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I don’t think this is the dick swinging contest you want to have with respect to Linux.

Serious like a great file system that is ZFS?

I never had a problem with systemd init despite its quirky habits like just giving up if a mount is bad in fstab, and I rather like systemd-networkd over the other four or five ways of managing the network. Systemd-timesyncd isn’t bad either.

But this, systemd-logind worrying about stuck processes in userspace is exactly the kind of scope creep that ends up justifying a lot of the hand wringing a decade ago. This thing bit me when it came out in a couple different ways and I am unapologetic in my dislike for it. So much so that it has caused me to drift away from Linux where I can. Even though it is a simple fix, I’ve become fatigued with userspace chaos.

Time to re-evaluate what the bazaar has become. Systemd is a common complaint, but it isn’t the only contributor to the fatigue.

Keep in mind post tax income sources are king when retiring before age 65 and looking for ACA subsidies.

That isn’t what the person to whom you’re responding is saying.

Morse code is very much like a language in that there are audible intonations that differentiate between See, Aye and Tee. Being able to copy that in your head is the same as listening to English and not needing to reach for the dictionary every other word.

I think this is a pragmatic healthy way to enjoy someone’s work. It is pretty much how I go about it. And it helps that my heroes are all long dead (Michael Collins, for instance ).

Where I think that does not work is when there is a deep resonance in shared experiences, these two had many including some really dark problems of addiction and thoughts of self-harm. I think the author is calling out all of it.

Are you serious?

Only in the last week we have Sony deleting paid-for movies. That is pretty anti-consumer.

I realize all of this is empirical, but the term enshitification just didn’t form out of thin air.

Algorithm analysis and numerical analysis are nothing BUT math.

Such is life.

Me losing $500 to Musk’s clever idea is still me losing money. It isn’t like this is a normal market event.

If it is not the end of the world, cover my losses.

Is it when X is clearly engaging in creative financial engineering with a goal of maximizing their value.

Madoff’s scheme ran for nearly 15 years, starting in earnest possibly 20 years before that.

I think “long” is very relative to the scam.

Carvana has been written about in the WSJ in glowing articles, that now have shifted to a questioning tone. This may be that inflection point.

And their tax efficiency over mutual funds when outside tax advantaged accounts.

Maybe a comprehensive privacy law that bans the sale of location data, how is that for a start?

Sony had a NAS device for video storage called the “Petafile”.

Cart abandonment. Good grief, any company that reaches out on that premise immediately loses my business on general principle. I may indeed have forgotten, changed my mind or found it cheaper elsewhere.

Get over it. I walked out, chasing me into the parking lot is no way to get me to come back.

One of the actors of the show recorded promos for the station, so guess not.

The fact that someone posted a link to the article that you probably didn’t read also refutes this premise.

With notifications disabled APNS push notifications fail for the sending app backend. The device id is rendered invalid if push notifications are disabled at any point. Backends are supposed to handle this and quit sending messages.

Signal has this setting to tell the backend how much information to put into the push message. It can tell the backend to send a simple notification saying “new message” and not send information through APNS or enable it.

I am willing to bet Signal has a notification extension to handle edge cases where there is lag in settings to scrub the message metadata before it dings a screen alert.

EME has been made a bit more affordable and effective by weak signal modes and DSP.

It used to require very high power, expensive transmission lines, preamps and monstrous arrays of Yagis. Now with JT65x, and SDRs, you can use cheaper coax to get transmit power to the antenna eating that loss with more RF, and put SDRs for RX at the array. People running digital modes are getting away with needing less gain.

5650MHz is the only place to do it with this thing. Might want to break out a calculator before the credit card because path loss has to be more than 285dB. But if you can swing it, might want to buy two so you have someone to talk to. I have not heard anyone using 5650.

The backlash is from Meta trying of assign liabilities of their business practices on people who may not even be users.

Yes, this is just the beginning of a huge swath of innocent APIs to identify people on the internet. Meta isn’t going to stop, and neither will governments.

I would think Fidelity, Vanguard et al are going to eat Musk for lunch.

It’ll take a decade.

I was already on my way to de-internetizing and de-digitalizing my life, this just makes it more of an imperitive.

Have at it Meta, you broke it you most certainly bought it!

You are correct, but the problem was the PC only had 16 IRQs. That required using intelligent multi-port cards from Digi or Rocketport. They worked by aggregating all the ports to a single card IRQ, and managing all the hardware signals, echo.

I wrote the software for a breakout box that could handle 128 serial ports. It was an ISA backplane with an industrial 286 computer and multi-port serial cards. This was our solution for a MajorBBS system.

The BBS software would have to timeslice between all the cards handling each IRQ, then poll the card details to see which ports needed service.

GalactiComm eventually came out with their own around 1993 that could go out to 255 serial ports and did not require the 286 processor.

By the mid-90’s, Livingston PortMasters were the preferred way to aggregate serial connections, which quickly gave way to USR TotalControl.

Nuance is dead, it is all collectively distilled to a binary choice these days.

Lots of interesting ideas to fix it, I’ll offer mine: let it die.

The grand bargain of the web is gone and it ain’t coming back.

You are not wrong, except at scale it gets complicated quickly. For starters, to support large user numbers, you’re going to have to process your own grib2 data for radar and turn them into tiles at zoom levels.

It takes about 24 cores with a GPU to do CONUS, Canada, Alaska, Pacific and Caribbean data. This should be 2x for redundancy. Even being cheap with main processing in my basement (gen power, backup internet) the cloud costs to serve it are $200 month plus data transfer. The standby grib machine spins up should it not see the cheap primary or the NOAAPort receiver is offline.

There is no money to be made without whoring out your user’s privacy. People just won’t pay for a privacy focused weather app. I keep this going as a hobby.

Cancer is approaching being a managed chronic disease. That isn’t remission.

That may be true, but all of this can be done today without the massive capex and without “AI”.

It is all metadata at this point. With statistical monitoring and sharing of netflow data, there is no anonymity on the internet.

Entire businesses specialize in this; Nokia and Kentik.

So both consent to sex and now one thinks they're entitled to marriage. That's where this inevitably leads, user/customer lock-in and control.

While the bank use case makes a compelling argument, device attestation won't be used for just banks. It's going to be every god damned thing on the internet. Why? Because why the hell not, it further pushes the costs of doing business of banks/MSPs/email providers/cloud services onto the customer and assigns more of the liabilities.

It will also further the digital divide as there will be zero support for devices that fail attestation at any service requiring it. I used to think that the friction against this technology was overblown, but over the last eighteen months I've come to the conclusion that it is going to be a horrible privacy sucking nightmare wrapped in the gold foil of security.

I've been involved in tech a long, long time. The first thing I'm going to do when I retire is start chucking devices. I'm checking-out, none of this is proving to be worth the financial and privacy costs.