Its a datacenter not a golf course. They're going to bulldoze the entire lot anyways.
FWIW universal healthcare is not single payer. Its nationalizing healthcare providers and doing away with health insurance entirely. Which is better than any single payer plan IMO. Hospitals have never really been successful profit generating ventures.
The entire health insurance industry would be deleted along with all the jobs and stock value it produced. And yeah fuck'em but there's going to be knock on economic effects from deleting an entire industry.
No just some Singaporean Professor. His twitter handle is in the image. https://x.com/henrygao
Oh no his account has been suspended.
The good news is it won't be full bipartisian. Plenty of junior politicians know which way the wind is blowing here. But its still going to pass and it will be largely bipartisan.
Operation Paperclip was real but the CIA wasn't founded by (German) Nazis. IIRC NATO had ex-nazis in its founding but they were like Wehrmacht or politicians not SS.
Now the CIA did organize former SS agents in West Germany to act as terrorists/partisans should the Soviets invade in the German version of Operation Gladio.
That would be Henry Gao.
It was pushed back down to panama before but it took half a century (1950-2000) to do it. All that effort undone by some kid named big balls.
"More easily configurable" would be more accurate, because there's less things that could get in your way. The system is designed to make it as simple as possible from a developers perspective.
That wouldn't have fixed the AUR incident because the attacker updated the PKGBUILD which is roughly the same as the nixfile. And there are no packages provided by the AUR, just PKGBUILDs. You always build the package yourself locally.
Official packages are already vetted so they don't need user scoping. They could just enforce user scoping in the AUR and use the provides array for resolving conflicts. Its not a perfect solution but there's no such thing as perfect security, just better security.
Also having an AUR helper that properly containerized the build step would be an even bigger improvement.
Arch is deliberately minimal making it a good base system in the same way Debian or Fedora is. It's smaller, simpler, updates faster than the others and is far more configurable. It is however not built for the average user and most distros built on top of it that try to make it more "usable" are IMO pretty dangerous ideas. I think the only derivative i've tried that was good was SteamOS because they made it Atomic like nix or silverblue.
None of this really has to do with the AUR. That was always labelled as "use at your own risk". And to their credit they caught and addressed the attack within a day of it happening. Still, hosting user PKGBUILDs and leaving it to individual users to audit them is not a secure solution, its just punting on the responsibility.