Posts by karolherbst@chaos.social
(DIR) Post #B0A6wLxhWlMchUmbnE by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-11T21:47:05Z
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Are there any distributions known for patching out "-static-libstdc++" linker flags from upstream projects?
(DIR) Post #B0A6wO2NoKIV8azNMu by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-11T21:59:33Z
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@TTimo no clue. I'm just wondering if any distribution will go "nah, we only do shared linking" and that causing bugs that are only fixed by static linking.So I'd kinda know before hand so there are no surprises later
(DIR) Post #B0MvgVIMdwlSoY8wfA by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-18T11:41:54Z
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seeing people argue about systemd and how it's not UNIX anymore.UNIX is dead, and it's a good thing. just accept it finally.
(DIR) Post #B0Mw48zFEkXgZmTNOS by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-18T11:43:15Z
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Like I don't get it.. why base _any_ argument on whatever UNIX is, was, will be or never has been.It's just wasted time.
(DIR) Post #B0Mw4HCegm1U3goCPI by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-18T11:44:56Z
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like UNIX was a bunch of corpos who couldn't agree on a subset of APIs to finally agree on a subset of APIs and then sell entry to the big bois club for monis.That was UNIX.
(DIR) Post #B0MwX86pZxMAFgqJCi by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-18T11:52:12Z
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@a1ba @lanodan like there was a philosophy to begin with, more like "let's see what we can all agree on. Fine, yeah just... write it down so we can move on" or something.
(DIR) Post #B0MxArfO8DTEq6xBWC by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-18T11:57:50Z
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@lanodan @a1ba well.. things are more complicated than 100 years ago.
(DIR) Post #B0ktAPV8fcaEE7mkAi by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-29T23:06:12Z
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So some people are wondering if whatever the MAGA/Linux crowed is up to is planned and on purpose.Yes, it is. They accuse us of what they would be doing themselves. Wayland, systemd, etc.. it's all a conspiracy to them _because_ it's the way the approach things and accuse us of the same.They always weaponize disagreements within the broader community for their political agendas. Every project of them is like this.It's sad to see how many do not understand those dynamics.
(DIR) Post #B0ktAQSh6CDpCpeJ04 by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-29T23:12:00Z
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Every accusation of them is a self-revelation. Period. Every. Single. One.Also they weaponize political ideals to harm them. Things like "neutrality", or "everybody is welcomed" or "tolerance" you name it. They use those terms to undermine the ideals behind them and sow disagreement on purpose.Every technical disagreement is weaponized to not let us focus on the important things. And yes, most of the anti-whatever sentiments are reinforced by them.Don't fall for it.
(DIR) Post #B0ktARCmKr5LVlD6pc by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-29T23:12:46Z
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You think it's a coincidence that 90% of the anti-systemd distros are lead by absolute shitheads? Think again...
(DIR) Post #B0ktAS3bATKu9ZvIA4 by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-29T23:17:13Z
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Claiming that systemd is bad because of "being monolithic" or "not the UNIX way" or whatever random nonsense reason you come up with is all a political game whose purpose is to divide us.All those have _zero_ relevance. You are just made to believe they matter, even though they absolutely don't.Focus on the real technical problems, limitations, drawbacks. Not some artificial "tech ideals" that have no relevance.
(DIR) Post #B0mMQ81cVOiMUImjzc by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-30T15:10:00Z
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@Nero some people certainly do, and it's often from the MAGA/Linux crowdLike I've seen forks happening, because they didn't agree with projects advocating for respecting basic human rights and do it only based on culture war reasons.That's out of malice, because the inherent goal is to divide the community by claiming other reasons for their forks.It happened in the past and it will happen in the future.
(DIR) Post #B0mMQ9iYDGeJjjsXY0 by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-30T15:14:12Z
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@Nero there is a difference between choosing a different technical path because you see a different technical path as the more beneficial one, or because you think that not being UNIX is "woke and gay" and therefore it needs to be turned into a culture war.I don't see any reason why systemd was created to evoke a culture war. The opposite I have seen.Of course they claim systemd is EEE or wayland is "woke" and therefore culture war, but that was never the reason for those.
(DIR) Post #B0q7WHb56nD1ERgjKK by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-30T12:34:33Z
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@ska the general issue here is, that those concepts always have a place. But like you also assume that systemd being more modular would be an advantage by saying that module is better just because.At which point it's not a great argument to have anymore and ceases to mean anything. Why do we need a more modular design at this point? Systemd can be this tightly integrated project and that's totally fine, even if it's not modular.It's great we have other init systems tho.
(DIR) Post #B0q7WJJQjOHIYHRf5k by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-30T12:39:10Z
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@ska Like software isn't automatically better just because you can easily replace parts of it with something new following different design principles.But the point is, those kind of blanket statements do act to pretend having technical knowledge and does give grifters more power than they should have.I'd ask for more concrete and specific technical criticism, not "this project is bad because it violates the ideas I like personally, but which are academic in nature"
(DIR) Post #B0q7WKO4jbaVsycsyG by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-30T12:42:26Z
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@ska But there is a fundamental reason why especially alt-right people are so drawn into the anti-systemd crowd: they declare arbitrary "technical" characteristics to declare what software is or isn't superior. "it's not modular, therefore it sucks" does follow fundamentally a supremacy mindset.They come up wiht a list of what software should be so they can declare their favorite project as the supremacy winner.That's the dynamic I'm talking about here.
(DIR) Post #B0q7WSa4GtvzIUIZm4 by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-11-30T12:43:35Z
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@ska Like sure, would it be nice if you could replace bits of systemd? YesDoes it make it bad software if you can't? No it doesn't.Only if it starts to prevent you from doing actual demands it starts to become problem. But whether you get a system manager working by being modular or monolithic or whatever is entirely inconsequential to its quality.Mesa is totally not modular, but we also have nobody complain about it because it doesn't matter.
(DIR) Post #B0uwUF9h5XenNHVDkm by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-12-04T20:43:50Z
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if you want to build a secure system, you have to assume the dumbest (who isn't dumb, just not a nerd like you), most naive (who isn't naive, just doesn't know tech like you do), most helpless (who isn't helpless, just doesn't understand tech terms, especially in terrible documentation), most impatient (who isn't impatient, just doesn't want to study computers for 15 years) user and design your system around it.
(DIR) Post #B0uwUGTw9lRZULytwe by karolherbst@chaos.social
2025-12-04T20:45:19Z
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also if you think that users are indeed dumb, naive, helpless or impatient, you are an elitist prick
(DIR) Post #B1Wn9HYrhQCBduREwq by karolherbst@chaos.social
2024-10-18T13:33:14Z
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Dunno if bluesky is the future of social media, but at least their moderation tooling seems to move into the right direction (where it's not moving here at all from what I can tell)I don't know if I'll get active over there, but if anybody wants to follow feel free to: https://bsky.app/profile/karolherbst.bsky.social