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Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote at 18:54 this Friday (GMT):

On 22 Aug 2025 11:01:21 GMT, vallor wrote:

You can add all the groups you like, but you can't store them
in a process' supplemental groups table if it gets full.

It only holds 16 groups in the table. Adding the gid of the
process, that's 17 groups total.

(If you know of a way to increase the size of the table,
please let me know. :) )

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! I find this whole user/group
thing to be utterly amusing.

What is the point of users/groups on a single-user, standalone
workstation? Huh? What's the fucking point?

Answer: There is no fucking point.

That's why on my GNU/Linux machines there is only one user
and there is only one group: and that is ROOT.

Root, root, root, root, root, and root. What more could
one ask for?

For me, it has always been this way and it will always be
this way.

I have only ever had one problem: Postgresql won't permit
to run as as root.

But I said "Fuck you!" to Postgresql. Problem solved.

The Unix philosophy goes way back to an era before the PC,
but this philosophy no longer makes sense for a single-user,
standalone workstation.

Yet these current dumb-fucks don't know how to remove the
multi-user yoke and can only rely upon "canned" distros.

I piss on you all.

Now cue the parrots, monkeys, and apes to spew the standard
lines.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Having seperated accounts is generally good for security to keep every
program from being able to access everything on the computer...
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:30:48 +0000, Tyrone wrote:

On Aug 20, 2025 at 11:56:51 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability
to run Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read the
writing on the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.

Except that MacOS is already Unix. You know, the original thing that
Linux is a copy of.

So why does Apple need to copy Linux, which is supposed to be a copy
of what it already is, then?

Maybe Apple’s copy of Unix wasn’t good enough ... or maybe the
original concept of what Unix is about is no longer good enough, and
what matters now is not Unix, but Linux.
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On 9/5/2025 12:08 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:30:48 +0000, Tyrone wrote:

On Aug 20, 2025 at 11:56:51 PM EDT, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" <ldo@nz.invalid>
wrote:

Even Apple has now added its own version of WSL, with the ability
to run Linux VM instances on macOS. Like Microsoft, it has read the
writing on the wall about the inevitable Linux takeover.

Except that MacOS is already Unix. You know, the original thing that
Linux is a copy of.

So why does Apple need to copy Linux, which is supposed to be a copy
of what it already is, then?

Maybe Apple’s copy of Unix wasn’t good enough ... or maybe the
original concept of what Unix is about is no longer good enough, and
what matters now is not Unix, but Linux.

Apple's Unix is pretty great but hardly a replacement for a Linux
distro. Maybe Larry would actually find it fully functional, but he
loathes Apple so much he'd never try it.
--
Joel W. Crump
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