If only he'd thought to use XML instead of JSON, his code would have been enterprise grade.
mathew23
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RE: So stumbled upon a comment on PHP.net
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RE: This systemd thing is really out of hand.
DHCP can autoconfigure a lot more things than just IP addresses.
I know that too, but I'd bet 99% of DHCP use is just configuring IP. I've never encountered an organization using DHCP to send information about printers and syslog servers.
Home users don't need DHCP for IPv6. If they do, chances are they already get it from their router.
Business servers don't need DHCP (they use static addresses), and even if they do want to use DHCP for some reason, they are typically only going to want 1 or 2 DHCP servers per network. So having a DHCP server in systemd is a pointless waste of space 99% of the time, and just increases the attack surface.
Seriously, if you have a valid use case for every machine on your network having a DHCP server, please go ahead and tell us about it. I'd be genuinely interested to hear it.
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RE: This systemd thing is really out of hand.
Having devices just know ahead of time is a PITA because typing in addresses sucks
Zeroconf. Welcome to 1999!
You're railing at the wrong thing. The IPv6 designers hated NAT.
They had multiple hates. A third one was variable size IP headers.
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RE: This systemd thing is really out of hand.
The systemd project has a serious case of Not Invented Here syndrome.
And you're missing a bunch.
The one that pisses me off the most is DHCP being baked into the system. We're supposed to be migrating to IPv6 and getting rid of that legacy crap.
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RE: Bull :shit: and more bull :shit: and lots of bull :shit: (content warning: StarGate)
Oh, that's an easy one. Actor Adam Baldwin coined the term GamerGate when he posted links to two videos on Twitter. Date was 2014-08-27, here's the tweet. He came up with the name to describe two videos which were about Eron Gjoni's (false) allegations of Zoe Quinn sleeping around.
Why, what bullshit origin story did they get you to believe?
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RE: Someone has a sense of humour
mt_rand() - the recommended PRNG - should be seeded at PHP init time
It should also be used with extreme care.
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RE: Backup advice - Linux server
I'm thinking of doing a backup on the production server and then with a cronjob + rsync copy it into the backup server.
That's what I do. I dump the databases to plain SQL in a known location. The backup server calls the web host to pull all the changed data across with rsync, and then I use rdiff-backup to take a snapshot.
Web host can't contact backup server even if hacked. Differential backups let me rewind if a problem isn't noticed for a while. Nothing special needs to be installed on the web host.
I'm not a fan of backup systems which use custom data formats, which Bacula's wiki says it does.
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RE: This systemd thing is really out of hand.
I don't want to have to tell each device by hand what it's v6 address is!
You don't have to. IPv6 has stateless autoconfiguration of IPv6 addresses, without needing a DHCP server. That's how they all get IPv6 addresses on my network.
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RE: This systemd thing is really out of hand.
Right. I have no beef with having a DHCP client available in systemd, for the time being, even though it will soon be unnecessary. It's having a server that's dumb.
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RE: This systemd thing is really out of hand.
Yes, the VM image use case is undoubtedly why RedHat have shoved it into systemd. Still, that's a special case, and even there you don't need the DHCP server you'll end up with in all the VMs, so it's still misguided there I think.
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RE: Bull :shit: and more bull :shit: and lots of bull :shit: (content warning: StarGate)
How about when she got a guy swatted?
[citation needed]
You would never treat a man like this much of a victim.
Largely because gaters don't go after men with anything like the same level of viciousness.
But actually, what GamerGate did to Phil Fish — and continues to do to him — was shitty and utterly uncalled for. How's that?
Look, GamerGate has never been an organized harassment campaign.
It was the name given to what most people see as an campaign of harassment — as you admit, an angry ex trying to get even. Said campaign was clearly organized. So, organized campaign of harassment.
What was called GamerGate was the idea that journalists had been caught in a scandal.
Except it wasn't the journalists who were on the receiving end of the death threats, doxing, and so on. It wasn't the journalists that were being talked about in all the #gamergate-tagged discussions. And the very idea that the journalists were involved was lies from a jealous ex — someone that anyone with an ounce of sense would have thought carefully before trusting as a source of accurate reportage. It's time to swallow the fact that you and many others were duped by Gjoni into helping him with a personal vendetta.
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RE: Bull :shit: and more bull :shit: and lots of bull :shit: (content warning: StarGate)
Okay, I was wrong. I thought it was during the Gamers are Dead part.
No, that came much later. (Or at least, it seemed much later. Probably only a week or two?)
But do you really think you can call that a 'harassment campaign' at that time?
An angry ex-boyfriend sets out to cause maximum embarrassment to a woman by falsely and publicly accusing her of sleeping around? He targets his accusations carefully to get as many people as possible to take his side and flame her? Yeah, I'd call that a harassment campaign.
Even if she had slept with a bunch of journalists, it's just slut-shaming. Gjoni himself admitted he wasn't concerned with any journalism angle and just wanted to "warn people" about what a horrible person Zoe was.
As if a 'harassment campaign', a serious organized thing, exists.
There was an IRC channel used to coordinate the harassment. You can read the logs if you like. Fun exchanges like:
"I kind of want to just make her life irrepairably horrible. At this point."
"but what if she suicides"
"Good"BTW, kudos for admitting you were wrong about the origin of the name. Seriously.
