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by corty 5y ago
But it is a mess. You'll need 2 files for that unit (itself and the shellscript) plus changes to all necessary dependencies to put it in the right place. A sysv-init script is just edited in the right place and you are done.
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by corty 5y ago
I'd rather recommend booting a liveCD. grml, knoppix, whatever floats your boat. An init=/bin/bash shell needs quite a bit of knowledge to get working (mount rw, get rid of selinux, mount the real rootfs), is possibly just bu
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by corty 5y ago
In that sense, systemd doesn't solve anything for the same reason sysv-init doesn't. All those preconditions in systemd will still either time out or never finish. The point is, back then I just moved the apache startup script to
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by corty 5y ago
You wanted to know how many udev events and therefore dynamic behaviour a server could have at boot. I told you my experience. And of course the underlying system may fail, but actually it is more common to have udev, lvm and systemd fail.
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by corty 5y ago
Apache waiting for NFS mounts is still not solved. Now Apache may depend on a file system, but it still cannot depend on "the LDAP is available so you can resolve the UIDs on that NFS". So we are a tiny step ahead maybe. But the p
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by corty 5y ago
Network cards aren't simply just cards anymore. Often you get multiple interfaces depending on each other, e.g. bridges depending on multiple ethernet interfaces which wait for STP delay to be over until they are really forwarding pack
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by corty 5y ago
It depends on the application. For laptops, sure, hotplugging stuff is important. For servers, not so much, reliability is far more important than getting your USB-stick automatically recognized. systemd is heavily skewed towards the unreli
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by corty 5y ago
Deactivate graphical boot screens (often just by pressing Esc), increase the log level[0] and try to read the logs somehow. Maybe you can still log in as root. If you cannot log in as root even, but networking works, configure rsyslog to se
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by corty 5y ago
Problem with systemd is, startup is not deterministic. systemd starts everything it can start at the same time, leading to subtle race conditions between services and the network. If you have any dependency that isn't explicitly spelle
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by corty 5y ago
Java is the new COBOL. It will not be replaced in this century.
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by corty 5y ago
Go can easily replace Python or Ruby (because it is faster and libraries are available to do what you need). Go can replace Java and C# especially because concurrency is easier and performance is on par, if you can get along with the inferi
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by corty 5y ago
That the GDPR introduction required a lot of work is a sign that Google failed to comply with German data protection law in the time before. Google did business in Germany, so would have had to comply. GDPR is, in most aspects, a straight t
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by corty 5y ago
First, illegal obviously doesn't matter to Google. They are collecting GDPR fines but continuing as before. Responsible authorities in Ireland are asleep at the wheel, probably intentionally. As a user, "illegal" doesn't
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by corty 5y ago
GUI translation works like this, usually. You have a list of strings/phrases occuring in the GUI and a translation table for each language that assigns the english string to its translated equivalent. With the help of a dictionary (gen
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by corty 5y ago
Problem is, we are mostly not preparing for chaos, we are still trying to prevent it. We should stop trying to prevent global warming because that is a futile endavour anyways. Instead we should start building water reservoirs, dams, begin
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by corty 5y ago
Data that can be traced back to a person is covered by GDPR. If the user_ids have attached user datasets somewhere they are covered. If they don't have that, but the graph formed by user_ids and relationship_ids is isomorphic to public
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by corty 5y ago
In the Cambridge Analytica scandal, there was no direct payment to Facebook, just to an intermediary. Without an obvious payment, but maybe with mutual consideration: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46618582 https
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by corty 5y ago
Some people are unable to refill the windshield wiper fluid of their car. Some people cannot reattach a button. I think we shouldn't continue to tolerate such incompetence from the general population, or at least charge them an arm and
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by corty 5y ago
Look for Cambridge Analytica. If you think the behavior ended with the scandal, I've got the Golden Gate Bridge and the Eiffel Tower to sell you, two for one :)
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by corty 5y ago
> Such "slap in the wrist" fine clearly establishes a particular practice to be illegal, which influences decision making process in other companies. > Put like that, it sounds reasonable to me if fines start at a low level
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by corty 5y ago
I think Group Policies are a very incomplete, partial solution. As you said, you usually have to combine it with a few more things to get the job done, and that is how any sysadmin job works. But: You need not only a one-off-script to make
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by corty 5y ago
Depends, event forwarding is quite weird and broken. Default settings delay and buffer events for quite some time so that an attacker can easily suppress unsent event buffers. Crashes are also usually missed because buffered events have not
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by corty 5y ago
I didn't claim that rebooting a Windows box is impossible or hard. It is just that group policies are no complete solution for anything, they are just a small and imho weird part. Also, for a lot of things there is just no group policy
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by corty 5y ago
It is pretty commmon in departments such as sales, trading or marketing as incentive to e.g. invite $singer upon hitting the years sales target. Or organize a short holiday, visit to a sports event, fancy dinner, something. Seems to spill o
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by corty 5y ago
So much this. Earning money with "do whatever"-style licenses like BSD or MIT is bound to fail. Use GPL and sell commercial licenses on the side.
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by corty 5y ago
Group policy "automation" is painful and inconsistent. Parts are only applied on user login. Parts only on reboot. Parts instantly. Hard to impossible to know which is which. And no way to log off users or reboot machines via grou
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by corty 5y ago
And mostly the structure isn't really used at all, it's just plain text for a lot of log messages.
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by corty 5y ago
That is equally possible in a brick-and-mortar store. Even regulated shops such as pharmacies are suspected of selling counterfeits: https://www.deutsche-apotheker-zeitung.de/news/artikel/2017/... I'd ev
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by corty 5y ago
German "Streusel" is just the crumbly dryish component covering a cake or pastry made from a little flour, butter and lots of sugar. Streuselkuchen is a cake made with yeast dough covered in Streusel. Optionally, one can enhance t
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by corty 5y ago
Yes, but gradually. E.g. the change from fine dining to more casual fine dining (even the officially non-casual fine dining became more casual and less stuffy). Since the 80s, complexity and affinity to exotics also went down, local and sus

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