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Boom, installed, cool addon

A blocklist for malware would be safeguarding. But you can’t claim this is “safeguarding” against… completely safe software?

And it’s not exactly easily overridden, otherwise this post wouldn’t exist.

Sadly, there a few annoying things in Firefox which absolutely are not overridable at all. Firefox is heckin’ awesome, but this just ain’t true.

This is exciting. FWIW, ‘young’ is expected to mean 18-45, but we don’t know until they publish in a month.

Accelerate western brain drain

Those graphs are interesting. How does state ownership grow that quickly over that short a time? Are they just pouring money into nationalising industries? Massively growing state ones? Seizing bad 'uns? All of the above?

Given the government has been pretty stable under Xi’s premiership for that whole period, it must be something circumstantial leading to that heel turn. My best guess is just the realisation that state companies are outcompeting global private ones at every turn now. Very welcome whatever the actual cause.

Also, funny article.

The authorities’ stance since 2020, including regulatory tightening and zero-COVID lockdowns, appear to have inflicted long-lasting damage to China’s private economy, the dynamism of which was a defining feature of its economic miracle in the past four decades. Nearly 20 months into China’s COVID reopening, the private sector has yet to bounce back, despite many pro-private business utterances and gestures from China’s leadership. In sum, the findings here corroborate the view that China continues to suffer from “economic long COVID.”

“The fact that China’s economy is significantly growing with unparalleled state ownership despite COVID, while the private sector withers, just shows how the private sector is the cause of China’s ‘economic miracle’ and that continued, consistent massive state-led economic success just shows how bad the economy now is!!”

Again, it’s very hard to see the inner workings of China from our viewpoint, but one could definitely argue that they’re in the process of doing it. I think it was nary a year ago they passed a major law that mandates worker-elected board members for swathes of companies, and many more similar reforms that increase worker control over workplaces. They’ll probably spend years enforcing and setting all that up. If they do continue with changes like that, then they’re undeniably moving away from private sector control and toward a worker-controlled economy.

China is the only country of its kind, it has no peers to meaningfully compare itself to, so I daresay any fast, radical changes would be a foolish high-risk move that risks collapsing the socialist project globally. The west stands ready to maximally exploit the slightest crack at the drop of a hat, so it can’t risk showing any weakness.

But thankfully, it doesn’t live under bourgeois democracy, it actually can make progress through incremental, gradual change, and there’s definitely an argument to be made that it is doing exactly that.

I fully agree. I remember back when BE used to say he didn’t even want to voice his own videos because it would turn him into too much of a publicly involved figure. Today’s BE is unrecognisable by comparison where he wants every last dumb though to be a spectacle.

Living proof that Twitter is a cognitohazard

I don’t really agree with the representation from your first paragraph. The European Commission is entirely picked and decided upon by member states. The commission is only as democratic or undemocratic as the governments of the member countries. The parliament is inevitably equally or even more (bourgeois) democratic from being PR alone. So it’s a minor overall improvement from national lawmaking.

Yes, the EU sucks, supports aggressive imperialism and enforces capitalism. I agree it has shitty articles. But unfortunately, so does every member state of the EU. If anything, I think the EU means less of capitalism’s worse excesses happen than they otherwise would. The EU is neoliberal, but continues to care more about personal and consumer freedoms than countries’ governments.

The key to my defense of the EU is just that they are the 90% Hitler to individual countries’ 99%. I’ll happily tear them down the microsecond there’s room for a meaningfully good alternative.

In a socialist world it would probably best to tear it all down and start again from scratch. For now, it’s a shitty mix of being a mediating force, lessening some of the worse parts, but also a stabilising force, making it harder to replace.

As a European, it’s been a long time coming. I would say tide turned in favour of it and both Ukraine and Israel-Gaza have been important factors - Most countries suddenly decided they didn’t have enough sway over public support for Western imperialism. And the big part of that has been the internet.

Android is already thoroughly Linux-based ;) You just called all android users nerds!

I’m told my cute’n’calm Hexbear instance means there’s a lot of drama here I can’t see. So apologies if my tone comes off badly in the ol’ .ml context.

Rest assured I was just out for fun conversation to learn about atomic stuff :) Hope the rest of this thread ain’t too stressful.

Oof, fair enough, I certainly don’t see a lot of said ruckus. Cheers for the context.

Because I was being told the pros outweight the cons, and if I can get a better OS, then I want it? I feel like it was a reasonable question and we had a good conversation out of it.

I also put ‘normal’ in quotes myself, I obviously meant a non-atomic Fedora.

I feel like you’re coming across unnecessarily dismissively here, when I was just out for a nice conversation on the benefit of atomic setups (and got two! :) ).

This is very cool, and I can suddenly see atomic being useful for certain circumstances. Won’t be using it for my personal computer main driver, but hopping/resetting this is easily attracts me so. Thank you!

Thank you for the informative response! :)

saying don’t mention stability is proving the point

My point is that stability is already 100% fine for me now. So saying you’ll make my already rock-solid experience somehow more stable is meaningless. As a power user for over a decade, I’ve personally experienced zero issues where I wished Fedora was somehow more stable. It’s like telling me that Silverblue connects to the internet - Like yes, I already have that.

From what I’m reading, it sounds like the singular ‘pro’ is being forced to do cleaner, more self-contained practices. I can totally see how that would be helpful for some people. But personally, I would genuinely despise that kind of restriction.

I’m admittedly the kind of person who hates being forced to do the ‘best practice’ thing. I’m genuinely happy that my Linux distro will me rm -rf the root partition (with an ‘are you sure’ prompt these days :) ). I’m happy that if I really want to purge the kernel package with dnf, then I can. I want (and kind of need) my freedom to make a mess, if I tell Linux to jump, it will goddamn jump, even if it’s a bad practice technically terrible decision. I have zero interest in going all around the houses just to do it the technically correct (and sometimes less-effort-in-the-long-run) way. If I ever want a clean plate, I can still spin up a container just like you’re saying.

So I get the feeling that atomic is very much not for me, which is what I suspected :) Very glad that people like yourself find it an improvement, that’s what flavours are for!

Thanks for the response, though up to this sentence I’m hearing extra busywork and slow/annoying containerising, in exchange for vague security platitude and a tool which I can already use.

It’s also nice to be able to rebase your distro whenever you want to try out different spins and features, makes inter-fedora atomic distro hopping easy without destroying your configs.

I’m interested by this. Is there a uniqueness to Atomic setups such that you can (more easily) keep your user partition, GNOME configs, etc. and swap out the Fedora distro underneath?

once it clicks, the pros far outweigh the cons

I would love to hear a pro about atomic distros that isn’t some vague platitude about security or stability. I have zero security/stability problems on my ‘normal’ Fedora.

As someone who has steadfastly avoided atomic distros because it sounds like an arseache and the last thing I want is more busywork. Convince me to switch!

Very fun, I’ve been rocking Fedora workstation for years. If Fedora could take off as the gaming distro that’d be great, I’ll get even more up-to-date top-notch graphics drivers without having to change distros

Governments have persistently censored and surveilled the internet ever-more on the basis of “but the children :(” without ever doing a single actually good thing for the children like decreasing class sizes or letting parents spend more time with their children. Both of which would actually help address the issue.

This is the equivalent of abstinence education, just keep 'em ignorant and then when they finally see porn on superundergroundillegalporn.com.illegal it’ll just be 10x worse.

You’re not wrong, but it absolutely is getting worse.