Selinux was invented by a sadistic sociopath

Do you know why the 1st thing I do when I install a brand new Linux box? I disable Selinux by changing its configuration file from enforcing to disabled. Lately, this the terminal, insatiable geniuses in Linux 'community' replaced that by kernel command line parameters.

Long story short, I was wise to gut Selinux. This bitch messes up everything it manages to touch with it sticky paws, namely Apache and PHP. Nobody says that in Linux manuals, but in order to have a working Wordpress site, you have to open Selinux for curl, and this becomes a tedious quest of finding the right answers because they hide in shadows. Through a lengthy process of debugging and experimentation sprinkled with shouting and tearing out hair, I found that it is normal for curl to work in the console but not on the web because Selinux does not allow Apache to reach out.

You could have opened firewall to the world, but Selinux will get you and bite you in the ass.

Kill this bitch whether you find it!

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Can anyone explain the urge of FOSS developers to close any discussion?

Many FOSS projects dwell on Github. Github, in their wisdom, allows the project owners to close bug reports and discussion topics to further responses. The project owners use this function to the fullest, every time, all the time.

When challenged, they do not articulate any reasoning for doing so. They simply close off everything that pops up: questions, bug reports, suggestions, yada, yada, yada. As soon as possible. Right away.

Explain to me why. Explain to me why it is so important that no one could contribute to the discussion. Explain to me why they absolutely need the user to be shut up. Explain to me how is this consistent with the spirit of FOSS. Or is it all lies, smoke and mirrors, baloney?

The only theory I am able to come up with is that they are incentivized to that by the owner of Gitgub, i.e. by Microsoft. There must be some mechanism that goads the project owners to close discussions thus preventing the OP from asking additional questions or others from offering their help. The goal of this is, of course, to make Linux shit and to coax its users to use Windows. Well, if everyone wins in the end, why should I bother?

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New Linux release wipes out Midnight Commander extension file and resets to default

Somebody should track the distro maintainer who does that, go into their house or apartment, and reset it to default, i.e. remove all furniture, floor mats, picture frames, throw all of that out of the window, and leave them to recreate their interior. This is how it feels when instead of an office app an extension opens in vim.

Their inhumane, arrogant, inconsiderate behavior should have limits but it does not. They do whatever the fuck they want, without fear of consequences that they deserve. This should change.

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Pulseaudio is broken since at most 2010, and nobody gives a fuck

For at least nearly 15 years, frustrated users of PA keep asking questions about broken basic functionality in PA, and the universal answer to most of them is to kill and restart PA. Admittedly by anyone who answers, it is a temporary solution, and none of them know why problems occur.

Of course, this is only possible in the culture of overindulgence and total lack of authority and responsibility in Linux distros. They happily gorge themselves on any FOSS that floats around and replace perfectly working items with any new shit that waves of the Internet wash on the shore near them.

The missing sound after resume from sleep travesty is lasting for about 15 years now. Linux has always been broken around sleep, so no surprise PA is broken as well, but dudes, seriously, ALSA works perfectly. Do you value backdooring and surveillance opportunities so highly that you make your malice so obvious? Your greed and fear made you so dumb, it is not even funny.

These individuals need some very personal attention from Linux users, something very touching, tactile, feeling, profound, penetrant:

• Samuel Paul Thibault of Talence, France. His personal webpage is here. He is a Professor at University of Bordeaux.
• Andreas Schwab of Nürnberg, Deutschland uber ales. He is a Researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. We need a more specific address for a personal visit and conversation.
• Mike Frysinger of 223 Bailey Road, Holden, MA, USA, 01520. Phone 413.477.4885. Supposedly works for Google in Boston, MA.

Remember that it is this trio that writes crappy code for several decades. They are "renouned" as in they have titles such as doctor, professor, etc. but this does not make their product any better.

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These days we can make bets on which next software will be FUBARed by the next Linux release

Camorama used to be good. Not real good but good enough. Enter 2024, and it is FUBAR. It no longer resizes the live video panel accordingly to the View menu resolution selection. Instead, the video resizes but its viewport remains the same.

