Linux is GPL v2 and would basically be impossible to relicense.

Joke’s on you, Windows! I forgot my Windows password and haven’t booted into you for months.

An almost inevitable result of venture capital, IMHO.

I mean, you can get rid of NAT and subnet your systems in a logical fashion. That’s pretty awesome.

I use ULA for my WireGuard tunnels, otherwise it’s all public IPv6 (mostly lightly firewalled).

I’m fine with SLAAC, even for servers. I just manually update my DNS with the server addresses when I set them up.

I give money to LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Armbian, the Wikipedia, and so on. I don’t have to, but it shows my appreciation, and maybe helps them do more in some small way.

Very minor note. The blog mentions that the attacker was unlikely to have gained anything by Monero mining. However the Monero page itself says:

Monero can be mined by both CPUs and GPUs, but the former is much more efficient.

https://www.getmonero.org/get-started/mining/

I got 135 blocks via sshguard over the first 12 hours today. So, yeah, welcome to the Internet! 😄

You could ask the people in your union to help you survive, oh wait…

I pay the FNV (a sort of union of unions here in the Netherlands) because they kept taking the government to court because the government wasn’t following its own laws… and they kept winning. They don’t help my job because I’m in IT and class consciousness hasn’t reached there yet, but someday…

Which is why I push back when people complain about employees at non-profits making a decent salary.

If you can make 10% more working at a for-profit company, then you are asking people working at non-profit companies to donate 10% of their salary. So unless the person complaining is donating 10% of their salary to charity, they don’t really have anything to complain about… 😅

Kubernetes storage is the reason I was looking at Minio in the past.

I mean, people in a town I lived in were upset because kids from the next town over were using the public swimming pool. This was in northern Virginia, so not liking people from another village anywhere in the world hardly seems strange.

There’s a bit about those on the Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.xyz#1.111B_class

There used to be restrictions on a hostname.

These had to start with and end with a letter or number, and have only letters, numbers, or a dash. (I heard that originally hostnames had to start with a letter, but 3M got that changed. This might be an urban legend.)

That’s a common restriction for a name still.

Things get funky when you want non-ASCII names - like if you want a cyrillic or Greek name - as registries often limit the allowed characters to limit “isomorphic attacks”. That’s where you use symbols that look the same to trick people into thinking they’re going to another site, like using a 0 instead of an O, or a l instead of an I.

None of this will apply to the XYZ domains that give you a number.

One other issue that might impact you is if you try to connect using only a numeric name. Some tools will interpret such a name as an IPv4 address. Easily solved by using the full name, but weird and confusing if it happens to you unexpectedly. 😅

Seems like someone already did this:

https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/20565

Maybe upgrading will fix it?

Self reply as a follow up.

I use nom.es for DNS experimentation. These are like $3 a year or so, and work fine.

I miss DotTK, which was dodgy and didn’t support DNSSEC, but was actually free. 😅

I would not expect any issues.

From the point of view of DNS, a name is a name.

You can never tell what weird restrictions any given software is going to place on you (there were a lot of forms that did not like TLD with more than 4 characters, 20 years ago or so). But it’s only $1, so worth experimenting, IMHO.

Please let us know if there are problems!

All I do:

• Run updates daily
• Disable password logins
• Run sshguard
• Daily backups to a cloud and off-site host

I think that’s it. I have my host exposed to the Internet. As far as I know, it’s fine.

BTW, sshguard is for the IMAP and SMTP that run on the host, which do allow password logins. But it helps reduce load from brute force attacks on port 22 (which are pointless anyway).

I’m much more worried about my son installing dodgy Minecraft mods, or my wife installing another app that she saw on TikTok. I really should put them each on a separate VLAN…

Political revolutions usually involve a wealthy class being kept away from political power, combined with a particularly unpopular and stupid absolute ruler.

In the US, the wealthy are the political class, and while Trump is stupid and unpopular he has only been in power a year. Most people think he will be gone in 3 more years, and even if he jettisons the Constitution and stays in as President, he is old and unhealthy.