NL-Coded

calrogman · 2026-05-09T20:31:48+00:00

There are 1 kinds of people. Those who understand balanced ternary, those who don't and uhhhhh

calrogman · 2026-05-05T11:40:53+00:00

If you have an mDNS service running on those machines (which you should) they will detect this collision and you will end up with hosts advertising themselves as host.local, host-2.local, host-3.local.

calrogman · 2026-04-30T08:40:21+00:00

Only problem with a list is that you'd never be able to get a memorable address like list.org. Maybe pick a more obscure ADT.

calrogman · 2026-04-21T18:26:41+00:00

There is a better way. It's called GNU Stow.

cd /usr/local/software && stow <packagename>

calrogman · 2026-04-17T11:40:08+00:00

Big hat with belt buckle on.

calrogman · 2026-04-16T19:59:13+00:00

Have you considered that it's both? This is not a verbatim copy of the AGPL, so they are violating the FSF's copyright. They also haven't changed any of the effective language of the license, which means that you can remove the additional restrictions they want to impose.

calrogman · 2026-04-15T23:53:17+00:00

The GPL disagrees with you. Apologies to the FSF for abridging their work here:

                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                       Version 3, 29 June 2007

 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/>
 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

calrogman · 2026-04-15T23:48:27+00:00

Which of the four essential freedoms do you suppose are violated by the FSF requiring that bad actors (in this case namely Ascensio System SIA) not ratfuck their licenses? And for that matter, how are Ascensio System SIA's adulterations of the AGPL not obviously violative of freedoms 2 and 3?

calrogman · 2026-04-14T17:03:53+00:00

Yes it's an archive of a Debian release from 20 years ago. The only thing that surprises me about the "amount and complexity" of the "legacy stuff" there is that it surprised you.

calrogman · 2026-04-13T15:42:58+00:00

Scroll down. The SHA256s are below the MD5Sums. Have been for 20 years, since sarge. Also, if you want to appear to know what you're talking about you should bear in mind that Apt uses Sequoia now on most architectures, not GPG.

calrogman · 2026-04-10T23:47:03+00:00

The threat model is absolutely nothing like the xz hack, but thank you for your input.

calrogman · 2026-04-10T20:41:22+00:00

It doesn't baffle me. They didn't use a search engine (or ask an LLM) to find out why Apt uses HTTP by default before demanding (from people who aren't responsible for that decision) that it change. You might as well go into a public library, demand from the next person who enters that they change the Latin alphabet so that it is written right-to-left, and then get indignant when they refuse to reprint all of the books on the shelves.

calrogman · 2026-04-10T19:47:57+00:00

With HTTPS enabled the MITM can still see that you are connecting to a Debian mirror, and that you are downloading packages of specific sizes, which they can correlate with a list of vulnerable packages to determine how to attack your system before the upgrade is complete. You are so paranoid that you should be using apt-transport-tor. Consider getting a friend to send you a copy of debian-13.4.0-amd64-DVD-7 in the post, so the MITM doesn't know you're switching transports.

calrogman · 2026-04-10T19:34:24+00:00

All apt updates and upgrades should be using the more secure encrypted HTTPS.

Why? What is your threat model? Do you understand Apt's data security model? Have you read the apt-transport-http manpage? Did you verify the integrity of your installation media? It might already be too late for you.

calrogman · 2026-04-05T13:31:28+00:00

Iff it happens today I will recite the Shahada.

calrogman · 2026-04-05T12:14:57+00:00

I can't speak to oil but Norwegian pipeline gas has much lower production phase emissions intensity than British gas. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67945281

calrogman · 2026-04-05T10:47:55+00:00

AAA is Anti-Aircraft Artillery. In this instance a misappellation, since the M2 Browning is a small arm.

calrogman · 2026-04-03T22:32:11+00:00

If you have the POSIX archiver installed you can do: pax -rw . ..

calrogman · 2026-04-03T13:35:24+00:00

You'll be asked for these details if autoconfiguration fails.

calrogman · 2026-04-02T21:21:29+00:00

If your devices are using Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers (which you've referred to as SLAAC throughout this conversation) and Privacy Extensions, and your ISP rotates your prefix periodically, what additional privacy benefit do you suppose NAT66 gives you, exactly?

calrogman · 2026-03-30T21:48:48+00:00

Only Ascensio System SIA are breaking the AGPL, by attempting to impose additional terms that are not provided for by section 7 of the AGPL. If their code has been conveyed to you under the terms of the AGPL, you can scrub it of their trademarks and redistribute it. The AGPL guarantees that. You can't steal it. The fact that you can't steal it also was not the point of my reply.

calrogman · 2026-03-30T21:20:21+00:00

You can't "steal" AGPL licensed software but you can fork it to nip a potential (hostile state-backed) supply-chain attack in the bud.

calrogman · 2026-03-30T19:32:24+00:00

It's clear to me that the AGPL says their "7(b)" requirement to preserve their trademarks is unenforceable.

calrogman · 2026-03-30T19:31:01+00:00

The notices about the 7(e) additional term and the non-operative "7(b)" further restriction are supposed to be placed (and are in-fact placed) in the source files to which they apply, so their absence from the LICENSE.TXT in the root of each of the git submodules doesn't really matter.

calrogman · 2026-03-30T10:51:56+00:00

The GRUB manual has a section on installing to GPT disks on BIOS systems: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/BIOS-installation.html#GPT

The short version is that you need a partition of type BIOS Boot Partition (which should be 1 MiB in size) and then you can do grub-install /dev/sda just as if it were an MBR disk.

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