They're gonna peck the camera
blobjim
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I think we're the only people not hounding him out of public life.
I don't know how helpful it is to split stuff out like that. Especially grouping so many things under "default applications and daemons", which is most of what a desktop distro is. Also depends largely on a PC vs server setup.
should list an init system as its own bullet, which others have mentioned.
"one or more shells" doesn't mean that much. Yes, every distro includes one but the only difference between a terminal and any other application is that a terminal needs to be able to escalate to root privileges. You can think of it as just another default (but special) application. A lot of stuff that people think about when they think of Linux distros is just various clever mechanisms for supporting the terminal shell. Like the PATH environment variable. If you are using actual desktop applications other than a terminal, there isn't any interaction with the terminal shell application.
There's also fwupd, for updating firmware (your hardware is gonna be running out of date/buggy/insecure code if you don't have this).
The dbus daemon falls under the "daemons" bullet but it's pretty important, like wayland/x11 it's another IPC mechanism you need for programs to work correctly.
There's also the sound system. PipeWire is the modern one that implements the interfaces of various other sound systems so existing applications work with it. https://pipewire.org/ (PipeWire also has its own IPC protocol like dbus/wayland/x11).
flatpak, snap, distrobox, toolbox, docker, podman, etc. for running sandboxed PC/server applications. I assume there are some programs that are flatpak-only these days.
gsettings/dconf for Windows-registry like config that many programs use.
There's also plugging in an implementation of the glibc Name Service Switch, which allows libc to use a mechanism other than /etc/passwd and related files for user accounts, internet service names, DNS resolution, etc. . systemd can provide NSS implementations using its own user account mechanism.
Then I guess the IDF won't return.
saw on twitter somewherer that they initially said there was nothing they could do because it was "free speech"
i mean its french right...
It's time for Russia/North Korea/Iran's killer suicide dolphins to do the needful!
this elite group, made up of 77 million people including billionaires, millionaires and those paid more than US$140,000 (£112,500)
The reason for the number is probably because it includes everyone making $140,000 a year aka a lot of labor aristocrats. This would include doctors, engineers, software developers, etc.
It's really just restating what we already know which is that people who are comfortable in the imperial core (and rich people elsewhere) use way more resources than everyone else.
The Intercept spoke with multiple people exposed in the data leak who said they did not consent to any information being stored in a database. This was confirmed by four sources who worked closely with the KST, who said that gaining informed consent from people who were interviewed, including advising them that they were being interviewed for the KST, was not a part of the research methodology.
Sources close to the KST noted that its researchers didn’t identify who they were working for. The failure to obtain consent to collect personal information was likely an institutional oversight, they said.
Don't talk to Westerners.
The other tldr is:
Bridgeway is the philanthropic wing of a Texas-based investment firm. Best known for its support for the “Kony 2012” campaign, the organization was involved in what a U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s historian called “intense activism and lobbying” that paved the way for U.S. military intervention in Central Africa. Those efforts by Bridgeway and others helped facilitate a failed $780 million U.S. military effort to hunt down Joseph Kony, the leader of a Ugandan armed group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA.
More recently, the foundation was accused of partnering with Uganda’s security forces in an effort to drag the United States into “another dangerous quagmire” in Congo
"Born to command"
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