CIFS / Samba? You mean that thing I have never ever in decades of work seen consistently work properly?
a longtime IBM engineer while since 2018 is employed by Microsoft
Right, that tracks.
I mean in all seriousness I’m sure it was useful for some people so RIP. I shall selfishly hope this means we move onto something a bit more functional.
We need to start realising that nobody is perfect forever. People can be really cool and insightful and intelligent for decades and go on to be frequently wrong about stuff later.
Linus sadly trends ever more to 
levels of lacking critical thought.
Linux has always been a tool of principle, and has long been an anomaly in what was the ‘unstoppable trend’ of monetizing usable software.
LibreOffice is one of the most impressive pieces of software to just… ever exist. Can’t believe less than 1m euro/year has been sustaining them 'til recently, these guys make a product equivalent to (and in many cases, exceeding) the product of a $100bn company.
I have this lil’ personal stance where I think that killing me is bad
Given there’s a 90-99% chance that said opponents support killing your family, this does seem reasonable.
I’ve been using Fedora for over 10 years. I used to have Nvidia issues, but those are all solved now.
Using it seems to be fine, but I would advise being wary and not giving Fedora/Red Hat any code or financial support. They do a lot of work for the US DoW, helping enable war crimes like murdering hundreds of school girls.
Of course the whole bourgeois class share common interests. But not entirely so. Else… why do tech giants oppose this move?
Good. This will be a good thing.
Uncontrolled social media has a lot of problems but pre-megacorp internet was at least one metric fuckton better than whatever this shit is we have now.
Basically all the tech giants oppose this move, though. This is pure government surveillance baby.
If you’re just doing normal sheet, you should ideally basically not even notice SELinux. And in that sense it’s good.
If you’re doing any dev or running any server software or some kind of freaky setup, my advice is disable it. At least all you have to do is turn a true into a false.
In a lot of distros at least, you can just reinstall in place, which has the same effect. But a different place for /home does feel a potentially more reliable method.
Linux permissions are obvious, straightforward, and very easy to change - They rule.
SELinux permissions are impossible to see, seemingly pointlessly more complex, and I don’t know how to check them or change them i.e. They drool.
As a power user who is constantly changing system stuff, installing weird stuff, running weird servers, disabling SELinux is like, step 2 of installing Linux for me (and honestly, even if you’re not a power user, I can assure you at least ONE issue you’ve faced was actually caused by SELinux under the hood). I have wasted whole days working out just that SELinux is causing my fucking issue, and then days more on how to fix the permissions, and then days more doing those again when those permissions RESET as it is wont to do and days more trying to make my needed changes permanent. And let’s not even get started on how to transplant an SELinux permissions structure from one disk to another. So instead of a week’s worth of frustrating work every year, I can spend one minute disabling SELinux.
Its implementation feels contradictory to the most basic principles of understandable and workable systems. It’s like the NSA wanted to make software that was the diametric opposite of the Zen of Python. It’s ugly, it’s implicit, it’s complicated, nested, dense, unreadable, full of special cases, and silent errors, it constantly guesses in the face of ambiguity (which is why I have to constantly correct it).
Basically, I have wasted too much of my life faffing with an opaque and ludicrously complex permissions layer that seems to be there solely as a ‘just in case’ my already existing permissions aren’t good enough.
I end up very concerned by this kind of thing. Big money in the Linux space very frequently (though not always) creates more closed, proprietary Linuxes, rather than expanding and improving the open-source wider ecosystem.
Homosexual activity is illegal in Uganda. If they pass a law saying your OS should track that, is it moral for developers to enable compliance with it? Or do developers have a moral duty to at least not go out of their way to enable that bullshit, even if they risk a gajillion dollar fine?
By implementing a mechanism that enables this law, it becomes exponentially easier for lawmakers to then make it mandatory (as many already have/are openly planning to).
Yeah, the problem is the lawmakers. But I don’t have enough money to control the lawmakers. The creators of free software should not actively helping oppressive measures.
The PR is explicitly for the purpose of complying with age verification laws. Damn fuckin’ right I’m angry about it.
Is it cool if we start implementing tools to track users’ race and sexual orientation for the explicit purpose of complying with some country’s laws about those too? Or is it maybe the job of free software to defy oppressive systems?
Don’t forget my shitty country in the process of trying to implement this too 
I didn’t criticise the guy beyond the humorous observation that he worked at companies known for writing rubbish software. I already contribute to other functional protocols, thanks. No need to be an arse about it.