The systemd version takes a similar approach - only handling the 99.9% use case of running a local command as a different user based on some basic rules and only really providing a userspace implementation without suid.
IIRC that use case is about 15% of OG sudo's code but most distros carry around all the features. I dunno, maybe it can be compiled without those but I don't see that in distros I've used.
Corporatism is a distinct concept from Capitalism. That's the one you're describing. There's been a psyop by Socialists to describe corporatism as capitalism so they get more of a merger of business and State (fascism).
Corporations are creations of a government in which governments get a cut and politicians get bribes in exchange for protection from justice for the corporate actors' crimes.
If you read Adam Smith he described this as Mercantilism in his time and recommended free market capitalism as its antidote with an emphasis on the accumulation of capital and investment into more competitive production.
Von Mises fleshed this out more a couple centuries later (followed by Hayek and Rothbard). The definitive work is
Notably corporations in the early USA were limited to public works projects and had time-limited grants (e.g. for building a bridge or later the railroads).
JD Rockefeller bribed Congress during Reconstruction to make corporations permanent, so he wouldn't lose his charter for Standard Oil. He later wrote the Sherman Anti-trust Act to hurt his competition.
Today we have immortal psychopathic corporations with a legal mandate to be depraved and with legal personhood. The Dulles brothers created the CIA to fight wars and conduct assassinations on behalf of the corporations. cf. United Fruit or the Pepsi War.
After the Revolution remember to forbid corporations. The Gini Coefficient is too damn high.
Hot dog on a bun with glyphosate, chips with BHT, ketchup with HFCS, pickles with Polysorbate 80, and a large Coke.
Hot dog caused Diabetes! Q.E.D.
This is why every civilization for thousands of years have made sausages. To make everybody fat and insulin dependent!
TRUST THE EXPERTS.
After an Iranian missile hit, at least, the parking lot of Microsoft Israel, several reports came out saying that they were helping the IDF with genocide operations in Gaza.
I don't know if it's true but those are the real reports.
The timing and 'quiet' character suggests Pakistan might have told them to get the hell out.
"Developing story" as they say.
How common of a name is Soham Parekh in India?
At one time I was in a tech group with three Mike Johnsons. Assuredly different people, though slightly confusing.
But I don't really feel sorry for these startups going for global minimum wage and getting burned.
Hire an American named Steve from Akron and you'll be less likely to be scammed.
Probably depends on its characteristics.
He had quite an amusing series of papers popping the bubbles of all the 'debunkers'.
He never proved what it was but he sure proved many things that it wasn't, as claimed by ThE eXpErTs.
Midwit scientists abhor an unknown and run to bad ideas like a safety blanket.
FWIW his grad student at the time had the better ideas, involving relative motion of solar systems within the Galactic Plane. His models were the best fit for the available data.
CD players were standard until 2019, when luxury brands started to phase them out.
The last manufacturer to have them standard was Subaru, through 2023.
You must be a lessee?
My truck never had a CD player. I replaced the head unit with a cassette player with a $30 Walmart bluetooth unit a few years ago, and it's legit the fastest bluetooth connection I own. About a second after it gets power it's linked to the phone.
It's good to own multiple paid-for vehicles.
ThriftBooks has great deals on DVD's and CD's.
The way they used the "Crowdstrike Outage" to hide crimes was to reboot into a WinPE environment and 'do recovery' while wiping evidence.
I haven't used a Mac in a while but it used to be booting from external media was easy.
I can imagine ways to require keys from secure boot and hardware to decrypt the main drive but I haven't seen those deployed myself.
So, reboot from external, copy data, reboot normally.
Somebody can tell me if Apple already provides a way to avoid this.
We don't have Patriots or THAAD near most US cities.
Our role, per DC, is to pay for the defense of other countries, not our own.
If Trump were worried about China he wouldn't have renewed the visas of 300,000 Chinese students in the past week or so.
China hardly has the money, population, or inclination to go to war. They do have the "excess male problem" but their population crash due to OCPF is so large they need them all to keep the economy running.
But the hypersonics are a good deterrent to war-mad nations where the legislators are all bought off by their military industry.
Depends on your jurisdiction.
The New Hampshire Constitution guarantees that the only purpose of prison is reform.
I know, in some self-proclaimed "Christian" states they love to talk about gay rape as a purpose of prison.
Those are psychopaths, Donnie.
"Oh, you're in Dallas, what part? That's very interesting. I'll be there next month - what's a good restaurant there that you like? I always like to ask locals where to eat when I'm visiting get the real scoop."
The North Koreans get tripped up and stammer something irrelevant. Buh-bye, stop wasting our time.
The Feds took down one instance of the racket. It's like busting Epstein and Diddy but not the other twelve.
> Why are we struggling to do now what we once achieved decades ago with far more complexity and far less technology?
"Everybody is stupid and lazy now" isn't the most parsimonious explanation.
Especially from the Gulf of Tonkin/MK Ultra era.
To add to what you said there wasn't a bright line between the Apollo Program and the ICBM program.
Though SpaceX is being funded to build a war-fighting duplicate of Starlink and a weapons-deployment copy of Starship for the Air Force.
Whether or not Armstrong walked on a moon or a set at Elgin Air Force Base wasn't important to the ICBM program, just to TV and politicians. And he refused any TV interviews for decades.
Most of the colleges used to have pubs on campus before the drinking age was raised to 21.
Beer and wine only. Students and faculty frequently had fraternity and lively debates.
Now states take federal highway dollars in exchange for enforcing the 21 age so most drinking occurs in fraternity basements and dorm rooms and it"s often the hardest cheapest booze available leading to alcohol poisoning and death.
So, yeah, states knowingly trade student lives for asphalt subsidies. It's horrendous and that's even if you ignore the absurdity of having an adult with lesser legal rights.
They won't raise everything to 25 because they want what would otherwise be called child soldiers. So they make mental abstractions and kids die. It's crazy.
The research is actually pretty good but that's now "biohacking" and 95% of physicians will refuse to engage in it because it's bad for the business model and they're afraid of lawsuits if they use their own judgment. "Standard of Care" is the new medical tyranny.
Maximum effort should be placed on upsetting that business model so that the research can flourish and get out to clinic.
Part of this is that retirees who die quickly help extend the inevitable collapse of the Social Security system.
I was surprised but high Medicare expenses for a few years is cheaper than long-lived healthy seniors.
It's morally abhorrent but the government people don't seem to have problems with this kind of strategy.
To be fair, you can't work from 22-62 and then live on the dole on the golf course from 62-120 and expect that system to still exist.
Something's gotta give.
ASCII a stupid question, you get an EBCDIC answer.
