aspensmonster
systemd is a godsend when you need service control while getting actual work done, at scale.
there are legitimate things to criticize but in general the rants are incompetent preaching to the uninformed.
Service control was systemd's main benefit and what it most excelled at. Having shell scripts for everything was a legitimate pain. It was all the other pieces of the ecosystem that it was wanting to subsume that got people upset (logging, cron, time, hostname, login, etc). Journald/binary logs was the main sticking point that I recall, though I figured it was a trade-off that was worth it, especially since you could have journald keep dumping to text anyway.
He doesn't afraid of anything, even conflict resolution.
All these tech companies are really getting bold lately with wildly unpopular decisions to try and raise profits
It's capitalism doing what it does. As the rate of profit falls, the capitalist will do everything in his power to reverse the trend. The tendency towards large conglomerates of social media websites and away from the federated, decentralized web was just the first stages of digital imperialism. Now we're in the "fun" phase where there is no more raw, new attention to be mined; just stolen from somewhere else.
BaconReader was one of the first Android apps I paid money for, IIRC. It was that good of an experience on mobile way back when.
THREE WHOLE PAGES?
It isn't. It is a concise demonstration of the analytical bankruptcy of Utopian politics. Not surprising, coming from the guy who literally wrote the pamphlet on Utopian and scientific flavors of socialism.
They can serve you ads just fine on mobile web, that’s not it. It’s that the app let’s them track your behavior far better than the web browser.
It's both. Firefox for Android lets you run uBlockOrigin, effectively killing the ads.
A lot of this comes from the community from the streamer whose name starts with the v and who used to go by Irish Lassie. His community is especially toxic when it comes to using the term tankie as a pejorative.
And they don’t even keep the smear to people that support the Bolsheviks. They’ve been saying that about Noam Chomsky and Jeremy corbyn and basically anyone that has been critical of NATO in the last few years.
Imagine calling fucking Chomsky a tankie XD
But in terms of "folks I've been reading that seem to have decent takes:"
- Roderic Day of redsails.org has put out some really good pieces in my opinion.
- Peter Coffin has a mixture of good takes and bad ones. He's stubborn on holding onto transphobia -- or at least, transphobia-adjacent comments -- and his "LGBTQ+ is a bourgeois ideology" take, which, so far as I can tell, may be one of those "okay, 'technically correct' under your framing of it, but thoroughly counter-productive seeing as literally nobody else frames the issue in this way." Unfortunately, he's recommended stuff from PatSoc Caleb Maupin before too. Basically, I see potential in Coffin, clouded by problems.
- What I have read of Xi Jinping -- which isn't much -- has been solid.
So yeah, if you're looking for heroes, I wouldn't hold your breath. But there's life to be found in the world of Marxism.
Who comes next? You do, comrade :)