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TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in A large state corporation in Brazil is currently trialing 800 Linux PCs. If successful, it will deploy and replace 22k Windows installs, comparable to the migration happening in Germany.

Great find, I was aware of that situation but it doesn’t mean what I said wasn’t also happening “in the background”. Everyone was profiting from consulting companies to Microsoft.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in ext2: mark as deprecated - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

Meanwhile BTRFS provides me with snapshots and rollbacks that are a useful when I’m messing with the system. And subvolumes bring a lot of flexibility for containers and general management.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in ext2: mark as deprecated - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

ZFS is still the de-facto standard of a reliable filesystem. It’s super stable, and annoyingly strict on what you can do with it.

Yes and that’s the reason why I usually pick BTRFS for less complex things.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in What distro should I use on my potato?

Devuan

Just no. Systemd can get more efficient than running hundreds of poorly integrated scripts and daemons to have a working system.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in ext2: mark as deprecated - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

The “Caveats” section for BTRFS is trash, it is all about a ENOSPC issue that requires you to low level mess with the thing or run the fs for years over constant writes without any kind maintenance (with automatic defragmentation explicitly disabled). Frankly I can point from the top of my head real issues they aren’t speaking about: RAID56 (everything?), RAID10 (improve reading performance with more parallelization).

If we take subvolumes, snapshots, deduplication, CoW, checksums and compression in consideration then there’s no reason to ever use ext4 as it is just… archaic. Synology is pushing for BRTFS at home and business so they must have analytics backing that as well.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in ext2: mark as deprecated - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

Well a few years ago I actually did some research into that but didn’t find much about it. What I said was my personal experience but now we also have companies like Synology pushing BRTFS for home and business customers and they have analytics on that for sure… since they’re trying to move everything…

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in What distro should I use on my potato?

Debian + xfce.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in A large state corporation in Brazil is currently trialing 800 Linux PCs. If successful, it will deploy and replace 22k Windows installs, comparable to the migration happening in Germany.

Nothing like paying your consulting friends to move everything to Linux to then pay them again to move back to Windows later one. Just like someone is Germany did at some point. :)

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in ext2: mark as deprecated - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

I wouldn’t put my mission-critical file server on BTRFS.

Oh, but I and a lot of people do and it is way more reliable than ext* filesystems ever were. Maybe ZFS or XFS is more your style then? Ext4 is very, very prone to total failure and complete data loss at the slightest hardware issue. I’m not saying you should rely on any filesystem ever, backups are important and should be there, the thing it that recovering from backups takes time and the amount of recovery that ext forced me into over the years isn’t just acceptable.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in ext2: mark as deprecated - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

Nice, can we just do the same with ext3 and ext4 now?

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in Samba vs NFS vs SSHFS ?

SSHFS is a client not a server. If you want to access SFTP / SSH “shares” from Windows WinSCP and Cyberduck are good options.

TCB13 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to technology in Proton picks up Standard Notes to deepen its pro-privacy portfolio

One key aspect that you seem to be missing is that Proton encrypts every mail, including those sent by or sent to unencrypted providers using your pgp key before storing them on the server. This isn’t a case scenario that can be handled without using a bridge

Yes it can, and I explained how. Maybe you’re the one not understanding how Proton actually encrypts emails sent by unencrypted providers/people…

<a href="">In asymmetric cryptography the public key is used for encryption, then the related private key is used for decryption</a>. This means the server just has to know your public key to be able to safely store incoming email from unencrypted providers. The Thunderbird that has your private key can decrypt the e-mails later on. This is exactly what Proton does but the decryption part is handled by the bridge.

There’s guide here explaining this in detail and providing an implementation example with Dovecot. This can be also done when a message is received by the MTA (before it is filed / stored by Dovecot) like discribed in this guide for Exim here. The process should be the same for Postfix.

TCB13 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to technology in Proton picks up Standard Notes to deepen its pro-privacy portfolio

The bridge does the decryption using credentials you give it locally.

Are you reading what I’m typing? I just described the full process they do on their apps and what can be done over IMAP to give you the same level of protection that Proton offers.

Besides, Proton doesn’t even provide zero access. In Proton there’s a bunch of data like e-mail headers that is NOT encrypted at all and they say it:

subject lines in Proton Mail are not end-to-end encrypted, which means if served with a valid Swiss court order, we do have the ability to turn over the subjects of your messages. Your message content and attachments are end-to-end encrypted. Source proton.me/…/does-protonmail-encrypt-email-subject… and proton.me/…/proton-mail-encryption-explained

Any generic IMAP/SMPT provider + Thunderbird with PGP provides the same level of security that Proton provides, assuming they didn’t mess their client-side encryption/decryption/key storage in some way. PGP is making sure all your e-mail content is encrypted and that’s it, doesn’t matter if it’s done by Thunderbird and the e-mails are stored in Gmail OR if it’s done by the Proton bridge and the e-mails are on their servers, the same PGP tech the only difference is the clients.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in Flathub is launching their new featured banners on April 20 using brand colors provided by publishers

Ironic isn’t it?

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in Flathub is launching their new featured banners on April 20 using brand colors provided by publishers

The mirroring part of their repository is kind of their responsibility I guess…