This is just a variant of the "Ask question, use an alt acc to answer it incorrectly" method of getting help.
Harness the OCD of the internet (https://xkcd.com/386/)
"Effectively kill piracy" - Sure guys, this time it'll work.
My favourite one is:
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Remember that in online spaces (and IRL in reality), there are astro-turf/sock puppet accounts that will make claims to sway public opinions.
The arstechnica article speculated it was more of a pattern of words thing.
I think it is lies, and doesn't exist or work anywhere near as good as they claim. Or, its incredibly easy to bypass.
Its only a genocide if it comes from the third reich. Anything else is just sparkling ethnic cleansing.
To be fair, we only know of this one. There may well be other open source backdoors floating around with no detection. Was heartbleed really an accident?
That kinda sounds reasonable. Especially if it can prevent someone going down that rabbithole? Good job PH.
Im not a lawyer, but is this really good news? Isnt this just setting a precedent that Nintendo can shake down any emulator developer for ~2.4m any time they feel like it? So small developers are basically screwed?
It is actually a boot failure. Normally the kernel reads some config from the initrd (the bootloader loads initrd and passes it to the kernel - thanks dan) and then does a bunch of setup stuff, and then it mounts the actual root filesystem, and then switches to using that. In this case, the root filesystem has failed to mount.
Hardware failure is most likely the cause, but misconfiguration can also make this happen. Probably hardware though.
If its misconfiguration, an admin can reattempt to mount the root drive on /new_root, and then ctrl-d to get the init system to try again
ELI5: couldnt open C:/ drive
Edit: clarified what loads the initrd - as per dans comment.
I think its better to think of it like a president or prime minister. He might set the plan and direction and making the big decisions, but there are thousands of others supporting and making the plan actually happen.
In the past he has delegated the release to others as well.
So if the worst would happen, the linux project would continue operating fairly seamlessly.
As have I, but I wouldn't say its always been no issue. But there have been known performance issues, and filesystem locking issues when dual booting (I know, not OPs concern). I think its worth a warning at least, so OP doesn't go in blind.