• Re: Ubuntu replaces core

    From Ky Moffet@454:1/1 to Barry Martin on Mon Oct 27 13:02:00 2025
    BARRY MARTIN wrote:
    KY MOFFET wrote to ALL <=-
    KM> ....with new versions written in Rust, and hilarity ensues.
    KM> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3JqErfYGWk

    Looks like I won't be "upgrading" for a version or two!

    Yeah, I wouldn't either.

    When basic functions like dd don't work.... that's a problem!
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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Ky Moffet on Tue Oct 28 06:51:00 2025

    Hi Ky!

    KM> ....with new versions written in Rust, and hilarity ensues.
    KM> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3JqErfYGWk
    Looks like I won't be "upgrading" for a version or two!
    Yeah, I wouldn't either.
    When basic functions like dd don't work.... that's a problem!

    Definitely! Not sure if dd is the base for all or most forms of file
    copying but is a well-used utility.

    Almost sounds like the version was put out to keep with the April and
    October schedule. Nice in theory, obviously this one should have been
    delayed (if not scrapped).


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  • From Ky Moffet@454:1/1 to Barry Martin on Wed Oct 29 08:35:00 2025
    BARRY MARTIN wrote:
    Hi Ky!

    > KM> ....with new versions written in Rust, and hilarity ensues.
    > KM> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3JqErfYGWk
    > Looks like I won't be "upgrading" for a version or two!
    KM> Yeah, I wouldn't either.
    KM> When basic functions like dd don't work.... that's a problem!

    Definitely! Not sure if dd is the base for all or most forms of file
    copying but is a well-used utility.

    Almost sounds like the version was put out to keep with the April and
    October schedule. Nice in theory, obviously this one should have been delayed (if not scrapped).

    Yeah, obviously. But it wasn't to keep schedule, it was whiney brats
    going "You can't make me!" They've set their hearts on swapping out
    C/C++ for Rust, and when numerous actual programmers pointed out the
    problems with Rust, the whiney brats went "DO IT NOW!" and the question
    of ready or not went out the window.

    The theory is that Rust is "memory safe" by default, but turns out you
    still need to have programmers who actually know what they're doing, and
    Rust, being the cool kid on the block, has attracted a lot of rather
    novice hands at the task, and it wasn't just a matter of swapping out functions.
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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Ky Moffet on Thu Oct 30 06:57:00 2025

    Hi Ky!

    > KM> ....with new versions written in Rust, and hilarity ensues.
    > KM> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3JqErfYGWk
    > Looks like I won't be "upgrading" for a version or two!
    KM> Yeah, I wouldn't either.
    KM> When basic functions like dd don't work.... that's a problem! Definitely! Not sure if dd is the base for all or most forms of file copying but is a well-used utility.
    Almost sounds like the version was put out to keep with the April and October schedule. Nice in theory, obviously this one should have been delayed (if not scrapped).
    Yeah, obviously. But it wasn't to keep schedule, it was whiney
    brats going "You can't make me!" They've set their hearts on
    swapping out C/C++ for Rust, and when numerous actual programmers
    pointed out the problems with Rust, the whiney brats went "DO IT
    NOW!" and the question of ready or not went out the window.

    Not knowing who the 'whiney brats' are I'd guess they're powerful
    enough to be able to chop heads but as with a lot of leaders don't know diddly-squat about how the stuff they're overseeing actually works. IMO
    good to try something new but then also needs to be tested and found to
    work.

    And yes, a somewhat generic reply because I don't know details, both on
    the personnel issues and the software. I had not heard of RUST until
    recent and for all I know it could stand for Really Unsupported Software Trasher. <g>


    The theory is that Rust is "memory safe" by default, but turns
    out you still need to have programmers who actually know what
    they're doing, and Rust, being the cool kid on the block, has
    attracted a lot of rather novice hands at the task, and it wasn't
    just a matter of swapping out functions.

    Never is. There are always basic steps one must know.

    Might look like the right thing to do employment-wise to jump on the
    RUST train as is the mode of software travel into the future, but it
    still has to work: a train with a powerful engine sitting on shiny
    aluminum foil wheels isn't going anywhere.


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  • From Ky Moffet@454:1/1 to Barry Martin on Mon Nov 3 11:36:00 2025
    BARRY MARTIN wrote:
    Hi Ky!

