Just start sending strings of random numbers. Putin's paranoia will go through the roof.

I miss Russian numbers stations on the shortwave.

What do you mean "used to"?

They still have the current New York Times. But some homeless bum keeps snatching the comics section before I can get to it.

Explicitly? I don't know. But Linus is in charge of the kernel. And in the world of GNU/Linux, that's "one thing". I do know he generally stayed out of most of the fights concerning other parts of the distros.

Although it remains to be seen what he might have to say about systemd wrapping itself around kernel booting and module loading.

Do you mean version 260?

And you do know that the SysV init scripts are actually run by bash. Are you certain that nobody has figured out a way to get systemd to run any old executable ELF binary. Like bash?

That really doesn't do me much good. I don't want my, or my VPN's, location sniffed out to direct me to the higher priced retail outlet. And there are other reasons.

My perfect VPN would be one where I would connect with a small server, or even a desktop in a remote location. So I would appear, for all intents and purposes, to be resident at that location. And eligible for all the benefits and services due the citizens there. Having my network traffic exit one IP address with the great unwashed masses would do me no good. How many people live in that studio apartment anyway? Busted.

... the ISS isn't about ROI. It's job is primarily R&D. That produces little, if any financial reward. If a new zero-g manufacturing process is perfected, it will get its own purpose-built station/platform. The ISS isn't set up like a business park. Where one can lease a module and start knocking out product. And that process will most likely be robotic. The payback isn't likely going to cover a human manufacturing staff if the job is to run a gravity-free punch press or something. There will be no space and life support budgeted for meat-sack visitors.

And that R&D belongs to the public. Because it was funded by the public. With the understanding that there probably would never be a financial payback on pure science.

SpaceX probably hired all the good ones (Blue Origin as well). That's SOP for most regulated industries and suppliers. Kill the customer's funding in Congress and hire all the good people away. Leave the knuckle-draggers behind to do "oversight" of stuff they barely comprehend, so they don't mess with you too much.

Found it

You are starting to understand why the systemd haters think like they do. If Poettering had proposed a drop-in replacement for SysV init and then stopped, I would have thought, "Why not?" But we got a hairball of event-logging, network management, file mounting, user authentication crap all bundled in.

But what really sank it was when I discovered that it was relatively simple to launch SysV shell scripts from the unit files to start services, thus saving all the work involved in re-inventing the wheel. And the systemd fans came absolutely unglued when I posted that. Sorry. Linux, and all the other UNIXes involve collections of simple "do one thing well" applications that can be tied together, at times with pipes, files and other tools. And you can't tell developers what tools or languages to use. If you want an OS that is becomming one giant EXE to dynamically load and run everything as a DLL, go use Windows*.

*I had to repair someone's Windows 10 system (barf emoji) after a Microsoft update attempted to cripple it (just upgrade to Windows 11, they say). I was amazed at how much of that involved command line stuff. So much for your Utopia.

Until you get some distance from a city. 5G is only good for a mile or so*. 6G will probably be worse.

*I'm getting one bar right now (its raining) and I can see the nearest cell tower from my driveway.

So, he had all his pockets full.

Keeping "old guys" happy should be high on your priority list.

Now get off my lawn!

Or the old, "I must disagree with it because it was spoken by someone I hate", argument. Life must sure be easy when you have others curate the speech you are allowed to listen to.

... to rule them all,
one app to find them,
One app to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.

So there will be no more offspring.