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Cu3PO42 commented on Real-time estimates of animals consumed by humans worldwide humanconsumption.live/... · Posted by u/speckx

Cu3PO42 · 10 days ago

I personally find the "animals killed since you opened this page" number to be the most unsettling. YTD numbers are so large, I find them hard to process.

If you choose to eat meat, please be aware of the conditions most of these animals exist in and how they die. I'll spare you more numbers, because they don't do the cruel reality justice anyway. Instead, I'll leave you with some video material: https://animalequality.org/blog/factory-farming-facts/

Cu3PO42 commented on Devuan – Debian Without Systemd devuan.org/... · Posted by u/smartmic

t43562 · 12 days ago

which current alternatives have you tried?

Cu3PO42 · 12 days ago

I've looked at OpenRC, RUnit and S6. I haven't recently run any of them "in production", however.

Personally, I am a strong believer that declaring the desired state is a lot easier to get right than actually writing the code to get there. Beyond that, I'm not saying any of these are bad at being what they are, systemd just has more features, some of which I really like. Two examples I'm actively using currently are automount units and socket activation (S6 also has socket activation). I have some remote folders mounted via SSHFS automatically when I access them and this is incredibly useful for my workflow.

Could I find tools to slot into other init systems that do this for me? Probably. But systemd has this neatly packaged up, easy to configure and easy to introspect state.

Cu3PO42 commented on Devuan – Debian Without Systemd devuan.org/... · Posted by u/smartmic

logicprog · 12 days ago

Which software has hard dependencies on systemd?

Also, it's not just RedHat that's depending on systemd, as if its a conspiracy on their part.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/plasma_6_6_systemd_lo...

Cu3PO42 · 12 days ago

Gnome, for example. GDM now needs systemd's userdb.

It is indeed becoming harder and harder to avoid and I understand that this isn't great, but systemd tackles some genuinely hard problems that others don't. Which is to say I don't begrudge Gnome devs for this and personally prefer systemd over current alternatives.

Cu3PO42 commented on Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company amutable.com/about... · Posted by u/hornedhob

direwolf20 · 13 days ago

Secure boot is initialized by the first person who physically touches the computer and wants to initialize it. Guess who that is? Hint: it's not the final owner.

It's only secure from evil maker attacks if it can be wiped and reinitialised at any time.

Cu3PO42 · 13 days ago

You seem to be under the impression that you cannot reset your Secure Boot to setup mode. You can in the UEFI, doing so wipes any enrolled keys. This, of course assumes you trust the UEFI (and hardware) vendors. But if you don't, you have much bigger problems anyway.

Is it possible someone will eventually build a system that doesn't allow this? Yes. Is this influenced in any way by features of Linux software? No.

Cu3PO42 commented on Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company amutable.com/about... · Posted by u/hornedhob

bayindirh · 13 days ago

Hi Daan,

Thanks for the answer. Let me ask you something close with a more blunt angle:

Considering most of the tech is already present and shipping in the current systemd, what prevents our systems to become a immutable monolith like macOS or current Android with the flick of a switch?

Or a more grave scenario: What prevents Microsoft from mandating removal of enrollment permissions for user keychains and Secure Boot toggle, hence every Linux distribution has to go through Microsoft's blessing to be bootable?

Cu3PO42 · 13 days ago

> What prevents Microsoft from mandating removal of enrollment permissions for user keychains and Secure Boot toggle

Theoretically, nothing. But it's worth pointing out that so far they have actually done the opposite. They currently mandate that hardware vendors must allow you to enroll your own keys. There was a somewhat questionable move recently where they introduced a 'more secure by default' branding in which the 3rd party CA (used e.g. go sign shim for Linux) is disabled by default, but again, they mandated there must be an easy toggle to enable it. I don't begrudge them to much for it, because there have been multiple instances of SB bypass via 3rd party signed binaries.

All of this is to say: this is not a scenario I'm worried about today. Of course this may change down the line.

Cu3PO42 commented on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android androidauthority.com/goog... · Posted by u/_____k

Macha · 15 days ago

> Choose a bank with viable web banking.

There are five options in my country, 3 of which require app push based 2FA to log into the web interface and 2 of which only have an app interfere.

Maybe I could get a EU bank from another EU country but my employer will not accept an out of country account for salary deposits because it makes their tax life difficult and my mortgage provider doesn't trust foreign accounts either.

> It's called a debit/credit card

Since about two years ago, activating a card requires the app.

Cu3PO42 · 15 days ago

> Maybe I could get a EU bank from another EU country but my employer will not accept an out of country account for salary deposits because it makes their tax life difficult and my mortgage provider doesn't trust foreign accounts either.

I do not doubt this is happening, but it is forbidden under SEPA. All IBANs, no matter from which member country, must be treated equally. Unfortunately, "IBAN discrimination" happens quite frequently still. The European commission recommends filing a complaint with your national governing body.

Cu3PO42 commented on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too notebookcheck.net/I-dumpe... · Posted by u/smurda

graemep · a month ago

> the reality is that I have to send, receive, and work in this application

Why? You can edit MS Office documents fine in LibreOffice and other similar software.

Cu3PO42 · a month ago

If you're working in a corporate environment, this may not be viable. LibreOffice is great software, but it's not 100% compatible. Things may look slightly different, get lost or otherwise cause problems. I've really tried, but at the end of the day I occasionally do need to use actual Microsoft Office.

Cu3PO42 commented on Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin carette.xyz/posts/going_i... · Posted by u/weird_trousers

Etheryte · a month ago

For me, this is the holy grail. Every time I switch laptops, I lift all my config files and such over, but there's always so many system level configs and other things that you have to go and manually fiddle. On top of that, some apps don't really behave well when you just move config files to e.g. under a different username etc. Would be nice if there was a comprehensive solution to this problem, need to try nix-darwin out.

Cu3PO42 · a month ago

nix-darwin is essentially this. I have a small bootstrap script to install Xcode CLI and Nix, git clone my dotfiles and activate the config. That in turn sets up the system, also installs Homebrew, installs apps from the App store and sets up all my configs. The only thing I need to do after is sign into some accounts.

Cu3PO42 commented on Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates community.letsencrypt.org... · Posted by u/schmuckonwheels

darkwater · 2 months ago

Actalis is European, Italian to be more precise, owned by Aruba (if that last thing is good or not can be probably discussed, though).

Cu3PO42 · 2 months ago

ZeroSSL is Austrian, however since I last looked at them it appears they were acquired by a US corporation.

Cu3PO42 commented on Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton areweanticheatyet.com/... · Posted by u/doener

progbits · 2 months ago

I'm doing the same but I worry about windows compromise messing with the bootloader so then encrypted linux drive won't save me. Probably too paranoid though?

Cu3PO42 · 2 months ago

If you use secure boot and don't let your keys near Windows, you should be fine even if your Windows install is compromised. Unless you don't trust Microsoft themselves, in which case you'd need to re-enroll keys whenever switching operating systems, which is possible, but very tedious.