Posts by Doctor Syntax 40471 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
I'm running Linux without systemd on a laptop. I shut it down when I'm not using it si reboot several times a day. It helps that the system drive is SSD but even without that time to reboot is not an issue, neither is maintenance of the init system.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltzer_and_Schroeder's_design_principles :
Fail-safe defaults: Base access decisions on permission rather than exclusion.
That's the second of them. Before that we come to:
Economy of mechanism: Keep the design as simple and small as possible.
There's also:
Least common mechanism: Minimize the amount of mechanism common to more than one user and depended on by all users.
So much fail.
Looking at the follow-up article on /. it appears that he learned too well at the feet of the master when it comes to user support. Other systemdefilers, including the master himself, seem to have come out with comments to the effect that this wasn't a Good Idea.
The kids removed the soc.genealogy hierarchy which finally silenced a sorm of spam which had been running for months. Unfortunately either multiple attempts to explain how to post to Usenet had failed to get through to the Groupies or,more likely, the spammers had driven everyone else away.
"it made sense to come up with a system that could replace maintaining all those init files."
All those init files just stay there doing their job. Very seldom do you have to "maintain" them and if you do they're so transparent as to function that you can develop and test from the terminal, stepping through them if necessary.
"Regrettably, it is getting much more difficult to find a non-systemd Linux distribution."
Devuan.
"These tools are written and maintained by small teams of mere humans, and humans mess up occasionally."
More to the point, they're used by humans with the same limitations. And it's a bit much to hide behind "It does what it says on the tin." when what it says on the tin is "tmpfiles".
I think I'll continue to stay systemd-free.
There are also such things as legal requirements to hold data for 6 or 7 years or whatever. The Horizon & Covid enquiries in the UK are showing the significance of stored records on one hand (especially for those witnesses who were able to produce a paper trail) and the significance of having deleted Whatsapp messages on the other.
It's very simple. If you are running a database system you have one server and many clients. In the same way you run a UI system you have one server, multiple clients. Your mistake is to assume that what's immediately in front of you must be a client. It isn't. It provides a service. It's a server irrespective of whether the clients are local or remote.
"it could understand the postings"
No, it couldn't. The best it could do would be to analyse context and determine whether the terms were being used positively or, as you use them, negatively. Even then it would fail on Poe's law.
Pat may also be a company and cannot, therefore ride in the car. Also would the LLM be able to distinguish the difference between the casual statement that the fleet manager purchases a car and the stricter statement that the fleet manager raises a purchasing order for the car? Would two different LLMs take single different views on the matter and not be able to reconcile them as not being in conflict?
Non-Linux users seem to have a lot in common with permies. Lacking the self-confidence giving it (Linux or freelancing as the case may be) a try, when they come here they carp about it being too complicated, immoral or whatever excuse they can come up with for lacking initiative.
In fact it's easy enough to download a live image and test ot from USB although personally I'd assume that where there own H/W is concerned Microsoft will throw as many roadblocks as possible in the way and not waste my money trying.
You've probably left it a bit late by now but like any other corporation Facebook will have a postal address. You can always use that. If you have a valid case a summons delivered there will bring them to court or the judge will want to know the reason why. How do you think Forrest got them to court?
Unless Australian law has greatly deviated from UK it would be a civil rather than a criminal offence and not within the DPP's scope. In fact, it seems rather odd that he would have expected the DPP to have acted on a charge of libel.
However I'd have thought promoting a scam would fall in scope although the fact that his image was being used might not have fiven him the same standing as a victim of a scam when it comes to making a complaint.
If it's custom software paid for by the user organisation the contract should ensure thay have current code. If not contract should insist on code copy kept in escrow, preferably checked from time to time to ensure its being kept up to date and not encrypted. Users need to look after their interests.
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