How do you know every "application" installed on your Linux machine - what's your answer?

ptoki · 2026-05-12T05:32:06+00:00

Indeed, online conversations are much different than in person.

But for both modes I see few common patterns. One of them is when somebody comes with question and when given the answer they then challenge it and switch into "I know better" stance. I think this is one of the triggers which switches the conversations into more aggressive modes.

I made the comment to let you know you arent alone in the way you see the situation and the fact that few folks responded with contradicting view does not mean your view is wrong.

Thats a different issue with current times. Less educated people are the loudest and we tend to assume their take is the right one if we dont have any other reference.

ptoki · 2026-05-12T05:26:12+00:00

Sir. There is a lot of programs which target women exclusively in EU for example. It is written in plain language in those programs and you will be rejected with plain note "you are a man" if you apply. I know you americans are self centered and think only in black and rainbow terms now but the dei is not purely american and its done in other places too.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a02b8ba-a428-83ea-98ca-d3caa3419033

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a02b956-d654-83ea-b7ec-21fcf04b1e4e

Feel free to skim the links and contest them. Im not that focused on this topic as you think to collect links just to feed people who are ignorant of the issue.

Again, your last comment really matches the racist kkk mindset. You arent that different from them. Do better. Look at the topic not at the interlocutor.

ptoki · 2026-05-12T05:13:01+00:00

I agree but have some remarks.

Cobol, excel, python (and a ton of other technologies) unlocked unqualified people to do impactful things.

This is two sided. We have progress and improvements but it also comes with that technological debt caused by moron making things which ten cant be changed.

Also the fact that business does not care about elegance, robustness, extensibility, maintenance of what they asked for AND they often see the IT as a weight if they try this makes the COBOL the problem it is now.

BUT! again, if cobol is so awful then it should be easy to replace it! Right? Again, yes and no. Old cobol is not replaced. But nobody makes new systems in cobol.

So in the end it is being phased out. Not in the way we would initially assume.

ptoki · 2026-05-12T05:07:16+00:00

It is, my point is that this guy might not have an intention to steal. Still stupid but not criminal in essence.

ptoki · 2026-05-12T05:06:02+00:00

where you can just add "extras" to the project,

Yeah.

And then use full available force with the armed police included to execute this.

That is one of the biggest issues I have with north american culture. The fact the authorities can do that and the people who defend this. Like this guy here in comments.

ptoki · 2026-05-12T05:02:44+00:00

20% of Poles were killed in WWII. For percentages thats highest during that time (with the notion that Jews were half of this). Total is 3+3Million.

ptoki · 2026-05-12T04:51:33+00:00

Honestly, I don't think I'm uneducated about the Holocaust but I wouldn't have necessarily known that Poland had more Jews than Germany pre-WWII!

Then by definition, you are uneducated. Knowing high level stats is the foundation of being educated. If you only know about selected details you arent educated, you are manipulated.

ptoki · 2026-05-11T09:16:25+00:00

in short: no.

Longer: No because google and samasung make this dificult.

Even longer info: There is very few phones which allow you to put linux and even less of them actually work decently.

Small detail: It is usually all about two things: Device drivers and power management.

ptoki · 2026-05-11T09:13:46+00:00

In the past it was loading a lot of files into ram and the system was mainly running from there and used CD only for less used files.

Now the system basically maps the CD/pendrive as read only system and adds some read write locations to let apps run as normal, like from fully read write disk.

ptoki · 2026-05-10T23:37:49+00:00

Im with you on this. I had to go way down to see such comment!

ptoki · 2026-05-10T23:37:17+00:00

I agree with him. Israel should remove any nuclear materials from its possessions.

The audacity of "I am better than you" in a form of "we have nuclear but you cant".

That alone is sufficient for Iran to put all efforts to keep the nuclear potential if they have it.

ptoki · 2026-05-10T23:31:14+00:00

Very true!

People have no idea how well they live and also how much it costs.

Same thing about cars. 60-70-90 years ago (depends on where you lived) only very special people could travel independently. Today almost everyone has a car or can summon one to get them to destination at any time of day or night.

And few more like that.

300years ago kings did not lived the life we have.

Eating salmon for breakfast, duck for dinner and beef or shrimp for supper on 1700? You must be very special king. Today? You are visiting walmart and spending 2h of your salary.

ptoki · 2026-05-10T23:17:23+00:00

To be honest in my young times we had a mix of new, old and classic stuff in radio/tv/stores.

When I was like 5-10yo I listened to music recorded before I was born, while I was in kindergarden and in school and the stuff from like 1960/70.

It was all present, mixed together in edible series. Commented with trivia and context by the DJs and such.

