Remember when Word and Excel Autosave did what you expected it to?

Can’t get any worse and might even get better if there’s enough shareholders who understand how to run a business and can keep a stupid ceo in check.

It takes years to build a good reputation in OSS, and only one dumb thing (like opt-out of personal data) to ruin it.

(Yes, IPs may be considered personal data in that they can be used to identify individuals, and so subject to the GDPR and, potentially, the very high fines associated with that. Unless you’re evil, don’t collect any personal or identifying data unless you absolutely have to, and very triple sure the user knows what you’re sending and why)

We are writing to inform you that we have discovered two Home Assistant integration plug-ins developed by you ( https://github.com/Andre0512/hon and https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn ) that are in violation of our terms of service

Did the guy explicitly agree to their Terms of service? If not, how can he be in breach of them?

cease and desist all illegal activities

What illegal activities exactly?

Feels like unenforceable scare tactics, but IANAL.

The CEO just does what the board are pushing for

Too many people don’t understand this.

Usually[1], CEO’s exists mostly to be the public fall guy for the faceless board’s decisions, and those are mostly shaped by the shareholder’s unending drive for profit. The only real subtlety is whether that drive for profit is short or long term, which drives expansion policy.

[1] Certain high profile CEOs excepted, who have a lot of weight with the board’s direction because they founded the company or are considered too valuable to lose.

Very poor title, like someone’s just got their “Big Book of Clickbait”

Everything is under attack all the time, and everything is never-before-seen until it’s seen.

Mate, why wait?,

Run to Linux, don’t just run from Windows.

(Looks at laptop I’m using to reply to this that’s running Debian)

Server OS? Debian? Yes it is, but it’s also a Desktop and Laptop OS and many other things. Everything on this HP laptop just worked, including the function buttons. There’s a reason it’s such a well used distro, and it’s not just because it’s good for servers.

Technical point: US companies still need to abide by the GDPR when the user is in the EU or UK.

(But yes, I accept your main point - that protection is not shared to US citizens of those same companies who operate two very different levels of distinction. European originating software/services usually operate at the higher level of protection across all users. )

Overwriting or editing a post will almost certainly just create a new revision of it in their database. All these tools work on the basis that doesn’t happen, but that deletion is a flag rather than a drop, which is pretty inconsistent. The reality in every large cms/forum software I’ve used is that revisions are the norm.

Reddit have the ability to keep all revisions of all posts made on their servers - they may even be legally required to do so. If a police agency requires evidence relation to a post on reddit linked to terrorism, they’re not going to be pleased if it is so easily eradicated. Some people think that GDPR gives them the absolute right for their data to be removed - but not if it conflicts with other laws and legal requirements, and even sometimes commercial interests (See “legitimate interest”)

Bottom line is - if you don’t want something to potentially exist forever, don’t post it on the internet and pass control of it to others.

We use EL (Specifically Rocky, a rebuild of Redhat) for this, but I strongly suspect that any of the main distros will be absolutely fine provided they have modern enough versions of the software you need.

Bad bot

I uses Uyuni to push config files out to the machines I’m working on, including .bashrc files, .vimrc and all kinds of little QOL improvements.

Probably overkill just to use Uyuni for that, though.

Same. Even when I have a sub for something I want to watch (like Prime), it’s just easier to let *arr sort it out and tell me when a new episode is ready.

Because it was also the best show of 2023?

When there is a war, there are war crimes - it’s not surprising, it’s not new and it’s not special. Every single time, regardless of nationality, race, creed, invader or defender. Every single time. You give a lot of people guns, teach them to de-humanise the enemy and then put them through unimaginable stresses, it’s inevitable that some will do bad things. Those who orchestrate such actions and trigger events like this know, accept and want these atrocoties to achieve their own ends.

I respect Paul Biggar for having an opinion and writing a well researched and unimpeachable personal blog about it. Why should any of us who hold feelings have to suppress them?

It’s sad that he’s become yet another victim of this unwinnable war, it’s even sadder that he won’t be the last.

Only one of the ~250 linux machines I maintain has a gui.

I suspect you haven’t worked with governments before.

Just because something is technically possible, it’s no guarantee that it will be the chosen mechanism for something. More likely the contract will be awarded to either the lowest possible bidder, or to a friend of a friend. Cronyism is depressingly common at all levels.

Good article which explains itself clearly. And on the face of it, extremely valid.

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