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Cake day: September 2nd, 2023

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  • Headline: says something. (That is obviously not true and just clickbaiting)

    Instant disclaimer: the headline is not good, it should be instead “don’t do this other thing”.

    Later in the article: how do we avoid doing the thing I told you not to do? By doing what I told you not to do.

    The dude may be correct (idk, haven’t bothered reading the rest of the article), but he doesn’t know how to write/communicate. I don’t believe he’s respecting my time. Just tell in the title what you actually want to talk about.


  • 5 seconds at every boot and shutdown is important.

    The reason you shouldn’t blindly benchmark an init system is because most of the time is not caused by the init system itself being slow, but the processes it manages being slow.

    As the other commenter says, it is very easy to make the system “faster” by just configuring the timeouts to be lower. If you just set the timeout to 0 it will be very fast, but it won’t be a very good system.










  • The X just sends a signal to your application. If you ignore that signal, it will just do nothing.

    That signal tells your application to clean itself. Maybe the changed how that “cleaning itself” worked, in a way that lead to actually ignoring the signal all together.

    The thing is easy to break. The question is how that even got past QA testing. Or even just any other dev testing.

    A single person launching the program and trying to close it should see the bug.





  • Not expensive? I just checked. It’s 8€/m for me. Which means 96€/year.

    Maybe that’s not expensive for the USAians that earn hundreds of thousands per year. But it is expensive to just remove a few ads that can be easily blocked. It won’t even stop the Google tracking, it just stops the ads on YouTube. An ad blocker will also block the tracking.