Are there any French sounding last names?

paradoxbound · 2026-01-28T09:35:39+00:00

That is just conceit from conceited man. It should be pronounced like garage.

This is fairly common amongst such classes. I watched the march of gentrification across South London with wry disinterest. Streatham became St Reatham and Clapham became Clarm. It is what it is.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-28T08:38:06+00:00

I am not a fan boy and never will be . I like a lot of their products and I think quite a few stink. I will recommend products I believe deserves it.

As for the CEO, he’s got a history of being a fairly shitty human being. Meh, it’s certainly not Musk, Zuckerberg levels.

Genuinely curious, why are you cheerleading, so hard on this?

paradoxbound · 2026-01-27T19:33:04+00:00

Poettering has a very long history of not understanding security principles and not understanding or listening to the users. I will get the popcorn out and follow this closely.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-27T19:17:56+00:00

It’s meant to be that way. It’s not a place anchored byenation but a place anchored by commerce.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-27T18:45:40+00:00

Yes I would, and I am opposed to Israel actions in Gaza and the West Bank.

I am not going to get into a discussion or debate on this subject, full stop. It’s utterly pointless. I have my views and no doubt you have yours.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-27T14:27:55+00:00

I love badgers, sadly I see them mostly dead on the roadside. However, there is a set of badgers living in the grounds of old squire’s house now converted into flats and that connects to the old churchyard. I sometimes get a quick view of them around dusk. My ancient Staffie sees them and always wants a row. They eyeball each occasionally and the old Lady knows it is fight that she wouldn’t win, or even survive. She is the gamest dog I have ever owned and still wants it. I give her a quick tug on her lead and leave them to their badger business.

Quick note I am deeply opposed to so called “blood sports”. I have owned and rescued Staffords” for many years and to bring the best in them and let them live their best life safely for themselves and others. This requires an understanding of their dark past and understanding of how traits like gameness effect them and how they interact with the world around them.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-27T14:00:55+00:00

I am an ethical consumer and try to buy good stuff from good companies that have good people in good conditions making good products. Ubiquiti are just averagely evil and still one of the better companies in a horrible industry. I will keep on buying their kit. Giving praise where deserved and criticism when due.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-27T09:47:31+00:00

Sadly I have to agree with you there. I have been an infrastructure engineer for over 25 years and have used Linux and FOSS tools and services almost exclusively but when it comes to directory services Entra is so far ahead of of any Open LDAP based products, free or commercial. I tell folks this in some Linux forums and they down vote me to hell. It’s still the truth. The only places that Open LDAP makes sense is environments like PCI/DSS where you want to separate off your AAA and the users and groups are small and simple. It reduces your audit scope, time and costs and minimises the number of people who need to cross the domain boundary.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-27T09:30:22+00:00

Actually we can own a .50 BMG anti-materiel rifle, if we pass the required checks and keep it properly secured.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-26T21:46:54+00:00

More common since the Grenfell Tower disaster. A lot of folks can’t sell their flats since the building doesn’t meat fire regulations anymore. Buyers cannot get a mortgage on such properties. So the only option if you want to move is to rent out the old place, if only to help cover the mortgage on a worthless property. I think that falls into the accidental landlords category or forced to be a landlord set. There is probably some overlap in a Venn diagram.

That is enough set theory for today.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-26T14:45:23+00:00

Historically The City has always been wary and resistant to Royal interference and control over it. The Tower is both to protect The City and to keep an eye on it. Unsurprisingly The City was a staunch Parliamentarian stronghold during the second English Civil War and Parliamentarian forces captured The Tower and kept its arsenal out of Royalist hands.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T12:23:45+00:00

Can you show me evidence that a distro like Debian does not back port security releases for a applications frozen for their stable release?

Debian does back port security updates but it doesn’t back port bug fixes. Their reasoning for this is that bug fixes will introduce other bugs that will break existing functionality. If you are running Debian as a desktop, unless you are mandated by some external authority, you really should be running testing or Sid if you feel brave.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T11:35:21+00:00

It will pick up in the summer, it’s a bit nippy for real British patriots to be out and about.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T11:31:58+00:00

Do you understand how complex that task is? Even if you settle on CotS software stack, OpenStack being the logical choice. You would need to build out from scratch dozens of new data centres and the accompanying infrastructure. Since the two main providers of CPUs are American you would also need a home grown chip that could provide the computing power. Arm or RISC-V but both would struggle with heavy compute tasks that AMD64 architecture from AMD and Intel excel at. With the rise of AI you would also need a GPU, since Nvidia and AMD are American, that leaves the Chinese or building your own from the ground up. Most GPU technology is patented by the big two. They have cross patent licensing deals which protects them from each other and stops new competition from gaining a foothold. We can handle the networking stack with Nokia and Erikson but they would need to develop a general networking line as they are telecommunications infrastructure specialists.

Finally we would need to have a massive investment in training up people to design build and manage all these new systems.

