What's really difficult for the average user is the installation process.
Debian is what I install to friends and family because the system is really tested, stable and does not annoy them with continuous update pop ups.
Then every two years, we have a dinner at my place and I help them upgrade.
They tell me that their pc seems less "magical", that they feel they have more control over what it does.
The only real issue is compatibility with the office suite when the beancounter sends Excel sheets.
Excel really is the/my last hold-out for Windows. Excel for web is not adequate. Maybe it's better that way for MS/windows, otherwise there are no reasons to stay with windows except it being a habit. For my private use I'll try changing to Linux with Steam Deck.
Threat detection is becoming essential because of ransomware phishing and alikes, protection from click tracking is good too.
Just send email in tranches.
If the marketing department is sending too many e-mails for the web server to handle, then the volume is probably out of proportion to the company and what they are doing is probably just spam.
I agree, I'm not blaming Microsoft here, and it is our problem to solve (the service should handle the traffic, and/or the emails should be staggered over time)
> The complexity is buried in the huge work the OpenBSD devs make to keep the kernel and the base system small, elegant and consistent.
>> You can’t create a simple solution for that, since there is an inherent complexity.
They didn't bury the complexity, they removed it. And I agree, that's hard to do. It'd be nice if the systemd folks put in the same effort to remove the complexity from their system.
Many Chinese companies are building their own authoritative NS based on code from miekg/dns :)
Writing one importing that library is really simple, we should do it more often in the West too.
Right, I just ported our Rust DNS server (built with the equally excellent NLNet crate) to miekg/dns. It's great. But people tend to be writing "interesting" DNS servers, which is not the thing you actually need if you're trying to get rid of BIND and nsd; you need stuff that behaves exactly like BIND and nsd, just minus the memory corruption.
> Maybe the author is assuming there are no elements in the universe that don’t follow quantum mechanics?
Exactly, the author is assuming the universe is a quantum Turing machine.
> It seems like everything should have a chain of causality back to some thing. Except there has to be at least one uncaused causes, or else it’s just an infinite regression and not meaningful.
It's not necessarily so.
Models that aim to describe the universe before the Planck epoch are speculative. There are known theories that does not include uncaused causes as a necessary condition while being internally-consistent.
They are often self-referential solutions to the Wheeler-deWitt equation.
e.g.: The Hartle-Hawking state and some interpretations of Carlo Rovelli's QLG
There is something contradictory and insincere about being so concerned about the eminence of French in multilingual European institutions.
Multilingualism is the reality today in Europe, English being only a neutral enough language of convenience for international communication.
A tiny comparison of French and English orthography seems a bad argument for promoting French in Europe.
That's the trick : English is _not_ neutral. It is perceived, with quite a bit of truth, as a vehicle for English-speaking culture (duh) and in particular American strategies and worldviews. The way specifically American social topics have exported over social networks to Europe in a linear relationship to the degree of English-speaking is quite telling in that respect. There's also a worry that it would hasten the road to the exact opposite of multi-lingualism, that is mono-culture. There's no universe in which adopting English wholeheartedly would somehow result in German, French, Spanish and others receiving the same amount of attention or respect.
It's a fruitless discussion if you pretend that all languages are equal and have the same inertia and networks effects anyway. The network effects of English are too strong, and there would be absolutely no coming back from openly using it as a Paneuropean vehicular language. It's a massive civilisational choice, not some technical detail.
As for orthography, I was merely making an observation. The formal history of both French and English are interesting. I don't think it's a valid point in favour of one language or the other.
I don't think all languages are created equal. Given the arrogance with which the French expect others to use their language, I prefer English. Or German, as it is the only other working language of the European institutions. Anything but French would be fine.
Debian is what I install to friends and family because the system is really tested, stable and does not annoy them with continuous update pop ups. Then every two years, we have a dinner at my place and I help them upgrade.
They tell me that their pc seems less "magical", that they feel they have more control over what it does.
The only real issue is compatibility with the office suite when the beancounter sends Excel sheets.