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There was a need for a Minecraft server last night so I did a speed run and somehow decided to boot up a Oracle Linux VM to get that going.
(The Oracle Cloud free tier is great! You get 4 ARM64 Ampere CPUs + 24GB RAM + 200GB disk that you can mix in any combination)
But now I have an RPM based VM which is like completely weird for me after decades of Debian / Ubuntu.
Everything it outdated and defaults like `htop` are not present. Such a different world.
Worth learning?
@slightlyoff Final thought from me .. I think the web ecosystem is equally corrupted as the native app ecosystem by tracking companies. It is incredibly persistent on both sides.
I also think both browser and device makers had no idea, or intention, about what they were getting into or knew how these ecosystems would evolve the past decades.
Ultimately they should co-exist together. I think it is pointless to talk about native vs web as if there needs to be a winner. Neither is going anywhere.
Incredible .. I don't think there are any firewall applications for macOS that can block _incoming_ requests with some basic rules. All the "Firewall" apps are to control outgoing traffic. Which is of course a noble cause too. But not what I need.
Opportunity for a security minded indie developer? A firewall UI that sits on top of `pf` or your own network extension?
Iâve mentioned this before: this is one of the oncoming trains for corp-security. Weâve long failed at least-privilege, but werenât often punished for it.
Helen in HR (or Bob in accounts) didnât know what to do with the extra perms they didnât know they had.
Their agents will.
People who keep repeating "the software is done, do not make changes to something that works" are 100% wrong.
Software is only done when nobody uses it or when it runs in a vacuum.
Wow all this hate on rsync⌠What a horrible echo chamber the angry anti-AI crowd is.
Nobody has looked at the pull requests, nobody has asked the maintainer what they are doing. Nobody is asking actual questions. Nobody is showing some empathy for the lone open source maintainer that likely struggling to find time and energy to maintain their project.
Show some restraint people. How about first working on a more informed opinion that doesnât sound like a stochastic parrot.
I spent 2 hours trying to get a NetGear AC1200 to work. (Needed an extra AP for .. reasons .. and this was an open box for $29)
That now requires NetGear account, a mobile app and a captive portal where you need to register before your AP works. But after 2 hours of pain it just kept failing with "No internet connection"
No worries. Flashing #OpenWrt and turning on the WiFi radio literally took 3 minutes. It all works! And then some more! Freedom!
Open Source at its best.
Haroon Meer