Trump and Vance hold no actual power. Musk is now the shadow president of the USA.

“perhaps” “I think”

In short you’ve got no clue.

In authoritarian environments, any compassion you show the declared enemy is a grave offense and needs to be punished severely.

Thank you for that insightful rebuttal.

If a country (Russia) has decided it wants to be aggressive, then there are really only two ways to prevent a war with them:

1. Increase your own strength
2. Decrease their strength

Usually, number 1 is the only feasible way for a country without outright opening up hostilities. However, Russia has given the world an opportunity, by attacking Ukraine, to enact number 2 relatively risk-free.

I fully believe that if Russia is given leeway then they’d just continue on. Appeasement, as World War 2 has shown, does not work with personalities like that. By supporting Ukraine in this conflict, number 2 can be accomplished.

And this war can be stopped, today! By Russia withdrawing from Ukraine. So please, aim your ire at Putin who started and stubbornly keeps this war going.

The russian soldiers are in an awful predicament in this war. But they are still the aggressors and Ukraine has the right (obligation even, seeing what Russia tends to do to civilian population it conquers) to defend itself against them…and as awful as these weapons are, they have not been used in an illegal way here according to international law (something that Russia doesn’t give a flying fuck about, btw.).
Personally, I don’t see a moral issue here though I of course would prefer if noone had to die of which only happens in the case of Putin withdrawing his troops right now.

Couldn’t it be possible to set a script that restarts jitsi as that user’s login shell?

If laws applied to Trump, he’d have been put into jail a long time ago. Alas, he is still a free man, free to commit crimes as he wishes.

Play on Linux has been succeeded by Lutris or Bottles. I’ve tried both and personally I have fewer issues with Lutris but Bottles UI is a lot more intuitive. So I’d suggest trying Bottles first and if you run into issues use Lutris.

The clear cut of state data, pillar data and formulae feels more intuitive to me than Ansible’s playbook organization.

I use SaltStack to automate my servers. Just feels better than Ansible to me.
For my PC and laptop I don’t do anything, I haven’t hopped distribution since I started using Tumbleweed a few years ago.

The main distribution we use has it like that by default and our (admittedly rudimentary) benchmarks haven’t shown much of a performance difference versus ext4 so we kept to the default.

We use btrfs for the / partition and xfs for any data partitions. Has served us well, the snapshot feature saves us some valuable time when an update goes awry.

Walz seems to have pretty good merit, I think

That 0.18mb accumulates quickly on the server’s side if you have 10000 people trying to access that image at the same time. And there are millions it not billions of images on the net. Just because we have the resources doesn’t mean we should squander them…that’s how you end up with chat apps taking multiple gigabytes of RAM.

I’d say that they’ve been mask-off for quite a while tbh.

We tried to fight against having to install Crowstrike on our Linux servers but got overruled by upper management without discussion. I assume we are not the only ones with that experience in the world due to the need to check a checkbox for some flimsy audit.

I agree that the code is probably poor but I doubt it was a conscious decision to crash the OS.

The code is probably just:

1. Load config data
2. Do something with data

And 2 fails unexpectedly because the data is garbage and wasn’t checked if it’s valid.

Problem is that software cannot deal with unexpected situations like a human brain can. Computers do exactly what a programmer tells it to do, nothing more nothing less. So if a situation arises that the programmer hasn’t written code for, then there will be a crash.

I guess for him comparing someone to Hitler is a compliment rather than a warning.