Debian’s website is such a pain. Why are the live ISOs buried?

What I’m saying is that it sounds like lying. If you say “Hey, is KelvarCherry legit?” And they say “no” they’re lying, but if they say “you’re not allowed to verify users” that seems fine.

The whole way Mojang “bans” servers is by marking certain IPs to always be told the connecting account is invalid.

Do they do that or just return an error? Because as described that sounds illegal.

What you’re making is a slippery slope argument that doesn’t really hold water.

Is it though? Like, really, is it? In the US the government is possibly doing shit like labeling transgender people as nihilistic violent extremists. The Project 2025 shit is coming fast. I really don’t like people using racial slurs either. But the idea that it could be very soon that things like speaking about some LGBTQ topics gets policed more and corporations go along with it is not as far fetched as it seems. A year ago I’d probably have a different opinion.

And I wanna be clear, I’m not defending people using slurs. I think it’s fine for Microsoft to not host that server on a public list of servers, I guess. I’m really just saying the slope is more slippery than previously thanks to the MAGA crowd. I’m not really sure how I feel about it all, I’m still in the cognitive dissonance phase as my mind works out where I really stand. I’ve been lucky enough that speech I consider acceptable has been what speech others considered acceptable for my whole life, but the idea that queer topics come under fire isn’t crazy.

I think people get too defensive about security by obscurity not being security. It’s still better for things to be obscure, it’s just not sufficient. A hidden lock to open a door is marginally better than a lock on the door. A hidden button to open a door isn’t secure though, of course.

But at the same time, I fully understand why it’s stressed so much. People tend to make analogies in their mind to the physical world. The digital world is so different though. An example I use often is you can’t jiggle every doorknob in the world to see if it’s unlocked, but it’s (relatively) easy to check every IPv4 address for an open port to some database with default credentials.

Imagine if we referred to the recent UN walkout as “Drama at the UN.” It trivializes the topic.

Sure! Happy to talk about it. I was never a fan of the crypto but you can disable it so that’s not my problem. My problem is that a while back they added affiliate information to links you clicked so that they got money. To me, something a browser should do is go to links you click on as you click on them and not mess with them (apart from privacy/security things). It’s a huge loss of trust.

Apart from that, I view all Chromium based browsers negatively nowadays because I don’t want to give Google de facto control of web standards. Chromium has a monopoly on browsers, basically. Especially since even Microsoft Edge is Chromium based now. The ad blocking changes were part of this, but just in general. I don’t think one company should just be able to make a change and have everyone passively adopt it because they’re downstream consumers of it. And yes, Brave is Chromium based.

Most workplaces I’ve been at let me pick, but one did not let me use Firefox (only Chrome or Safari).

Weirdly one place didn’t block things but Brave wouldn’t install because the installer was actually a downloader and I couldn’t set it to use the corporate proxy. (Also don’t hate me, I don’t use Brave anymore and am not a fan, this was back in 2019.)

I think what happens is that your password is expired but rather than telling you it says it is incorrect. This way it doesn’t leak what the current but expired password is.

It is, but I know myself and realistically unless I’m forced to learn it in an environment where it’s first class I’m not going to use it on a regular basis.

I feel like if I was forced to use PowerShell I’d fall in love with it and want to use it on Linux. Passing objects between commands instead of text sounds amazing. So many (Linux) shell commands use slightly differently shaped text, it’s annoying. New line separated? Tab separated? Null separated? Comma separated? Multiple fields? JSON? And converting between them all and using different flags to accept different ones is just such a headache.

RAHHHHH this is embarrassing. You’re totally right. I’m wrong.

Ada Lovelace, forgive me!

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They’re three different communities, even if they’re mostly similar. But I’m also describing how to make the link syntax work so people can click it. A lot of people do the reddit style r/blah thinking c/blah might work but it isn’t clickable.

It’s not c/, you use ! and you need to include the instance because multiple instances can have communities with the same name. !community@blah.com is how

So long as your content is FLOSS, Codeberg Pages is a good choice perhaps. https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/

You need to qualify this statement, GotHib Pages can mean like two or maybe more things. Do you mean free static site hosting? Do you mean easy static site generation from Markdown files?

Edit: GotHib 😭 what a typo

I remember having to open “.zip.1” files lol. From the split zips.

Debian Security Support ends in 9 months and the LTS’s supported platforms haven’t been announced. It could very well be that in 9 months the i386 version of Debian 12 stops getting security updates. https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Debian has dropped support for 32 bit in Debian 13.