After a few “Delete junk” commits, “Broken”, “PATCH: Hope this fixes it”, and “Basic Reverse-Proxy”, it’s now at version 1.0.1-alpha.1.
Don’t know what they did to Git. But their “minor commit” touches almost the entire code in their repo. Rest of it (and the general confusion and the edgy commit messages) look to me like something done by OpenClaw.

100% wouldn’t use it.

With LDAP for example (FreeIPA, OpenLDAP and a bunch of others). There’s NIS as well. If you want it exactly like AD, try Samba.

In reality, I’d probably put the users into some more modern id and auth solution, and re-assess whether I even need some Microsoft-style directory for servers and clients. I likely have better tools available.

And the big enterprise distributions, or projects like DebianEdu will have some solution listed in their documentation which is tied in into their ecosystem.

I think the Tiers work the other way around. But I keep forgetting how DNS and recursive lookup works and I might be wrong.
I don’t think you’re supposed to query Tier 1 servers as a client. The Tier 2 servers would be what people connect to and who do the heavy lifting. The Tier 1 just do the root, authoritative stuff and their custom TLDs for the following network. So we’re not worried about where those are located.

Isn’t it a global effort? According to what I see, they list a bunch of servers in all Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, …Japan?!

I did one DNS query and it took 22 msec with the nearest OpenNIC server and 24 msec with Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1
So dunno… roughly same responsiveness? Maybe OpenNIC is a tad faster? For a proper answer we’d need to do more measurements, though. And with OpenNIC you definitely need to pick a good server, not just any random one. They’ll have different locations, different policies and they’re in widely different datacenters.

Oh, interestingly. The translations sound but sometimes any wooden. And by the way: There is some any more spoke-pair at: https://beta.apertium.org/

(Translated from German by Apertium (Beta).)

Even if you control your router/modem, they still control the other end, it connects to. And some more infrastructure along the path. So i think it depends a bit where you’re going with this. If you’re worried about them doing packet inspection, or logging IP numbers you connect to, I don’t think there’s a big difference. They could do it anywhere. And they’ll likely do it in some datacenter.

A router interfaces with your local network, though. So in theory a router can be used to connect to your internal devices and computers and maybe you have an open network share without password protection or something like that. But we’re talking violating your constitutional rights here. It’s highly illegal in most jurisdictions to enter your home and go through your stuff.

I’ll buy my own router because I can then configure it to my liking. And my ISP charges way too much for renting one. And what I also do is not use my ISP’s DNS service. That’d just send every domain name I open to their logfiles. Instead I use one from OpenNIC

I think the way unclear / ambiguous law works is: It’s almost always used against you. It’s probably up to the attorney general to use it as precedent for what they want to do. Less so for the person at the receiving end of it.

Good point. Yeah, my “probably” is doing a lot of heavy-lifting there. Thx, I’ve added a short sentence.) In reality we don’t really know the length of a bool nor an int type in C. Likely a bool is 1 Byte and an int is 4 Bytes. But that depends on the architecture and compiler. The bool it guaranteed to hold 0 and 1, so it must be at least 1 bit. But with how addressing works, it ends up being 8 bits (1 Byte) anyway. If we want to be more efficient than that, I believe we have to code something with bit fields. It’s a bit out of scope for a beginner, unless they do microcontroller stuff.

The way I make sense of it, is we sometimes return failure (i.e. from main). So 0 is no failure (aka success) and we can use the same thinking. The correct, expressive way to write it is probably use “EXIT_SUCCESS” and skip the ones and zeros. Pretty sure this comes from Unix. And with a lot of the other functions in cstdlib it’s the same way as using integers as booleans. For example a “malloc()” will either return your memory or a null pointer and the 0 is the special failure case.

But IMO the programming language shows its age and the context it was used in. More modern programming language design tends to be more strict with the types. Differentiate between interfacing with Unix stuff and other kinds of values. And we got more powerful concepts to deal with errors. So we don’t always have to abuse the zero to say we ended up in some special case.

Sure. As far as I remember in C, 0 is False. Every other number is True, you can use 1 or 42, doesn’t matter, they’re all “true”.