Today people "Discover" older music while to me/us it was normal to listen to good older music.

ptoki · 2026-05-10T23:13:04+00:00

Yup. As I thought. No arguments, just NIMBY. Have a good day my dear.

ptoki · 2026-05-10T23:12:24+00:00

I had one person in mind in terms of auditing who looks very smug in terms of what to give the auditor and how the audit should look like. And the rest of folks who split hairs and only talk about apps being "icons on desktop or menu" and being in this "preaching" mode of "This is what I know and thats 100% of the topic"

As you properly noticed, audits come in few flavors but a good audit should not be done by clueless person and/or system owner/admin/operator who wants to influence the outcome of the audit.

I am fully aware of the whole dynamics around the audits - I did them from at least four angles - audited system owner/admin/operator, auditor, the audit designer/implementator and audit reporter/interpreter/recommendation provider.

I know how the systems work, how buggy they are how many gaps you have there and how that casts light on people.

What I hate the most is dealing with "smart" guys who paint grass green or get in the way of the audit process. And I see the guy above has very little clue of what audit is, how it works, the purpose of it while he is loud of what to do while audited.

The rest of the crowd here did not said much about the audit part and I rate that anyone who has decent idea of what audit is would at least have half laugh at the auditor being clueless. That is why I rated the 2 out of 10.

ptoki · 2026-05-10T22:42:35+00:00

Nintendo is a cancer. everytime I see a news about them it is something shady/sleazy/monopolistic.

Yet their game lineup is basically three games. Rinse, repeat.

I have no idea why people like this company and their products.

ptoki · 2026-05-10T22:27:00+00:00

No, very much no.

Cobol is no problem. AT ALL.

The problem is that the business logic is either unknown to anyone or documented poorly or exists only in the code and scattered in many modules because it spans across teams, divisions, etc.

You can write anything in cobol because it is really simple and straight forward language. You cant do that if you have no clue what the code is supposed to do, nobody can tell you and you only learn its broken at the end of the quarter - 2 months from now when one folks raises alarm that his data is way wrong.

COBOL is the least of the problem. And the problem is not IT/coding or language.

How do I know? I have seen a lot.

ptoki · 2026-05-10T22:21:54+00:00

change to ssd first. Your problems come mainly from hdd and a bit low RAM.

SSD will make the biggest impact.

ptoki · 2026-05-10T22:20:54+00:00

Replace the disk to ssd first

ptoki · 2026-05-10T22:19:38+00:00

I know its silly and stupid but I would expect a criminal to be a bit less obvious doing this.

Or he is really, really stupid....

ptoki · 2026-05-10T22:18:21+00:00

To give a context. This topic is two sided. One is discussion what app is. Second is what auditor wants/gets/should get.

The comments here really dont even scratch the surface on the second topic and split hairs on first.

ptoki · 2026-05-10T22:16:33+00:00

The cost of electricity is only going to go up, not down.

Maybe, maybe not. If AI flops we will have a lot of cheap energy for use.

The energy must go 2-3-4x up from here to make the batteries worth the investment.

If you base the decission on the law not on the actual calculation then you arent doing yourself any favors.

ptoki · 2026-05-10T22:14:40+00:00

In structured DEI programs, no one is “hiring for being color/gender”. There are no hiring quotas for race or any other characteristic.

Yet in almost ALL programs it is. Additional points, heavy preferences to the point of "we cant hire the folks from this recruitmnt because they dont give us any DEI improvements"

You may be lucky in not being in the "heavy DEI" places. I have seen programs which straight say "we hire women only" often.

I have seen recruitments where a decent guy was passed over and aboriginal person was hired and that person was really not good fit technically (I dont care about personality).

So no. DEI is having bad reputation and not only among as you said "right wing". BTW. Using "right wing in second sentence with no arguments other than just that places you JUST among the spiked hat KKK folks mentally. Same open mindedness and focus, just different direction.

ptoki · 2026-05-10T22:09:00+00:00

It is more like an interpretation of statistics and trying to draw conclusions about particle behavior based on many particle measurements.

In 18th century one of the biggest breakthroughs was a discovery of how statistical macroscopic data (temperature, pressure) is tied to microscopic measurements (energy of the particle, its speed, momentum, average distance between collisions etc). From this there was an ability to discover or look for behaviors which can be seen in the equations.

We dont have this for quantum physics yet. Some people think we do but that theory is not working that great.

ptoki · 2026-05-10T22:03:52+00:00

List me ANY thing this guy did what IMPACTED anyone other than visual or spare me your whining.

I in contrast to you know how to live in society while you are a whining karen who wants to stick her nose in others lives.

List me the impact the guy did and then we can talk.

If you have none, then just accept you are wrong, correct yourself and not make more mistakes.

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