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I don’t think it matters what tools you use as long as it works.

That would be true if other systems and services depend on them. Would have been nice to come out with a standard and designed systemd around that standard. Then you pick the tool you want that follows the standard rather than be tied into systemd.

Worth noting is that a process not managed by pid 1 isn’t really a thing you want generally

I would disagree. A compromised Docker doesn’t mean i have access to things managed by PID1. The entire control model is based around moving your publicly available services further away from something with the highest level of access. Be it users or processes.

And systemd is far more resources intensive than runit. Wasn’t really the point.

Kind of nice to not have a bug in my container service possibly have access to pid 1.

Personally I’d like my container/vm/chroot handled by something detached from pid 1. I get that much of the overal systemd project is separate blocks of code but it’s the fact they are bound together that it becomes an issue. I would have loved for the systemd team yo first publish a set of APIs that all their components would us and allow the same integration while being completely different projects.

That is pretty cool.

But its also another example of systemd doing stuff other services already did (see lxc).

Soon systemd will include a feature where it replaces the user and does all the computing for you.

The name Debian comes from the original creator, Ian Murdock, and his wife Debra.

Sure but that’s always going to be sub par experience.

Red Hat brought us systemd…

Not only can you make your own OS but you can use one of the package managers and build your own repo and do a whole ecosystem yourself.

I used LFS to build a distro for embedded systems I designed at work. Was a fun experience but way too much work.

The issue is a lack of an app ecosystem with actual AAA apps.

Well sort of. If you never talked about dating for instance, and you then started taking to the AI about dating it may not put two and two together to get that it relates to sex. It wouldn’t be able to infer anything about the topic as it only knows what the statistically most likely next word is.

That’s what i feel like most people don’t get. Even uploading years and years of your own text will only match your writing style and the very specific things you’ve said about specific topics. That why the writers strike is kind of dumb. This form of AI wont invent new stories, just rehash old ones.

…oh…now I see why they are on strike.

Unfortunately this setup will only get you to a very rudimentary match to your writing style and only copying from text you’ve already written. New subjects or topics you did not feed it won’t show up. What you’d get is a machine that would be a caricature of you. A mimic.

Its not until the AI can actually identify the topics you prompt, make decisions based on what views and how they relate to the topic that you’ll have an interesting copy of yourself. For example if you were to ask it for something new you should cook today PrivateGPT would only list things you current stated you liked. It would not be able to know the style of food, the flavors and then make a guess as to something else that fits that same taste.

Could always use their cli? Still gotta do the same steps but no need for a mouse.

https://cli.github.com/

Sure there are differences but my question was really about what the new problem they are trying to solve. The local storage of your identity seems to he that big thing and I wonder who was asking for this. Seems like more of a nuisance than anything else, having to manage that data yourself.

So it was 1995, and a new version of Windows came out. Sadly it didnt run on our 486 so we upgraded to a new computer with a Pentium processor (a week before the Pentium Pro was released). My parents got their new machine and i was left with with Windows 3.11.

A friend of mine from school, a few years older, had just come back from a computer show down in Green Bay with a box fully of floppy disks (like 70). That weekend i brought my computer over to his house along with a few other friends and we all installed Slackware. At that point we were all using the Universe of Wisconsin’s dialup service and were able to get online, do some Gopher, IRC and MUDing.

The only other time i ran a non *nix OS would be when work gave me a Windows machine or when I was gaming (Quake, Ultima Online). Otherwise it has been Linux and BSDs since 95

Which issue are they trying to solve? The censoring and control issue goes away with federated systems but there is the cost of having a running network. The corporate networks charge you the fee of personal info so it doesn’t cost actually money.

In all honesty the biggest issue I see is that social media eventually leads to us seeing what most of society is really like… boring, bigoted and stupid. This exists everywhere, it’s only that smaller networks like Lemmy just dont have the numbers to make those issues be so prominent.

I think people don’t always realize what they are sharing though. If an app tracks your location it means it also tracks what places you like to shop, what type of food you like, what doctor you go to and where you work. Now maybe this type of information isn’t being used at the moment but toss all that Big Data into some ML and you can easily be targeted by other companies for a whole mess of things. Wait til health insurance companies buy that data off of Meta. Your rates could go up because they assume your lifestyle from your movements.

Honestly if I got ads for things that are actually relevant I’d have less of an issue. Right now 7 out of 10 ads are for a local event where Christians come to grift other Christians. Wtf am I getting that ad constantly?