I think there are several reasons. First, if you do it with an int, you’re probably using up 32bits per value. You’d need 1 but waste the other 31, they needlessly take up storage. (Edit: Though your bool will most likely take 8 bit anyways due to other things.) And then sometimes it’s nice to be expressive. So no one needs to remember if 1 is True or 0, or if True is greater than False, whether 2 or -1 map to True or False. And you end up in situations where either 2 equals 1, or True isn’t always equal True. Or you do weird things to handle values other than 0 and 1 in the operations. All of that can be avoided and the code gets more readable with specific types.

There’s nothing wrong with using ints, though. You just have to make sure the maths stays consistent.

Bet all the CAPTCHAS and JavaScript and rate-limiting added in the last few years really helped with accessibility 😁

I’d go with the Debian package. That’s tied into the system. You get nice updates, there’s more eyes on what the upstream developers do, sometimes the Debian maintainers disable things like tracking, fix vulnerabilities in libraries. It’s smaller, less permission issues… It’s just safer and more convenient…

I’ll go for Flatpak once there’s some benefit. For example the sandboxing which is great to have for proprietary software. Or if the package isn’t available in the Debian repositories, and the alternative would be some third-party repo or deb file downloaded from a random website. And in rare cases when I need a specific version and the Debian maintainers are stuck with an old release.

I think it’s a fuck you aimed at the attorney general and whoever phrased these laws. They go into detail in the FAQ at the bottom. (What is the point of all of this? / What if the AG actually fines you?) Using it isn’t the really the point.

And I feel a large contributing factor is the entire situation we’re in. It’s not like I can decide to use GPT 4 as a coding assistant and that’s it. I’m also aware that half the internet turned to shit with all the fake reviews, comparison sites. Microsoft pushes some Clippy 4.0 on me whether I want that or not, most customer support is unbearable now, thanks to AI. So all of that goes into the mix, not just usefulness. And I think romantic companions and legal advise is a bit due to negative media coverage.

Depends. Sometimes you’ll get a PC magazine or blog cover an upcoming laptop and test Linux compatibility. Or someone writes a long Reddit post after they got it, or updates the Arch Wiki. There definitely are ways to learn about Linux-compatibility with new models. We used to have Amazon comments and reviews…Just be super cautious with all the AI bots and fake comparison sites out there.

And it’s a bit more complicated with gaming stuff. Sometimes they’ll add a weird webcam, or unsupported RGB LED controller, or have weird quirks in the firmware. Some other model lines like a business laptop from Dell or Lenovo tend to be just fine and you’ll get 100% Linux compatibility. There’s no guarantee, but any way, after a few Linux nerds blogged about it you should be fine.

It loaded several times without an ad for me. So maybe they don’t have ads for Germany yet and you should try a VPN?

It’s hard to avoid, though. To my knowledge there’s cumbersome solutions like run an Icecast2 proxy and just proxy it 24/7 so you won’t reconnect. Or re-program your internet radio to start the stream muted and unmute after 30s.

Edit: Forget what I said, it does German language Shopify ads now. Not every time, but some of the times.

Pretty sure they are: https://www.hetzner.com/whois/

It’s not their main business. But I believe both OVH and Hetzner as large hosting providers do domain services. I’m never sure which one to recommend. You’ll always get people complain about customer support, especially with OVH.

Yes. My question is just, how do you participate in modern life with that? For example if you commute by train, you need a ticket. And the Deutsche Bahn tries to get rid of paper tickets. Their monthly subscription is an App now, available for Android and Apple. Do you install Waydroid and whip out your laptop once the conductor asks for your ticket? Do you also pull it out of your backpack 3 times on the platform to look up all the delays, changed platforms, trains you have to transfer to? What’s with the pkpass file for the concert, cinema, exhibition? I mean we can still print the QR codes. I do that, I have a printer at home and sometimes do the extra effort. I can’t take my laptops and tablets to concerts. And some other things will get more complicated as well. For example Shop & Go is almost impossible without a phone. You’re guaranteed to wait in line at the few cash registers left and waste an extra 10min… You’ll have to apply for a chip card to charge your EV, can’t update some of your electronic gadgets any more… And if you drive by car, how do you listen to Music and Podcasts? With an USB stick or a 12xCD changer in the trunk like in the early 2000s?