Eh. DDG and other search engines exist, and all Google has gained is that the entire rest of the search world (as well as button makers, context link creators, RSS, bookmarkers etc) have to drop them because the URLs don’t actually resolve to results and are indistinguishable from phishing functionally speaking; meaning Google won’t even get people’s search results by proxy now.

Now, if all other big search providers do this and engines like DDG have to drop them, we’ll reach a new golden age, where new and more ethical search providers can enter the playfield and start without a big disadvantage.

Do I need to point out that this has never worked against linux/open source?

Kindly point me to three generalist, widely known XMPP servers.

Of course not, how could I~?

Presumably bots and right-wings don’t give a fuck, because they know they have the advantage on that one. And other people who are apathetic to the issue deserve what they get. The problem is that this does not function as social darwinism, so their idiocy drags the rest of us down with them.

I don’t know qhat bot farm you get that many upvotes from but you really need to do more research.

That was one guy (their CEO) expressing his personal support for one thing Trump did. Proton released a statement claiming that their company as a whole does not support any political stance or affiliation.

The first part was a statement that was backed by the board (this after the CEO guy doubled down on supporting Trump when questioned).

The second part almost merits no explainer: saying you are “neutral” on politics is the same as saying you favour those why already have the power - the oligarchs and those who maintain the status quo.

They can’t use other platforms because those are not Nazi enough to their liking, as we saw with the “retirement” after the response they got after their support for Trump.

Wouldn’t it be more efficient in that case to have some sort of remote* suspend+resume? Saves you the hassle of the bootup and shutdown procedure, when suspend saves most of the relevant energy.

[*] where “remote” can be “hook a tripwire from your room to the keyboard”, at least for the wakeup

If they cared they should have finished sooner

Eh, the only kind of server that I think you absolutely need full networking (address, iptables, routing, maybe even DNS) to be “meaningful” would be a database replica. Anything else, there is full use to partial network configuration: anything small enough that lets in a network connection someone else can use to diagnose (eg.: you can have a server that can spin up a meaningful session with only address and netmask, not routing).

That said, I’ve never seen a server, with or without systemd, set to wait for all possible network interfaces that are present to be fully configured… would me emotional murder with something like wireguard that by necessity has a depends on another interface’s routing. Usually with just lo plus any one available interface, it tends to suffice.

clean shutdown

on systemd

https://feddit.cl/post/13051330

Don’t mask or disable the systemd service.

Edit /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml and add optional: true to any devices that may not always be available.

That’s absolutely systemd’s fault. In any Linux system the only network interface that can (more or less) always trusted to be available and complete a full initialization sequence is lo Absolutely nothing else.

(The worse if you happen to have a WiFi that autoconnects but does it across the same SSID to different endpoints, but that one is wpa_supplicant’s fault if I’m not mistaken. Systemd just makes it worse)

Not onl that but they usually remove the init script as well, so unless you go for archives you no longer have a sane mechanism for starting and stopping the service.

Fortunately Debian has a orphaned-init-scripts package that can help alleviate that pain, as you can also use those scripts (or even better, openrc scripts) as skeletons to replace systemd service units.

What, not any of the other stuff?

Like the same locking wait message, but on startup because of wifi

España y Europa son una vergüenza. Drenan y depredan todo de África, y luego dicen no a los africanos.

2026

complaining about em-dashes

You are completely ignorant about where do AIs even get their data from, yes?

A free knowledge cookie for you:

The em-dash is the language standard sign in Español for dialogue tags. Literally.

You don’t need a knife to make a knife, and things like OCR are different from AI (or from “AI”).

FUCK IT THEY GOT PAPERLESS-NGX TOOO???

Fedis, what’s the best alternative?

I’m always impressed by the level of differences. Printer drivers were a real hassle with 8 and 8.1, and you never knew in advance which driver was for which.

Eh, that’s fine. I get that people are worried about EOL systems but, honestly, most of the time the concern seems overblown to me: it’s not like you are going to run these Windowses on baremetal and plugged directly into the root DNS gigabit ethernet line. When it comes to Windows, you run them in a VM and under a battery of safety measures such as firewalls and snapshots to begin with. And, once you’re bored with it, you return to Linux and the AUR.

8.1. That’s different. It was also IIRC the last Windows version without any sort of AI, enforced telemetry or any of that crap.