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I'm not saying this is because of energy independence.

It's just that the best way to put pressure on a country like Russia, is by affecting the GDP. Unfortunately for Russia this has proven pretty easy since a big chunk of the GDP comes from oil and gas.

I noticed that when using ghostery you can't do anything; clicking login doesn't do anything, neither does clicking sign up.

Well, pointing out what is wrong with systemd proves to be very easy for some people, but fixing the issues pointed out or even start building something different that doesn't have these flaws and still can innovate, is quite another story. There is definitely a lot of hate towards systemd (ignore the justified or not argument), but a complete lack of equally innovative alternatives.

Imho this is the semi-religious 'vim vs emacs' debate all over again, except this time it's not between equally good pieces of software but a 'systemd is garbage' group against the rest...

Aah, Ralph Brown's interrupt list, that takes me back a long time. I used to write assembler quite a lot when I was ~14year old. Now I'm a webdeveloper mainly doing php and some basic sysadmin stuff and it strikes me how far apart those things are. Assembler needs a different mindset and it's quite hard to get into it again.

The people at Google are really pushing for broad adoption of G+. If you think about it, it's pretty logical as they know Facebook is only going downhill and they are trying to get everybody onboard. The reaction I'm hearing a lot however, is they are being too pushy.

I've even had a few people who accidentally signed up for a G+ account ask me how to delete it because they kept receiving 'Top X posts on G+' mails without knowing what it is. I don't think a lot of good things come with this kind of tactic.

Well, to be honest, every setup has serious problems, it just depends how far you want it to go. 100% Secure doesn't exist and while it may look like bad service from your point of view, truth is I've seen other vps solutions do the same thing. The issue here is that people with experience in system administration change the default password and set up key based authentication and try not to rely on password management from others. It's a shame your box got hacked, but immediately jumping to the conclusion the whole of digitalocean has a root exploit in the wild is a bit much imho...

Too bad the author makes it sound like digitalocean has severe problems while his setup was clearly flawed. The really sad part is that this kind problem will unfortunately only grow as vps systems become cheaper and cheaper. People with less knowledge will set up their own stack and not think of the consequences... I wonder what hosting providers will come up with to tackle this problem.

Yes, a led that lights up does sound pretty suspicious to you and me, but if you don't know anything about computers and you see it on all the time it becomes natural. The same phenomena as clicking 'yes' and 'ok' buttons without reading anything.

I'm using a non-us keyboard layout and unfortunately that doesn't work...

I'm sticking with firefox for most of the same reasons as the author notes, but I do wish the mozilla team used some common sense when they think of new features.

A good example of the lack of common sense (imho) is the addon bar. Why do I want an extra bar with 2 or 3 icons? Most people will probably remember the status bar in browsers and they ditched that because it was not needed and you lost valuable screen estate. What was the best solution mozilla could come up with to handle the extension icons? An extra bar in the bottom of your browser. Just implement an omnibar already and put those things there...

If anyone from mozilla is reading this: you've done a great (GREAT!) job at making firefox faster and use less memory, and if you're ever in the neighbourhood I'll buy you a beer. Now please also start thinking about those little things that just don't make any sense.