On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Philip Hands phil@hands.com wrote:
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net writes:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/24/systemd_flaw/
"Newer" versions of systemd deployed by Fedora or Ubuntu have been secured, but Debian systems are still running an older version and therefore need updating.
You appear to be in full confirmation-bias mode when it comes to systemd, and thus will accept any criticism of systemd as truth without applying any critical thinking at all.
it's simpler than that, phil: i'm exhausted about 90% of the time, am making mistakes, and haven't the energy to fully research something that i know to be unethical in ways that are really very hard for me to explain.
if people - even on this list - did not go into full-on "attack" mode, getting extremely defensive and upset when i try to point something out, instead took the time to ask questions, it would be a lot easier.
this morning, i visited my host. i hadn't been able to sleep (at all). i woke up on his couch around 11am after he and his family had gone out. i tried to have a conversation: it was as if i was completely drunk. my words were slurred, i couldn't finish sentences, and i couldn't focus my eyes. realising something was wrong i drank two cups of water straight and within *thirty seconds* i was okay. tired, but okay.
much of my life i have been able to *perceive* really serious problems far better than i've been able to *explain* them. i'm amazed to have gotten this far with this campaign and it's down to the fact that so many people have helped out in so many ways. that includes you, most of all, phil.
so if i may ask you something: be kind, please. all of you. i appreciate your honesty, and i appreciate you keeping an eye out to compensate for the mistakes i make. i would however ask all of you to be a little bit kinder in the way that you do that, that's all. don't ever stop being honest and up-front, though. i'd rather you splurged angrily than remain quiet and let a fundamental mistake cascade through by omission.
l.