Tetsuo

My best friend recently told me :

“Did you see the image of the original moon landing ? It looks so so fake”

I was shocked. An engineer with supposedly a scientific background was starting to take on conspiracy theories.

I just said that the moon landing was not fake and that it would have been impossible to fake something on this scale and that there was plenty of documentation about the Apollo mission online.

But I feel sad because it’s obvious his social network interactions online are pushing him toward very toxic content.

But if the PR goes through that means it’s in active development !

I think he should do a PR to change back the readme

It shouldn’t have such deep consequences…

Your whole SSN system is absolutely crazy bad and I still can’t believe “security” and SSN should be allowed in the same sentence.

But a wild cat wouldn’t attack a full grown tuna. As any predator in the wild they would go for the baby tuna.

Veritasium did a video about credit card payment and NFC payment :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSJY3DvnybE

I think it’s a good opportunity to understand the capabilities and weakness of NFC.

I personally think QR codes are not very secure as anybody could replace it by a malicious one.

In what country ?

Meh it’s not like Linux is one static block of immutable code.

It’s modular.

So it’s not like all linux distros will evolve the same way. And OP points it out that some distros are affected by age verification laws while others are not at all.

So I think it makes no sense to panic and thinking all linux will converge to some Windows ersatz…

I think the fact there is so many distros out there is our strength but also what prevents people from discovering the right linux for them.

So this will be the year of linux discovery imo and all linux user should help out new users finding their way to a linux that fit them for their journey to freedom.

And he lost the case obviously…

I think you choose a poor example.

When I say long name I wasn’t implying meaningless ones.

Most business with a lot of machines uses long names where everything as a logical meaning.

[Site][service][Rack][User selected 8 chars name]

I mean you dont have to use such obtuse names. But if you have a lot of servers you have to have a long name or you will risk exhausting the available names.

I’m just saying long names dont have to be obtuse or confusing. You can use user selected names as a suffix to a more functional initial prefix. So that people who work this area of the infrastructure can have clear names but at the same time some other sys admin that never worked on it can still know where and who is responsible of the server.

My initial point is just that the namespace and length of hostnames mostly depends on what you want to do. For a homelab you dont need wide namespace. But for a large business using short names wouldn’t be practical either.

In a business with tens of thousands of servers, it makes sense to have long complicated names.

For a homelab ? Not really.

What I’m not ok with YouTube premium :

• The price is too high for a subscription. For that price I could get thousands of movies on a competing service like Netflix.

• Even if you take YouTube premium they are still farming your data and selling it to third parties.

So even if I watch a ton of YT I refuse to pay to sell my data.

If I pay for YT they have to not track me and not sell my data (at least data coming from YT).

So yeah taking YT is hassle free but is quite the scam if you think about it. Before paying you were the product. After paying you are still the product but on top of that you give them money.