mholiv
@mholiv@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 6 days ago:
Ipv8 isn’t a real proposal being taken seriously by anyone just fyi. The original white paper was AI slip with full on audited sources.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Gitea suffers from corporate capture. Forgejo is the community fork primarily sponsored by the Codeburg nonprofit based out of Germany.
- Comment on systemd 2 weeks ago:
A few issues here.
It’s very rapidly taking over the Linux ecosystem, limiting freedom to choose another init system.
Nobody working with Linux professionally in 2026 would say this. Systemd has taken over and has been the defacto choice for a LONG TIME. The last production grade Linux to not use Systemd was rhel 6. Rhel 6 was released in 2010 and full support ended in 2016.
Also no companies are using Alpine for “lack of systemd” Companies aren’t installing alpine Linux on bare metal outside of embedded devices. The appeal of Alpine Linux is containerization or embedded. Alpine Linux lets you release 20mb container images compared to 200mb for even slim Debian images. This is a great thing. But not related to systemd.
If we look at what professionals working with Linux use on bare metal or even on non ephemeral cloud hosts we find RHEL / OEL / Rocky / Alma, Ubuntu LTS, Suse Enterprise, Amazon Linux, Azure Linux, and rarely Debian.
Yes there are outliers but antivax doctors are outlier too.
- Comment on systemd 2 weeks ago:
I do agree that in this thread you do are pressing into the “not anti” image. This being said that was not the case prior to this thread.
Also I there is no systemd “monopoly”. Systemd was chosen by volunteers as community centric distros like Arch and Debian, as well as by more corp distros like Redhat or Ubuntu.
Those distro maintainers (volunteers and paid) looked at all the options and chose what they thought was best.
Those maintainers also chose not to support alternative startup systems for the same reason why VW does not offer alternative chassis options on the VW Golf. (In this example the engine would be the kernel)
Aka the maintainers don’t want to massively increase the workload they would need to do. Volunteer community distros only have a limited amount of resources and choose to allocate them how they will.
Corpo distros just are being corps and want to save money.
Using the term “monopoly” in this context dismisses the Linux community’s choice as developers and contributors. The Linux community is unique in that we are both the producers and consumers of the community project.
I would recommend reading this mailing list announcement to get a better understanding. The Linux from scratch dev team explains why they went from offering a choice to a “monopoly”. lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/…/msg00000.html
- Comment on systemd 2 weeks ago:
No?? In the past you were saying weirdly anti systemd stuff. So much so that I went out of my way to tag you.
More like “this person rants so much about hating basketball that it’s weird”
- Comment on systemd 2 weeks ago:
To any new Linux users, this is a good example of Linux “antivax” mindset.
Actual Linux admins, people who use Linux at scale, people who design things and use Linux to do things disagree.
There is a reason why Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch all ship with and recommend systemd as the startup system. ALL as in 100% of large Linux deployments on bare metal use systemd.
If you want to play with startup systems that’s fine there are obscure distros out there for you. Startup system swapping can be a fun hobby.
But don’t be tricked by the very loud but very small Linux “antivaxers” group.
- Comment on systemd 2 weeks ago:
But there is something weird about comparing any start up system to cancer. It was weaker when Balmer compared Linux to cancer. It was weird then and it’s weird now.
- Comment on systemd 3 weeks ago:
Perfect example. This person has systemd so much on the brain I actually tagged them as weirdly against systemd. lol
- Comment on systemd 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. A very small but VERY disproportionally loud group.
They uninstalled systemd from their computers and installed it on their brains.
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 1 month ago:
Weird for sure. Why do you keep on asking this question in different ways on different accounts? Are you trying to justify it? Is it a fetish?
Inquiring minds want to know!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Hey man I get it. But at this point I don’t think there is any reason to think blahaj as an instance is bigoted in any way, and there is every reason to think they are quite the opposite.
I hope you feel better soon. Best we end this chat to reduce teams and increase healing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I understand. And I can see the ableism examples that you put forward.
Do you have any example of the Nazi takeover of blahaj? Or that they are bigoted towards bi men or non binary people? Like I want to give you the benefit of the doubt here, but I just see the opposite of what you are claiming.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I do hang out with them a lot. A lot of my favorite communities are there. I see no Nazi tolerance at all there let alone “taking over” I also see none of this bigotry that you say is there. Contrarily, I see an active anti bigotry set of rules policies and guidelines in general.
