I mean when you put it that way, it’s still morally dubious. Not saying that the culture is great or anything, but who are we to say that it is so inferior that it must be eliminated and replaced with our superior ones? It’s cultural genocide.

In their defense the previous government was a puppet government installed and propped up by the US. It wasn’t particularly popular and could never sustain itself without direct foreign military support.

Why this over a much more popular modern language like Rust?

The earth is neither a perfect sphere nor is gravity uniform over the earth’s surface. The ground is also moving around, naturally due to plate tectonics but also due to human factors like oil and gas extraction as well as the depleting of fossil water. There might be more factors at play, but these alone are probably enough variation to explain this difference.

Absolutely

And likewise the aliens will want to get ahold of our computers where they will try porting an alternate version of doom where you play as an alien shooting humans.

What infuriates me is this:

“[T]he United States has made clear that it will block Palestinian membership and statehood until direct negotiations with Israel resolve key issues, including security, boundaries and the future of Jerusalem.”

Why does Israel get membership in the UN, if these are preconditions for membership? Israel will never agree to Palestinian membership. A stable Palestinian state will likely never exist until Israel is defeated militarily and has no choice but to accept it.

Blocking a large messaging platform because a minority of people are using it for piracy, of all things, seems extremely disproportionate

It’s piracy, distributing copyrighted works against the terms of its license. I agree stealing is not really the right word.

Damn I was hoping he would be able to cause more chaos inside Russia before Putin had him killed.

The phoronix forums are insanely toxic. Everything is bad. Gnome = kid's toy. systemd = written by Satan himself. Every programming language = too slow. Anything vaguely interested in fostering a diversity, equity, and inclusion = true colors come out in full force.

It's so toxic yet I subject myself to it every now and again. There's absolutely no moderation going on and it shows.

Systemd is the first program that runs once the kernel has started. It's job is mostly just starting up other processes, and managing those other processes. If you don't know what systemd is, then you probably shouldn't care about if you're using it or not, it's good software but there are fine alternatives.

What makes systemd particularly interesting is that it is different from historical init systems. Historically these init systems were an unholy mess of shell scripts. This offers maximum flexibility, but limits the functionality of the init system itself. Systemd replaces these shell scripts with simple ini-like service files that allow everything to be declared simply and declaratively, and allows specifying more rich metadata, like dependencies. But it's different, and some people place a higher value on "how it's always been" than pragmatism. I personally have zero sympathy for them because throwing out objective progress to hold onto a broken system designed for 1960s computing is just dumb.