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961.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Sure, but AWS isn’t going to exempt you from their global MFA requirement.
962.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Calling someone a racist is actually nearly never defamatory, since it’s almost always an opinion based either on disclosed facts or an opinion based on nothing.
963.
by akerl_ 2y ago
The pizza guy and firefighters are not going to scan a QR code on your door.
964.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Isn’t this… HomeAssistant? https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/06/07/ai-agents-for-...
965.
by akerl_ 2y ago
This feels like you're trying to ask rhetorically, but... Cloudflare hosted a program for startups to build things on Cloudflare Workers. This is a project that somebody built as part of that program, which they're now launching a
966.
by akerl_ 2y ago
I agree. That’s a really unfortunate way to view somebody’s project.
967.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Amusing, given that the Internet Archive and the Wordpress Foundation are both major non-profits whose mission has been jeopardized by executives picking fights.
968.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Far more VPSs are compromised through local VM attacks than provider attacks. This is a bit like saying "When you're temping your chicken, always remember that your grocery store could be putting arsenic in it at the store".
969.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Honestly, for somebody running a personal server, ufw/iptables/etc tend to not be relevant for any direct security. Basically nobody is doing anything for outbound rules other than ACCEPT, and for inbound... people can only connec
970.
by akerl_ 2y ago
I think you’re reading further into this than is there.
971.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Yes. And the commenter is pointing out that if Guix has a bug, and the available fix is via non-free firmware, they will not pull in the fix. Users thus continue to be affected by the bug.
972.
by akerl_ 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a to
973.
by akerl_ 2y ago
I actively bias towards non-MAS downloads if an app offers both. And I’ll bias towards non-MAS options unless I absolutely need the MAS-only option
974.
by akerl_ 2y ago
This is the kind of message board logic that doesn’t actually work in the real world. The CA has to answer to the CAB if they want to stay in browser trust stores, and quite clearly a private key that’s posted publicly has been disclosed.
975.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Why?
976.
by akerl_ 2y ago
It seems pretty likely that there’s communications internal to Automattic or the Wordpress Foundation where they talked about their objectives and plans, assuming the details in the claim are accurate. That’s what they’re talking about pres
977.
by akerl_ 2y ago
I assume the real goal here is to have the letter exist and be public, as a counterpoint in customer conversations.
978.
by akerl_ 2y ago
We did feel pain. You could mitigate the pain by never making mistakes (like by ensuring all your cron scripts log to somewhere in /var/log, or that you have alerting, or that you always put them in crontab). But also what we cons
979.
by akerl_ 2y ago
I think maybe it's worth considering the possibility that the things being replaced did not work well, and were replaced because the new options solved problems and user pain. To pick on cron, just from my own experience: "I wonde
980.
by akerl_ 2y ago
How does that account for the distros using systemd-networkd, timesyncd, resolved, etc, where they’re separate binaries and services, instead of their predecessors? If the other binaries aren’t better for maintainers and their users, why ar
981.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Why do you think Linux distros adopted systemd, if not because they thought it was a good choice for themselves and their users?
982.
by akerl_ 2y ago
It didn’t and wasn’t.
983.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Systemd unit files can exec shell scripts… There have been times where I needed to do something that wasn’t available in the unit file syntax, so I just do it in a shell script and ExecStart that.
984.
by akerl_ 2y ago
One of the examples from my world is generally databases. If I’m running a large or clustered DB, I probably don’t want it to just blindly restart on a crash.
985.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Surely for each individual distro, they get to make their own decision about how to build their system. I can’t stop you from hating, but if your pitch is that distros shouldn’t be allowed to make their own choices about what to include if
986.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Yes. Systemd timers are an order of magnitude better for the average distro maintainer and the average user than the various ways of invoking and running cron.
987.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Oh, that answer is bigger but pretty boring: the dumbest possible alternative doesn't account for the complexity of real life systems. Some examples: On your desktop, while you launch programs through the window manager, things like th
988.
by akerl_ 2y ago
I'm not sure what you're asking. On any system, something has to start "first", and be in charge of figuring out what the heck happens next. On modern Linux systems (and I'm oversimplifying massively), the hardware
989.
by akerl_ 2y ago
I think it's possible that you just hold a non-majority opinion about what good usability looks like. That's fine, and I'm OK with a world where we disagree about how usable systemd is, but I interact with the systemd config
990.
by akerl_ 2y ago
I've fixed a lot of problems on a lot of systems and never needed to recompile systemd. The majority of them I've fixed by editing text files. What kinds of problems are you hitting where you need to recompile systemd?

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