If you choose to eat meat, please be aware of the conditions most of these animals exist in and how they die. I'll spare you more numbers, because they don't do the cruel reality justice anyway. Instead, I'll leave you with some video material: https://animalequality.org/blog/factory-farming-facts/

Personally, I am a strong believer that declaring the desired state is a lot easier to get right than actually writing the code to get there. Beyond that, I'm not saying any of these are bad at being what they are, systemd just has more features, some of which I really like. Two examples I'm actively using currently are automount units and socket activation (S6 also has socket activation). I have some remote folders mounted via SSHFS automatically when I access them and this is incredibly useful for my workflow.

Could I find tools to slot into other init systems that do this for me? Probably. But systemd has this neatly packaged up, easy to configure and easy to introspect state.

It is indeed becoming harder and harder to avoid and I understand that this isn't great, but systemd tackles some genuinely hard problems that others don't. Which is to say I don't begrudge Gnome devs for this and personally prefer systemd over current alternatives.

Is it possible someone will eventually build a system that doesn't allow this? Yes. Is this influenced in any way by features of Linux software? No.

Theoretically, nothing. But it's worth pointing out that so far they have actually done the opposite. They currently mandate that hardware vendors must allow you to enroll your own keys. There was a somewhat questionable move recently where they introduced a 'more secure by default' branding in which the 3rd party CA (used e.g. go sign shim for Linux) is disabled by default, but again, they mandated there must be an easy toggle to enable it. I don't begrudge them to much for it, because there have been multiple instances of SB bypass via 3rd party signed binaries.

All of this is to say: this is not a scenario I'm worried about today. Of course this may change down the line.

I do not doubt this is happening, but it is forbidden under SEPA. All IBANs, no matter from which member country, must be treated equally. Unfortunately, "IBAN discrimination" happens quite frequently still. The European commission recommends filing a complaint with your national governing body.

Personally, I run Windows purely for gaming and don't let it near any important data. For the latter, I boot into Linux with separately encrypted disks.

With a TPM you can set it up that your disk is unlocked automatically, but only if no-one changed anything in the signed boot chain. This is the default with Bitlocker on Windows and is also possible on Linux, though somewhat more finicky.

> What matters is domain age, IP, and compliance with DKIM/DMARC.

Maybe it was my IP, but I cycled a few with my hosting provider and none of them made a difference. If I am unable to reliable obtain a 'trusted' IP, what good does it do?

I switched to hosted email and all my delivery issues were gone.

I'm not going to say that Cloadflare isn't doing anything fishy, but if they are, it's probably more complicated.

And thanks for the pointer, I actually have the same fix in my config with the nice benefit of only adding a single non-changing entry to /etc/shells. It might be worth up streaming something like this to nix-darwin, so we don't all go implement essentially the same fix.

Specifically, if you restart and opt to restart apps, they can come up before all volumes have been decrypted and mounted. If your shell is on one such volume, your terminal emulator may fail to start, for example. This can happen when using Nix to install your shell, for example.

I imagine this may be even easier to hit over SSH unless the underlying problem was resolved.

What I don't get is why Randy Pitchford seems intent on alienating the player base further by doubling down again and again on there not being a problem. Emotionally, I understand being defensive of one's work, but at a certain point it might be financially advantageous to show some humility or simply ... not say anything. Then again, he's free to do as he pleases.

This hits hard. I might be one of those ghosts. When I last checked in, I saw the same in virtually all the channels that were once important to me. My bouncer is still running, I suppose I'm not quite ready to let go yet.