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Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 94

Now if only the AFP story would kill the seemingly-endless "Climate change is making [insert location here] warm up twice as fast as everywhere else" stories that, if you put them all together, would imply that the entire world is warming twice as fast as the entire world... demonstrating how idiotic these stories are.

Comment Re:You'll end up with an empty repository (Score 1) 165

You thought what? Are you trolling? You're claiming you saw me, karmawarrior, on the Debian mailing list?

No, here on Slashdot.

sysvinit is literally why virtually every Linux distribution has had rescue disks since the beginning. Even Windows doesn't come with one.

IME, grub is that reason.

Literally an NFS mount not mounting in /etc/fstab because the network didn't come up properly has stopped sysvinit from booting my system.

You should have noauto in your options. Or today, better yet, use autofs.

The entire Unix world disagees that a set of fragile shell scripts is a great way to boot an operating system. That's why Mac OS X uses LaunchD/SystemStarter, and why the majority of BSDs have switched from a tightly written non-modular shell script intended (bypassing sysvinit altogether) to OpenRC

You mean where they're still using scripts?

Your anecdotal evidence that systemd once crashed on you but you somehow never ever had an unbootable Linux system with sysvinit suggests you've never actually maintained a serious Unix-like system with any complexity.

I've been maintaining serious Unix-like systems since I was a teenager, when at home I had a Sun SLC netbooting Xkernel from a 486 running Linux so I could run Netscape on a fanless system by my bed. Now I run Devuan with root on encrypted ZFS for funsies. You don't need to tell me about boot problems. I just don't blame my problems on sysvinit because I know which components are actually responsible, and it has never failed me. It does one job and does it well. I too have had my system be problematic because I could have done better with my fstab, but that's not sysvinit's fault.

Comment Re:70% of middle class jobs lost since 1980 (Score 1, Informative) 189

I now conservatives will squirm at the very thought of giving a living wage to someone who doesn't work for it.

Which is ironic because they completely do support that happening for the owning class, but not for them, even though they are promoting their own demise by supporting that class.

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