I feel like the Elon Musk trade is fairly straightforward.

People buy the stock because they trust Elon Musk, and his companies are good enough to continually increase profits or revenue (that is, he's good at avoiding things that scare away investors). Because of that, the stock will continue to go up until Elon dies or retires.

When Elon dies, that's the sign to sell.

If you are writing in C, it's basically essential to use your own C string library. It's easy to do, just encapsulate those things into something more sane.

This kind of thing should be encapsulated in a macro or function so you don't make mistakes.

Using the raw stdlib string library will cause security problems. These can be avoided 100% by using custom string functions.

Looked at LaunchD and decided, 'This would be better if it were done in a Microsoft way."

The only people who say that haven't actually looked at the source code, or are liars. I don't know which one you are.

At least you didn't say "Systemd is small", which it isn't.

Fork it into the trash.

It's possible the systemd team sees the field as a way to make their software more "sticky." If the data gets stored by systemd, then systemd because a little harder to remove.

That is a horrible development strategy for good software, but it does make the software more likely to remain. The Darwinistic incentive is there for enshittification.

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.

Aren't drone ranges largely limited by weight instead of battery storage space?

Is a SuperPAC grassroots? No.

The author of Revelation was not a fan of the Roman economic project. It was built on cruelty, just like our corporate system is today.

Of course, if you got your understanding of the bible from a crappy evangelical church, you are not going to understand it. If you got your understanding of the bibble from a catholic church, they intentionally obfuscated it.

In plain English? Here you go:

The way the machine works, if one side can get funding for a PAC to do something (like Leading the Future, pro-AI pac), then it's relatively easy to get funding for a PAC supporting the opposite. Fund both sides, and eventually you can leverage that to influence.

You don't want to know. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Astroturfing is grassroot.

Don't ask questions. Unless they're questions about lunch.

One thing is for sure, we ARE going to deficit spend until it hurts. There is nothing else to stop us (ie, voters vote against anyone who raises taxes or cut spending).