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The Bard and the Shell(journal.bsd.cafe)
5 points by draga79 1y ago|1 comments
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A Self-Hosted, BSD-Native Gemini Protocol Server Stack(journal.bsd.cafe)
2 points by draga79 1y ago|0 comments
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by draga79 1y ago
FreeBSD - The software actually already runs on that OS, and I offered to conduct thorough tests, even in edge cases. I never asked for official support for the OS.
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by draga79 1y ago
I'm the author of the post. While I haven't shared all the details for various reasons, I can confirm the private contact wasn't made via LinkedIn (I also get tons of spam!). The author is aware of who I am. My aim wasn'
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by draga79 1y ago
While other fields embraced minimalism, tech became bloated. Why do we use complex, oversized systems for simple jobs? It's like taking a semi-truck to buy salad. This post explores a return to efficient, low-cost, and minimalist compu
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by draga79 1y ago
Ever heard of vibe coding? It’s when the code looks fine, tests pass, vibes are good - so it goes to production. Even if it’s wide open to SQL injection. I’ve seen it happen. AI wrote it. Devs trusted it. Management loved it. Nobody underst
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by draga79 1y ago
Not a cooperative - but they had a specific regime because of their business. I'm sorry, I can't say more otherwise they could be easily identified.
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by draga79 1y ago
No, It wasn't organized crime.
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by draga79 1y ago
Not exactly. Just a few people who were diverting large amounts of the company’s money into their personal bank accounts, taking advantage of the fact that that type of business, at the time, had a particular tax regime and no direct tracki
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by draga79 1y ago
No, it wasn't written for LinkedIn. It was written for my blog, and I just wanted to share something that happened, as I often do. That's all :-)
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by draga79 1y ago
No, it wasn't organized crime.
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by draga79 1y ago
It was StoreBackup: https://www.nongnu.org/storebackup/en/
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by draga79 1y ago
We're talking around 2009 — I don't recall the exact period, but that’s the era. For backups, I used rsync-based syncs and kept history by using hard links and rsync on top of those. I also had a Perl script that automated the who
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by draga79 1y ago
The goal of truncating the sentences in that way was precisely to increase the suspense a bit, but I believe I miserably failed, making it just less readable.
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by draga79 1y ago
Sure, I can say this. The person I would have called, someone very close to me, would have been extremely disappointed to learn what was happening. They were very proud of having helped, during difficult times, the very person who was now t
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by draga79 1y ago
Yes, exactly :-D
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by draga79 1y ago
I've been paid for doing my job: creating the infrastructure, configuring stuff, etc.
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by draga79 1y ago
Author's note: Many readers, understandably struck by the severity of the events, have speculated about the involvement of organized crime. I want to clarify that, while the situation was extremely problematic and dishonest, that wasn&
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by draga79 1y ago
Italy, but no organized crime involved
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by draga79 1y ago
No, that's not a clue :-) I've just replied, clarifying this part, to the previous comment
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by draga79 1y ago
I’m the author of the post. I hinted, in a cryptic sentence near the end, that I necessarily had to leave out the worst parts of the story. No, no organized crime. But yes, there were people who appropriated resources that weren’t theirs an
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by draga79 1y ago
An updated personal retrospective from 2015, detailing over two decades of experiences (2001-2025) with Apple product reliability, from iMacs and iBooks to iPhones and MacBooks, highlighting recurring issues despite premium pricing.
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The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist(it-notes.dragas.net)
4 points by draga79 1y ago|1 comments
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by draga79 1y ago
A story from 16 years ago - trust, tech, and a server that had to disappear. They offered me a blank check. I said no.
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by draga79 1y ago
After 25 years, I reconnected with a friend through a 1998 email, highlighting the lasting power of open standards. This personal journey underscores the risk of relying on fleeting proprietary tech. In our digital era, choosing lasting pla
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by draga79 2y ago
A healthcare client risks IT failure by ignoring outdated infrastructure in favor of an impractical cloud migration plan.
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by draga79 2y ago
No, after 20 years of use and comparative testing of similar setups. Frankly, I have always placed little importance on benchmarks as I consider them extremely specific. I am interested in real-world use cases. The goal of the talk and the
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by draga79 2y ago
As specified in several parts, the tests were conducted while maintaining and using BSD-based infrastructures for over 20 years. In some cases, Linux was used for various reasons (commercial, ideological, because they were inherited infrast
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by draga79 2y ago
They're paying for a service. For example, if their Nextcloud is working and is stable, they don't care if it's running on Linux, FreeBSD, OmniOS, etc. It's in the contract we have - and they're fine with it.
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by draga79 2y ago
Things are improving...stay tuned :-)

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