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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • SSH (Secure SHell) is a protocol that allows remote shell access from other computers over network. It’s quite secure, but not everybody may want sshd (SSH daemon) running in the background automatically.

    systemd, by far the most common init system (first program that the kernel runs, which starts and stops your other programs), however, does run it in the background automatically now.

    The way to disable this is neither through a simple command, nor configured in a simple config file somewhere in /etc/systemd/... , but instead in your boot options. Understandably, this feels dumb.

    It’s not really something to worry about for average users.



  • For me it clicked when I realized I don’t like reading for fun/entertainment anymore. I can’t put myself through a fantasy novel anymore, despite my love for the genre. On the other hand, I discovered that I love reading theory and non-fiction. I read more this year than the last five years. Naomi Klein, David Graeber, Ha-Joon Chang. I read while travelling, in the gym between sets, and before bed. Funny enough, most of the book rats I know don’t enjoy these books at all lol






  • Red Hat: Hi here’s some tools we made, you can see how every single one of them works in full detail and you can modify them as you see fit, and distribute modified copies.

    Microsoft: Hi we peddle proprietary spyware and we aren’t even secretive about it.

    Basically the same thing?

    Also systemd rocks, and the kernel is widely audited OSS, Microsoft will have a very hard time sneaking in anything malicious.