We've already burnt all the easily accessible coal, oil and gas and mined all the easily accessible metal ores, so any society that arose from the ashes would almost certainly get stuck at pre-industrial revolution level because they be in a catch 22 situation - they'd need all the above to re-create the machines to mine/extract them.

"Erm, yes it is and yes it does. At least if you use systemd."

Way to go on completely missing the point.

"And you say "perfectly possible" and yet sysvinit and other systems don't do it."

FFS. Perfectly possible to do it outside the init daemon. sysvinit wasn't designed to and never will do any of that - it starts the system and other than respawning dead system processes it gets TF out of the way which is how it should be. If you don't understand why then stay away from unix. Like I said, it sounds like Windows is more your thing.

An init system is not supposed to do security. This is something Poettering and you don't seem to get. Its perfectly possible to secure a system without systemd and just because you don't know how to do it doesn't mean it can't be done and wasn't done before the systemd dogs dinner was written. NOTHING you have mentioned should be done by init. I suggest you go look up the unix philosophy then get back to me. If you don't like it maybe you'd be better off with Windows.

Stayed at a rental in Omaha... Beautiful neighborhood and a very nice house. From a glance. Great location. But the lawn wasn't great. Leaves needed raked, basically they did the bare minimum mowing. The trash was heaped up and overflowing. Did anyone show up and put the trash cans on the curb? The deck was getting a bit old, the grill seemed like a toss aside charcoal grill that wasn't super safe. (You couldn't kill the airflow when you were done to quickly drop the temps. I grill/smoke on charcoal a lot and would've thrown it away.) The inside was not great. Furniture was an odd ball mix of things from who knows where. Basement was very dank/musty/stinky. Other clues like that too. Basically this house should've just been sold off to a family that could love it and take care of it and make it a home. Very sad. Basically had all these clues that the owner/manager was doing the very minimum they could get away with. But hey, let's worry about what the renter should/shouldn't do...

We stayed somewhere eight years ago where the host complained and that they were disappointed we didn't put the recycling in some bins somewhere or put the rubbish out (we didn't know where nor whether the locality had rules about these), that we didn't do the dishes (we left them air drying), that we left the place dirty (we tidied up, swept the kitchen floor, but we had a toddler too). There was an enormous cleaning fee for that place too. Never mind I had to clean the ashes from the choked fireplace before I could use it, despite it being one of the big selling points of the cottage. We did far more than we needed to in cleaning. Years later, that host is no longer on AirBnB and other hosts tell us we're great guests and they don't understand that one bad review. It's annoying, we can't even see that review or know what was actually written about us.

Doing security tasks that were already doable and done does not mean it has improved security. Next time buy a cluetrain ticket first before posting.

Systemd has fuck all to do with security. Everything you mention can be done on an init based system and cgroups was around for years before systemd was farted out of poetterings arse.

China had a practice run at this a few years back when it blew up a satellite with a surface launched missile and the Russians would try the same if they had any competence left in their military. As for NK - Kim is all puff and bluster. Without chinese support NK would just be another bankrupt banana republic dictatorship and any sign that little fat man is getting too big for his boots and Beijing will quickly slap him down. Right now he's a useful proxy stick to poke the USA and chinas neighbours with.

Try slackware linux. Non of that systemd trojan horse crap, just plain init, and a relatively sane amount of packages.

I think the nudity was her husband, not her.

Anyone convicted of a federal crime committed after November 1, 1987, has to complete at least 85% of their sentence, no parole allowed. Even in a halfway house, she will be subject to strict behavioral rules.

Generative ai didnt exist outside of theory books in the mid 2000s. HTH

I'm sure a chainsaw is interesting but you wouldnt use it to slice your bread. It has to be the right tool and while current AI can write code it often has subtle bugs which the AI user wont have a clue about but might have avoided if writing the code himself.

... does this perhaps mean they can react with the plastic itself and slowly break it down chemically?

You mean software features - which now exist?

Explain how you'd fake a 3000lb+ car made of non-magnetic metals being able to suspend itself upside down, do an in-place flip, a barrel roll, and an inverted barrel roll, and have a 0.8s quarter mile while being co-witnessed by no fewer than 4 cameras (including multiple fly-over drones) at a live event.

Let's hope so, at least with OSes.

Realistically speaking, there's really no reason to NOT improve the performance of your software, now - especially when selling your software depends on the cost of the hardware being cheap, as has always been the case for Microsoft. LLMs have made this kind of bughunt/performance optimization obscenely cheap.

There is no good reason for the OS itself to use 4+GB of memory and interfere with application operation. It's just laziness on the part of the developers.

More broadly, I think the preponderance of shitstack slop written in python and typescript are more likely to be an impediment to long term optimization. And as long as it's the default choice by LLMs (as it seems to be), we'll be getting a lot more of it.