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As a Serb, I currently live in a dictatorship actively supported by everyone involved in EV boom. Those who want to profit from mining lithium in Serbia have determined my country should be a mining colony, and they do everything in their power, including financing corrupt murderous regime protested by hundreds of thoudands of Serbs for years, in order to poison our rivers and aral land and extract lithium.

https://friendsoftheearth.eu/news/lithium-in-serbia-people-p...

So far we have been able to pause it, but evil never sleeps. Hopefully we overthrow traitors on next election. Won't be easy as all media turned into propaganda brainwashing machine, protesters are being run over by cars driven by pro-government thugs who are being pardoned by president, and instead of being jailed for attempted murder they get promoted, are being given high political functions, and celebrated as defenders of the nation.

Polluted cities getting cleaner for some. Clean rivers and beautiful forests getting poisounous ore pits for others.

Long time ago I used these BSD-based appliances such as opnsense, beleiving I'll have it easier with their web interfaces than with editing config files in vi.

In the long run, after investing some time into learning actual BSDs I find editing a few config files much more convenient than clicking around in web interfaces.

OpenBSD is great for a router.

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html

Of course. A port is a door. If service listening on a port is secure and properly configured (e.g. ssh), whole Internet can bang on it all day every day, they won't let through without proper key. Same for imap, xmpp or any othet service.

But what can you expect from people who provide services but won't even try to understand how they work and how they are configured as it's 'not fun enough', expecting claude code to do it right for them.

Asking AI to do thing you did 100 times before is OK I guess. Asking AI to do thing you never did and have no idea how it's properly done - not so much I'd say. But this guy obviously does not signal his sysadmin skills but his AI skills. I hope it brings him the result he aimed for.

Well behaved governments will provide national minorities with everything they need to feel at home. Bilingual street signs, schools in minority's native language, churches, radio and TV broadcasts in minority's native language etc.

Any government who denies this to their national minorities should be promptly replaced as this kind of disrespect to other peoples' culture, religion and national identity inevitably leads to bad outcomes.

Addiction & Tolerance. You choose to take bigger doses of Heroin more frequently instead of living a healthy life. Your logic seems a bit too simple.

Jail managers come and go. Base OS tools stay and are getting better and better. I would definitely stay away from ezjail as it us quite old, active development or even maintenance has stopped long time ago.

Author of the article seem to know what they are doing so I'm puzzled why they don't use `bsdinstall jail /path/to/jail` to implement basejail instead of manually unpacking archives.

No need for separate custom rc script to start `lo1`, it can be done with `cloned_interfaces` directive in rc.conf.

Updating and upgrading jails by passing `-b /path/to/jail` to `freebsd-update` works, but new recommended way has lately been `-j <jailname>`.

Cool article overall, the beauty of FreeBSD is also in possibility to do things in many different ways.

Well, I was thaught in my primary school in then Yugoslavia, now Croatia, quite some time ago, that majority of members of all Yugoslavian nations - Serbs, Croats, Slovenians, Macedonians and Muslims (nowadays called Bosnians or Bosniaks), rose against traitorous, collaborationist official local regimes (both Croatian Ustaše and Serbian Četnici) which sided with fascists and nazis after king Peter II of Yugoslavia cowardly ran away to London. With help of our allies, UK, USA, France, Russia and others, we managed to liberate our country not only from temporary foreign nazi and fascist occupiers, but also from local parasites who lived on the back of working people - royalty, nobility, bankers, industrialists, capitalists etc.

Current mainstream global narative, along the lines of "Eurasia is in war with Eastasia. Eurasia has always been in war with Eastasia" is trying to convince me that the history I had been thought was a lie. So far I'm not convinced.

About PS: indeed, outfit looks similar (but not identical) to uniform of Yugoslav Pionir https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Pioneers_of_Yugosla...

Овене Србине, нека си им рекао истину свака част! Сви су ови споменици у сећање на жртве фашистичког терора, а не за лајкове и кликове. Победили смо фашисте ономад, и победићемо их поново!

XMPP vs. Matrix 2 years ago

It's apples vs oranges. I selfhost and use both, ejabberd / conversations for xmpp and synapse / element for matrix.

XMPP is traditional IM. I use it exclusively from Conversations client on Android / GrapheneOS and it is really instant, supports presence (knowing whether contact is actually online), rings for audio and video calls, gives feedback about whether user read the message etc. I use it mostly for 1:1 conversations, it has all but replaced SMS and phonecalls.

