Admins/moderators would drown. Right now, things are manageable, but with that level of users and traffic, it would become unmanageable quickly.

The beauty of game dev, is that you can make the most cursed codebase, and as long as it works, the only person itll impact is yourself.

Also, startup costs are basically zero, there is no need for a top end PC, whatever you have now is probably good enough to start.

Yes. Separate out each part out. You are currently publishing the equivalent of of a compiled binary. Split it up, and use a script to “compile” it back into the mega shell script.

It means that changes to each file can tracked (and audited) individually, you can conditionally compile bits in or out, and most usefully, you can write tests for the individual components.

Sorry, but a photo of a directory structure is not a source tree.

Your git repo consists of 4 files, a readme, a licence, and two packed shell scripts.

If you have an actual published source repo, link people to it.

I dont understand why people do this

Charitably: AI turbocharged dunning-kruger

Less charitable: Malware delivery.

There is no good reason why they couldn’t have a normal source tree, that they pack into a single shell script in CI.

I use a separate nuc, and even still, rebooting the router is a non-trivial exercise. The internet was wired into the top shelf of a cupboard, so need a step ladder to get to it.

Since getting a second pihole setup I haven’t had any issues, so I think I’m okay now. Hopefully it fails over the christmas break when I’m home :D

I dont think so, because everything else remains up and working. But it certainly could be.

I mostly like it, but over the last few months I’ve had my pihole die randomly during the day, which killed my home network, and I had to walk my partner through rebooting everything.

I’ve now got redundant pihole instances, but I’d really like to know what is going wrong with pihole. Its impossible to replicate, and very sporadic.

Packagekit (at least last I heard of it) was just a higher level package manager (wrapping around dnf/apt/etc), not anything specific to kernel patching. Maybe that has changed?

You can live patch a kernel, each distro has their own way of doing things, usually, you get a kernel module that is loaded that fixes the bug live, and there is a real fixed module to go with it that gets loaded next boot. The kernel patch module is just a hack to avoid rebooting. Ubuntu has some doco on their system LivePatch which is worth a read. I am not sure that kernel module signing is super commonly used, but there may be some distros that ship with it enabled. If it is enabled, then loading an unsigned kernel module should be impossible.

As for trust a modem, thats a tricky one. Firmware level hacks have been theorised for a long time, but there is very few examples of actual exploits. Its mostly security through obscurity.

Yeah, no doubt, he is a piece of shit.

For what its worth, he would probably choose to self-exclude himself from the Linux community, while he desperately tries to get Hurd relevant.

I didn’t say there are no pedophiles, just that its not part of the stereotype.

I had to google that, because it sounded like a type of boat.

But sure, cat-enbys are welcome.

Catgirls, Catboys, all are welcome!

I dont think pedophiles was ever part of the profile. Catgirls sure, but not pedophiles.

I’m more thinking along the lines of getting a cheap sim, signing up for signal and them letting the plan lapse and the number is released for use again. And then someone buys a new plan, but gets the recycled number. Not sure how realistic that is as a risk vector though.

Charitable explanation: by allowing people to use WhatsApp/signal etc without holding onto the sim card, it opens them up to risk that someone else gains control of the phone number, and can then take over that account.

But that doesnt really require that the number stays in the same phone, just under the same persons control. Periodic SMS code check-in would be sufficient.

Did the international school charge you extra for punctuation?

I stand corrected, thanks.

ING works fine with no permissions.

I have all my domains on my pihole pointed to the local address, so I only noticed when my uptime monitoring of the external sites started pinging me. But for me, the outage was at 10pm, so it really didn’t matter either way.