What sort of capitalism? Is there a free market at all here?

Oh wow. What a great excuse! The corruption under the current president is at a scale you've never before seen. For example, the president's son-in-law is peddling influence and making money from his official connections on a scale that make Hunter Biden look positively angelic.

Besides that, are you really excusing your champion's corruption because of smaller-scale, previous corruption? Surely you would condemn all corruption and desire to shine a light on it? Or is corruption not an issue when it's your man and your policies being enacted?

Hmm. Have you been to Europe? While New Orleans certainly has old buildings, it's nothing like European old buildings and homes many of which were build hundreds of years ago in a cooler climate. These buildings were never designed to accommodate forced air heating, let alone A/C air handlers. It's going to require some very interesting engineering to bring mass cooling to Europe to existing structures. I'm sure it can be done, of course. Where there's a bill there's a way.

Which of course brings us to a core issue of climate change. The world's poorest people, who contributed the least to CO2 emissions, will bear the most cost to adapt.

Interesting advice. Here in Canada we design houses for the winter. That means good insulation, primarily. Coincidentally, this leads to cooler homes in the summer and makes for more efficient cooling too.

It definitely is. Every dollar a person makes on such a site comes from a dollar lost by another guy. And the numbers are staggering. Like a billion dollars. And they way they are set up, those who are already rich can set things up so that they make even more money from much poorer people. The more money you have to play with, the easier it is to win on the predictions gambling sites (not to mention cheat with insider knowledge). Fantastic video on this from a young lady named Dee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Highly recommend for anyone who wants to know how this scam works. 70% of the takings go to 0.1% of the players (who also happen to be the ones with the most money to start with).

At least on the stock market, there is such thing as growth from companies making money, paying dividends, etc.

I'm not at all surprised to see Zuckerberg getting in on this. It's not enough to addict the world to social media and sell their privacy. He wants every last dollar they have. It's really quite evil.

Yes you absolutely can do it for some modules. For example, systemd-timesyncd can be removed and ntpd or chrony installed instead if you need more functionality than just simple client time syncing, such as when you need your own time source as well as syncing.

Likewise systemd-resolved is often left out and a caching local DNS server can be used instead, or left out entirely.

And I very well could remove systemd-networkd and systemd-container since I don't use containers, flatpak, or kvm.

Can I remove others? Possibly, but there's not a lot of reason to do so. These modules serve valid purposes and address actual technical shortcomings we had before, such as process cleanup which was often a problem before systemd-pam.

Shrug. It's not a boogeyman. No one's out to get you. It's not a government plot. There are many valid reasons why systemd has become a core Linux component. There are plenty of distros (and operating systems) that eschew systemd if you don't want or need features like containers and KDE or Gnome, etc.

that can run your old classic desktop environments like you always used to.

Yes I have done a timer file before, but it's been a long time.

Fortunately Cron still works fine, and will continue to do so. But I'd be hard pressed to remember all the cron parameters without a comment at the top of the crontab to remind me.

Shrug. It's sixes.

Because Youtube is about half AI slop these days. At least given the kinds of video topics I might be interested in. It's kind of discouraging. Some of them actually are now marked as AI generated. I generally stop watching channels that I find or suspect are AI, even if the material appears to be accurate. I just can't support creators who don't actually create.

Further to that systemd is highly modular. Most of it does not run in PID 1. On my fedora system there are half a dozen individual systemd module packages that can be used or not as the system needs and is designed. systemd is not at all monolithic.

All this systemd hate is pretty infantile and entitled, frankly. You're free to build Linux to not use systemd if you want. There are distros that eschew systemd and you can use them and contribute to them. And if a project embraces systemd you are free to fork that and roll back the changes if it's that important to you.

Meanwhile systemd's plain config files are way nicer to work with than any sysv init script I've had the mispleasure of dealing with. I am ambivalent regarding the journal. I still use rsyslog a lot and for the most part it acts as it did before. When debugging individual services the journal definitely is a big help especially because it logs stderr and stdout, although I don't like having to type journalctl all the time. It doesn't exactly roll off the fingertips.

Go right ahead. This is Linux after all. You are free to build it however you want.

The fact that the white house keeps an actual enemies list (apparently it's posted on their website), is deeply disturbing. However it's far more disturbing that a significant number of Americans are totally fine with that kind of thing. Granted Trump is a bit more subtle than Putin in how he attacks his enemies. Putin just pushes them off balconies. Trump is content (so far anyway) to ruin them financially while enriching himself and his family and friends. In the end the result is the same. Which is to say completely harmful to the stability and prosperity of the nation.

I'll grant you that many things the Trump administration is doing are pretty much straight up communism, including this one. The king picking the winners and losers is definitely not something that the Republicans have ever been comfortable with in the past. Interesting how things change.

As for the "leftists" you seem to be confused as to who they are and what they want. I know you can't understand or believe it, but there is no such thing as a coherent, organized group on the left. There may be lots of groups, but they all want and believe different things, and liberal-minded people are more accepting of people with different wants and beliefs than them. It's one reason why the Democratic party has such a hard time in recent years trying to galvanize support on the so-called left because there is no coherent left-wing philosophy or base.

Until recent years the same could be said of the right wing. But more and more they are coming together on a few issues such as restricting voting (remember, a vote for a Democrat is voter fraud), and more and more, straight up white, nationalist Christian power, and uncompromising praise and worship of one man. We will never see this kind of thing on the so-called left (which really has come to mean anyone other than MAGA).

This is incorrect. Anthropic's deal with the DoD absolutely did involve the use of their models with combat. But the deal signed said that humans would always have the final say (and thus responsibility) for lethal combat action. That was what was agreed by both parties. But the DoD decided to change the terms of the deal and remove the bit about human responsibility. That was something Anthropic rightly disagreed with and besides it wasn't the agreement the DoD signed.

Funny how this bit gets quickly forgotten.

Nope. None of them will support Manifest v2 when it is removed from Chromium which is really what this slashdot post is all about. I kind of thought most of them dropped v2 already since Chromium made it really hard to enable.

Firefox is all that is left, for all its warts and user-hostile developers.

Troll? really? I guess none of the knee-jerk mods bothered to even read this post. He's not wrong.