I consider matrix more like 'fast forum'. Perhaps things changed but last I checked (from element on Android / GrapheneOS) there was no presence so I have no idea whether contact will get my message immediately or not. No confirmation that contact read the message. Audio and video calls not working, not even ringing when phone is locked. Quite laggy in message delivery.

So, after some years of using both, XMPP is best for replacing one-to-one SMS, video and audio calls, while I enjoy hanging in public matrix rooms, treating them like '(not really) instant forums'.

I have problem with 0.5l yoghurt bottles. Yoghurt is best when shaken before opening the bottle because its viscosity spreads evenly, otherwise you get watery yoghurt on top, bottom is too dense.

I enjoy having morning breakfast in the park, drinking yoghurt straight from the bottle. When I shake it, yoghurt sticks to the cap. When caps were removable, I'd put it aside so that yoghurt that stuck to the cap does not spill on my shirt, re-screw it after I finish and throw bottle and cap to the bin. Now it's hard to remove the cap and I spill yoghurt on my shirt frequently, so I go to greater lengths to tear the cap away and re-screw when I empty the bottle.

Trabant 3 years ago

There's a song by Atheist Rap, a Serbian punk rock band, who sings about the band happily touring around Vojvodina villages in a "Blue Trabant", until one night they left it parked near a pigsty which resulted in Trabant being eaten by pigs - a reference to it being plastic. Luckily, they managed to convert an engine into a power saw for sawing firewood.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R5YgRvIhdtk

The track was quite popular so they made another one about Wartburg.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pvG7vi3bFCY

There are so many places all over Europe where majority of population is not of same ethnicity as the rest of the country. Italians in Istria, Croatia. Basque people in Navarra, Spain. Hungarians in southern Slovakia or Vojvodina, northern Serbia. In all of the places I've mentioned and been to, there's a great level of autonomy for those ethnical minorities. Bilingual street signs, schools in native languages, churches etc.

This is what Kosovo had in Yugoslavia, and this is what Kosovo should have in Serbia, for ethnic Albanians.

SPF says which IP adresses are authorized to send email for a domain. DKIM should increase confidence that email is sent by authorized service on servers with those IP addresses (eg. Postfix) as opposed to unauthorized ones (eg. telnet). Finally, DMARC instructs receiving servers how to act on receiving email for a domain regarding validity of SPF and DKIM. It is up to receiving servers to respect this instruction or not.

None of the above has anything to do with particular email message authenticity. Mechanisms for email authenticity, or additionally confidentiality, are S/MIME and PGP, where user controls the key, and it is up to them to make sure it doesn't leak.

I am providing email service to close to thousand users on dozens of domains over the course of fifteen years. The article does not make much sense to me from either postmaster's or mail user's point of view.

Wikipedia is so funny. I like to read topics about contraversial stuff related to my region of Balkans, both hr. (Croatian) and sr. (Serbian) versions. For the same topic, one side says national heroes, the other war criminals. One side's terrorists are other side's freedom fighters. One side's nazi collaborators are other side's innocent communist victims. And so on.

So, what's the truth? I guess whatever one chooses to believe. I like to create my truths from many different, contraversial or sometimes completely opposing sources on same topic. Your links are all in english language, in en. section of Wikipedia.

Bad guy for whom?

I don't think there are universally good and bad guys in this game. There are interests. If you live in the west your interest is for western economy to be the first which means for other economies to be, well, not first. If you live elsewhere the same applies.

As for me, I hate all of my overlords with passion. US EU Russia China, you are all the same to me. Not people, of course. Governments, armies and corporations. Well, almost the same. US and EU dropped bombs on me during my lifetime, Russia and China did not.

Ok, I see downvotes coming and I understand I didn't give enough context so I'll try to clarify.

I use BSD, particularly FreeBSD and OpenBSD, for two decades now. For the last 15 years professionally.

Four "recognized" members of BSD family are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonflyBSD. Each of them pursue different goals - FreeBSD stability, OpenBSD security, NetBSD portability, DragonflyBSD no idea, never tried it. All of them have similar (make) but different way of building (poudriere / dpb) and managing (pkg / pkg_) packages, similar (rc) but different way of managing system services (rc.d/ / rc.conf.local), similar (ifconfig) but different (rc.conf's ifconfig_if / hostname.if) way of setting network interfaces, similar but different ways of containerization and virtualization (jails, chroot, vmm, bhyve) etc.

I have reasons why I would choose FreeBSD over OpenBSD for storage server (ZFS), or vice versa for router / firewall (rdomains, pf, bgpd, ospfd, iked / ipsec etc.)

I don't have a slightest idea why would I choose HelloSystem or HardenedBSD for my laptop instead of FreeBSD.