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  • In order to be an inmate (barring those await trials in jails) you must be a criminal.

    I like how you impose a generalization and include its counterexample. That's like saying "all left handers are dumb except the smart ones".

  • Almost everything you said is mere brochureware perpetuated by a tribe stronger than the vi mafia.

    Sysvinit starts fast, starts well, and doesn't try to control mounts, cron, Getty, and everything else.

    The"but it retries things" whine was a solved problem in 2001. So easy.

    The EL6 machines I have in storage start faster than the el7 machines joining them. PCLinuxOS is a very valid non-systemd system that only lacks a documented kickstart emulant.

    • ruins single source of truth over installed state
    • thus kills validation and thus consistency and thus repeatability (the holy trifecta of release management)
    • promotes dependency hell
    • promotes redundant installs
    • 'hides' installs from enterprise management (eg snmp)
    • you will fail the audit

    But other than being redundant and risky, totally cool.

  • Vi (and other mode-switch vietnam-era editors with cult like followings of which there are none) really impaired my first few weeks of comp sci until a t-a showed me there are options. Modal editors were neat when required, but then we got full keyboards and control keys.

    Man, does vi suck, but its thuggy PR volunteers do a good job of keeping people from assessing alternatives.

    I'm glad there were options.

  • Nntp is easy to set up and run.

    There's a webUI and a forum front-end for nntp.

    Nntp is as well-known as MC files (if you need to. You know).

    An internal slack is as exclusive.

    Email<->nntp gateways exist. What's easier than email ?

  • Historically I've been a Unix/Linux/VMware sysadmin, though I've moved into a professional services role doing automation/orchestration/config-management.

    Are you me?

    Honestly, your nick is familiar, so I'd only rejoice to hear you were in the 07974 for Unix during such exciting times (Random love, shadow legal, blue November etc).

    Go learn mgmtConfig!

  • TransLink says it needs major funding to address capacity issues and overcrowding in particular — and an advocate says it’s up to transit riders to take their complaints beyond the authority and start asking governments to appropriately fund services.

    Didn't it just announce user-fee hikes?

    This public-private partnership needs to decide which one it is: either go entirely public so property tax and other levies can help fund it better and they get a more consistent and appropriate budget, or it needs to go private so we can shun it to death and then we get a fully public system like Latvia, Romania, and Malta.

    User fees always suck and it always leads to under-funding while it disproportionately penalizes the lower and middle class. Tacking a private element on there means it gets new funding but also gets a board and c-levels who all need yachts.