The "deep state", has to be theoretical, in order to be the deep state...  you cannot prove it exists, even though there are several theories.  Yes there are theories, but most are what amounts to bullshit spread by the misinformed, or disinformation spread by "conspiracy theorists" wanting to make money out of gullible people / amass followers / all of the above.

It seems that you actually believe that the "deep state" and tech billionaires such as Bill Gates are "communists" (rather than capitalists).  You must have a very poor understanding of communism.  It appears to me that you are subscribing to the popular US idea of a "left", i.e. a left which isn't a left at all, but some form of "right wing authoritarian" politics.

The anti zionist conspiracy, fueled by the "Khazar hypothesis", has long since been dis-proven (via genetic testing) and has no basis at all.

I stopped reading there, as would most reasonably intelligently people.

Any "deep state actors" you may refer to aren't interested in this kind of group - in fact those kinds of groups, including far right, nationalist and white supremecist groups, are understood to be utilised and nurtured by theoretical deep states around the world.

This is likely a combination of paranoia, computer illiteracy, existing unrelated malware, the platform itself, i.e. server load, or those clients trying to connect using Tor Browser for example. You should examine the far more credible causes first.

That's a separate issue.  Unfortunately, as per my earlier post, you may have to install the nvidia proprietary driver.  To get stable performance, and working power management.

Sakura is a decent terminal emulator.  Unfortunately, I'm almost 99% certain it doesn't support pseudo transparency (just tested it here on FreeBSD 14.1 and it seems you need a compositor running).  Unless you're completely averse to compositors you could try xcompmgr, which is very lightweight and easy enough to configure in just a single command line to run from .xsession / .xinitrc.

@steve_v, yes apparrently the local package install has been a feature since APT 1.1 (released in 2015). You have to specify the full path or it searches a remote repository.   I didn't know about that one - dpkg always worked for me though I suppose.

JWM-Kit has a valid point and argues from a realist perspective - ideology and moralising won't stop the development of GAI by "Big Tech".  As with splitting the atom, you can't put this "AI" thing back in the box and just forget about it and/or ban it.  You cannot go and smash the printing presses as the Luddites did and even if you did, the presses will be remade (as they were).

It will be used and is being used (MS Copilot), in the next phase of the ever expanding global surveillance/spying/profiling/telemetry infrastructure which permeates today's web and computing platforms.  Without free and open alternatives, this "AI" will be squarely in the hands of "Big Tech" only, who will use that as leverage to more firmly cement the monopolies it has been building throughout the web and within "open source" for the last 15 to 20 years.

It is also being used in defense, "Project Maven" for example.  The problem is already far larger than most realise...

My interpretation was that this is more a matter of removing browsing history on closing the browser - quite different from anonymity.

Tor browser does that by default because it's set to private browsing mode or not to store history at all - can't remember which,  as I haven't used it in years.

@zapper, you are terribly misinforned with regards to FreeBSD. Please educate yourself and return with some fact based critique.

@stopAI, there's no more to know - he's spreading what amounts FUD. Some facts here on GPL in base:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/GPLinBase

The only code FredBSD ports from the Linux kernel that I know of is the KMS/DRM graphics driver stack, which is deveoped by Intel and AMD, among others and permissive licensed. NetBSD and OpenBSD also port this same code.

Daemons are from greek mythology, but that's irrelevant - it's just a mascot/logo. If you have a problem with it, it's just your problem and you choosing to take offence. Improperly prepared pufferfish probably killed more people than daemons.

I think you may confusing this with bin and sbin seperation.

This is about merging /lib, /lib64, /sbin and /bin into the directories of the same name under /usr

They would become symlinks and nothing more. It may do no harm, but I'm not sold on it being necessary. Historically those directories were in / because /usr may have been on a separate partition and therefore not available in certain circumstances. The rest of the maintenance related points are just "problem, reaction, solution" politics. The maintenance issue is one they have created by merging and are now proposing to solve in suggesting all others should do the same. And you can be sure it won't stop there...

systemd project are citing "compatibility" with other "Unixes" in particular Solaris, which they have absolutely never cared about before. Suddenly Solaris is the "primary Unix implimenation", the BSDs are never mentioned. Solaris has been in maintenance mode since the last release in 2018, it's future was in serious doubt since the aquisition by Oracle and when most of the developers were laid off in 2017. The references to Solaris is simply smoke and mirrors to coerce / convince the general Linux fans to spread the word, as they did with regard to systemd itself.

Yes "politically charged".  There's complying with sanctions and there's voicing your opinion, spewing nationalism and pushing your own agenda:

I'm not the only one: https://news.itsfoss.com/russian-linux- … opolitics/

No idea how those maintainers, who he has vocally supported kicking out, fit the category of "Russian aggression".  For me it's a spectacular own goal, but as with anything else, this will likely get white washed and it will be business as usual.

We know why it was done, we know the sanctions are a political move and the "compliance reasons" were cited - the LF were just "complying", but then Torvalds weighs in with some "Finnish nationalism" and Greg KH's earlier "compliance reasons" seems rather empty, when Torvalds makes it clear he supports the action anyway.  So he rounds on "Russian trolls" by throwing even more fuel on that particular fire.

Also: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7ee74c1b5b5 … rship.com/

Check the bug reports:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgrepo … t=unstable

Maybe a relevant one among that bugfest: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=682369

Still seems open and unfixed...

I remember all that, at the time.  The plan was always to coerce and force systemd adoption.  Many of us argued about this at the time, but were shouted down and categorised as "tin foil hat" wearers, by the noisy parrots who drank the Red Hat kewl aid..

If something is well designed and works well, there's no need to coerce or force, or weave it in as a dependency.

If something is badly designed, but they want to establish it as the de facto standard, then that's where you find the coercion and weaving in and forced dependencies.  It's a corporate tactic - it's why many "need" MS Windows, or an MS account or a google account or social networking membership, etc.  The bad, profit driven, things are always loaded with coercion, security theatre, scare mongering, marketing, etc - and sadly they fall for it over and over again.

UEFI is bad - you got it, because a consortium of US based Big Tech corporations made sure you got it, because it's in their interests (especially Microsoft's), not yours, theirs.

"Microsoft loves Linux" is akin to:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_ … ight_Zone)

And now the chief architect of systemd works for that number one enemy of FOSS and Linux.

Eventually Devuan will need a new base.  I would guess that it will need a new base Linux distribution much sooner than it will need a new kernel.  Debian project is toxic, it takes Microsoft money and cannot be trusted as a base, or for anything else for that matter.  It will serve it's own interests and corporate interests, such as those of Canonical or Microsoft for example.

https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/11/Deb … hat_.shtml

This "rot" goes right through to the Linux kernel itself: https://techrights.org/o/2023/06/20/mic … oundation/