I am willing to change my views on the instance but what you claim, I am just not seeing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That sounds not so nice. Is there an example out there or the like?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No, but I’ve seen my fair share of concern trolling.
I am neither a bi man nor nonbinary and care, but I value my time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m sorry. I’m not on blahaj.
Bigotry towards bi men and non-binary folk seems very much not like them.
Are you a big man or non-binary person? If so I would be interested hearing what sort of discrimination you faced at blahaj. I recommend them quite a bit but would rather not if they are hateful in that way.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yup! They work really hard to create a strong queer space. That means they work hard to exclude bigotry and the like, even in its micro aggression form.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yahhhhh. It’s a rough situation to be a non tankie on a tankie instance.
The issue is that the great majority of users there have very “out there” opinions and more and more of them are trying to be more subtle about it.
Avg .ml user: Long winded post about why war is bad Avg responder: I agree war should be avoided for the harm it causes. Avg .ml user: Therefore we all must support Russia against the imperialist Ukrainians! Avg responder: Russia started the war. Why should we support them? Avg .ml user: Because NATO forced Russia to invade. In reality it was NATOs fault! Avg responder: I wasted my time here. No point in arguing.
The average non .ml user has been through this or seen this enough to be cautious of seemingly reasonable balanced arguments from .ml users.
I totally get staying, but personally if I woke up and my account was on .ml I would move.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Different policies and rules mostly. Lemmy.ml has a ton of weirdly pro Russia and China admins on it. Very tankie Stalinist. blahaj.zone Is really nicely queer friendly. dbzer0.com has a cool anarchist hacker culture etc.
For me the problem I have with lemmy.ml is that that if you disagree with Russia’s invasion on one news community you’ll find yourself banned from the Linux community.
- Comment on Just vibing 3 months ago:
It’s even crazier than that. It’s not even the electrons at the “leading edge” it’s the EM field they create along the entirety of the wires that actually bring the power.
And the follow-up with a physical experiment after the first video started a huge drama. youtu.be/oI_X2cMHNe0
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 4 months ago:
We draw the line before both. Easy as.
No piercings before the child can understand the concept of piercings and agree to it.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 9 months ago:
Why? He was relatively contemporary and lived a pretty normal life relative to most of us compared to the historical figures.
That and he was a mega sexist who made the lives of women in science much worse for literal decades.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 9 months ago:
Will probably make the price go up. The whole reason why they do this crap is to get more money out of the consumer.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 10 months ago:
You do you. But I challenge you to go and look at gun prices at your local Walmart in the USA. Not every guy you buy has to be an FN-Scar 17 in pricing.
Turn around a look at how much it costs to defend yourself criminally in the USA.
Guns are about $200 at Walmart.
Robust criminal defense is about 30-40 hours.
Also good luck selling a gun you don’t have in your possession. Try going to a gun shop and saying “give me the cash now, I promise to give you the gun when the police give it back to me”
We do agree that you should be responsible for your actions. But looking at the meme here nothing wrong was done.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 10 months ago:
I mean they already own the guns. They can’t even sell them to hire a lawyer because they were taken.
If you can’t see the difference between buying one gun every x months and paying a lawyer 4 to 5 figures all in one go that’s on you.
Time is linear and you can’t sell what was taken from you. 🤷♀️
- Comment on Anon breaks up 10 months ago:
I mean you can buy a gun for 200 USD at Walmart. Lawyers cost 200 USD per hour.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 10 months ago:
I don’t own a car. I just maintain a drivers license for rare cases when I need to go to a place where public transport does not reach.
I just went through the education and have the practical experience regarding driving.
I don’t think this angry approach is the best way to go forward here. Action and advocacy will beat out internet anger all day.
Advocate for and use public transport at you local level.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 10 months ago:
I suspect you might be telling on yourself here as someone who didn’t drive.
People who go through car education and actually drive learn about system tolerances. Speedometers can be off by up to 10% and radar guns can be off by about the same.
If you actually drive and use cruise control set to 30 and go up a hill to a level section of road, the cruise control will likely bring you up to 33 before it reacts the reduced power needs and brings you down to 30 again.
Cars in real life are not exactly like they are in video games.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 10 months ago:
After you edited it, it is more clear now. You should have phrased it that way to begin with.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 10 months ago:
Because saving video games and stopping the killing of children are mutually exclusive???
