Extremely lame work by Google. Infeasible? Why? This is absolutely a security vulnerability. Any ad SDK on any app on your phone can use it to associate your VPN activity.

We used to finger our users too.

Defense in depth, indeed. There’s layers to trust, and I prefer that my containers stayed contained just in case.

This was also my experience. I know the disclosure was handled poorly, but I’m pleased to see that my distribution (Fedora) reacted expediently to news of the security issue.

Woah, I didn’t know they were working on those features. Thanks for sharing!

Normal user? Extremely rarely would you need to build the kernel. Distributions design their options to fit most use cases, and you’ve observed the extensibility through modules. The kernel itself has moved towards runtime configurable options for your convenience over time, such as with

PREEMPT_DYNAMIC

Where in the past changing the preemption model would require a recompile. Ultimately, this is a good thing; it makes your life easier and you can get better support for a common kernel if you need to debug.

It does happen though if you need special hardware or if you’re picky about specific kernel features. For example, I’ve used kernels that don’t have built-in support for memory compression. Need is a subjective term, and I felt that was a configuration option that I needed because a memory upgrade was not an option. I would argue there was a point to that effort. Considering that you phrase your question as asking about normal users, then no, I would say that’s rarely beneficial, might actually be disadvantageous because you won’t receive as much help debugging problems from your distribution, and generally you can achieve your goals by tuning runtime kernel parameters anyway.

It’s a grift. You bribe me to get an exception. That’s how they get so rich so fast.

It infuriates me because it’s disrespectful. The message insinuates that I wouldn’t be able to figure it out.

Thank you for weighing in. It sounds to me like Linux may be trying to be less opinionated on how these features are used.

Ubuntu just added that feature. Not my distro of choice, but it’s coming up.

Somehow this leads me to appreciate the simplicity of jails or virtualized network stacks in BSD.

Are there actual applications for just name spacing one thing rather than combining them all to create a container? Why design all these steps?

A single person used AI to help write a port for macOS. It’s not exactly a community effort even though the developer bills it as such. It’s unofficial and unaffiliated with the project.

I really hope you’re right. My employer is using it as a crutch. I don’t think they can stop using AI because they just don’t have enough skilled employees to deliver on their commitments. They would pay nearly any price, and I’m sure they’re not alone.

This is fallout of the broader problem of ultra-extreme centralization and shortsightedness in pursuit of line go up. We eagerly run into a climate catastrophe for the same underlying reason. It’s not a matter of understanding the problem, but a matter of willingness to solve it.

Collectively, we are not willing to solve problems that might require a measure of compromise today.

Tale as old as time. Corpos try to get you dependent and then give your business an atomic wedgie.

I have a ten year old server that was once a thin client (think the precursor of mini-PCs of today). Could it be more energy efficient? Perhaps. But it’s always been a good little server, and today it’s my SyncThing “file server” ensuring that the latest copy of a document is always available right away on all clients. PC hardware of all kind of expensive these days, so I’m not jumping to replace it while it serves a useful purpose and the hardware is good enough for those tasks.

Maybe it can one day evolve to be a personal laptop that you don’t need to share with your dad, or perhaps, a server of some kind. But what useful means is highly variable. It depends on your needs and the use cases.

It’s an accurate name. The company has explicitly told us that they are a slop-first cloud company.

But the PM said it has to be this tall.

And now for your local on the 8s.

This is what I call junk open source. They use the open source label, but it’s not really open source in spirit. The license is restrictive and I’d recommend against using any such software in favor of something that’s actually, properly open source. If you’re bothering to self host, I feel like this freedom is important to most users.

Also, I think this is an advertisement and should be removed.