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

There’s no vendor lock in until you realize your emails are essentially hostage of their apps and a bridge that may be shutdown at any point. If you can’t simply setup a regular email client then there’s vendor lock in, not even Microsoft does that.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in NixOS - apology from the Foundation Board about sponsorship

It’s obvious that a tool meant to have traceable builds amd reproduction of binaries will be used by lots of places relatedbto security, military, etc.

Yes.

It’s like putting the head in the sand and denying that the world exists.

We’re talking about people who aren’t even payed to contribute to the project… you know how it is, not everyone would work in Lockheed Martin.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in Do I need a second domain to run my own authoritative dns server?

NP. Updated accordingly.

TCB13 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to selfhosted in Do I need a second domain to run my own authoritative dns server?

OP asked “Do I need a second domain” you answered “AFAIK, yes.” even though you proceeded to contradict yourself :) Maybe you can remove the “AFAIK, yes.” from the comment?

I actually updated the answer to be more descriptive informative meanwhile.

TCB13 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to selfhosted in Do I need a second domain to run my own authoritative dns server?

Assuming you’ve website.tld you just have to create two “child name servers”* eg. ns1.website.tld + ns2.website.tld and set their respective “glue records” (IP addresses). Your register needs to be able to create and publish those to the zone above for it to work. Not sure if that’s the case with yours but it seems to be possible.

• The term “child name servers” is used by some providers to define those kinds of records and it may change from provider to provider.

I don’t understand how this can work because ns1.website.tld would be served by my dns server which is not yet known by others.

That’s because they aren’t served by your DNS server. Remember the “publish those to the zone above for it to work”? What happens is that your domain registrar has to publish your glue record to the TLD zone.

If you run dig +trace +additional google.com SOA you’ll see:

1. Ding asking a root dns server (xyz.gtld-servers.net) who’s the name server for google.com
2. Root server will provide you with NS record naming ns4.google.com.
3. … and also return A record for that name, 216.239.38.10. That’s the “additional” response that serves the glue record.

Then dig will proceed to call 216.239.38.10 and ask what’s the record for google.com. That’s how DNS and glue records work and also why it isn’t a circular dependency like you were thinking it was.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to technology in Kobo announces its first color e-readers

The point is that you’ve tons of Chinese companies selling e-ink tablets with color displays and Kobo now decided to spend a couple more bucks doing the same in order to catch up.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in NixOS - apology from the Foundation Board about sponsorship

“NixOS, the guys who want give the final blow to the development and devops landscape in hopes to later introduce a highly profitable, proprietary and closed technology / repository, decided they couldn’t wait for the money anymore so they got a sponsorship from Anduril - an US defense contractor. The community lost their minds at this move because it doesn’t fit their righteous, politically correct thus borderline marxisist, moral code and then the guys in charge pressured by the fear of losing said free labor decided to apologize to enact a somewhat vague policy guide. Said document pushes the ideia that the community is all that matters and that all further important decisions will be community driven without actually defining who composes it.”

There, fixed for you.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in NixOS - apology from the Foundation Board about sponsorship

Maybe first they should determine who the community is. The people who talk the loudest about nix/nixos? The contributors? The users? Who is “the community”?

Maybe it’s written the way it is so nobody knows who’s the community and they can do whatever they please while saying it was in the best interest of the “community”.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in OpenSUSE has the best installation menu of any OSs ever made

No, no, this is the peak OS installation menu:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c09da0ea-76c0-437c-ae16-1c22c486050d.png

😜

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

So… this was the plan of the Standard Notes guys all along? Now it makes sense why they never made open-source and self-hosting a true priority.

Let’s see what Proton does with this, but I personally believe they’ll just integrate it in Proton and further close things even more. The current subscription-based model, docker container and whatnot might disappear as well. Proton is a greedy company that doesn’t like interoperability and likes to add features designed in a way to keep people locked their Web UI and applications.

Standard Notes for self-hosting was already mostly dead due to the obnoxious subscription price, but it is a well designed App with good cross-platform support and I just wish the Joplin guy would take a clue on how to design UIs from them instead of whatever they’re doing now that is ugly and barely usable.

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

exploiting

Yes, that’s the right word for it. :)

TCB13 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in Looking for the Perfect USB Flash Drive

You can always grab a USB 3.0 disk case + NVME drive or 2.5 SSD, those will give you better performance for sure. Don’t buy pre-made drives, they’re usually slower than just getting a case and picking a desktop drive.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in Goodbye EndeavourOS ARM

Yes, I’m also interested in ARM because it means we can have a very light laptop / tablet running a full desktop OS without the typical limitations of iOS / Android.

Debian is for sure the most stable thing in ARM, mostly because it is the upstream of many ARM-focused distributions like Armbian and there’s also where ARM CPU makers usually test their stuff. There’s a constant stream of patches coming from those manufacturers and downstream distributions because everyone wants to mainline both kernel and userland support for their ARMs.

Unfortunately there isn’t much decent “open” tablet hardware to run Linux on. The interesting things like those ultra-thin Lenovo tablets with amazing screens have locked bootloaders and other bullshit that stops people from loading Linux into then and making drivers / the required adjustments. Then there’s the Pine stuff that (even if you can get it) it’s overpriced, bulky and not a finished hardware product in any way.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to technology in Kobo announces its first color e-readers

“Kobo announces they’ll finally spend a couple more bucks in each unit so they can ship same display any other Chinese company doing e-readers ships”. - There, title fixed.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in Reproducing a Microsoft corporate environment on Linux.

That’s the neat part, you don’t.