@mos_8502 I think it mostly depends on what kind of software you’re going to run.

If you’re not going to use any software that depends on modern widget toolkits then I think you could be just fine with a fully TUI environment. I run a similar setup by running dvtm for a dwm-like experience.

OTOH, if you need something like a pdf viewer, an image viewer, a modern browser etc. I think running a full TUI environment would be inconvenient.
Just run a small wayland compositor, like sway (or i3 if you’re still running X11), and you’ll be fine.

One of the most things I love of OpenBSD is the pragmatic decisions the developers make.

macOS blocked Kernel Extensions for security reasons.
You cannot load any kext at runtime unless you boot in Recovery mode and disable this restriction.

But still I think the OpenBSD approach to delete the entire LKM support was a smarter move than running a LKM-aware kernel and then blocking the loading of kexts at runtime.

I will build a great cloud, and nobody builds clouds better than me, believe me. And I will built it very inexpensively. I will build a great great cloud with multiple regions, and I will have customers pay for that cloud! Mark my words!

#MakeCloudComputingGreatAgain #expensivebills #costsoptimizationfanfic

I grew so tired of the complexity of IT, that turning on my Lenovo laptop, which is running OpenBSD, is a breath of fresh air.

I'm looking forward to get my Dell PowerEdge T610 tower server delivered.

Now, I just need to buy 12x16GB ECC RAM banks and 4TBx8 HDDs.

@mos_8502 While I agree with your philosophy from a personal pov, I can’t do it from a market pov.

In this world of ours, if there is no popularity in commodity scenarios, there will be not in the enterprise one.

Windows became known in the server space because of it’s being known in the desktop arena.
People use it at home, so they pushed it at work.

Linux is the same. It was pushed from the geek and homemade computing world and then, through Red Hat and others, became the way to go in the enterprise IT.

This is also one of the reasons for the decline of commercial UNIX flavors. No one at their home knowns about them or could use them.

Then again, personally I’m like you. I like diversification, also because it brings innovation.
I always says that when there was competition in platform (CPU architecture, OS etc) there were the best innovations.
Now, with the commodity hardware and commodity software, there is no innovation as before.

@eb While I came to know your blog while I was searching for more clear information about the XZ vulnerability, I also found out that your other contents where top quality as well. So thank you for your contribution to the community.

And this feedback was also something that my colleagues told me after I linked your blog (again, for the xz issue).

That said, I can understand your anxiety and the rise of expectations you feel to satisfy. So, if you want to take a break just do it. Your physical and mental health is always what really matter.

As for me, I bookmarked your blog so every once in a while I'll check for news.
Until then, take care of you! 😁

I wasn't joking. I'm taking a short break to work on myself: https://boehs.org/node/a-break
ilyall <3, see you soon

While I think that the cloud providers are pushing a toxic behavior where there is no contribution to the products they’re selling as a “managed service”, I think Redis is using this situation as a excuse to change their license to a proprietary one.

If you are choosing to release your software with a permissive license, like the BSD, you are telling that is fine for you that your software can be used even in a third party proprietary solution.
Whining that someone ACTUALLY did that and made profits greater than yours is just hypocritical.

#redis #bsl #CloudProviders

A very interesting article from @eb blog about the history of the XZ vulnerability that these days everyone is talking about.

https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor

@__warlord__ Go is the way.

@jgillich well if you don’t develop your middleware as microservices there is almost no reason to run Kubernetes at all.

Are you still asking yourself why some people like me think that #kubernetes is a mess?

Well, look at the picture. I think it explains that quite well.

Thank you for all your work guys! Really!

https://openports.se/
https://netbsd.se/

@pamela For me, no one taught me anything like that. I’m serious.

Time to say goodbye, MEGA.
After almost 10 years of use, it's now time to move on.

Welcome, Proton Drive.

@dch that’s why nowadays people talk about running Kubernetes on top of VMware as the next big thing, when with LPAR+WPAR on IBM POWER servers or LDOM+Zones on SUN SPARC servers you could obtain the same decades ago.

People just don’t know anything about UNIX. The main difference is that years ago such people were called Junior System Administrators. Now they are called DevOps Engineers.

People are getting wet for this new utility called Kubeshark, for tracing HTTP calls of applications deployed in Kubernetes.

Oh wow! That’s incredible!
Welcome to 15 years ago! And thanks for inventing APMs! Thanks for inventing wireshark or ngrep!

I’m really getting tired about all this hype about every reinvented wheel.
Years ago IT was considered a science. Now everyone want to be the next Steve Jobs, by trying to discover the hot water.

#cloudnative #fakehype

Captchas are the worst form of anti-spam and anti-(D)DoS detection system.
They were born for lazy people who think that automation is always bad and configuring a reverse proxy/load balancer with a WAF solution is way too complicated.
They disrupted the web and forced people to deal with tons of potentially insecure and privacy unfriendly third-party JS code, that they will be processed in the client device, through the browser's JS interpreter.

And worst of that, they didn't save your shitty website, as they can be easily solved even by well written scripts nowadays.

So stop destroying the web. Learn how to properly hardening your website or pay someone to do that for you.

@rem7 @paulgatling I’m using Toot as well, but as I’m migrating to my Pixel, I’m using the Mastodon official app on Android.

It is also available for iOS.

The only missing feature is “delete and re-draft”, to “edit” a post.