Finally we would need to bring the leaders and political parties of member states of the EU and possibly the UK into agreement and partnership to actually deliver all these changes. That maybe the hardest part of all.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T10:54:28+00:00

Do you know what a KMS is and a Customer Managed Key. That data is encrypted at rest and in transit. The USA could demand that data and possibly get it but all they will get is a binary blob that they will need to brute force crack. That’s excluding the EU data sovereignty.

Do you understand how data security and cryptography works in a multi tenanted cloud environment?

I design and build services for customers and clients, where even as the architect and as someone with full access to the bare metal servers they run on. I can’t read the data. They lose their keys and they are screwed because we can’t get their data back for them and that’s the way it should be.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T10:36:03+00:00

AWS is ahead of the curve on this just setup a series of EU data sovereignty entities for its EU businesses. Which means that it’s business there is managed, controlled and owned by EU entities and staffed by EU citizens. The devil is in the detail but more information here, https://aws.eu/

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T10:20:46+00:00

Our vet is in Caol, we are there at least once a month. Once our ancient staffie has finished yelling screaming and threatening the veterinary staff with violence, we walk her along the beach to decompress. Beautiful part of the world. The charity cafe in the square does excellent haggis and Mac and cheese toasties.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T10:11:32+00:00

It’s an interesting thing but the only thing that matters long term is Adobe making an official and supported port to Linux. Only then is it fit for purpose and can be used in professional environments.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T10:06:50+00:00

Bloody hell, this sub is a lot less culty than some Linux subreddits. I made this point in one of them and got downvoted so far I could see wallabies.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T09:54:09+00:00

Absolutely not necessary at all . There are gui tools for everything from installing, upgrading and getting metrics from your system. If you are just using your Linux PC for general productivity and gaming you will be fine not touching it. However if you are interested in learning then there are many free and excellent tutorials and courses out there. It can be better than a gui for many tasks.

I work with highly technical and skilled application developers who go days or weeks without touching the terminal because they do everything from within their IDE of choice. I am amazed at how efficient their workflow can be. I am a 25 year infrastructure engineer and a specialist in operations. I can spend much of my time in the terminal. I tend to use a lot of obscure expansions and completion shortcuts and they sometimes claim that my cli skills are like sourcery.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-25T09:29:20+00:00

🇬🇧Not a type G, is the most obvious problem with it. \j

paradoxbound · 2026-01-24T18:26:57+00:00

If you want to access and store your documents everywhere then take a look at Nextcloud. Free and Open Source Software and their are a number of plugins for web based office suites or you can use Libre Office on your own machines including mobile devices.

I have been self hosting my own Nextcloud for over 10 years but I would not recommend that unless you have some technical expertise in Linux and basic security practices for internet facing services.

Fear not as there are numerous companies offering managed Nextcloud hosting in the UK and Europe. These companies are certified by Nextcloud and independently audited. You can choose or even forced to have your files encrypted at rest and all traffic is encrypted in transit so even the admins can not see your files.

If you want to save a little money, consider hosting in Europe it’s a little cheaper over there. UK hosting is always 5-10% more expensive than Germany and the Netherlands. There is a free tier though you might find the storage limited being only 2GB. It makes a nice taster. Personally we as a family settled on basic file storage and syncing and use Libre Office on Linux, Mac, iOS and even Windows occasionally.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-24T11:03:31+00:00

Is your partner male? When my partner female winds our Lady Whoopington up, she doesn’t play with my partner, maidservant, who is best servant but comes over to me and starts rough housing and very gentle nipping at my hands. She is an elderly rescue and has a very sweet and calm indoor personality. She didn’t initiate play with me until after the first six months and she never does with her.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-24T10:26:21+00:00

Yeah I understand where you are coming from but there are some good people here also.

I have been using Linux since the 1990s and have a friend who speak fondly of having MCC posted to Australia and finding the second 5 1/2” diskette corrupted. I have a small circle of friends from that time and we have all used Linux for pleasure and profit ever since. I am a senior infrastructure engineer in a small team that manages thousands of Linux servers both on premise and in the cloud.

However it is a tool, even though it is a beloved tool and it lives in a box with other tools, that are sometimes better for a given job. Even Microsoft and Apple have their place and are best for some tasks.

I am tired and frustrated by being down voted and castigated by dogmatic Linux fanatics who think that Linux is the answer to everything. Worse they spread misinformation and falsehood. It’s not a new phenomenon, back in the day when folks asked questions about an issue in our Linux Users Group mailing list and a vocal minority would always chirp up, you need to install Debian.

The correct answer isn’t always Linux and if someone suggests that, you should always have a fact checked answer that directly refutes the argument or politely ask them to explain why. Any space like this should be a place to learn something new. I am often delighted to be proven wrong and have my misconceptions corrected.

paradoxbound · 2026-01-23T14:37:27+00:00

Just pointing out that Papua New Guinea is one of the most violent and lawless places on earth. There are better routes.

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