I agree with your rant, but modern distributions are using Unix sockets for the X server. For example Fedora uses /tmp/.X11-unix/X0.
Ah, thanks for the info :).
I'll admit I haven't had to mess around with X for...probably 5 years? The last I remember, you'd run an X server on your machine, then your window manager would connect to it on the loopback device.
The point stands, though, that "getting rid of localhost" is incredibly naive.
blhack - co-f here - i'm sure you know what we mean to say is not let's take your computers away :) it's just, let's forget about setting up our localhosts each time we need to clone&run a friggin github project that makes you yum,brew,apt-get,npm,make,easy_install,gem and potentially mess up your environment.. we will give one in the cloud, each time you need one, and you can trash it when u'r done. or keep hacking.. cheers!
That makes sense to me now, but I didn't understand that from 'good bye to localhost'.
Maybe instead of building some bizarre slideshow thing and including an absolutely ridiculous link-baity title like "goodbye to localhost?"[1], you write up a simple explanation of the point you're trying to get across.
[1]: For crying out fraking loud. Get rid of localhost? Do you have even the most basic understanding of how modern computers function? Yes. Of course. Get rid of localhost. Go ahead and do that and then see if your X server, or just about every other daemon on your machine, keeps running.
edit: I kindof got this slideshow to work (although it feels like it wants to crash my browser. I guess it makes sense that I should have to upgrade my video card to view some pictures over the internet. That is a really advanced function.), and...is this just some web based VIM?
"Take some thing that has existed for 30 years and...uh...the cloud!".
Please.
The guy in the pictures sure is attractive, though. He looks very serious, coding is very serious. Seriously.