even without going too-CISC it can make sense to have instructions for popular use cases

e.g. ARM has special instructions for optimal numeric operations in JavaScript: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0801/h/A64-Floating-point-Instructions/FJCVTZS

and I thought I’d read something about custom instructions in Apple Silicon to optimise virtualisation (i.e. translation of x86_64 executables) but I can’t find a source for that, maybe that secret sauce is not in the instruction set

rejecting the revert is completely separate from accepting additional age-check / mass-surveillance PRs, you know this and you are being willfully ignorant

I would be very upset and very surprised if hypothetical follow-up PRs were merged into systemd, and I’m betting they will be rejected

it would be very interesting to see that attempt

but Poettering has already said that functionality doesn’t belong in systemd so I’m not sure where anyone would raise such a PR

seems like an Ubuntu/RedHat level distribution design to pull in a brand new age-verification / mass-surveillance component, or maybe modify an existing telemetry component

the birth date field only made it into systemd because it’s user metadata that is consistent with what is already stored there, whereas surveillance does not

for now, at least

again, I’d be very interested to see what happens with follow-up PRs

I’ll be upset when a cloud-connected Linux component prevents the system from working unless the real name and birth date fields have been verified

until then, this is just as inert as the real name field which has been there for decades, and far less useful for surveillance than the real name field which has been there for decades

love to hear some examples of the issues you’ve seen

for years, i’ve always completely wiped the trusted CAs and enrolled my own SecureBoot keys, and only use Linux

there have been vulnerabilities in SecureBoot, sure, but only for folks that don’t wipe the “trust Microsoft” keys away first

tell me how user-enrolled keys cements Microsoft’s ownership over my device please :)

this new anti-systemd sentiment reminds me of anti-TPM and anti-SecureBoot sentiment

having TPMs and SecureBoot on Linux machines has only ever empowered device owners to ensure that the software on their devices has not been tampered with

there’s never been a case where these technologies were used against Linux device owners

likewise, I predict that Linux device owners may find the age field useful for certain opt-in parental controls, but we’ll otherwise look back on this and shrug at the extreme paranoia

this new anti-systemd sentiment reminds me of anti-TPM and anti-SecureBoot sentiment

having TPMs and SecureBoot on Linux machines has only ever empowered device owners to ensure that the software on their devices has not been tampered with

there’s never been a case where these technologies were used against Linux device owners

likewise, I predict that Linux device owners may find the age field useful for certain opt-in parental controls, but we’ll otherwise look back on this and shrug at the extreme paranoia

you don’t have to use or like Ubuntu, but they do have a certified hardware list that might be helpful

https://ubuntu.com/certified

meh, it was cryptocurrency and blockchain snake-oil before it was AI snake-oil

it might have been good before cryptocurrency, i sadly can’t remember

i’m guessing a few things somehow consume /etc/hosts mappings without going through nss /shrug

it modifies /etc/hostname for you, but doesn’t seem to touch /etc/hosts

i still prefer hostnamectl, but i’m now unsure of what benefit it offers over editing /etc/hostname directly

no, you might have misunderstood

/etc/hosts is not where the hostname is configured

/etc/hostname for the actual hostname, and a mapping in /etc/hosts pointing it at a 127.x.x.x address

seems like a pretty common practice across Linux distributions

/etc/hostname for the actual hostname, and a mapping in /etc/hosts pointing it at a 127.x.x.x address

yep, I used that command to modify the hostname, rather than edit /etc/hostname directly

I think it should be a punishable offence to share Python scripts that depend on third-party packages without any ready-to-go bundling/isolation :)

goes for any interpretted language where dependencies inevitably creep into the global namespace via distribution packagers that should know better :P

https://xkcd.com/1987/

i’ve been pretty disallusioned with Mozilla leadership

i’ve jumped back to Chrome for the time being

i’ll be moving to servo/verso as soon as it meets my needs

The mature answer is “it depends”

Absolutes are rarely 100% true, and it entirely depends on your perspective, your use cases, and your expectations

Neither DuckDuckGo nor CloudFlare (the other favourite punching bag around here) have surveillance capitalism business models, but they do require you to trust someone else’s software running on someone else’s computers, and you still need to communicate with them over someone else’s networks

From my own perspective, which suits me fine but might not suitable for you, I prefer to avoid surveillance capitalism companies like Facebook/Meta, Amazon, Google

I’m also not a free-speech maximalist: I want to live in a world where information flows freely, but I acknowledge that not every single idea deserves exactly the same amplification

The same people screeching about DuckDuckGo and CloudFlare regarding censorship are often exactly the same people claiming that LGBTQIA and Black history education is not “age appropriate”, so even free-speech maximalists are rarely consistent