What a great idea! They should automate something like that! Maybe they could call it System Restore?

Google Lens turned up this: https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/star-trek-voyager-technical-manual.php

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If Q were non-linear, then the Big Bang would not make such a great hiding spot from the other Q. He can travel through time, but he is not omnipotent, omniscient, or omnipresent. He stands no chance against non-linear beings. The Prophets could stop the Q from ever existing in the first place.

Not often enough

You basically just made the case for exactly why.

Programs should be using the system resolver, not parsing that file.

The system resolver should have predictable behavior. But if other programs are doing their own DNS resolution (or otherwise predicating their functionality) based directly on the contents of resolv.conf then their behavior will not always be consistent with the system resolver (or with how the sysadmin intended things to function).

And that can break things in subtle, unpredictable ways, which is always a headache.

Thus, on some modern systems, resolv.conf simply declares the local systemd-resolved instance (i.e. 127.0.0.1) and nothing else.

A single global resolv.conf file also will not let you configure different behavior based on interface or on network namespace. Want to ensure DNS lookups for specific apps occur only through your VPN-specific DNS servers but all other apps only use the normal system resolvers (i.e. no leaking from either side of the divide)? Want to also ensure DNS lookups for those specific apps fail when the VPN is down (again, as opposed to leaking)? systemd-resolved has your back.

And before anyone asks, yes, I am aware there are other, more crude and convoluted ways to do that with e.g. iptables (just like you can use crude, inconsistent init.d spaghetti scripts to manage services). It's just one single real-world example.

A single global resolv.conf file also will not let you configure different behavior based on interface or on network namespace.

The point is to configure everything using consistent, predictable configuration files and syntax, and to ensure consistent, predictable behavior.

But if you ultimately still want resolv.conf.d back, then your distro of choice undoubtedly provides a way to do so.

It's okay. It's an actual quote from Ray:

In a statement announcing his brother's death, brother Ray alluded to a familiar joke about the weekly puzzlers they always featured in the show.

"Turns out he wasn't kidding. He really couldn't remember last week's puzzler," Ray said. "We can be happy that he lived the life he wanted to live; goofing off a lot, talking to you guys every week and primarily laughing his ass off."

Please, do these retweets really all deserve separate posts? It feels like spam and it's flooding my subscription feed.

Can't you just do a consolidated/digest post if you're just going to share tweets?

Just load up the Star Trek channel on Pluto TV and see what's playing. It's free.

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Enterprise, starring ~~Tim Allen~~ Ray Romano as Captain Archer

The highest rate of gun crime is high gun restriction states.

What does gun crime mean in this context?

Does it mean crimes committed with a gun?

Does it mean violations of gun laws? If so, is that normalized with respect to the stricter restrictions in those states?

Is it normalized with respect to total population? With respect to population type (rural versus urban)?

Is it possible that the states with more restrictions have done so because of the rates of those crimes?