Ugh, I’ve been down the same rabbit hole, but gave up and just downloaded the jdk to my home directory and set the java path in vscodium to point to it. Same with maven.

Good points. I’ll have to ponder this for a while.

Dilemma: Fedora has introduced and worked on a lot of things that make “Year of Linux on the Desktop” more likely. Even if UNIX purists disagree with the direction, Fedora is what Ubuntu used to be back in the day. Linux for humans.

At the same time, it’s possible due to corporate backing. American corporate backing even. A part of me thinks that if we can’t get there as a community without corporate influence, then it’s all for nothing. I want the community model to not just be an ethical alternative, but that this model of cooperation also produces the best results.

(PS. I’m open for having my view changed, maybe I’m thinking about this the wrong way.)

If you plan to use it, you should know that there was a separate “good news”-event at that point in time. It would not surprise me if insider trading happened, but that spike could also be from the bond auction. As much as I want the US to lose their influence in the world, it’s important to not jump to conclusions for political reasons. The spike should be investigated properly, but at this point the US might be too corrupt for that to happen or have consequences.

There’s always a relevant xkcd
https://xkcd.com/743/

Something similar happened in Sweden, the politicians said that the EU is forcing Sweden to store data about users. Like, “we don’t want this… but we have no choice!” And then it turned out that what they did was actually against EU laws and Sweden was fined for doing what they did and ordered to stop.

Found it in the classic The UNIX Programming Environment from 1984:

But then, this is for return, which technically isn’t “enter”, but nowadays they are sort of interpreted the same by programs?

Isn’t ctrl-m the “enter” equivalent?

The list of allies is not that long at the moment.

I have never owned a computer with more than 8gb RAM.

does that mean that pipes will work backwards?

You know how the ending of LOST or Game of Thrones can bring up feelings in people? That’s how it was for me when Gnome 3 first came out. I had been using Gnome 2 for a few years and had a good workflow, and then suddenly, everything changed. Back then Gnome 3 was buggy and lacked a lot of things, which didn’t help. It also didn’t help that the devs took a “the problem is you” stance to all feedback. That said, I use Gnome now, and I like it, it took some years to mature and become good. But the feeling is still there sometimes.

I see! Thank you, that’s hopeful then. Is it designed to be very local area, or is that just the way it is now? Could it one day be used in a more general way beyond chat?

I started reading about Meshtastic yesterday, and got an urge to set up a node even if (according to some maps) no one is near me. But then I started wondering, if I could reach another node, what could I do with that connection? What is it used for? Is it more about technically being able to send messages without an ISP. Do people use this for any real application?

Regular release distros do security updates, backported if needed. Rolling release means introducing unknown security bugs until they are found and fixed. To me, the whole dilemma between regular and rolling is do I want old bugs or new bugs? But the security bugs get fixed on both.

Is it not working well? What is it lacking?

Open source is free for everyone, I think the objection is more about an american company being able to directly influence the decisions, operating under US jurisdiction, etc.

Kernel yes, but coreutils? It’s ls, sleep, who, pwd, and so on.

I know, but do they? Has big tech contributed to the code base significantly for coreutils specifically? sed and awk or ls has been the same as long as I remember, utf8 support has been added, but I doubt apple or google was behind that.

Do large tech companies contribute a lot to the GPL coreutils?