    KM> Yeah, obviously. But it wasn't to keep schedule, it was whiney
    KM> brats going "You can't make me!" They've set their hearts on
    KM> swapping out C/C++ for Rust, and when numerous actual programmers
    KM> pointed out the problems with Rust, the whiney brats went "DO IT
    KM> NOW!" and the question of ready or not went out the window.

    Not knowing who the 'whiney brats' are I'd guess they're powerful
    enough to be able to chop heads but as with a lot of leaders don't know diddly-squat about how the stuff they're overseeing actually works. IMO

    Oh, it's not ignorance.... I'm starting to think it's malice aforethought.

    good to try something new but then also needs to be tested and found to
    work.

    It gets worse.

    https://lunduke.substack.com/p/debian-adding-hard-dependency-on

    As I comment under the vid:
    ===
    Watch what Canonical does next, and see if your thoughts go where mine did:

    My cynical little voice wonders if the real "unintended consequence" is
    to (for all practical purposes) kill off all the projects downstream
    from both Ubuntu .... Ubuntu being the only distro that has both jumped
    on this bandwagon *and* has the resources to work past the problems Rust
    will cause.... and is for all practical purposes Commercial Debian.
    ===



    KM> The theory is that Rust is "memory safe" by default, but turns
    KM> out you still need to have programmers who actually know what
    KM> they're doing, and Rust, being the cool kid on the block, has
    KM> attracted a lot of rather novice hands at the task, and it wasn't
    KM> just a matter of swapping out functions.

    Never is. There are always basic steps one must know.

    Yeah, and with foundational utilities, all the thousands of time-tested interactions that suddenly are bent sideways and ALL need to be tested
    again, to make sure one or the other hasn't tickled some show-stopper bug.

    Might look like the right thing to do employment-wise to jump on the
    RUST train as is the mode of software travel into the future, but it
    still has to work: a train with a powerful engine sitting on shiny
    aluminum foil wheels isn't going anywhere.

    That's pretty much where it's at. People tend to either love or hate
    Rust, but those who love it tend to be evangelical about it, rather than pointing out where maybe it works better.

    .. I plan to borrow enough money to get completely out of debt.

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Ky Moffet on Tue Nov 4 07:31:00 2025

    Hi Ky!

    KM> Yeah, obviously. But it wasn't to keep schedule, it was whiney
    KM> brats going "You can't make me!" They've set their hearts on
    KM> swapping out C/C++ for Rust, and when numerous actual programmers
    KM> pointed out the problems with Rust, the whiney brats went "DO IT
    KM> NOW!" and the question of ready or not went out the window.
    Not knowing who the 'whiney brats' are I'd guess they're powerful
    enough to be able to chop heads but as with a lot of leaders don't know diddly-squat about how the stuff they're overseeing actually works. IMO
    Oh, it's not ignorance.... I'm starting to think it's malice
    aforethought.

    It almost would seem so: someone (could be a group -- probably is)
    forcing through the usage of Rust. Rust itself might not be the problem
    but rather the conversion to Rust. (Gee,this almost sounds like X11 and Wayland!) How the incomplete product got released seems to be the big question, but we have seen this sort of instance all over, not just
    software. Middle management tells upper management "it'll work and make
    us money!". Upper management looks at the one prototype -- "looks
    good!".


    good to try something new but then also needs to be tested and found to work.

    It gets worse.

    https://lunduke.substack.com/p/debian-adding-hard-dependency-on

    As I comment under the vid:
    ===
    Watch what Canonical does next, and see if your thoughts go where
    mine did:

    My cynical little voice wonders if the real "unintended
    consequence" is to (for all practical purposes) kill off all the
    projects downstream from both Ubuntu .... Ubuntu being the only
    distro that has both jumped on this bandwagon *and* has the
    resources to work past the problems Rust will cause.... and is
    for all practical purposes Commercial Debian. ===

    I could see both possibilities. I'm leaning more towards the 'resources
    to fix' option as it seems there are a lot of Ubuntu users out there.
    Would not be good to annoy a ton of users, but if they could somehow
    restrict the annoyance. The 'restict' means something like run
    everything under the old/it works way and slowly move (and so test) a
    utility. Let's say test Pithos (plays Pandora, the music stream). If
    Pithos doesn't work it's going to be quiet here but I can easily get
    around the error (access via a browser). The Rust people would know
    (how, I don't know -- quite sure there are ways to monitor without
    grabbing too much personal data) it didn't work.

