There are a lot more distros than RH, Ubuntu, Gentoo and LFS. And none of them will show you ads except maybe Ubuntu. Plus you can also look at *BSD.

None of them comes close to what Microsoft is doing. To me, your comment looks like you do not understand the Linux eco-system. Plus IIRC, LFS can now come with compiled binaries.

Simple solution, add a large state tax on coal fired plants and prevent the tax from being paid by residential consumers.

The Supreme Court ruled the federal gov. cannot override states taxes, so adding the very large tax will force the owners to do something.

Unfortunately the gov cannot decide who ultimately pays for the tax, just who ends up needing to put it on their balance sheet. If residential consumers demand is inelastic, relative to the commercial customers, then they will pay the tax. I have zero insight into whether domestic or commercial customers have higher demand elasticity, but it's worth being aware of this general principle [0].

[0]https://mru.org/courses/principles-economics-microeconomics/...

The rules don’t matter at this point in the governance cycle, attempts to be clever will be ignored by the federal government. Start tearing up the rails used for delivery of coal to these plants, and it solves the problem of illegal DOE must run orders for coal generators that have reached retirement and have received grid operator approval to shutdown. No coal supply, no way to satisfy an illegal order.

Be prepared to switch gears and approach an adversary at their level. Legality when the law matters, direct action when the law doesn’t matter.

So go all Richard Daley with a bulldozer? As far as I can tell he never had any consequences.

Indeed. Compare the constituency who benefited from Meigs Field (a well to do minority) vs Northerly Island (Chicago’s general public). If you have public support, laws become lesser concerns. “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law" cuts both ways.

These generators are not needed as described by their owners and the grid operators of the grids they operate on, and are costing rate payers hundreds of millions of dollars to keep running collectively. Who is the victim by forcing them offline?

This feels like a great idea on the surface, but will likely be overcome by a federal government no longer playing by the rules, requires swift and decisive action on the state government’s side that has not been consistent across the US, even when there’s an obvious issue and solution.

Where I am the last couple of years, the EU model out performed the US model. The local stations tend to show both when sever weather is on its way to the area.

We know how the current admin views science and with the cuts to NOAA done this year, I expect that trend to continue and widen. At least where I am, we get to see both.

I really doubt this for one reason. lawyers makes the laws. Already we have seen massive push-back in legal areas where some lawyers were punished for using AI.

Once it looks like their profession is threatened, you will see many laws against AI.

I thought decades ago people found a way to avoid lawyers is a specific instance, I kind of remember doing that was made against the law. Not sure if I am remembering right, but I could swear that happened.

Edit: Reading the comments, I think it was the bar exam. IIRC there was a time you could take it without a degree, that was changed to force people to go to to college and get a degree.

Also, most politicians are lawyers

>While xz is commonly present in most Linux distributions,

Not Slackware since Slackware does not patch xz or many other utilities. Plus it does not use systemd. From what I remember a patch was put in to give systemd extra functionality and someone used that patch to sneak in the backdoor.

The xz attach happened cuz systemd's library dynamically linked against xz for compression of various tools in systemd and a downstream patch for openssh (IIRC) was used to link against libsystemd to use some founctions for the sd-notify protocol.

This wasn't exactly necessary since the protocol has been stable for external use for ages (since its inception IIRC) and is relatively trivial to implement.

Since the attack happened openssh gained native support for the sd-notify protocol, the sd-notify man page has an example implementation that is freely usable and libsystemd now only loads xz (and most of its other libraries) when explicitly requested by one of the tools via `dlopen`.

I remember when word hit the streets, Lawyers at the time hated it and they kept Word Perfect alive because of its foot note logic.

I wonder if M/S got that "fixed", early on they had a hard time with it.

So high population areas emit more carbon, who knew :)

So now the poor people forced into using Windows 11 will get constant prompts for each file and new files as they are created ? Looks like maybe at the directory level, a little better, but will be fun for developers :(

M/S should allow people to disable AI globally, but that will never happen. Plus how do we know if saying "no" really means "no" ?