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They don't need more bombs after the ICJ ruling anyway, so there's a billion dollars right there, from the latest gift we sent.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/g...

You'll see something in your logs, because one of the glories of port knocking is that you don't see the rash of doorknob rattling you get without it. So literally anything sshd logs is signfiicant.

That's been a real problem in Canada.

The fear: "Recent advancements in so-called large language models -- the type of A.I. system used by ChatGPT and other chatbots -- have raised fears that A.I. could soon be used at scale to spread misinformation and propaganda, or that it could eliminate millions of white-collar jobs."

Why is there misinformation? It's used to try to sway people to support one oligarch or another. They turn us against each other so we're distracted from the real problem, which is the endless greed and the upwards funnel of money that is end-game capitalism.

Why are white-color jobs being lost? Again, endless greed. Cheaper to have a computer do it than a human. We need to think hard about why we're here, in an existential way. Can you say, when you look at your life, that your ultimate purpose is making rich people richer? If that's not it, then the other option requires a human-centric viewpoint that capitalism cannot accomodate.

Debian only ships systemd if you use the default installer. You can switch to something else immediately after install. Or just install Debian without systemd in the first place, which seems far cleaner to me:

        https://github.com/ChibaPet/in...

Devuan is a good option, and they let you choose your init on install, but you pay for the right default choice of packages by having a smaller, slower mirror network that falls behind when Amprolla dies. And you still end up with libsystemd0 and system-logind, so you really don't get any further away from systemd than you can already with Debian.

As a treat for folks who use sysvinit (or runit or...) and LUKS in their Debian, read crypttab(5) and read the "keyscript=" section - there are a bunch of nifty things you can do with a proper init system that are simply not possible if you use systemd with its partial reimplementations of everything.