    Quite sure super-overly simplified. Ideas start somewhere.


    KM> The theory is that Rust is "memory safe" by default, but turns
    KM> out you still need to have programmers who actually know what
    KM> they're doing, and Rust, being the cool kid on the block, has
    KM> attracted a lot of rather novice hands at the task, and it wasn't
    KM> just a matter of swapping out functions.
    Never is. There are always basic steps one must know.
    Yeah, and with foundational utilities, all the thousands of
    time-tested interactions that suddenly are bent sideways and ALL
    need to be tested again, to make sure one or the other hasn't
    tickled some show-stopper bug.

    Whis is sort of the basis of my Pithos example: start small and
    restricted, and probably would be a good idea to start at the beginning,
    or at least what is thought to be the beginning -- will find out! If
    this test is made to work, great, and go on to the next. If not, well,
    only one thing went down and reverse it to get it working and try to
    figure out what went wrong.

    Going to give a tangent. One of the TVs here is a Vizio (brand). Approximately October 30 we couldn't receive local stations: just
    'spinning' (process loader spinner icon). All the other inputs worked
    fine. Ended up watching local TV though the MythTV input. (This is
    starting to sound like my Pithos example!) Movies and other Internet
    accesses worked fine.

    October 31 still down, or at least first thing in the morning as didn't
    watch live TV the evening because of Halloween. November 1st all working properly again.

    So apparently they did an update, it didn't go quite as expected, maybe
    tried a few other options, of which one worked or they rolled back to
    what did.

    I'm thinking the Rust project could do something similar for live
    testing.



    Might look like the right thing to do employment-wise to jump on the
    RUST train as is the mode of software travel into the future, but it
    still has to work: a train with a powerful engine sitting on shiny
    aluminum foil wheels isn't going anywhere.
    That's pretty much where it's at. People tend to either love or
    hate Rust, but those who love it tend to be evangelical about it,
    rather than pointing out where maybe it works better.

    Blinded by the light! If one gets too engrossed then one either doesn't
    see the flaws or is convinced the flaws are due to something outside.



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  • From Ky Moffet@454:1/1 to Barry Martin on Wed Nov 5 07:03:00 2025
    BARRY MARTIN wrote:
    Hi Ky!

    > KM> Yeah, obviously. But it wasn't to keep schedule, it was whiney
    > KM> brats going "You can't make me!" They've set their hearts on
    > KM> swapping out C/C++ for Rust, and when numerous actual programmers
    > KM> pointed out the problems with Rust, the whiney brats went "DO IT
    > KM> NOW!" and the question of ready or not went out the window.
    > Not knowing who the 'whiney brats' are I'd guess they're powerful
    > enough to be able to chop heads but as with a lot of leaders don't know
    > diddly-squat about how the stuff they're overseeing actually works. IMO
    KM> Oh, it's not ignorance.... I'm starting to think it's malice
    KM> aforethought.

    It almost would seem so: someone (could be a group -- probably is)
    forcing through the usage of Rust. Rust itself might not be the problem
    but rather the conversion to Rust. (Gee,this almost sounds like X11 and Wayland!)

    Exactly. But Wayland was a lot more developed than Rust, and had been test-deployed by major distros for several years already, and doesn't
    have the licensing issue (see below), and even so there were still disruptions.

    The woke loons (which is to say, useful idiots) had hung their star on
    Rust, and here the non-woke happened to be the ones saying, wait a
    minute, shouldn't you test this more first?? and the woke loons went YOU
    CAN'T MAKE ME, and forced the jump. And the more-cynical noted that the licenses are being changed along with the switch from C/C++ to Rust --
    from GPL to BSD.

    Why is that significant? Because the GPL license forces you to share
    your source code with the world, and the BSD license does not. Which
    means that should some corporate entity, say, Canonical, wish to hive
    off source and prevent downstream distros from using it, they can now do
    so, and NONE of the downstream distros have the paid full-time
    programmers who could cope with recreating what they no longer get
    handed to them, so they either switch their base distro to something
    like Slackware or Arch (and accept being that niche), or they are SOL.
    What did I say about a commercial motive?

    And if you're one of the non-woke who happen to disagree with what's
    being done, YOU'RE ALL NAZIS and yes a bunch of the above woke loons
    have trumpeted that in exactly those terms. :: Nazi has become the
    generic shorthand for "I hate anyone who disagrees with me, and hope
    they all die in a fire." Fine, no one cares anymore, you overused
    "racist" until it's a joke. But the bigger problem is that different
    woke loons take it literally as a cue that "These are the people it's desirable to kill" and that got us the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00EPajdGrdY

    [As a KDE user, I now wear a bag over my head.]