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RE: Bull :shit: and more bull :shit: and lots of bull :shit: (content warning: StarGate)
Oh, that's an easy one. Actor Adam Baldwin coined the term GamerGate when he posted links to two videos on Twitter. Date was 2014-08-27, here's the tweet. He came up with the name to describe two videos which were about Eron Gjoni's (false) allegations of Zoe Quinn sleeping around.
Why, what bullshit origin story did they get you to believe?
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RE: Bull :shit: and more bull :shit: and lots of bull :shit: (content warning: StarGate)
It started when Zoe Quinn attacked the members of Wizardchan
Some people's beef with Zoe Quinn might have started back then, but the name GamerGate was first coined for the Zoe Quinn harassment campaign started by Eron Gjoni. And his Zoe post wasn't anything to do with the Wizardchan stuff.
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RE: Bull :shit: and more bull :shit: and lots of bull :shit: (content warning: StarGate)
Again, time after time, people here say that GG condones harassment. Time after time, people in GG directly say they don't support it. How anyone ever reaches the first point is a complete mystery to me.
It's really simple: It's because GamerGate started out as the name of a harassment campaign. A campaign that targeted a female game developer and ignored journalists. There are other reasons, but that's the fundamental one.
Now, in theory origins don't matter. In theory, the fact that some people were trying to clean up games journalism and decided to do so under the same banner as a harassment campaign wouldn't matter; their concerns about journalism would be taken seriously, at face value.
In theory.
But in practice, in the real world, origins matter. For example, April Chambers says she's part of an organization that's deeply concerned about people dumping trash at the side of the road. She may even be quite sincere. But that doesn't matter, because the fact that the organization's name is the Ku Klux Klan means people are going to dismiss her as a racist — even if she isn't one — and assume that her concern for the environment is insincere.
The problem is, GamerGate comes from chan culture, where everybody is anonymous, it doesn't matter who says something, and you can't make judgements based on where an idea originated. But it has collided with the real world, where people make judgements like that all the time. It might not be strictly logically correct to do so, but that's the reality of how people think.
Many anti-GamerGate people are concerned with the shitty state of video game journalism and the conflicts of interest that frequently occur. But they're never going to associate their concerns with an utterly toxic brand like GamerGate. (Particularly not after GamerGate has deliberately damaged journalistic independence by pressuring advertisers to try and get reviewers fired.)
The way I see it, GamerGate is really damaging the cause that it purports to champion, because it has now gotten to the point where words like "ethics" and "games" and "journalism" can't even appear in the same paragraph without the reader assuming that the author is a Gater.
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RE: This systemd thing is really out of hand.
Yes, the VM image use case is undoubtedly why RedHat have shoved it into systemd. Still, that's a special case, and even there you don't need the DHCP server you'll end up with in all the VMs, so it's still misguided there I think.
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RE: This systemd thing is really out of hand.
Right. I have no beef with having a DHCP client available in systemd, for the time being, even though it will soon be unnecessary. It's having a server that's dumb.
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RE: Bull :shit: and more bull :shit: and lots of bull :shit: (content warning: StarGate)
If you're talking about gamergate, Zoe Quinn is way off their radar. In fact, they are activelly trying to distance themselves from that whole "affair". I don't remember the last time I've seen her mentioned on /r/KotakuInAction (my main gamergate place I follow).
Well, that's easy enough to reality check. Let's do a search for mentions of Zoe Quinn in the last week, and filter down to only occasions when she was mentioned in an initial post and it was upvoted:
1 (179 points)
[2] (https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3f0vii/opinion_question_2_lets_get_into_it_of_sjws/) (284 points)
3 (80 points)
4 (51 points)
5 (93 points)
6 (80 points, Quinn in title)
7 (277 points)
8 (64 points, Quinn in title)
9 (413 points)
10 (7 points)
11 (178 points)
12 (55 points)But hey, there is some discussion of how maybe the movement shouldn't be talking about Zoe Quinn all the time:
That got a big fat (0 points).
And remember, that's just from a 1 week search. So yeah, I think reality is failing to fit your narrative again.
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RE: This systemd thing is really out of hand.
DHCP can autoconfigure a lot more things than just IP addresses.
I know that too, but I'd bet 99% of DHCP use is just configuring IP. I've never encountered an organization using DHCP to send information about printers and syslog servers.
Home users don't need DHCP for IPv6. If they do, chances are they already get it from their router.
Business servers don't need DHCP (they use static addresses), and even if they do want to use DHCP for some reason, they are typically only going to want 1 or 2 DHCP servers per network. So having a DHCP server in systemd is a pointless waste of space 99% of the time, and just increases the attack surface.
Seriously, if you have a valid use case for every machine on your network having a DHCP server, please go ahead and tell us about it. I'd be genuinely interested to hear it.
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RE: Backup advice - Linux server
I'm thinking of doing a backup on the production server and then with a cronjob + rsync copy it into the backup server.
That's what I do. I dump the databases to plain SQL in a known location. The backup server calls the web host to pull all the changed data across with rsync, and then I use rdiff-backup to take a snapshot.
Web host can't contact backup server even if hacked. Differential backups let me rewind if a problem isn't noticed for a while. Nothing special needs to be installed on the web host.
I'm not a fan of backup systems which use custom data formats, which Bacula's wiki says it does.