Could have they not known about it when they made the change? No fucking way! They knew, and they thought that it was fine to release this stinkin piece'o'shit.

Dudes, you are stretching your luck real thin.

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Soon, they will be hunted and slaughtered in the streets

After the last update that installed the 6.12 kernel, VirtualBox stopped working. It throws:

VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode.
Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot.
(VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE)

I do not have anything of the sort. Whatever happened came down from Fedora repo. These dirty scumbags have no ethics, no integrity, no humanity whatsoever. Instead, they believe that, like infamous Dr. Mengele, they can experiment on humans, with impunity. No, not really. We can bite back.

Fortunately, there is a simple solution:

# cat >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
kvm_intel
kvm
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist kvm_intel
blacklist kvm
[root@localhost ~]# rmmod kvm_intel
[root@localhost ~]# rmmod kvm

You, duchebags, next time you want to push unwanted and unneeded software onto the unsuspecting user's system, remember that we have box cutters. When SHTF, which everybody is hell bent on achieving, we will carve you up on sight.

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Scumbags from Mozilla Foundation are going full-on rapist with Tunderbird now

The terminally genius enlightened ivory tower dwellers know better, every time, all the time.

Despite massive and very vocal critique of the Firefox update nagging pop-up that proved to be not only annoying but also buggy, of which I had written earlier, they also introduced the same nagging pop-up in Thunderbird. This is how they envision their mission of building better internet.

So, here's how you shut the v.60+ Thunderbird up, under Linux: you create /etc/thunderbird directory and copy your policies.json that has keys that shut up Firefox. Yes, you are done because that very same file works for both of them. Screw you, geniuses.

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So, the new, 6.11 series of kernels is supposed to be much better? But why is it so FUBAR?

So, now that Linus and his masters kicked those sneaky Russian developers out of kernel development, the new kernels should be bug-free and perform perfect, should they not? But why does 6.11.8 contain a bug that delays shutdown by several minutes in the best case scenario or hangs it with kernel bug register dumps raining on the screen, in the worst one? Why is there no sound from pulseaudio, most of the time from either 6.11.8 or 6.11.11? Did the purge not help code better kernels? Of is the problem not in a handful of overseas developers but in Linus himself and his vision of Linux as a whole: that half-assed untested code can be submitted and happily accepted?

I have a recipe that can make the kernel better this instant: remove the graphic sugar from GRUB2 and restore text output from the kernel for everyone because now that nobody sees it everyone thinks that everything is nice and dandy. Linus and his minions found a way to hide their shit, and experts like me remove quiet splash from the kernel command line, to see whether things work or not. Drop this veil and let everyone know what is going on, and suddenly you will have hundreds more bug reports.

By the way, last time I checked, like 10 years ago, GRUB2 was being developed by a Russian developer. Maybe this one needs to be purged? Back then he broke dual-booting of Windows and rudely refused to even look into that. How's that for a terrorist?

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Have they recently fucked up grub2?

With the advent of Fedora 41 and new 6x series kernels, Selinux can no longer be shut up by setting its policy to disabled, under /etc. That was too nice, and some terminally genius ivory tower dweller decided that his soul craves for a change and changed that to a kernel command line parameter selinux=0. Fine, let's do that.

So, yours faithful goes to /etc/default/grub and adds yet another kernel parameter accordingly and runs grub2-install /dev/sda. This is supposed to update /boot/grub2/grub.conf with the new parameter. Not so fast!

All of the old parameters such as quiet etc are already there, but the new one has not been added. How so I ask. Why? This has worked since the introduction of this piece of crap Grub2.

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cURL error 7: Failed to connect to connect.wpmailsmtp.com port 443: Bad access

This is what you see in the WP Mail SMTP plugin for Wordpress when you send a test email from their Tools page. So, it dials home. Who would have thought that a piece of FOSS spies on its user and their users? No, I must be a troll.

Come on, come up with a justification! You have PR spin doctors on salary and speed dial! I want to hear it.

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