    So it's no longer just a disagreement over how software should be handled.

    The more localized question becomes whether this nonsense burns itself
    out before the whole FOSS world implodes, or is narrowed down to those
    distros that are really viable if they don't have Ubuntu upstream.


    How the incomplete product got released seems to be the big
    question, but we have seen this sort of instance all over, not just
    software. Middle management tells upper management "it'll work and make
    us money!". Upper management looks at the one prototype -- "looks
    good!".

    There is that, too.

    > good to try something new but then also needs to be tested and found to
    > work.

    KM> It gets worse.

    KM> https://lunduke.substack.com/p/debian-adding-hard-dependency-on

    KM> As I comment under the vid:
    KM> ===
    KM> Watch what Canonical does next, and see if your thoughts go where
    KM> mine did:

    KM> My cynical little voice wonders if the real "unintended
    KM> consequence" is to (for all practical purposes) kill off all the
    KM> projects downstream from both Ubuntu .... Ubuntu being the only
    KM> distro that has both jumped on this bandwagon *and* has the
    KM> resources to work past the problems Rust will cause.... and is
    KM> for all practical purposes Commercial Debian. ===

    I could see both possibilities. I'm leaning more towards the 'resources
    to fix' option as it seems there are a lot of Ubuntu users out there.

    Users are irrelevant, here. Only matters whether the parent company has
    the paid programmers to deal with it. And whether it can be sold to
    enterprise customers.

    Which is going to be the real sticking point.

    Would not be good to annoy a ton of users, but if they could somehow
    restrict the annoyance. The 'restict' means something like run

    Here is what you're missing: ordinary users are not anyone's customers,
    and no one in the business of selling or supporting major software wants
    more home users. The real customers are enterprise business, who pay
    millions for support contracts. Ordinary users are a support cost, not a revenue stream.

    THIS is why IBM bought Red Hat -- because Red Hat was the 800 pound
    gorilla in the realm of server support contracts. And recognizing that
    home users are an expense, and not profitable, Red Hat had already spun
    off Fedora to get rid of the cost of supporting home users (and
    incidentally most of the cost of beta-testing their product). Red Hat
    had shown that they understand where the money is, and is not.

    And Ubuntu has not been "free linux CDs for everyone" in a long time...
    not since Ubuntu Server became a viable product that has enough business
    users to be attractive for enterprise support contracts.

    everything under the old/it works way and slowly move (and so test) a utility. Let's say test Pithos (plays Pandora, the music stream). If
    Pithos doesn't work it's going to be quiet here but I can easily get
    around the error (access via a browser). The Rust people would know
    (how, I don't know -- quite sure there are ways to monitor without
    grabbing too much personal data) it didn't work.

    The big distros and desktops have had automatic error reporting for a
    long time. And the commercial entities don't care if Joe Blow's PC won't
    boot. They care if Amazon pays their monthly bill for that big support contract.

    Whis is sort of the basis of my Pithos example: start small and
    restricted, and probably would be a good idea to start at the beginning,
    or at least what is thought to be the beginning -- will find out! If
    this test is made to work, great, and go on to the next. If not, well,
    only one thing went down and reverse it to get it working and try to
    figure out what went wrong.

    That's how it ought to be done, but when it's become a crusade, all that
    goes out the window.


    Going to give a tangent. One of the TVs here is a Vizio (brand). Approximately October 30 we couldn't receive local stations: just
    'spinning' (process loader spinner icon). All the other inputs worked
    fine. Ended up watching local TV though the MythTV input. (This is
    starting to sound like my Pithos example!) Movies and other Internet accesses worked fine.

    October 31 still down, or at least first thing in the morning as didn't
    watch live TV the evening because of Halloween. November 1st all working properly again.

    So apparently they did an update, it didn't go quite as expected, maybe
    tried a few other options, of which one worked or they rolled back to
    what did.

    This happens now and then.... about a year ago Apple had to roll back a
    major system update, because it was nuking phones.

    I'm thinking the Rust project could do something similar for live
    testing.

    They COULD, but they WON'T. Because this isn't about the quality of the software.


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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Ky Moffet on Thu Nov 6 07:42:00 2025

    Hi Ky!

