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I would assume the majority of us avoid systemd, but odds are many of us are still running different standalone components from systemd/freedesktop/redhat. Lets post some alternatives to widely used freedestkop (or other) software that "sucks less", gnu replacement recommendations are also welcome. i'll start with a few:

udevd + libudev > mdevd + libudev-zero Works on my machine flawlessly, hotplugging devices works as expected with mice, keyboards, USB audio and external storage peripherals, etc etc.

wlroots > swc X11 sucks, but so does wayland, in my opinion wlroots largely contributes to that. wlroots has a huge codebase (~60k sloc, IIRC.), is overly complex, and often makes changes which result in compositors that are dynamically linked towards it to break after it is updated. a more stable and simple alternative seems to be swc, which has a much smaller and more manageable codebase, and writing a compositor with it seems to be a much simpler task, a good example might be velox.

GNU man-db > OpenBSD mandoc

gnupg > signify signify is an extremely simple utility used to cryptographically sign and verify files. it is not a replacement for file/message encryption.

whats some alternative software that you guys use, which "sucks less"?

Currently, if someone has a shiny idea (no matter whether it's software, political, or whatever else) it often just remains in his mind because there is no easy way to get anything done with it. Or sometimes the person performs a Rambo for a few months on some website, git repo, or whatever - and then it dies.

I want to eliminate this common pipeline, and make it easy to create projects (or find them if they already exist), join them, develop them, maybe provide crypto rewards, progress tracking, etc. Every shiny new idea would fit into this framework. And it would help it not die. But I don't know how exactly to do it. I suspect the components for it already exist, it's just a matter of putting them together.

We could have a database spread by torrents or other decentralized protocol that would list all the existing projects to join. And it might be hooked up to some website that would provide an UI for comments, crypto rewards, and progress tracking. The point of all this to me, is so that human effort and ingenuity isn't wasted because it's just too hard to launch. Which is what's commonly going on today. The Rambo loses steam and disappears.

What do you think?

Its been affecting everyone on the network for over 24 hours now. Its been speculated that some three letter agency is responsible, due to the scale of the attack. If you've noticed any issues with your i2pd or similar software, this is why.

Update: A megathread was made on reddit for the situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/1qvalmq/megathread_ongoing_attack_on_i2p_network_causing/

Some users suspect that this attack is somehow an attempt to try and deanonymize users, and it is recommended that you cease use of the network for now. Though i cant personally confirm or deny these claims.

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Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger who wrote a post in 2023 about the mysterious website’s anonymous maintainer.

In a request for comment page, Wikipedia’s volunteer editors were presented with three options. Option A is to remove or hide all Archive.today links and add the site to the spam blacklist. Option B is to deprecate Archive.today, discouraging future link additions while keeping the existing archived links. Option C is to do nothing and maintain the status quo.

Option A in particular would be a huge change, as more than 695,000 links to Archive.today are used across 400,000 or so Wikipedia pages. Archive.today, also known as Archive.is, is a website that saves snapshots of webpages and is commonly used to bypass news paywalls.

“Archive.today uses advanced scraping methods, and is generally considered more reliable than the Internet Archive,” the Wikipedia request for comment said. “Due to concerns about botnets, linkspamming, and how the site is run, the community decided to blacklist it in 2013. In 2016, the decision was overturned, and archive.today was removed from the spam blacklist.”

Discussion among editors has been ongoing since February 7. “Wikipedia’s need for verifiable citations is absolutely not more important than the security of users,” one editor in favor of blacklisting wrote. “We need verifiable citations so that we can maintain readers’ trust, however, in order to be trustworthy our references also have to be safe to access.”