Pretty much every alerting system I know also has a filter option to only apply automated discovery rules to certain filesystem types.

But yes, most don’t first squashfs or mounted read-only snapshots by default and it sucks.

But it does. If the universe was deterministic, choice would be impossible because all outcomes would be predetermined.

Quantum randomness may not directly provide free will but it does exclude determinism, which would make free will impossible.

I’m mostly with you except for the determinism. Not only do we KNOW that the universe is fundamentally probabilistic and not deterministic, all our technology works extremely hard to combat random errors because small electronics are absolutely not deterministic, they are just engineered to have a low enough randomness so we can counteract it.

How old are you?

Are you using zfs?

That really is one hell of a hot take 😀

I for one really love the zoomed out preview on the right that has become popular in recent years.

https://jason-williams.co.uk/assets/img/2020/debugging_screenshot.png

Really hard to do in a terminal. If you have errors you can see very fast where they are located/clustered in the file and can already tell just by the shape of the program where it is.

Another example: GUI color picker directly in my editor as a tooltip above color values in css/html templates.

Another example: inline preview of latex or Template fragments.

In Germany we need coins to unlock supermarket carts, so I use the coin pocket for it’s intended purpose to house my one coin.

But it’s a gigantic waste of energy and time when you could just download a 2mb package and be done with it.

That’s why you do regular restore tests on separate systems. That should be standard procedure for any company. A fully encrypted disk should be noticable immediately.

If your backups are online and not in a warehouse, you are doing it wrong. Even my own personal backups are on disconnected disks. What a bunch of amateurs.

That’s a good point, India is currently also in a fantastic trajectory

They sure have Nazis in Ukraine as has every country.

But saying that the fascists in Italy have anything to do with Ukraine needs very good evidence to support such a wild claim.

But that’s even worse a comparison.

First of all, the German recovery after WW2 is called “miracle of the Rhine” (or Wirtschaftswunder) for a reason. It WAS very impressive.

At the end of WW2 Germany had a gdp of 160 billion dollars, a fully literate und educated population and a reduced but existing industrial base.

Wikipedia: “When the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, more than 400 million of the country’s more than 500 million people were illiterate, and the illiteracy rate was about 80 percent, including over 95 percent in rural areas.”

Per Capita GDP in china was 10% of that of post war Germany and china had no major industry to speak of and was mostly agrarian.

I never said that other countries did not do impressive things, but I think there is merit to the claim that few improved the lives of the population as thoroughly and fast and at a scale as china did.

The Chinese government is responsible for the biggest and fastest uplift of people out of poverty ever seen in history.

And they are also responsible for horrible horrible human rights violations against minorites and dissidents and they caused millions of needless deaths during the cultural revolution.

The second fact however does not negate the first one because they did, in fact, pull almost their entire population out of poverty and into a modern industrialized economy.

Please learn to make some space in your head for uncomfortable facts that cause conflicting emotions.

OP was right, they are an extremely successful government with a surprisingly broad support within the population because most Chinese have living grandparents that where still farmers and had no industry at all. And they now live in modern cities with modern amenities. The transformation happened in two generations.

You can’t trust any full disk encryption without it because only a TPM can verify that your bootloader and initrd are not compromised.

Because he has a lot of nerdy friends that use signal? Same reason anyone else would choose one messenger over another i’d guess.

Not much difference because both signal and WhatsApp use the same protocol and encryption.

Holy shit one week? How is anyone supposed to recover after something like a C-section? My wife needed nearly a month afterwards to be able to walk normally again…

Because it provides me with value that imho justifies the cost in addition to supporting creators more than what they would usually get from me consuming their content.

Realistically, 50% of the videos I watch are random creators I don’t subscribe to and I would not make the effort to donate to just for watching one or two videos. These people still worked for that content and deserve payment.

I could install an ad blocker and basically fuck them over for using YouTube as their platform, or I can pay money, have no ads and support them.

I think that’s a more ethical thing to do then to pretend that they don’t deserve compensation because realistically, they have no alternative platform that generates them enough money to continue what they are doing.

Nobody can make a living on peer tube or any of the other alternatives, except for maybe meta or TikTok but they are far worse.

I know it exists and it showcases my point very nicely.

I randomly picked a fairly large instance, clicked on the top recommended video with 1.5k views.

Waited for it to load on my phone for >30 seconds and then gave up.

This is not an alternative for any serious content creator.

It’s a start, but it’s still miles away from what content consumers expect and what YouTube offers.