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What exactly does systemd do?

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This is a good post.

As for why people don't like systemd, it follows the kitchen-sink approach to software and does a lot of things at once.

For people new to Linux I just want to point out - for better or for worse this goes against the Unix philosophy.

Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

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Public health agency launches probe into Air Canada vomit incident | Globalnews.ca

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In all honesty it sounds to me like a game of telephone. The flight attendant probably said these people refused to sit down or were hesitant to sit down or something like that to the pilot.

The pilot then came to the back and took the flight attendant’s word for it, assumed the worst and didn’t bother to ask what the situation was.

Poor communication all around.

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Meshtastic - An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices

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Dude this is a great response. I’ve spent the last hour trying to piece together how it works and you nailed everything perfectly.

I’m a ham so familiar with radios and have been trying to setup some Wi-Fi links between friends but this seems a little more practical.

Is a few mile range possible with houses etc in the way? We’re all about a mile away from each other, although I may throw an antenna on top of my house (maybe 10m up)

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This is extremely concerning for me . Thoughts ?

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I apologize but I’ll be blunt - you went way over the top with your comment.

The guy is trying to triage some tickets, made a reasonable guess at policy and was greeted by a dissertation and accusations. You then double down by posting here like there’s cause for some huge alarm. I’m a fairly big privacy advocate and even I was rolling my eyes. These type of comments make working in open source not enjoyable.

Unsolicited advice - Take a deep breath, have reasonable conversations with people building and maintaining software, and don’t take every small offhanded comment as the sky falling.

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People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why?

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It’s a shot of espresso which is only about 2oz (60ml). A normal serving would be one or two shots.

I’m guessing people are ordering a latte or cappuccino or something similar which is milk and coffee. The extra shot will make the drink have a stronger coffee taste.

Edit: here’s more than you ever asked to know about espresso drinks lol:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/44/bc/0d/44bc0d51e616263587e1044d487cf761--espresso-recipes-espresso-drinks.jpg

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House Republicans impeach Mayorkas by a single vote

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I got a little curious too and just did a small amount of digging. The DHS latest report (Q2 FY 2023) can be found here:

https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/special-reports/legal-immigration

“About 11,700 refugees were admitted to the United States in FY 2023 Q2 (Table 2), a 113 percent increase from FY 2022 Q2, when only about 5,500 refugees were admitted.”

So about 4000 a month, 1000 per week and 150 per day.

That includes countries other than South America:

“76 percent of refugees arrived from the top five countries of nationality: Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma, Syria, Afghanistan, and Colombia“

I haven’t found a great source on illegal immigration yet.

Edit: I got also got curious about the scale of this number so I looked up births per day (from some random sites) in the US and it seems like that’s about 10,000. Number of deaths per day seems to be around 8,000. So a net of about 2,000 people are added to the US per day “naturally”.

Last edit: Found some info by the cbp: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters

Looks like an increase but nothing crazy. I don’t know what an “encounter” is either.

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Easy peasy

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How do I know if a project has a good documentation?

What are you trying to understand and what type of project are you looking at? Are you looking to run a program or use a library?

Good documentation to me is here’s how to get this installed, here’s a basic overview of getting started, here’s all the methods/functions with their arguments and a description, and optionally some very basic examples programs to sanity check everything is working ok.