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namingthingsiseasy

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  • My employer likes vibe-coding. What do I do?

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  • "I don't have time to read through that much bullshit."

    Maybe phrase it a little more kindly, but that's what I'd try at the very least. "I have other priorities at the moment" could work too.

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  • I don't know much about Sun, but they seemed like a cool company - Java, Solaris, Sparc. A lot of people sounded pretty upset when they got acquired.

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  • So far! Don't worry, Silicon Valley will think of another new, even bigger scam in no time!

  • The creator of systemd wants to bring SecureBoot-enforced hardware attestation to Linux

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  • The user is able to install new certificates.

    That's true today, but there's no guarantee it will be true in the future. Google is already pushing for all software running on Android to be cryptographically verified and they (Google) are the only ones that control the signing keys. This means that they intend to kill off F-droid and all other software delivered outside the Google store.

    If Google is able to pull it off on Android, everyone else will try to do it on desktop OSes too - Linux included.

  • The creator of systemd wants to bring SecureBoot-enforced hardware attestation to Linux

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  • I just don’t want see the garbage that is the Android Play Store where apps refuse to run because we run an OS that isn’t profitable to Google.

    I think the possibility that this could happen is dangerously high.

    Everything starts with good intentions. Everything ultimately leads to locking end users out of their personal freedoms.

  • The creator of systemd wants to bring SecureBoot-enforced hardware attestation to Linux

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  • I've made other comments before about how we used to cheer for Google back in the 00's because they were the upstart that took on the entrenched competitors (Microsoft primarily). Look what Google has become today - the very thing we hoped they would destroy, and they are so much worse about it.

    Red Hat/IBM ultimately owned by the same people as Google: shareholders. Nothing will ever stand in the way of their greed. If this technology is allowed to exist, there's no reason to think that it too will be used against our interests.

  • The creator of systemd wants to bring SecureBoot-enforced hardware attestation to Linux

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  • He was there for a brief period. According to Wikipedia he was there from 2022-2026 and seems to have left to create his new company in early 2026.

  • systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

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  • Btw, i’m stealing your summary of browser monoculture, alright?

    Of course! The EEE pattern is crystal clear at this point. The loss of the WWW to the current browser monoculture we're experiencing is the biggest technological tragedy of our times. I would hate to see it happen with our open source revolution as well.

  • systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

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  • I'm so tired of reading this stupid argument. "People only dislike systemd because they're afraid of change." No, there are plenty of other concerning issues about it. I could probably write about a lot of problems with systemd (like the fact that my work laptop never fucking shuts down properly), but here's the real issue:

    Do you really think it's a good idea for Red Hat to have total control over the most important component of every mainstream distro in existence?

    Let's consider an analogy: in 2008, Chrome was the shit. Everyone loved it, thought it was great and started using it, and adoption reached ~20-30% overnight. Alternatives started falling by the wayside. Then adoption accelerated thanks to shady tactics like bundling, silently changing users' default browser, marketing it everywhere and downranking websites that didn't conform to its "standards" in Google search. And next, Chrome adopted all kinds of absurdly complex standards forcing all other browser engines to shut down and adopt Chrome's engine instead because nobody could keep up with the development effort. And once they achieved world domination, then we started facing things like adblockers being banned, browser-exclusive DRM, and hardware attestation.

    That's exactly what Red Hat is trying to pull in systemd. Same adoption story - started out as a nice product, definitely better than the original default (SysVInit). Then started pushing adoption aggressively by campaigning major distros to adopt it (Debian in particular). Then started absorbing other standard utilities like logind and udev. Leveraging Gnome to push systemd as a hard dependency.

    Now systemd is at the world domination stage. Nobody knew what Chrome was going to do when it was at this point a decade ago, but now that we have the benefit of hindsight, we can clearly see that monoculture was clearly not a good idea. Are people so fucking stupid that they think that systemd/Red Hat will buck that trend and be benevolent curators of the open source Linux ecosystem in perpetuity? Who knows what nefarious things they could possibly do....

    But there are hints, I suppose. By the way, check out Poettering's new startup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572

  • Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software

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  • Dear Google: we wouldn't have to do this if you weren't such a shit company.

    Oh, you weren't aware that you're a shit company? You legitimately believe you're a positive force for the world? Well that's your own damn fault.

  • Meta really wants you to believe social media addiction is 'not a real thing'

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  • What a great idea! Just claim your product is healthy to people that don't care about their health!

  • I Hate Github Actions with Passion

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  • Interesting. Were you using a Jenkinsfile? I'm not sure I completely understand your use case, but using a Jenkinsfile would mean that your entire pipeline would be defined in a file in source control, so you could roll it back if you made a change that didn't work quite right. Seems to be what your looking for if I'm understanding what you're looking for.

    https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/jenkinsfile/

  • Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

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  • I looked at it for 5 seconds. The UI looked pretty hideous. Even new reddit looks better than it.

  • I Hate Github Actions with Passion

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  • I've found the edit/test/debug loop in Jenkins to be much faster than Github Actions. It was quite a refreshing change when I made that transition.

  • I Hate Github Actions with Passion

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  • The best way I found to do this is by commenting out the portions of the build that take the longest.

    Which is stupid, but that's what you get with Microsoft products.

    (I get that there may be ways to test this locally, but I found this method to be the easiest.)

  • Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot

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  • I thought they renamed their entire product line to "Copilot" by now, didn't they?

    Uninstalling it at this point would leave absolutely nothing left!

  • Microsoft CEO wants you to stop calling AI "slop" in 2026

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  • This has to be the most pathetic thing I've ever read. A CEO just asking people to stop saying mean things about the garbage he's pushing out.

    It's just so pathetic. I'd be embarrassed if I were affiliated with his company in any way.

  • LLMS Are Not Fun

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  • That's certainly one possibility. But another possibility is that the people praise LLMs are not very good at judging whether the code it generates is of good quality or not....

  • Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here

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  • Agreed. To make it a bit more general, whenever I see people claiming to be able to predict the future with absolute certainty and confidence, that to me is just a sign they are idiots and shouldn't be listened to. Definitely had a lot of those in past companies I have worked in. A lot of the time, they're trying to gaslight people into believing in their version of the future so they can sell us garbage (products, stock price, etc.). They'll always get some fools to believe them of course.