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They're so spacious

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There are 25 rail passenger casualties for every 100 collisions with a heavy vehicle at a crossing, of which there are 14609 collisions with trucks in the US database over a ten year period to 2021

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Why the Covid-19 documents Gabbard released don’t prove her claims about Fauci

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At the same time there's a whole bunch of idiots running around thinking they know everything just because they paid the university tax and got a piece of paper

Imagine someone of average intelligence, then 50% of people are dumber than that and maybe 10% are functionally equivalently intelligent. Maybe 40% of the population are switched on, now throw in some politics and wildly different upbringing and life experience

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Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site for ‘Canvassing’

Discussions about potential bans are supposed to remain open for at least 72 hours. While consensus that Sanger had violated Wikipedia policies was clear, Sanger was banned at some point before that deadline. He was then briefly unbanned, and then again indefinitely banned once 72 hours had elapsed and the discussion about the ban closed.

There is clearly some extreme bias on Wikipedia when they can't even follow this very normal and regularly practised rule

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What's the fundamental difference between sudo and doas ?

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For an LLM comparison, this is what I get from haiku

sudo is older, more complex, and feature-rich, while doas is newer, simpler, and security-focused.

Core distinctions:

Code size & complexity: doas has roughly 700 lines of code versus sudo's 100,000+ lines, making doas easier to audit and maintain.

Configuration: sudo uses the complex sudoers file with intricate syntax; doas uses a simpler doas.conf file that's more straightforward to read and write.

Security philosophy: doas was designed with security-first principles, minimizing potential attack surface. sudo accumulated features over decades, increasing complexity and potential vulnerabilities.

Feature set: sudo has advanced features like session recording, plugins, authentication caching, and detailed logging. doas is minimalist—it handles the essential privilege escalation task without extras.

Adoption: sudo is ubiquitous across Linux and Unix systems. doas is less common but gaining traction, particularly on OpenBSD (where it originated) and among security-conscious users.

Performance: doas is faster and lighter, while sudo carries more overhead.

In practice, doas works well for straightforward privilege escalation needs, while sudo is better if you need advanced features or broader compatibility.