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I know people like to make fun of niche operating systems, but for the five years I was at Microsoft I used Windows (10 then 11) as my daily driver. It’s much less stable than a professional OS, but it does kind-of work. I wouldn’t say it’s ready for the desktop. The UI is inconsistent and changes randomly between releases, a load of common software is basically useable only in a VM, it lags and freezes periodically (unlike an OS designed for interactive use, random drivers run a load of things directly in interrupt handlers, so you get latency spikes that you wouldn’t see in a more mainstream desktop OS) and the update process can hose the system, so it’s mostly of interest to people who like tinkering with their machines than people who actually want to get work done. Oh and a load of random bits of the OS have ads, but that’s what you get from a free ad-supported system instead of one developed by an active open-source community.

I don’t think I’d recommend anyone use it as their daily driver or in a work setting, but it’s not totally unusable. It’s not at the level of maturity than you’d expect from, say, Linux or FreeBSD, especially not for client workloads. If you do have to use it, I recommend that you install FreeBSD in a Hyper-V VM for real work. That’s what I did and it works quite well.

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Do not be glued to the news. Before CNN, people used to watch maybe an hr of news each day, after dinner.You got a dose of world, national, local, so you could be informed.

It is not healthy or natural "to be glued to the news" or for news to be 24-hrs. Most of the news isn't even news, it's just "experts" talking about their interpretation of the news, speculating on things.

Being glued to the news will not make you more informed, it'll make you more stressed, worried, depressed. Stop it.

Alice and Bob

I cannot stress this enough.

The biggest threat to an archive of cultural media, especially pop culture media, are the corporations that own the media. https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/114028618754509486

the first rule of hosting an important service is "make sure you have more bandwidth than your enemies"

40gbit would probably be a good idea. Even if your servers are only doing 10gbit. But the tricky part is dealing with a distributed attack. So if you're not using a CDN that can absorb it for you and your transit providers don't offer DDoS protection you need enough bandwidth and your own DDoS detection infrastructure as well as a working blackhole routing setup with your transit provider so you can tell them to drop the traffic from the attackers' prefixes before it reaches you. And remember, if they're actively attacking you, you probably can't login to your router to update the blackhole routes unless you have a backdoor through another network.

This is usually too much of a burden and cost for a small hoster with limited funds and manpower, which is why you get roped into using a CDN like CloudFlare...

I don't know what the morally right solution is here but they're going to have a tough time if they think they can handle these things on their own. I'd have just flipped over to CloudFlare and wrote a blog post explaining that the internet is too hostile to not have protection. The End.

From @aeirlys.bsky.social

"Remember Internet forums? Those bustling online spaces where people gathered to chat, share ideas, and build communities? While social media giants like Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) took center stage, forums continued to thrive. Now, one of the leading open-source forum software providers, NodeBB, is joining the fediverse. Starting with NodeBB v4.0.0, federation is a core feature": Opensource Forum Software NodeBB Joins the Fediverse - OSTechNix https://ostechnix.com/nodebb-joins-fediverse/

If you see a painting by Andy Wormhole, do NOT look into the soup can

You will glimpse another universe!!!

If you run #Linux and want a safe haven to coordinate when bad comes to worse, you may want to install a #Freenet / #Hyphanet node ASAP:

Install Java and wget (e.g. sudo apt-get install openjdk-17-jdk wget)

wget 'https://www.draketo.de/dateien/freenet/build01500/new_installer_offline_1500.jar' -O new_installer_offline.jar;
java -jar new_installer_offline.jar -console

Leave out -console to use a graphical installer.

For more information, see https://www.hyphanet.org/pages/download.html#gnulinux-posix

#LineageOS is pretty incredible. I have an 8-year-old OnePlus 5T rocking the latest version of Android thanks to LineageOS 22.1. The battery still lasts more than a day, and the phone only cost me $500 (in 2017 dollars). Pretty great value for money.