heftysync

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by heftysync 9y ago
Would the Core Infrastructure Initiative be willing to sponsor a cryptographer to review it? Getting this right would make it a lot easier to have faith in encrypted backups. Right now, you have to trust that each network backup product li
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by heftysync 9y ago
Have the design decisions been reviewed by a cryptographer yet? According to the presentation on youtube, it had not.
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by heftysync 9y ago
It's not really the same thing though. Packages in testing get migrated 2-10 days unless there's a serious bug report and then they get delayed indefinitely. Not all bug reports are going to affect me. I've run testing bef
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by heftysync 9y ago
This isn't as easy as it sounds. Pledge works in OpenBSD because OpenBSD is simple and all of the necessary code lives in one tree. Pledge is supported in the vast majority of OpenBSD base programs but very few ports. If programs ar
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by heftysync 9y ago
- HEADLINE: Bring back the standard (console) Live CD - DESCRIPTION: Jessie had a standard Live CD. While the HTML still refers to this flavor, it is not found on any mirror that I checked for Stretch. I have to use the live CD to install
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by heftysync 9y ago
Do you mean right now after a release or you recommend unstable in general?
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by heftysync 9y ago
HEADLINE: Better package discovery DESCRIPTION: There are a ton of packages in Debian. I sometimes browse through all of the packages looking for some gem that I didn't know about before. It's a time intensive process and I don&
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by heftysync 9y ago
HEADLINE: Latest elixir in Debian DESCRIPTION: Debian unstable still has elixir 1.3.3. It looks like the "official" path forward is to add Erlang Solutions as another apt repository and install packages from there. However, this
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by heftysync 9y ago
HEADLINE: More fine grained meta packages as community recommendations. DESCRIPTION: There are a few Debian meta packages but they are really broad. Example: it would be great if there were a few developer leaning packages grouped into one
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by heftysync 9y ago
OpenSSL doesn't follow semantic versioning. This is not a simple version upgrade. They knowingly broke the API between 1.0 and 1.1 and it can require substantial changes. They also refused to provide a compatibility shim to make it
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by heftysync 9y ago
HEADLINE: First class ZFS install support on Live CD. DESCRIPTION: The license conflict between the open source ZFS and open source Linux kernel mean ZFS needs to be in contrib. Unlike a lot of other packages in contrib, ZFS doesn't r
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by heftysync 9y ago
HEADLINE: Day(s) old sid as a rolling distro DESCRIPTION: I think I represent a number of users. We want to use unstable as a rolling distribution, but we don't want to run into every edge case. Testing doesn't update fast enoug