    > KM> Yeah, obviously. But it wasn't to keep schedule, it was whiney
    > KM> brats going "You can't make me!" They've set their hearts on
    > KM> swapping out C/C++ for Rust, and when numerous actual programmers
    > KM> pointed out the problems with Rust, the whiney brats went "DO IT
    > KM> NOW!" and the question of ready or not went out the window.
    > Not knowing who the 'whiney brats' are I'd guess they're powerful
    > enough to be able to chop heads but as with a lot of leaders don't know
    > diddly-squat about how the stuff they're overseeing actually works. IMO
    KM> Oh, it's not ignorance.... I'm starting to think it's malice
    KM> aforethought.
    It almost would seem so: someone (could be a group -- probably is)
    forcing through the usage of Rust. Rust itself might not be the problem
    but rather the conversion to Rust. (Gee,this almost sounds like X11 and Wayland!)
    Exactly. But Wayland was a lot more developed than Rust, and had
    been test-deployed by major distros for several years already,
    and doesn't have the licensing issue (see below), and even so
    there were still disruptions.

    <Highly guessing statements following> Based on that wonder if Rust is
    being tested in a real-life environment like Ubuntu? Doesn't explain
    the half-working deployment aspect. If the order is to covert to Rust
    testing it in a different OS could kill that OS off whereas Ubuntu might
    get wounded. ...LIS a lot of guessing and I have next-to-no clue as to
    the why's and wherefore's.

    As for the 'wounding' statement, here Ubuntu 24.04 has problems on a
    couple of the systems around here. Well, the 'problems' are major
    enough I could not use those systems. What did I do? Re-install 22.04.


    The woke loons (which is to say, useful idiots) had hung their
    star on Rust, and here the non-woke happened to be the ones
    saying, wait a minute, shouldn't you test this more first?? and
    the woke loons went YOU CAN'T MAKE ME, and forced the jump. And
    the more-cynical noted that the licenses are being changed along
    with the switch from C/C++ to Rust -- from GPL to BSD.

    Yup: have seen that in various scenarios from the last store manager
    before I retired to business and manufacturing leaders.


    Why is that significant? Because the GPL license forces you to
    share your source code with the world, and the BSD license does
    not. Which means that should some corporate entity, say,
    Canonical, wish to hive off source and prevent downstream distros
    from using it, they can now do so, and NONE of the downstream
    distros have the paid full-time programmers who could cope with
    recreating what they no longer get handed to them, so they either
    switch their base distro to something like Slackware or Arch (and
    accept being that niche), or they are SOL. What did I say about a commercial motive?

    Quite possible. Seems like there's a fine line in what's public and
    what's private. Testing software on the public has advantages of
    testing tons of hardware and auxiliary utilities combinations.


    And if you're one of the non-woke who happen to disagree with
    what's being done, YOU'RE ALL NAZIS and yes a bunch of the above
    woke loons have trumpeted that in exactly those terms. :: Nazi
    has become the generic shorthand for "I hate anyone who disagrees
    with me, and hope they all die in a fire." Fine, no one cares
    anymore, you overused "racist" until it's a joke. But the bigger
    problem is that different woke loons take it literally as a cue
    that "These are the people it's desirable to kill" and that got
    us the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

    Well that's gotten into an area away from Rust, but yes, the U.S. people
    in general seem to have taken their thinking too much to the "my way or highway" direction.


    [As a KDE user, I now wear a bag over my head.]

    And I thought the bag was for Trick-r-Treat! <g>

    So it's no longer just a disagreement over how software should be
    handled.

    The more localized question becomes whether this nonsense burns
    itself out before the whole FOSS world implodes, or is narrowed
    down to those distros that are really viable if they don't have
    Ubuntu upstream.

    I'm thinking there will be a period of narrowing down, then another
    'Apple' and 'Microsoft' will appear, taking down the current OS/2,
    CP/M-86/80, and the cycle shall repeat.

    As I've said before, I sort of go with the Ubuntu flow because I almost
    don't know any better. Started with a combination of Microsoft getting expensive and MythTV running on this 'Ubuntu' thing: I should learn at
    least the basics to make some sense of troubleshooting. ...This looks interesting! I still haven't a clue why X11 and Wayland don't play nice together other than two different ways to get the same result. (My
    'Black Box' thinking: stuff in, magic occurs inside the box, desired
    result comes out. As I troubleshoot and learn the Black Box becomes
    smaller and multiple boxes.)



