I’m doing it, but no print is coming through. I don’t think I know how this works.

Okay, do you sell this?

I was surprised I was blocked from editing even after logging in. They do hate some IP blocks.

No clue, but they could use nice.

Right? Daaamn!

Claims of Bsky’s federatedness and decentralizedness were greatly exaggerated.

What about it makes it safe?

Happens.

I’m afraid you answered the wrong comment.

At the workplace?

Great talk indeed. And I will quickly acknowledge that something had to be done, and that systemd had the courage to innovate and address the issues. I just wish it did so in a more transparent way to the end user.

For instance: there’s a whole established system of dealing with logs in place. Why build a separate one just for your init system? Why binary? Why even integrate it with your init? I’m not saying storing everything on /var/log and using logrotate is ideal or even covers all use cases. But a log management system is its own thing.

That’s just an example of how systemd didn’t jive with every other subsystem in a Unix like OS. It could have been done in a Unix way - small cohesive tools that are good at one job and can be combined to do more together.

That’s where I think he missed the mark when dismissing the monolithic criticism by saying “it’s not a single binary so it’s not monolithic”. Its philosophy is monolithic.

That said, I use systemd on my machines because that’s what my do uses and I don’t think it’s a reason to swap distros. For the same reason I use Linux and not a micro kernel. I.e. philosophy is important, but implementation is importanter.

So that’s the story. SystemD feels very Microsofty, though. A big, opinionated, monolith.

Like I said, there are no hobbit movies.

Every now and again the internet shows me how talented people can be. Thanks, stranger, for sharing your talent today.

Wasn’t the systemd dude a Microsoft employee or something?

Epic?

I started with floppies too, when I bought my copy of Conectiva Linux 3.0. It came with a hefty manual that was instrumental for a newbie like me.

Neat, thank you!

I’m sorry I should have specified. I’m curious about the recovery records feature.

Also the fact that it’s self hostable and can also work offline and can also work as a desktop client for remote collaboration and supports several remote backends.