You can also use monero (and other cryptocurrencies) with gift cards.

Google wanted people to experiment, which was basically free research for them.

Embrace, … you know the rest.

Liked the first season but worry the second is crap so haven’t watched it.

If money is involved there’s most likely KYC so… no?

Plausible? Implausible.

It is indeed the top listed… kudos to them (or to whomever scripted downloads).

Hetzner’s storage boxes have caught my eye but i haven’t tried them yet.

Some ThinkPads have killswitches.

As does the Framework laptops i think… the former can be bought second hand fairly easily.

Isn’t firefox strickly snapped in latest ubuntus?

it’s not beng developed by massive corporation that gets the majority of its profits selling user data and delivering targeted adverts.

No but it’s largely funded by one, now has “ad technology” and i wouldn’t be surprised if it gets bought by Google sooner or later.

A fork in the horizon…

Look into Incus (formerly LXC) containers or the various i’m gonna replace traditional packaging formats like AppImage, FlatPak and what not.

So the same as cmatrix, which is already packaged in popular distros?

This compares GNU’s libc with musl (aims at POSIX conformance and being lightweigth), uClibc (size) and dietlibc (size but has no full support?).

It leaves out Google’s bionic, used in Android, which is not compatible with GNU’s libc… go figure…

So most alternatives aim to be smaller and some also focus on standards compliance (GNU’s libc is not fully POSIX-compliant AFAIK).

For instance, technically Debian has the packages to do SELinux, but it’s Fedora (and OpenSUSE, I think?) that actually come out the box with them.

Debian still has to ensure SELinux works if and when the user decides to install it.

There is one point of innovation left, but it highly technical and somewhat risky for everyday users - libc alternatives. The C standard library is one of the few core packages in a distro that can’t really be replaced by the user.

Why would that be innovation? libc is stable and ubiquitous. Ironically, Gentoo would probably pull it off but it’s not for the distros to do, but rather upstream.

Plus the need to open ports on the home router and ensuring more than 100 GB won’t piss off the ISP.

This script written in the C language

C is not a scripting language.

Europa The Just acting unfairly? No way!™

That article is gold. The blog stopped in 2021 though.

TL;DR: politics… yay…