throwaway08320

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

> web-based POS application

That's a hard pass for me!

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

> for close to 3 decades I have not seen a single reason to do so

Evidently you don't have dataset far exceeding the amount of RAM you can afford.

For a good example look at LMDB.

throwaway08320

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

worship?

throwaway08320

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

FOMU also provides an RV32 on an FPGA that fits inside an USB port:

https://tomu.im/fomu.html

throwaway08320

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

> It's a bad idea to run Docker

No need to add more.

throwaway08320

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I'd rather say "pizza, noodles or sushi" than "leavened dough, dry unleavened dough, rolled up rice with fillings"

throwaway08320

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

> neo-fascist dictatorship with corporate characteristics

> Listen every large organization becomes a leftist surveillance state

You seem very confused.

throwaway08320

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

> Debian maintainers don't have the time (or often the knowledge) to review upstream changes > Do you think the Debian Linux, GCC and Xorg maintainers exhaustively review and understand every patch? They don't.

This is plain false. While it's impossible to guarantee a 100% code reviews, the number of bugs and vulnerabilities found, reported upstream, and patched by distributions (especially Debian) shows that code is being reviewed.

throwaway08320

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

While full auditing is impossible for any distribution, Debian has a multiple people eyeballing code.

Apart the package maintainers and contributors, the Security Team can also review critical packages and step in if something looks suspicious.

But, most importantly, the release cycle and the long freeze before releases is all about STABILITY and SECURITY.

Anybody can upload backdoored code on npm/PyPI etc, infect someone and then remove the malicious release without being detected.

Releasing something malicious or with serious bugs before a freeze cycle and going undetected for months is not impossible but much more difficult.

throwaway08320

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

In both points you conflated, again, disdain towards software and disdain towards users.

> I take it you've never been on the receiving end of the "Oh, you use _Windoze_" comments

Actually I did. Clearly those were not insults meant against me as a user. Just like stating "beer is disgusting" or "I hate Samsung" is not insulting me for my drink or monitor brand choices.

throwaway08320

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

> mob of angry FOSS advocates

I've been at DebConfs, FOSDEMs and other events and never met any these angry advocates. They seem to be mailing list / twitter trolls.

> people like RMS who actively show disdain for proprietary software and those who use it

Do you have sources to support the claim that RMS shows disdain for people using proprietary software?

throwaway08320

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

> Free software activists and advocates are often accused of "user shaming".

What do you mean with "shaming"? I've been at many DebConfs and I have never heard any other DD calling people names just for using some closed source software.