Seriously. The internet is the only medium I can think of where ads are 1) not necessarily delivered from the site publisher and/or 2) able to present a security threat via various vectors.

If you go to a website you are asking to be shown content hosted on that website, you aren't giving every other random site or 3rd, 4th, or 5th party ad farm that site decided to add to their code access to your machine. I remember cleaning up thousands of machines that were compromised by ads or other 3rd party crap sites had linked in them. Not a day went by where I didn't wish for a MASSIVE class action suit against a big site publisher for the damage their ads and other crap had done. If that had ever happened we wouldn't even be having these discussions and site would serve all their ads from themselves.

Speak for yourself. Dead tree media survives abuse that digital does not. And until companies start treating digital media rights exactly the same as dead tree media they can pound sand. I can resell, lend, or give away dead tree media, I don't have to worry about the publisher breaking into my house to take the book back from my bookshelf. Dead tree media works just fine without power, and can survive falls and being bent and crushed. Dead tree media doesn't require anything additional to be useful, no need for the expense of anything computerized, and definitely no need for anything proprietary that needs constant security updates or patches. All I want to do is read, I don't want to have to worry about maintaining yet another stupid digital tool and might not even last a few years. There's a book on the other side of the room from me that was published over 100 years ago, yet I keep hearing about how different digital things keep vanishing for various reasons. Digital is great if its a BETTER replacement than analog, most digital media just simply isn't.

Label it whatever you want but a lot of us HIGHLY resent being forced to commute 2-3 hours round trip to sit in an open office where you barely get a shelf that masquerades as a desk subjected to all the noise and distraction of being packed in so closely to a bunch of chatterboxes on speakerphone meetings, not to mention people constantly walking up to you interrupting what you are trying to do because they think their emergency is somehow your problem, only to be doing a job that is effectively remote anyway since there's exactly nothing that you are doing in your workday that requires you to be in that stupid office. After my job got classed as 100% remote I saved thousands in fuel, vehicle maintenance, and meals, recovered 10+ hours I had been wasting on commuting each week, and have the ability to deal with chores around the house like dishes and laundry while still being more productive. Plus I can take a break to walk my dog or just go outside into the fresh air of the woods behind my house rather than deal with the pollution and human garbage of the inner-city office.

You do you but FFS if someone was able to do their job from anywhere and you FORCE them to commute to an office you are a seriously toxic employer.

When did people, especially people like security researchers, just absolutely forget that things like SFTP even exist? Why in the hell would you want to stick something like that up in the cloud in Sharepoint or whatever where it is effectively out of your hands for someone else to retrieve? If you want to give a file to someone securely and reliably set up your own SFTP server or use theirs, then you won't have any gripes about this nonsense.

I always assumed that the real reason why UEFI was introduced, was to preserve Microsoft's monopoly by attempting to destroy the ability to dual boot operating systems on PC hardware, while also giving it just enough superficial flashing lights, that excuses would be made for it as "innovation," by the same group of treasonous idiots who think that systemd deserves to exist.

After Firefox got rid of the old addon format, I went to Pale Moon for what felt like a year, but was probably considerably less; given the nature of the cave I live in, time moves very strangely for me these days.

I kept Firefox around though, mainly because PM became incapable of posting comments to YouTube, and when I posted said comments, I started noticing how much faster and less laggy video loading and playing was with FF.

So now with the new computer, I've mainly only used Firefox, and am enjoying the greater responsiveness. I agree with anyone who claims that Mozilla are arrogant , but I also don't care much, because I'm aware that wanting me to live in my pod, eat my bugs and shut up is what [b][i]every[/i][/b] corporation wants me to do these days; Mozilla are not unique in that regard.

I do not like the twenty first century.

This misses the point.

We don't want systemd to be able to emulate, in whatever degree, the previous init system. We do NOT WANT SYSTEMD. Not in any context, not in any scenario, and regardless of how you promote it.

We do not want systemd, and in whatever legal and ethical ways are available to us, we are going to fight to ensure a continued scenario in which we are not required to have or use systemd. You are not going to force it on us, and no argument you make, and nothing else you do, is going to change that.

I know that many of you either do not, or do not WANT to understand the fact that choice, in and of itself, is the central issue here; and choice is something which systemd's promoters are determined to prevent Linux users from having.

As a result of that, systemd has been, and will continue to be rejected by people who value having both fundamental understanding and control of the operating system that they use.

