That’s good to know, I don’t want to be supporting communities which allow this kind of toxic garbage

You’re welcome!

One of the things that is almost universally true of FOSS software is that the documentation is usually really good. In addition to the talented developers there are a lot of talent technical writers who donate their time to maintaining wikis and documentation.

The man (manual) pages are also really useful (type ‘man ls’ or ‘man systemctl’) and most projects include man pages for their man commands. man systemctl:

Another helpful tool to install is tldr. Instead of showing you the manual, it’ll show you a page which includes a brief list of the most common use cases for that command and explainations.

tldr systemctl:

Don’t feel like you need to read these things like a novel, just know that they’re there so when you have a problem or want to try to customize your system in some way you will have a source to turn to.

Also, since you’re really new you’re likely to stumble into vim and get trapped. It’s a text editor with a unique way of interacting with the text due to it being a terminal application. This style of input is often mirrored in other things. man pages use vim-like keybindings, for example. Once again, Fireship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-txKSRn0qeA

Learning vim completely is it’s own project, but at least be familiar enough with it that you can open a document, navigate around, make changes and save/close the document. There’s tons of videos on the topic (and cheatsheets for the more advanced vim motions, just do an image search).

Good luck! :D

There’s a difference between your information being publicly available and people taking your information and spreading it around amongst people that hate the person calling them a traitor and other shit.

It’s stochastic terrorism, if they make 10,000 people hate the guy then the chances of somebody doing something to him goes up.

Have you?

Feel free to fork the project if you don’t like the direction it is going.

Engaging in a harassment campaign is far worse than adding a JSON field, you troglodyte.

So, does the law require this doxxing and brigading harassment or is this something that you’re doing for fun?

It’s brigading harassment on a volunteer dev, the post should be nuked this is just doxxing for ad revenue… disgusting

So we aren’t supposed to talk about or react to said bad decisions? Come on.

Do you want to post your real name and place of work online for everyone to see or do you understand why that kind of action is dangerous and wrong?

If anyone is panicking, ask them how they feel about the ‘RealName’ field that has been in systemd for years (since the beginning?)

This is fake controversy and now it’s at the point where people are spreading articles, like the OP, brigading people into harassing a systemd developer.

1000x this.

It doesn’t matter how much you disagree with the change, brigading harassment is gross and should be called out every time someone tries.

This post should be nuked.

There’s a massive difference between criticizing bad decisions and articles like the one in the OP who’s painting the developer as a target.

There’s plenty of ways for the open source community to handle this. This isn’t one of them.

Brigading and harassing volunteer developer is way out of bounds.

I disagree with age verification as well, but attacking a person like this is gross.

This article is all but brigading people into harassing this guy.

And sometime they’ll just uuuuuuuuuuuuuuouuuuuuuuuoououuuuu like a hoarse opera singer.

I look forward to the next LK-99

It is simple, it is not easy.

‘Take a picture of the entire ocean and look for ships’ is simple, but executing that plan is not.

It requires hundreds of millions of dollars of reconnaissance satellites, and an entire branch of personnel to operate and digest the information.

This is why the US operates carrier battle groups instead of just sailing their carriers everywhere with a small escort. They can’t hide, but they can pack enough offensive and defensive power into a tiny area to make most attacks infeasible.

Anyways, there’s a reason submarines exist

True, and even they’re vulnerable when they surface (if they’re moving), the v-shaped wake is also very detectable from space where satellites can detect wave heights within 3cm. It’s not easy for humans to find, but with billions of dollars to spend on computers, these kinds of things are very much within the reach of sovereign nations.

The delay is almost assuredly to prevent live scamming. Like a grandparent picking up a random call or text and being tricked into thinking they’re a family member/bank worker/etc.

I’ll admit it’s annoying, and could be used by Google later to do more annoying shit.

Taking their explanations in good faith and looking at it from an customer security point of view, I can see this cutting back on some common scam types. This is kind of like how, when you go to rustdesk.com there’s a giant ‘YOU’RE PROBABLY GETTING SCAMMED’ banner across the top of the page:

These little steps can seems pointless or annoying to us, as most of us are probably in the upper range of tech skills, but consider the average user and it starts to make a lot more sense.

False positives are fine, you assign 1, 10, 50, 100 analysts to review hits. You only need to find it once, then the search area becomes incredibly small for each subsequent satellite pass.

I’m not saying that it is easy, just that you don’t need to have a surface ship within 15 nm in order to see it.

You need to know the server and share name. You don’t have to use /mnt/sambashare, just make an empty directory somewhere.

sudo mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt/sambashare -o username=your_user

It’ll prompt you for the password.

This won’t work if you’re on a domain (I think?) but it works for regular SMB shares.

While the resolution could be good, have fun looking for that spec.

Seems like an simple but tedious job. Something that a computer can do.

Object detection algorithms are incredibly fast and can learn to tell the difference between an aircraft carrier and an ocean.

e: nm, mod got 'em