By doing things the extensions are interacting with. You can see if an ad is served and displayed or not, you can detect if an iteraction was originated by an user or automatic, you can see if letters were pasted or input at a speed no human can match.

Yea that is why we cook raw meat

And your point is what exactly? Nobody does, but it still is not a secret. My point is that any assumption that your extensions are not detected is a delusion, if one wants to put in the effort it is not overly complicated to understand what minified js is doing and one can expect any major social media to do such things.

All very “secret” and “hidden” in cleartext javascript. These titles need to chill.

Thank you!

Wtf is a cheese stick? Is this something I am too european to understand?

It actually helps the discussion if I can understand your point, you might want to add a verb in your first part, I say this as a non english speaker so bear with me.

My data points are public info, I pointed you to where to find them, rtfg.

The reason this person is getting downvoted with no answer to their good points is an indicator as to why the subject is sensible.

Someone (admittably an asshole) found how to solve a problem, wrote a suite that does a very good job where the alternatives were absolute crap, and all major distros started using it.

Everybody is free to write another alternative, but everybody that is capable knows that systemd is probably better than whatever they could make, so that is what almost everybody is using.

Usage and contributions data on debian and rhel, the vast majority uses systemd and does not complain about it.

Edit: since you probably don’t care about people actually working with linux, a further datapoint is the steam hardware survey.

People don’t care about this beacuse they will make it so that if you don’t ask questions it just works.

In the meantime those of us that need to work in these jurisdictions need to comply with the bullshit so we hope to be able to continue to work with linux, but if that won’t be possible we will be forced to write software for microsoft or whatever else in the apple crap.

That is why there will be forks for the hobbyists, but for those that need to actually use a computer to make a living, compliance was always the only creal choice.

And as usual some asshole will come with the usual nazi comparison with compliance, like they did in the other seven posts were the subject was discussed. These people can risk their own family but the way they write, they probably aren’t even responsible for themselves

All used profusely by hobbysts and evangelists, the kind of people with a lot of spare time to write bullshit online, and never ran more than 5 machines for more than a year with evolving operational requirements.

I can add the two files required to run a timer in systemd in a couple minutes, but writing the complex incantation to cron for having it do something that is the default in systemd is pure pain and takes me 3 hours of googling

Radon is an issue only in certain areas, concrete radiation is bullshit, sun and clean air are an issue, but in your wooden hut you probably would breathe smoke from a fire so meh.

Debian for work and my home machines that I don’t need to be the latest and greatest (nas, media centee).

Arch on personal, éess implrtant machines

And remembering to back up the history, ask me how I know

Why does your question sound like you are prompting an LLM? I sincerily hope we are not transitioning to communicating like this, because if I have to read stuff like this once again I think I will have to get offline indefinitly.

To answer your question only Nostradamus can chew whatever you are asking mate, I think that thinking about what computer produced in two years you should buy in 4 years might be a cool video idea for an upcoming youtube channel, but absolutely useless for anything practical today.

Agreed, but how many requests do you see for support for people understanding mesh networking enough to set a server up in docker? Those are the people that use it and need it, and surprise they use docker, not flatpack or snap.

I am talking about non powerusers, non it personnel that are installing steam or gimp via snap or flatpack and then flood support threads with their problems. In those cases sandboxing is fucking stupid.

International law is a concept used by democracies to try to have their electorate agree with their leadership.

When this is less likely due to hypocrisy, information control is used to mitigate the disagreement.

ICC, UN etc are all feelgood theaters that are used when convenient to impose the only law that matters: the law of the strongest. When these organisms are not aligned with that, they usually are useless.

We had a time period where this was a bit less apparent, but with the latest US government change the layers of deception have been partly removed.

I mean, the ease of use is to be able to choose to reboot IMO. As you say: there is no drawback, just fukken reboot if you don’t have to keep running.

I have to keep my machines running, so you do you, I do I, but if you want to force me to reboot we gonna have issues agreeing mate.

Edit: also, i think linux is not for everyone, i agree that removing choice to allow for braindead usage is a viable policy in other OSs, so putting off people is a feature, not a bug IMO

App sandboxing is stupid, those that need it need something more refined than snap or flatpack, and all others don’t actually need it, but think they do due to inexperience and end up having problems and asking for support online.

The amount of times i lost time helping someone that pinkie promised that no, i did not installed it via flatpack, but then it turns out they did and their permissions are messed up is not acceptable.

I freaking hate snap, flatpack annd sometimes noobs even attempt some docker bullshit for something that is an apt-get away smh.

These things are used as a crutch for unstable or badly supported programs. Sandboxing often creates more problems that it solves because you actually need to support the instance to do it correctly, the very problem that is attempted to solve.