ArkScript lang developer, split keyboard fanatic
I’m getting fed up about all those articles “rust x something: the future?”, “I rewrote <cli tool> in rust it’s now memory safe”. I get the rust safeties and all, but that doesn’t automatically make everything great, right ? You can still write shit code in any language that can RM -rf all your disk, or let security gaps here and there without intending to.
I mounted a disk of a server in rescue mode, since I needed to extract everything (the provider didn’t have the option to dump everything as a zip). Then installed an FTP server, added a user/pass, it worked.
But I couldn’t access the files of the original disk, even though I could see them. So I just chgrp/chown the original files, since the disk was just “mounted” in the rescue disk /mnt, I thought it was alright (at the time I thought permissions were volatile, stored separately from the files). I could now download the entire disk, yay!
Upon booting the original disk again, a bunch of errors: shell not starting, tools not running, because they were owned by user and not root…
Well we reinstalled all the server from scratch that day.
The reMarkable runs on Linux too! It’s an eink paper tablet
This isn’t selfhosted but you can use uptime robot. They can send regular http get requests or ping an IP or URL, the free tier can have like 10 monitors I think? I receive an email when an host isn’t available, in 5 minutes usually.
Ask yourself: do you really need a performance boost or are you just chasing the numbers to avoid a non-existant problem?
That’s up to everyone on here to participate in the development of the product!
Alas I don’t think this will happen, people prefer when stuff is done without doing it themselves, because then you need to take responsibilities (myself included)
That could be because of duckduckgo anti tracking system running 24/7 on my phone haha
It doesn’t load for me, and according to the way back machine (it couldn’t save the readme somehow?) it redirects to a framagit repo that wants me to create an account.
Well that’s a bit of both: I need to be able to get on my server from work (with my phone… Yeah not great but that works), because I often break stuff haha ; also a nice thing to have when I’m on the bus and want to add more music or movies to listen to during the travel!
Are there ISPs that don’t provide dynamic IPs? I had to setup a script and get some API keys for different services to ensure the IP is properly updated on my DNS servers.
Speaking of brutality, I considered doing the same but then I would have banned myself from testing the APIs of my services 🤧
No, this doesn’t remove the need to stay up to date.
However, it works on my server and was very easy to setup: a few ufw rules so that port 22 is blocked everywhere, allowed only on the VPN IP range and my local network range. Nmapping from outside does not show port 22 accessible, and indeed you can’t SSH to it without the VPN.
Security is quite tough to get right eh? I tried my best to harden everything opening ports on my server, having a fail2ban, VPN for maintenance, webserver to expose some personal services…
One could setup a VPN and expose the SSH port to the VPN network only. It think tailscale operates this way?
Right on point ; I use it years ago as my daily driver in terms of wm, but never went very far in term of customisation. Now is maybe the time to look at it again, thanks for the link!
I would have thought that i3wm would use a lot less memory, given how basic it is.
Fyi the devs aren’t reading this (and probably won’t be before long, since they are busy just coding a lot of features). Best place to ask for this is on the issue tracker (first check if it hasn’t been asked before), even better implement it yourself if you can!
It’s a post from 2 years ago, so if nothing changed as of today, well, I think they didn’t succeed in updating the docs
I think I’m more fed up with people making those quotes “rust will change everything” when, in fact, it will rule out many if not most memory corruption as you said. Reading your comment, I see now it’s the mentality “everything need to be in rust” that bothers me the most, which in fact means “rust can bring memory safety” and not “rust will replace everything”. Alas I’m seeing it used times and times again as the latter instead of the former.