I would love to switch long time ago, but I make money on Windows enterprise customers, using specific Windows tools that have no reasonable Linux counterparts.
I'll throw my Windows laptop out of a (pun intended) window on the exact second I'll secure viable and sustainable income using Linux. I know it can be done, but so far it's outside of my circles.
That actually is not analogy at all and it makes sense. When a low-paid Uber Eats delivery person just throws the box carelessly and brings damaged dish to the customer, that's a real issue.
In digital services there's no such thing. There's only a damned corporation employing idiots who don't care about community.
If we can't get zero-days discovered and fixed in due time to protect our privacy, I certainly do hope one day AI will discover most of it and suggest how to fix it.
I do hope it's going to be capable enough to be plugged into CI/CD to discover that the top-talent today made another obvious XSS, SQLi or other trivial issue that just created a 0-day. Even a few of those cyber-models, so they verify each other. I do hope it's going to be trained on all prior issues, like the one with xz, or Axios, and be vigilant against these things.
> systemd has had optional fields for those for years and nobody complained.
GECOS in 1962, and UNIX in '70s had them as well, and nobody threatened to kill their creators.
Having a field in a database is not equal to mandatory data collection. Let me remind of data that /etc/passwd allows to store on even an OS without systemd:
- User's full name (or application name, if the account is for a program)
- Building and room number or contact person
- Office telephone number
- Home telephone number
- Any other contact information (pager number, fax, external e-mail address, etc.)
100 computers in 100 homes are way harder to find and get destroyed, unlike dropping one bomb on an AWS region. Also it's much easier to get rebuilt and running again than $1-5 bn data center.
Actually reading that Iran attacked AWS and is going to attack other major cloud providers, the massively distributed compute is going to be the only solution that will be resilient enough for the current civilization to survive attacks on the infrastructure.
We'll be certainly less performant and less capable, but the data will continue to flow and business processes will proceed. If cloud data centers are destroyed, everything that's important to sustain us stops and we die.
I like it, and I hope it's soon going to be available in various Linux distributions, along with other modern tools such as fd instead of find, ripgrep instead of grep, and fzf, for instance.
So no, thank you USA. I'm not going to visit you. I have all I need in this our European "socialism" as many Americans like to call it. I'm not assumed to be a criminal, and governments aren't building databases of all my steps and activities, and I have a great healthcare.
I'll throw my Windows laptop out of a (pun intended) window on the exact second I'll secure viable and sustainable income using Linux. I know it can be done, but so far it's outside of my circles.
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