fridsun

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by fridsun 10y ago
The problem is there are better things before systemd, namely daemontools (and its derivs runit, s6, ...). It wasn't popular, presumably because people didn't care that much. OTOH, Nosh offers a tool to auto-convert service files
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by fridsun 10y ago
My 2 cents: init script wasn't a enough pain in the ass for people in charge to search for alternatives but still a pain, and systemd was introduced to them by Red Hat manpower. It seems good enough so they went with it. Actually, init
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by fridsun 10y ago
PC-BSD (based on FreeBSD) on my laptop works surprisingly nicely. It's been more stable than Xubuntu for me, and because of ZFS, capable of rolling back any wrongful update without an external backup. The ports system is straightforwar
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by fridsun 10y ago
You probably didn't realize that pain until systemd. Otherwise if you searched for alternatives, daemontools family is pretty easy to find. Or you would be using BSD instead, with better security. But, well, since I saw a 5-year-ago St
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3 points by fridsun 10y ago|0 comments
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by fridsun 10y ago
Wow qmail! Instant confidence.
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by fridsun 10y ago
Even if you host your own email server, your emails are still handled by routers and the destination server unencrypted. You are not trusting others much less than not hosting your own email. If you have your own domain and you don't t
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by fridsun 10y ago
It's advertised and designed to "feel" like a public space, in an effort to disguise the truth of the ownership. Lack of a true public alternative is sad.
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by fridsun 10y ago
Security is not only dealing with aftermath, although that is an important part of it. A security-first distro such as http://www.alpinelinux.org/ or OpenBSD, although harder to setup, would serve better long term.
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by fridsun 10y ago
IM in a corporate setting has never really take off IMO. Email is usually the choice, which has a more mature in-house management model.
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by fridsun 11y ago
All ISPs in China are government-owned. It is believed that the government can locate any IP. Then it's only a problem of finding his IP by monitoring.
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by fridsun 11y ago
It depends. I am a bit surprised that reddit is not blocked. Neither is hackernews. Apart from classic Google, Facebook, Twitter, AWS is targeted intensely for its role in "affiliated freedom", to the point releases on github are
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by fridsun 11y ago
You can get arrested for hosting illegal web content. All public facing servers in China must be registered at the government, or they can get raided.