sysV is the init system linux distributions used before systemd, openrc, upstart, runit, smf etc. It’s pretty much the old daddy and comes from Linux unix roots. Even MacOS used it before they made their own called launchd.

S6 sounds like a update to it since the capital V in sysv stands for the Roman numeral 5.

Die Klimaschutzdebatte ist eins von vielen Themen die sowohl von Politik wie auch der Öffentlichkeit komplett verfehlt werden. Allein schon das Wort suggeriert das wir das Klima schützen können, so wie wir vor 50 Jahren unsere Flüsse sauber gekriegt haben. Ein paar Maßnahmen, verbot des einleitens von Abwasser, Kläranlagen bauen und schwups sind wieder Fische da und man bekommt vom Baden keinen Ausschlag mehr. Das klappt beim Klima aber nicht, weil es im Gegensatz zu Flüssen halt global ist.

Das gleiche mit dem demographischen Wandel. Der wird hier und da erwähnt, aber der logische Schluss das er die Ursache der meisten unserer Probleme ist, wird nicht gezogen. Weil man da halt nix machen kann.

Nicht alle Probleme sind lösbar. Egal ob man jetzt grün oder blau wählt, schwarz oder rot. Politiker die suggerieren sie können diese Probleme lösen lügen einfach. Man sollte sich jedesmal wenn so eine Aussage kommt fragen, kann der/die das überhaupt erreichen? Was ist das konkrete Ziel und die Maßnahme die helfen soll es zu erreichen?

Wir müssen einfach akzeptieren das es fundamentale Probleme gibt die z.b. mit der geographischen Lage unseres Landes zusammenhängen. Wird hier halt kalt und dunkel im Winter und geothermie und tolle Fjorde für Wasserkraft haben wir nicht. Unsere Gesellschaft überaltert, das belastet Systeme die auf Generationenausgleich basieren doppelt, es fehlen Geld und Leute. Deutsch ist auch nicht einfach, die Leute lernen alle englisch und wer wandert schon in ein Land ein wo er die Sprache nicht spricht? Naja, Leute die woanders nicht reinkommen.

Keine Ahnung warum ich hier so einen langen Text fabriziert habe, musste das einfach loswerden.

Huh, didn’t even know my country had a sovereign tech fund. Looking more into it … yeah. It gets money from the federal government but it is in no way run or even associated with it. Looks like a GmbH is behind it, which is a for profit company in Germany. It has a volume of 17 million €.

Also its name is literally sovereign tech fund, even in German, I.e. that’s not a translation, that’s its literal name. I wouldn’t say it’s sketchy, the people behind it definitely look legit, but it certainly doesn’t quite meet the lofty associations the name suggests.

I get visits multiple times a month because a Eula or something shows up on phones or tablets asking them to accept whatever. You know, the stuff nobody reads and just clicks accept on. Old people sometimes have trouble discerning where messages come from, anything from a pop up to a disclaimer for an update is "my phone asking me something".

Chrome OS is still corporate BS. They will manage to confuse people with legalese. I have elder neighbours come to me confused that were literal pages into that BS. I always tell them they can just accept everything google/microsoft/apple asks of them, but that’s the problem, they can’t tell where it’s coming from. To them it’s just a legal contract showing up when they wanted to read their mails, it’s scary and they rather want me to check everything is ok.

Aurora is better for them. No legalese pop ups, fully automatic updates(no "click to accept", "when do you want to schedule the update" or even an info that an update happened). I just tell them to make sure they turn off their PC at night and they will boot into the update next morning, never being the wiser. It just works.

It’s just unscientific thinking. People think virus and bacteria are the only thing you have to worry about, but lots of the time it’s the bacteria producing toxins as part of their metabolism that’s dangerous to us. In other words, their shit is poison.

One of the reasons we don’t want some groups of bacteria growing on our foodstuff is because they turn stuff literally toxic to us, completely unrelated to immune responses. Same way some molds can be toxic while others are not. It’s not because the fungus starts growing inside your body and has an epic free for all with your immune system. Its byproducts are just toxic. Like some berries or some plants are toxic.

Take these people of the streets, people who can torture animals like that are dangerous. It basically requires a complete lack of empathy and conscience. The only thing that keeps people like that in check are consequences. We put them in jail for torturing animals, they don’t like being in jail, so they’ll refrain from putting their wife or kids in a wood chucker later on in life.

There are lots and lots of psychopaths around us. We only notice the obvious ones that go off the rails and make the news, but there are plenty of functional psychopaths that play being human. Politicians, managers, cops, lawyers. Jobs and positions with power attract them, because they crave control.

The vast majority of them do not commit crimes. Mostly because they don’t want to deal with the hassle criminal prosecution entails. They don’t have to hurt others, they just don’t care if they do as long as it’s advantageous to them and doesn’t come back to bite them. How many people are sociopaths/psychopaths etc? About 5-10% are some numbers I have seen thrown around.

On one hand it's stupid to sabotage your health to appear more masculine. On the other hand casually bringing up that you have contracted a pirate illness in conversation does sound pretty damn masculine.

There is literally a gentoo-install: https://github.com/oddlama/gentoo-install

If you are worried that the NSA might be reading your email maybe it’ll be better for society if you don’t update … just saying.

The amount of dos systems I have seen powering critical infrastructure in banks and hospitals is quite frankly nightmare fuel.

There are a couple interesting browser these days, for example floorp. It’s always interesting to check who is behind a browser, in the case of floorp it’s a Japanese company which I like.

They might still pull a corporate fast one on you, but at least they will apologise profusely over it. It’s also genuinely a nice browser, obviously fully open source and privacy focused. I think it’s a nice filter between my browser and mozilla which lost some trust from me over time.

https://floorp.app/en

They are deprecating the underlying technology(called manifest V2 or MV2 for short) and replacing it with a different one(MV3) that lacks some of the capabilities for some kind of adblocking.

So yeah, it’s pretty much dead on chromium. The developers of brave have commited to provide a best effort support for their browser though: https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

Firefox on the other end has no intention of deprecating support for MV2 so any browsers based on that are fine. Keep in mind MV3 supports some adblocking and some Adblockers have already moved to it, it’s just a lesser extent.