alethiophile

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by alethiophile 9y ago
Slippery slopes are alive and well, particularly in this domain. Go back to 2006 or so and tell them that in a decade, bakeries would be getting sued for not catering gay weddings. It is entirely right and proper to consider the likely futu
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by alethiophile 9y ago
No one has lost domain hosting, that I'm aware of. But at least one person got pepper-sprayed, more have been beaten in the street and others have had people going after their jobs based on mistaken identity. This doesn't address
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by alethiophile 9y ago
The answer is that this is, in fact, a slippery slope, because though TDS seem to be something that could be reasonably called actual Nazis (I honestly haven't investigated them to determine the validity of the accusation), we've
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by alethiophile 9y ago
I'd pick a Raspberry Pi over an Android, just because with the Pi I could plug in an external HD. But in terms of what I actually do, I just run a full server as a NAS, and don't pay any attention to the power bill. Also, without
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by alethiophile 9y ago
LFS current stable comes from February 2017. The current version rc1 was released today. It's hardly dead, archaic styling aside. (Anyone else remember when books on specific software suites were relevant...?) The links they give are t
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by alethiophile 9y ago
My use case for `chattr +i`: an rsync backup, on a cronjob, into an external drive mounted at a given point. Make the mountpoint directory `+i` so that the root-run rsync doesn't blindly fill up your root filesystem with the backup tar