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  • I’m no politologist or military strategist, but I’m pretty sure a lot of wars (not all of them) are started so that a nation’s government can get better control over their own population. If the state can declare an emergency situation, they can use it to justify cracking down on political dissidents, invasive surveillance, restrincting freedom of speech, etc in the eyes of the public. It can also be used to ramp up nationalism, which works in the ruling class’ favour. Pretty sure this is at least part of the reason behind putin and nettanyahu stirring shit up right now.







  • Thank you for the detailed response, very informative. You make a really good point about centralized logging, I can see how that can be very helpful when you run A LOT of different server process on one machine. I get centralized logging as a bonus of running everything in Docker, but I can see how it is nice to have logging as part of the init system if you want to run a lot of services natively.





  • renzev@lemmy.worldOPtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldAverage systemd debate
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    2 months ago

    I’ve gotten into quite a lot of systemd-related flame wars so far, and what strikes me is that I haven’t heard a single reason why systemd is good and should be used in favor of openrc/sysvinit/whatever. The only arguments I hear in favor of systemd, even from the its diehard defenders, are justifications why it’s not that bad. Not once have I heard someone advocate for systemd with reasoning that goes likes “Systemd is superior to legacy init systems because you can do X much easier” or “systemd is more secure because it’s resistant against Y attack vector”. It’s always “Linus says it’s allright” or “binary logfiles aren’t a problem, you can just get them from journald instead of reading the file”, or “everyone already uses it”.

    When it comes to online discourse, systemd doesn’t have advocates, it has apologists.








  • He really insists on debian-based, I don’t really know why. And, while Void IS really solid, it isn’t exactly known for the most expansive package collection. Xournal, for example, is not available through XBPS (there is a xournal package, but it just installs xournal++), which is one of the programs he likes a lot. I told him it’s on nix, but he doesn’t want to use nix.

    But I agree, Void is amazing, I use it on my laptop. One little-known cool feature of Void is that its official docker images come in busybox/musl libc, busybox/glibc, and coreutils/glibc variants, it gives you a nice scale from most minimalist to most compatible.


  • renzev@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldapt install firefox
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    2 months ago

    I like your comment a lot because you can substitute a lot of different things for “snap” and it still ends up sounding like a very reasonable opinion

    I feel like I would be more okay with leaded gasoline if it didn’t still have a lot of very real flaws.

    I feel like I would be more okay with anarcho-capitalism if it didn’t still have a lot of very real flaws.

    I feel like I would be more okay with PFAS-coated cookware if it didn’t still have a lot of very real flaws.

    I feel like I would be more okay with single-use plastic bags if it didn’t still have a lot of very real flaws.

    I feel like I would be more okay with cryptocurrencies if it didn’t still have a lot of very real flaws.

    I feel like I would be more okay with generative AI if it didn’t still have a lot of very real flaws.

    I feel like I would be more okay with eating highly processed meat if it didn’t still have a lot of very real flaws.