    KM> projects downstream from both Ubuntu .... Ubuntu being the only
    KM> distro that has both jumped on this bandwagon *and* has the
    KM> resources to work past the problems Rust will cause.... and is
    KM> for all practical purposes Commercial Debian. ===
    I could see both possibilities. I'm leaning more towards the 'resources
    to fix' option as it seems there are a lot of Ubuntu users out there.
    Users are irrelevant, here. Only matters whether the parent
    company has the paid programmers to deal with it. And whether it
    can be sold to enterprise customers.
    Which is going to be the real sticking point.

    Selling (profit!) to enterprise is good, but the blindered approach of ignoring the common user may bite them. I'm thinking along the lines
    a bigwig is going to be impressed by the presentation and ask his
    subordinate to look into it. Bigwig knows next-to-nothing about the software-OS-firmware-CPU stuff; subordinate knows some. Subordinate had numerous bad experieces as a user. and so submits a bad review. There
    goes that sale!


    Would not be good to annoy a ton of users, but if they could somehow restrict the annoyance. The 'restict' means something like run

    Here is what you're missing: ordinary users are not anyone's
    customers, and no one in the business of selling or supporting
    major software wants more home users. The real customers are
    enterprise business, who pay millions for support contracts.
    Ordinary users are a support cost, not a revenue stream.

    THIS is why IBM bought Red Hat -- because Red Hat was the 800
    pound gorilla in the realm of server support contracts. And
    recognizing that home users are an expense, and not profitable,
    Red Hat had already spun off Fedora to get rid of the cost of
    supporting home users (and incidentally most of the cost of
    beta-testing their product). Red Hat had shown that they
    understand where the money is, and is not.

    I'll guess so: I don't follow that information. (I understand what you
    wrote, I just don't follow the information in the 'news'.)


    And Ubuntu has not been "free linux CDs for everyone" in a long
    time... not since Ubuntu Server became a viable product that has
    enough business users to be attractive for enterprise support
    contracts.

    I'm thinking maybe the "free CD's" was like how an up-and-coming musician
    will give out free CDs of his music just to get it out there and start building a fan base. AOL did it too: "I wonder what this does? Not
    going to cost me anything to find out" so stick in the CD/DVD....


    everything under the old/it works way and slowly move (and so test) a utility. Let's say test Pithos (plays Pandora, the music stream). If Pithos doesn't work it's going to be quiet here but I can easily get
    around the error (access via a browser). The Rust people would know
    (how, I don't know -- quite sure there are ways to monitor without
    grabbing too much personal data) it didn't work.
    The big distros and desktops have had automatic error reporting
    for a long time. And the commercial entities don't care if Joe
    Blow's PC won't boot. They care if Amazon pays their monthly bill
    for that big support contract.

    Again I'm too isolated to know the details. Not disagreeing Big
    Business isn't running the thing, but thinking us little guys have some
    subtle say in the direction.


    Which is sort of the basis of my Pithos example: start small and
    restricted, and probably would be a good idea to start at the beginning,
    or at least what is thought to be the beginning -- will find out! If
    this test is made to work, great, and go on to the next. If not, well,
    only one thing went down and reverse it to get it working and try to
    figure out what went wrong.
    That's how it ought to be done, but when it's become a crusade,
    all that goes out the window.

    True: isolated events at the user level probably get ignored as 'noise'
    but sometimes all those seemingly isolated events have a common source.


    Going to give a tangent. One of the TVs here is a Vizio (brand). Approximately October 30 we couldn't receive local stations: just
    'spinning' (process loader spinner icon). All the other inputs worked
    fine. Ended up watching local TV though the MythTV input. (This is starting to sound like my Pithos example!) Movies and other Internet accesses worked fine.
    October 31 still down, or at least first thing in the morning as didn't watch live TV the evening because of Halloween. November 1st all working properly again.
    So apparently they did an update, it didn't go quite as expected, maybe tried a few other options, of which one worked or they rolled back to
    what did.
    This happens now and then.... about a year ago Apple had to roll
    back a major system update, because it was nuking phones.

    So the end users still had a hand in the overall direction dictated from
    the top.


    I'm thinking the Rust project could do something similar for live
    testing.
    They COULD, but they WON'T. Because this isn't about the quality
    of the software.

    Which might be the start of the collapse.



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