I consider anyone who supports or endorses systemd to be both a personal enemy, and a traitor to the continued integrity of the Linux operating system.

I would always run with an amount of swap equal to my RAM; but unless I'm using an SSD as you say, just because I will always allocate swap, that doesn't mean I think it's a wonderful thing, or that I would actively use it willingly if I had a better option.

Swap is essentially redundancy, or an emergency feature. It's something that's there if you really need it; but a non-SSD hard drive is always going to be slower than RAM, and not all of us have SSDs. Sometimes it's because the architecture of our overall system is from before SSDs existed, so using one would mean buying an entirely new machine. If you think I should just bite the bullet and buy a new computer so I can run an SSD, I'd be willing to give you my Paypal address.

Smart cities are designed to make life easier for their residents: better traffic management by clearing routes, making sure the public transport is running on time and having cameras keeping a watchful eye from above.

No, they aren't. This is exclusively an excuse for technologically enabled imprisonment and enslavement. They just mention the supposed "advantages" in order to make stupid people more willing to accept it.

I am looking forward to people eventually realising that the only real end results of electronic technology, are subjugation and death.

Yes, sometimes decentralized, small encapsulated components are a win, but sometimes monolithic designs where the pieces can talk to each other easily are a win

I actually do see what you're saying, here. In The Art of UNIX Programming, Eric Raymond mentions that occasionally there are tasks where it simply isn't possible to make them small.

I don't have a problem with systemd being monolithic, as much as with the parts of said monolith being so tightly welded together. The other problem is lack of transparency and discoverability. Systemd is hard to understand, and for a big, monolithic project, transparency becomes more important, not less.

Lennart Poettering is an arrogant bully, with a proven track record of writing bad software and attempting to shove it down everyone else's throats. Systemd isn't his first nightmare; some of us remember PulseAudio as well. If you don't believe me about his software being excessively complex, go and look at Pulse's configuration files, and see if you can understand them.

http://without-systemd.org/ [without-systemd.org] Take a stand against systemd!

I can hardly begin to describe, the extent to which this warms my heart, or the sense of hope it gives me. I had feared that Linux's users as a whole had simply rolled over and accepted Lennart's crap. This is a revolution that needs to continue.

I always had a strange, nagging gut feeling about GitHub. The sort of feeling Han Solo was talking about, right before the debri field of the planet Alderan came into view, during the first Star Wars film. So I never started using it. I got an account very early, before I fully realised what I was looking at; but once said realisation set in, said account was never used.

I think it's because I remembered what had happened to the Great Library of Alexandria; and as a result, I really didn't think that building an online software equivalent of that was a good idea. Some of you probably understand why in engineering terms, a single point of failure is not considered desirable.

Now, the proverbial Great Library is going to be in the hands of the Linux operating system's oldest and most tenacious opponent; a corporation with a consistently depraved and parasitic modus operandi.

What could possibly go wrong?

I used to get really angry about things like this. I've seen one initiative after another after another, to get transparent, open, non-corporate software and standards obsoleted, and replaced with incomprehensible corporate crap, which ultimately has no other purpose or effect, than to eliminate the ability of the end user to either understand or control, the hardware or software they use.

I am becoming resigned to it, however; because I've realised that the relentlessly tenacious, compulsive stupidity and amorality of the Millennials can not be defeated. They rammed systemd through, and everyone just rolled over and capitulated, and anyone who didn't was just called a troll until they shut up.

So go ahead. Destroy everything in the name of corporate profit and looking superficially cool. In the end, you'll only harm yourselves.

Am I the only one noticing that every post attached to this article, which is either critical of systemd, or points out that Linux is controlled by Red Hat, has been moderated Redundant?

Note to systemd advocates:- If you want us to believe you that systemd is [b][i]not[/i][/b] insidious, then having shills attempt to crush literally any dissenting opinion about it, is unlikely to produce the outcome you're looking for.

The single biggest mistake that systemd's advocates made, was the degree to which they tried to censor any criticism of it whatsoever. Doing that is not going to shut people up; and it is also not going to convince those of us already hostile to it, that it is in any way beneficial to us. It actually just makes you (and systemd itself) look downright evil.

Now please, go ahead and mod this post Redundant as well, just to reassure me that systemd is in fact both harmless and truly wonderful, and I'm just being a paranoid schizophrenic.