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I blew up my Ubuntu install and switched back to Debian. I haven't missed Ubuntu at all.

What are the biggest drawbacks? I know you said you don't miss Ubuntu at all, but is there anything which is causing you pain because it works differently or is just missing?

Secondly, we picked the name “Riot” to evoke something disruptive and vibrant - like a “riot of colour.”

Really? This reminds me of "newspeak".

The concept of "connectives" as explained in Frank Herbert's Whipping Star book comes to mind.

One critic remark to make: I am not impressed by the "complex looks" of the hypergraphs because the initial premise is that it does not matter how we visualise them.

No, sorry :) there are levels which absolutely require the sacrifice (regular levels and the special ones too)

you can use docker-autoheal or something similar to automatically restart those processes

I consider it sloppy to accept that a process will crash and become unresponsive as a normal fact of life, and that subsequently they have to be automatically restarted. A process should stay put at what it was designed to do. Reasons for the crash/unresponsiveness should be investigated (memory leaks, race conditions etc) and not swept under a carpet with an automatic restart.

In the end, the system I put in place had 97% fewer processes (from 629 to 20) while providing all the same capabilities.

I am suspicious of this statement. Is the author now supporting the company and defacto replacing the guy that left?

They lost me at "encrypted downloader". The WhatsApp video attachment format allows for...a downloader? I strongly doubt that.

Perhaps what they should have written is that they cannot decrypt the video and thus check for an exploit within it (it's commonly called payload, because it doesn't have to be a downloader...).

I see from other comments here that I am not the only one doubting the report wording at the very least.