There are times i wonder if WW2 was facists vs facists about who was to run the circus.

Only because they are exporting like gangbusters.

Domestically the economy is at a virtual standstill.

In a sense Germany is damn close to Japan economically. If exports fail for either nation, its going to get messy.

> On the other side, half the countries in the world have fewer employment protections than America.

How many of those nations are within the proverbial West, though?

Meh, eternal growth is a economist hail mary anyways.

It is a statistical fluke born of the industrial revolution. It simply can't go on forever, as it runs into hard thermodynamic limits.

The way i see it, when you employ someone you hold their life in your hands. With that has to come some responsibilities.

Be wary of corporations in general, because they will put profits ahead of anything.

After reading a interview with Randall Munroe (XKCD) i find myself wondering if what is needed is a computer engineering course alongside existing computer science courses.

http://www.maa.org/publication...

"And there's another distinction: There's coding, and then there is computer science. The best explanation I've ever heard of that is that coding is writing programs, and computer science is the study of computers only in the sense that astronomy is the study of telescopes. I think that's a really concise summation, because computer science isn't the study of computers, it's the study of what you can do with a computer and what stuff you can explore with a computer."

Best i recall was someone claimed their BIOS had been infected with something that would use speakers and mic to get around being airgapped from any net connection.

Not sure if it was ever verified by any security experts or not.

Yeah, Consolekit was dead. This in large part to the same people that are so heavily pushing systemd...

To me at least keeping things distributed separately makes it harder for a developer to accidentally cross the internal/external divide.

Well that explains quite a bit...

Btw. While Gnome exist as a "independent" foundation, quite a number of the core devs seems to work for Red Hat. This to the point that some of them use Gnome blogs to talk about Red Hat news from the insider perspective.

Supposedly they tried to create such a independent tracker in the form of Consolekit.

You will find a fork of it at https://github.com/ConsoleKit2....

It got forked because the project was shut down and left to rot by no other than Poettering, who was co-maintainer at the time.

If systemd was just a init replacement, i would agree.

But at this point in time the one systemd tarball holds a init replacement, cron replacement, udev, firewall manager (firewalld), logger (journald), networkmanager (networkd), dhcp client, dns client, session/seat tracker (logind) that was also recently put in charge of handling power button and laptop lid events (replacing/merging shutdownd).

And i swear they were planning to put in a userspace TTY manager as well in the near future.

In essence it has pretty much become a second kernel in userspace.

Agile is old school. Its all devops now, gramps.

Or know it but accept it either because of some star eyed idealism (we can make the desktop so much better!!!) or simple greed (many of them work directly for RH after all).