pmk

It’s not stealing when you willingly allow someone to use it however they want. OpenBSD writes: “We want to make available source code that anyone can use for ANY PURPOSE, with no restrictions. We strive to make our software robust and secure, and encourage companies to use whichever pieces they want to.” If your goal is to polish something like OpenSSH until it’s as good as it can be, the world is better off when robust and secure software spread, also into proprietary systems. When companies use OpenSSH, it does not take away anything from OpenBSD, they are not competitors.

I hope to see lots of nice pixel art, not just flag wars.

I miss websites, like, the “under construction”-gif era websites about medieval swords or tv-show fandoms or such.

Interesting. If you don’t mind me asking, do you get mentally excited? Do you feel physically attracted to people? An urge to do something?

This has been my experience with self-hosting too. There are so many different areas of concepts that need to form a cohesive whole. Following a how-to and pasting some commands can lead to something running, but then there are worlds of knowledge to actually understand it. Especially when complexity seems to increase exponentially.
Funny thing is that for every low-level concept I actually learn, the more I appreciate my OpenBSD computer that I mostly play around with otherwise.

In the TV-show, no, it was rushed and didn’t make a lot of sense. In the books, I guess we will never know, but the foundation is there all the way back to “Skahaz, I have changed my mind. Question the man sharply.” etc.

I believe this was the point of Daenerys Targaryen, I think GRRM wanted to see at what point we would have to change our minds about her being good and righteous. There are many examples of redemption arcs, but she was the opposite.

My general advice at this point is, if you haven’t already, to document the setup for your future self. It quickly gets out of hand with the amount of passwords, credentials, certificates, firewall settings, docker containers left and right, configs, workarounds, custom shell scripts, ansible scripts, git repos, backup locations and passwords, etc. Right now everything is fresh in your mind, but 6 months from now you may need to restore from a backup or an OS upgrade goes wrong, and then you’ll appreciate being able to remember the details.

If clouds are far away, then self-hosting could be “fog”? Clouds at ground level that you walk around in.

Interesting, do you remember which didn’t work? I recently set up a simple service (navidrome) as rootless podman with an ansible script, but it was… there were some hoops to jump through, mainly with the uid/gid and machinectl to get it to work.

Always nice to see podman used well! Do you have a dedicated user or is it rootful?

But are we aware of existing things in themselves, apart from the idea and perception in our minds?

How does this differ from having an idea or perception in our minds about existing things?

You can block them once and for all. It’s like they don’t exist.

Almost 20 years ago, Theo de Raadt (founder of OpenBSD) said: “you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can’t write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.” I would like to think that we’ve figured out the security holes since then, but… you know…

I used to translate things in Debian, but I stopped for this reason. It’s making it harder for everyone. People in sweden don’t know the swedish technical word for “routing”, but everyone knows what a router is. (Trivia, the word is “dirigering”.)

If the name Mike is a shortened Michael, it’s also possible that bike is a shortened Bichael, and that’s the proper name. The whole bicycle/bike similarity could be a coincidence.

Strange, I can see the article, it’s not removed for me.

Are they “bending” more than what they are legally required to? Their model is that they cannot provide content if it was end-to-end encrypted, even if they were forced they just can’t. If someone pays for their account with a credit card that’s information they can be forced to give. I haven’t heard that they have gone beyond that and willingly given information. I don’t think we can blame a company for not breaking the laws of the country they operate in.

What generic content do you think is missing most?