So, re-inventing inetd/xinetd. And process-based services are old hat and slow. Event-driven is increasingly important. Which requires resident event handlers.

There are numerous other applications of ssh and other services beyond your and Poettering's 'cloudy' view of the Internet. Please stop screwing with them and dismissing them with a hand wave. Like systemds screwing around with event handling processes.

I can vote with my donations.

At some point, it stops being a mob and starts being a vote. And while it makes sense to not allow people to drag random folks onto the platform just to vote your way, it doesn't make sense to limit voting on an important issue to the 0.1% of users who pay close enough attention to notice. So I can see both sides on this one.

Maybe the right thing to do is to require a certain level of activity to earn the right to vote, then dump the canvassing rules. That way, any canvassing would only serve to increase turnout, rather than truly padding the ballot box.

There is no such word as gullible.

Two words: Government contracts.

... Boeing will whisper a deal in the PMs ear. Offering to sell them some garbage in return for shutting down the Canadian program, cutting up the existing reactors and throwing away the blueprints.

Produce ship-sized SMRs. Problem solved.

Maybe they were counting on the pushback. The Feds step up and "suggest" that they turn the encryption off. Or things will go badly for them. They do, but it leaks out. Now the public is pissed. And it's getting near election time.

Doesn't even need time code. FCP lines up the files by matching the audio, mostly, IIRC. Also AFAIK, digital cinematography is pretty much the norm at this point, so film likely doesn't factor in most of the time.

Are you sure there's only one? (Yeah, because you defined the problem thusly.) It's a good logical thinking puzzle, but nothing to do with the real world problem at hand.

But you haven't substantiated "the majority" other than staring into a bin and guessing about actual numbers. There's one red ball based upon your example because you put one there. You didn't define the ecosystem of real world use cases. And Poettering is even worse. Given his misunderstanding of the memory and library management of Linux utilities, I'm not believing his estimates. Even worse, his example of sshd is bizarre. Is he really suggesting that we not leave sshd running on systems that we infrequently contact? What? Am I supposed to drive across town and start it on a remote system when it's needed?

Final Cut Pro can already basically do that, and has been able to do that for several years. Just create a multicam workflow and tell it to synchronize by audio. Not sure how well it works if you're dealing with hundreds of short takes though; I've only used it to line up hour-long continuous shots.

Then again, as cheap as storage is, I'm not sure why anybody actually stops the cameras and audio recorders anyway. If you want to have a private conversation, you can always step off the set and do it in a hallway or whatever.

The iPhone 6s (released in 2015) got a security update last month. So that's almost 11 years and counting.

I'm a busy man. I'm also a lazy man. Could someone tell me if this is cheaper or more expensive than a desktop gaming PC with the same stats?

How can you tell how many red balls there are in the bin if you don't properly sample its contents?

Worse yet, if you are one of the blue balls, you can only see the adjacent 12 balls. If they are all blue, you are missing a significant, albeit a minority, of the bins contents. If we dropped 8% of a system's capabilities each revision cycle, pretty soon there wouldn't be much left.

Define "enough". Even 1 percent of the federal budget would be 74 *billion* dollars. The budget shortfall for road maintenance in the U.S. is about 86 billion, so even if it is only 1%, that money would be enough to almost completely fix a major problem that affects us all.