JCattheATM

I know a lot of Russians, but all of them left and are critical. Can't say I know any Russians in Rusia, but papers such as Meduza report on and give interviews with them frequently.

> Heh.. Russia has "elections" too.

The 'heh' indicates a misplaced smugness.Our elections actually result in a change in leadership. There is a lot of yammering, but no evidence the US is about to become an actual dictatorship.

> So easy to point and jeer and say "they're bad, but over here the circumstances are different!"...

Because they are drastically different. You're just trying to downplay that because it breaks your entire argument.

> I can say that about Americans.

Eh, you'd be wrong. It's a different issue in the US, half the population believe and vote for nonsense, the other half are strongly against it.

> What proof do you have, or do you "just know it"?

Friends with Russians, and try to read useful sources like Meduza. It's absolutely very much the case that most of that population are brainwashed and believe the state propaganda.

> Meanwhile in Russia, protesting will get you arrested and probably be sent to the frontline (as a man) or prison (as a woman).

Yes, so an armed uprising is necessary if voting is not an option. But if there is no will, there will be no effort.

> Meanwhile in America, there's a political party using the Nazi playbook to subvert democracy and succeeding.

America will still have elections, and we won't have to deal with our Putin-wannabe again after their term is up.

Except most Russians support their government and believe its lies...

Adding back a reply someone deleted because I think it adds to the conversation:

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    He never made the argument that goto was considered harmful (the title was not his), the letter itself is a solid argument for why the unbounded goto (as opposed to the, typically, function or lexical scope restricted goto) creates programs that are hard to comprehend. He also, if you read the letter, does not argue for abolishing goto, it's part of the larger case of going toward structured programming.

    If you learned programming after about 1990 (probably some time in the 1980s was the real inflection point, but by 1990) you would have been learning structured programming and the argument was moot, because it had won. Every major language used after that time (outside of assembly languages which are inherently unstructured as a language) was already using structured programming so the argument seems superfluous or you end up having people compare the goto he describes to the modern restricted goto, which is not something he would have (strongly) argued against (though certainly against its overuse in some cases).

I'm in my 40s, wasn't coding in the 70s. Horrible use of code is a different thing from removing something entirely, though. Just that almost every language removed goto as a response is kind of amazing to me.

I honestly never got why in college his opinions were just taken as mandates. I never bough into the "goto considered harmful" argument, for example.

It's just silliness. Judge the code on the merit of the code, not deciding to reject it if you learn it was constructed with the aid of AI.

> Maybe it's also brain damage of using too much Windows (with wsl). But there I have a different problem: It's easy to install and configure stuff, but it's everything else than minimal.

You could make your own tiny Windows 'distro' building on Tiny 11.

> my computer gave it a red underline so I decided to do that.

Why? You were quoting text so it would never be confused for yours anyway.

Which programs can be configured in this way? Something custom you wrote?

That's what I have in my setup, six titlebar buttons: send to other screen, sticky among workspaces and always on top in addition to the base 3. Can't imagine ever using something that gives me less control again.

Agreed. It beats Arch and Void hands down IMO when I was looking for a no fuss simple and minimalist yet up to date and secure system after Slackware lost its way.

> But then you run into the problem of apps assuming the tray icon exists or is visible, but isn't, leading to problems such as the program just disappearing when you close it's window with no way to reopen it (some do reopen when you try re-executing it, others do nothing or just spawn a whole new instance...) or even having no access to some function that is exclusive to the tray icon menu.

Can you name some that act like this? In 30 years I don't think I've ever seen that behavior...

This is bad news, and exactly the type of viral problem criticics of systemd warned about. Systemd advocates always downplay the issue, but here we are.

I love using Alpine, and for the few packages that don't have a musl version available (e.g. Steam), flatpak has been a great way to run them.

Hopefully someone will maintain a fork.

Apple's ASLR was incomplete and basically trash for a long time, it didn't get proper ASLR until much later.

Sure, I think I gave it that context by using the term historical.

Microsoft's Secure Desktop feature is actually incredibly well designed, and provides strong protect against fraudulent prompts or prompt interception attacks.

> They were not "coasting" on anything.

Yeah, they were. Virus writers were not targeting them as a platform because why develop for 10% marketshare when you can target 90% for free. It just wasn't worth it to target as a platform. So there was some level of protection due to lack of interest in distributed attacks, but the OS had very little protection against targeted attacks.

> Apple has led the pack in nearly every major OS security feature of the last 25 years.

What an absurd claim. Apple trails behind, it never leads in this space. Windows 7 had numerous protections that had become standards that Apple still lacked when Windows 10 came out.

My thinking was in a historical context, and for their desktop OS's. I know they've been pretty on top of things with iPhones, and MacOS has become a lot better, but for the longest time MacOS was pretty lacking, coasting very much on promoting how much PCs have viruses and macs didn't, which was a marketshare thing more than a security thing. I don't think they got ASLR until later than pretty much everyone else, for example.

They've improved a lot, especially their phones, but I'd still never consider them a company that has a really strong focus on security.

I'd guess they haven't even begun to really utilize them. They've never been a terribly security conscious company, despite the marketing.

> It would still require install scripts to get from a fresh Arch install to Omarchy.

If it's really just primarily dotfiles, those 'install scripts' are just going to be a few cp and maybe tar commands.

> Omarchy is maintained as a complete system. You can install it from an ISO, update it like a distribution, and expect someone to care about whether the pieces work together.

Not entirely though, because they defer so much control and judgement to the actual distro they are layering over.

I guess it's semantics. I guess if you consider Kubuntu a different distro from Ubuntu then so too would Omarchy be a distinct Distro.

> I think it does kind of have to be a “distro” because the appeal is that you don’t maintain the scripts yourself.

It's not a distro because you could overwrite everything by downloading someone else's dotfiles in a few minutes. It's purely just a set of configs.

There's no hatred against white people, not widespread enough to be notable at least - the book White Fragility talks about this imagined persecution though, I recommend it. I know you need to have the last word, and as I don't wish to engage further with people that have your ultimately hateful views, please go ahead so we can be done. At some point, I hope you get cured of your fear of imagined threats ultimately, at least in part, driving your hate. Take care.

Basic empathy would be not bullying, terrorizing and detailing anyone who isn't white, nor supporting such vile behavior.

I think the point being made may have passed you by.

Well, no, it's just that people with basic empathy can see the racism and judge it accordingly.

> I hear "I'm not anti immigrant, I'm anti illegal immigrant" a lot.

A lot of those people had no issue with ICE bullying and detaining legal immigrants.

What are your thoughts on climate change?

Your attempts at dismissals of supporting points don't hold up. The company was enabling illegal behavior, knowingly. It would be like if Cox was helping people use the pirate bay.