The Gates Foundation had strong objections to releasing the covid-19 patents. I’m sure they had some sort of rationale that wasn’t "this would set a bad precedent for M$ patents.

Idk about the mega neckbeard for opensuse. Every one I’ve met has been the most normal and least annoying. It just works and allegedly has some very nice convienence features.

Also the arch user could just as easily be copied to nixos.

Mint is perfect for exactly that purpose. There’s a daunting marketplace of alternatives all with different specialties. Mint’s specialty is being as easy and newbie friendly as possible. Out of the box - it just works - etc.

The AUR with delayed official repos was precisely my issue with them. Then they put GUI helpers ontop of both pacman and the AUR which auto update and now you’ve got a real recipe for disaster.

Ubuntu will actively break itself via snapd at like 2am on a Sunday.

Fedora could not do a fully system update on a 1GB VPS because dnf would OOM.

The dumbest thing I’ve seen Arch do in over a decade of using it is put RabbitMQ in its official repos while also rolling the latest version of Erlang which RabbitMQ doesn’t support.

No and neither does Manjaro which is less stable than Arch in my experience.

SteamOS uses an immutable system with A/B partitions. One partition is live but read only. Updates apply to the other partition which is hidden. Which partition gets mounted is swapped on a reboot after an update.

Tell that to Valve.

A scraper has many more ways around something like sheildfont than just OCR. The question will be if it was actually programmed to check for such measures.

Netnut is indeed an Israeli company. I dont think they’re getting arrested and prosecuted in US courts but their entire infrastructure has been shut down and they’ve been cut off from the US. So the business itself is killed.

Resell access to your home IP address to undisclosed third parties? If they do I’d imagine they’d bother to put it in the terms of service.

MPD and pick your client.

Can you point out or link for us what specifically PCUSA (and not some other conservative denomination) is doing that is bad in Uganda?

Provides links to completely different denominations.

PCA is the Presbyterian denomination associated with the Ugandan Presbyterian Church via the World Reformed Fellowship. PCUSA is apart of the the World Communion of Reformed Churches. As with all religions in the US, all that matters is if they are Evangelical or Liberal.

Presbyterians are Scottish Calvinism not Baptists. They can be evangelical depending on which umbrella organization they are under. PC-USA is not though. Prebyterians do tend to be more old-money though.

“More easily configurable” would be more accurate, because there’s less things that could get in your way. The system is designed to make it as simple as possible from a developers perspective.

That wouldn’t have fixed the AUR incident because the attacker updated the PKGBUILD which is roughly the same as the nixfile. And there are no packages provided by the AUR, just PKGBUILDs. You always build the package yourself locally.

Official packages are already vetted so they don’t need user scoping. They could just enforce user scoping in the AUR and use the provides array for resolving conflicts. Its not a perfect solution but there’s no such thing as perfect security, just better security.

Also having an AUR helper that properly containerized the build step would be an even bigger improvement.

Arch is deliberately minimal making it a good base system in the same way Debian or Fedora is. It’s smaller, simpler, updates faster than the others and is far more configurable. It is however not built for the average user and most distros built on top of it that try to make it more “usable” are IMO pretty dangerous ideas. I think the only derivative i’ve tried that was good was SteamOS because they made it Atomic like nix or silverblue.

None of this really has to do with the AUR. That was always labelled as “use at your own risk”. And to their credit they caught and addressed the attack within a day of it happening. Still, hosting user PKGBUILDs and leaving it to individual users to audit them is not a secure solution, its just punting on the responsibility.

npm: Node Package Manager.
AUR: Arch User Repository.

Bazzite is based on fedora not Arch so you don’t need to worry.

The GCC all the Arab nations on the other side of the Persian gulf that got their shit rocked for hosting US bases. They are not in a position to make any demands.

The US is letting Iran access its own money that the US had frozen with sanctions. Same as with the JCPOA. The US tax payers are not footing this bill.

Update only $25B is from frozen assets, the $300B is from the GCC. The people we dragged into this war are footing the bill. LOL fuck the UAE.