ageofzfarm

What's really difficult for the average user is the installation process.

Debian is what I install to friends and family because the system is really tested, stable and does not annoy them with continuous update pop ups. Then every two years, we have a dinner at my place and I help them upgrade.

They tell me that their pc seems less "magical", that they feel they have more control over what it does.

The only real issue is compatibility with the office suite when the beancounter sends Excel sheets.

Your content on vis.social is pretty good! You could mirror that account on a self-hosted onion instance.

Threat detection is becoming essential because of ransomware phishing and alikes, protection from click tracking is good too.

Just send email in tranches.

If the marketing department is sending too many e-mails for the web server to handle, then the volume is probably out of proportion to the company and what they are doing is probably just spam.

The complexity is buried in the huge work the OpenBSD devs make to keep the kernel and the base system small, elegant and consistent.

I read your comment more as a tribute to the excellent work of the OpenBSD team than a denial of the thesis of the complexity of the init process.

Many Chinese companies are building their own authoritative NS based on code from miekg/dns :) Writing one importing that library is really simple, we should do it more often in the West too.

> Maybe the author is assuming there are no elements in the universe that don’t follow quantum mechanics?

Exactly, the author is assuming the universe is a quantum Turing machine.

> It seems like everything should have a chain of causality back to some thing. Except there has to be at least one uncaused causes, or else it’s just an infinite regression and not meaningful.

It's not necessarily so.

Models that aim to describe the universe before the Planck epoch are speculative. There are known theories that does not include uncaused causes as a necessary condition while being internally-consistent.

They are often self-referential solutions to the Wheeler-deWitt equation.

e.g.: The Hartle-Hawking state and some interpretations of Carlo Rovelli's QLG

I don't think all languages are created equal. Given the arrogance with which the French expect others to use their language, I prefer English. Or German, as it is the only other working language of the European institutions. Anything but French would be fine.

There is something contradictory and insincere about being so concerned about the eminence of French in multilingual European institutions. Multilingualism is the reality today in Europe, English being only a neutral enough language of convenience for international communication. A tiny comparison of French and English orthography seems a bad argument for promoting French in Europe.