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  • To any idiots out there, yes, Luigi’s actions were in fucking vain assholes so don’t say it

    Well I’ll be the idiot.

    I think it’s hard to say that it was in vain. I feel like it demonstrated some important points clearly:

    • people are very upset with insurance companies and by extension the healthcare system. (Note the lack of negative reaction from the public even as the media tried hard to demonize Luigi)
    • megacorps arent invulnerable against those with nothing to lose. (I think it’s easy to draw the line between Luigi and companies backing off from a few over the top policies)
    • how much the media are in bed with and/or controlled by those same megacorps. (Again, the blatant attempt to demonize Luigi followed by dropping coverage as the public didn’t react the way they wanted)

    If it was going to have true impact it needed to be followed up by more incidents and copycats. Without that it’s only a nudge, and maybe not a wake-up call, let alone the full-on revolution that may be needed to force change. (Not speaking of political overthrow of the government, that’s a whole other topic)

    Luigi may not have been the pebble that launched an avalanche but neither was he nothing.












  • The only advantage I see is that it actually seems to keep a better handle on the status of the process/service. The old-style unit scripts would often get out of sync and not realize that a process had died, or if they did they would repeatedly respawn a service that would just die again. Maybe that was less of a problem in later years than I experienced earlier, but it was there.

    The whole init.d system felt very ad-hoc with every script working a little bit differently, giving different output styles, etc.









  • Hawke@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    8 days ago

    Glad to help!

    I found it useful as a little kind of mnemonic to call out the distinctive features of each language.

    The one major thing it misses is that Japanese uses some of the Chinese characters, so you have to check for the “stabby/loopy” characters mixed in to tell; and sometimes there aren’t any if the text is short.