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Probably will happen when the benefits of maintaining a separate kernel fall away. Same way Wine has made win32 a potential future API that all games target, but no platform supports natively. (Not yet though it’s a prediction.)

It means you contain the generated code.

One supports the new thing (AI) and the other doesn’t.

Back when I started out I wanted something similar I used webmin (I think it was) which is a perl webserver interface for linux configuration. There are a couple issues with gui/tui based solutions:

1. Config files can be very expressive, and it’s hard to make a data structure and a ui which matches it, which causes it to clobber comments and extra config options you turn on (the comments help a lot with config files)
2. They can be very out of date, and break your config unless you’re aware of the differences in version
3. Webmin was the source of many security vulnerabilities
4. They actively prevent learning - config files are a bandaid, although pam, like selinux, fstab, crypttab are painful ones to make a mistake in but the good news is often fixing them is booting into a live cd and changing it, so make backups.

Along with webmin tuis were popular for config too in a similar way. IDK if redhat still does it but there were a bunch similar to nmtui.

I don’t think that this one is particular complex to write. But you might run into other issues. Let us know if it’s on your system etc. Look in /lib/security/ to see if you have the pam_time.so installed. Might be the first place to go.

It doesn’t have to be, just structurally people are incentivized to do this

1 pam configuration mistake or one programming mistake in it. However if you can comfortably boot a live usb and fix it, and test it in qemu it should be no problem.

Oh look like pam_time exists…

https://askubuntu.com/questions/631569/pre-scheduled-daily-lock-out-periods

https://linux.die.net/man/8/pam_time

https://linux.die.net/man/5/time.conf

Seems minimal enough.

goreleaser to help with the “where can I get the binaries” problem?

He wants stronger hierarchies and the people in charge, all so that his group can attack them and them under him… That’s my reading.

You could break your system, but maybe a pam module could make your username/pass not work during particular times.

IIRC this is very much created by the way copyright law works. So this is the company acting on incentives. It needs regulatory adjustment. If you stop them from THIS method they might find an even more destructive path. Make it so their actions create positive 2nd order effects.

Yeah it’s definitely targeted at graduates making their first contributions / building a portfolio, but not for anything sustained.