wishigotitfree

Seconding this. As someone who's depended on CentOS for years, I like how AlmaLinux has been set up so far. The fact that it's the CloudLinux people who made this is also a plus.

> Yes, GDP has been going up for a long time in many countries, and so the "average wealth" of each generation is going up.

GDP does not correlate to "average wealth" and is itself a dubious measure for economic progress depending on what figures you pick to calculate it.

Also, no matter what metric you use, the "average wealth" of the younger generations, particularly millennials, is not in fact higher than their predecessors. The level of their productivity is a historical high point, but this is infamously contrasted by stagnating wages, assets, and by some metrics even overall quality of life.

Starting conditions (where one was born, levels of wealth and opportunity there, one's parents' education and jobs) are shockingly predictive about an individual's future. Hard work leading to social mobility has always been the exception, not the rule. Most will not beat the odds since if they did, those wouldn't BE the odds. A lot of us are just so deluded by survivorship bias borne of listening only to success stories, but it seems more and more people are seeing through the illusion. In my opinion, that's a good thing, as recognizing the true state of things is the first step to improving them, and this combination of consciousness and lived experience can prove to be potent immunization against bad faith actors who want to maintain the illusion of widespread social mobility.

See, the nice thing about Linux is that you can always disable what you don't like. You're never just helplessly subject to the whims of the developers.

The most worrying thing about this in my opinion is that it's not surprising at all. The Philippine government and all its agencies has such an infamously bad record with infosec as well as how they build and run their sites in general. My uni days were riddled with having to deal with HTTP-only sites that used outdated frameworks and lousy account systems that practically begged to have all its passwords exposed. Back then I was filled with frustrated resolve to enter the field and work for the government so I could make some kind of difference, but as I got older I realized any work I could do would be a drop in the bucket, and for crap pay.

Even so, I am increasingly filled with concern because the pandemic has made my government clamor to "digitize more services" without a clear strategy on how to do it well. They took the quick and dirty route, resulting in ugly, insecure, UX nightmare sites that you can't even rely to work or even load half the time. And as this leak has shown, if they can't secure critical legal documents, then I don't trust them to digitize any more things.