using it long enough... Yes, it touts idempotency as one of its features. But there are so many non-idempotent behaviours that I regard it as something of a joke. Are your roles and playbooks truly idempotent? I strongly suspect that most...
[22:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:05] <exec> 08└─The real question is: how much do people really NEED to travel.
[22:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sacklers Threaten to Scrap Opioid Deal If They Aren’t Shielded From Lawsuits - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:17] <exec> 08└─The essence of Doublethink is holding two contradictory ideas and believing them both at the same time. That's directly from 1984. I'd say you're the one who doesn't know the source material. Come on, you were doing so well before and now you're back to this...
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[23:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Removes New Batch of Allegedly State-Backed Accounts - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:00] <exec> 08└─Only one account, but very very active.
[23:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Removes New Batch of Allegedly State-Backed Accounts - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:01] <exec> 08└─Please stand up, please stand up
[23:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Twitter Removes New Batch of Allegedly State-Backed Accounts - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:03] <exec> 08└─Only U.S. Government accounts are allowed.
[23:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Removes New Batch of Allegedly State-Backed Accounts - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:05] <exec> 08└─Don't signal boost! That's how it became world's top human!
[23:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Removes New Batch of Allegedly State-Backed Accounts - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:07] <exec> 08└─You cannot silence all of them. You cannot distract all of them. You cannot confuse all of them.
[23:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:43] <exec> 08└─Static linking.
[23:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:45] <exec> 08└─...The ideology is so extreme that the *United States* is considered "evil."...
[23:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Political Statement Takes Down Chef - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:47] <exec> 08└─Not completely on topic but I have a lot of fun every time a leftist mentions Russia. First because when the same place was named URSS the roles were reversed, to the point of Russian cities being dedicated to Mr. Snitch Togliatti. Second because the internationalists who want to abolish borders bec...
[23:34:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 450 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:40] <exec> 08└─"The feature creep of systemd is completely out of control." That was the whole point. They couldn't proprieterize the kernel, so the proprieterized the next best thing: the init system. I knew it was a fuckfest shill for Redmond the first time I saw the INI file format. I have always been flabbergh...
[23:35:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 983 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:30] <exec> 08└─Many of us have been around for a long time. We know what the Unix way is, and how it is superior on engineering grounds. Many of us are dismayed that the decision to adopt SystemD is being pushed via backroom deals. Many of us are professionals, and we care little about how SystemD speeds up bootin...
[23:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:49] <exec> 08└─I did this nearly five years back now (can't believe it's been that long!). FreeBSD has been a totally solid system, and for the server-side, I can't see myself going back. On the client side, it hasn't been so great, mainly down to GPU drivers. They have improved massively, so I won't say never, bu...
[23:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:51] <exec> 08└─Because I can't resist (although maybe I should): That systemd is a Microsoft conspiracy?...
[23:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:53] <exec> 08└─It's RedHat. The largest Linux paid support company on the planet.
[23:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:55] <exec> 08└─Seems like we need a distro that's focused on SOHO systems...
[23:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:57] <exec> 08└─Devuan and Artix do not use systemd.
[23:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:59] <exec> 08└─Who needs a "distro"? Just write a script to collect all the source files and compile from that.
[23:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:01] <exec> 08└─I gave up entirely last week. systemd-resolved died and broke the system badly... I ended up moving everything over to Windows 10...
[23:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:03] <exec> 08└─...Everyone uses it by now and nobody's come up with a better solution on Linux specifically...
[23:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06systemd Planning to Take Over Your Home Directory - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:06] <exec> 08└─systemctl disable NetworkManager systemctl mask NetworkManager Then configure static IP configs as one would without systemd's interference. I do this almost every time (every month or so) I create a new VM.
[23:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crown Sterling Demos 256-bit RSA Key-cracking at Private Event - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:21] <exec> 08└─You're sorry about... the caps? WHAT ABOUT THE BULLSHIT?
[23:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crown Sterling Demos 256-bit RSA Key-cracking at Private Event - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:22] <exec> 08└─But extending an RSA by doubling it’s size give you about 32 bits of additional effective AES equivalent security. Adding an extra few bits to an RSA key isn’t going to do much. To get an equivalent of 256 bit AES you need a 15000+ bit RSA key. So you’re right that extending key sizes improves...
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[23:42:50] <exec> 08└─I was with you for the first paragraph, ready to hit you with an Insightful mod. Then the second half got kind of ... weird. I'm not entirely sure that removing gender-bias in our laws is a step toward cannibalism or bestiality. So now I'm conflicted. How do you mod half of a post one way, and the o...
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