digdilem

Thanks, I was wondering how that worked.

Nice write up, and there's lots of choice so although Slackware was the first distro I ever ran, back in the 90s, it probably still has a place.

I'm interested in your take on security, without updates. Do you consider Slackware is secure?

But UK laws do, which share a lot of commonality - like the GDPR

I think this type of scheme is illegal under the GDPR, which is in effect in the UK just as it is in the EU.

It's been a while since I worked with the GDPR, but from memory the wording is such that:

The data holder needs to allow people to opt out of data collection. The subject can request to be forgotten. The data holder explicitly cannot charge for this.

But changes move slow, and The Mirror is probably banking on nobody caring enough to complain, and Trading Standards being too underfunded and swamped with other work to investigate otherwise (which they are). If they're challenged, they'll just change tack, go "oops" and are unlikely to hit big fines unless they dig in.

Cookie laws are a horrible mess and always have done - the resulting consent banners are far more intrusive than anyone wanted.

Almost like the forced migrations were a business blunder and perhaps listening to what customers actually wanted might have been better?

Timings: Announced end of on-prem software late 2020 with support officially ending in steps after that.

Now we're getting there!

Rubber Duck debugging.

I get it, and have switched back and forth myself a few times over the years..

I'm a Linux sysadmin who is also a PC gamer.

I run Windows for my main desktop as a gamer. Greatest choice, best compatibility, it's the primary focus for game developers, etc. I use debian on my laptops and home servers as I don't game on those and otherwise Linux is better in most other areas.

At least for me, it doesn't matter a huge amount what OS I use as a desktop provided it's stable and not annoying. Sometimes lilnux is annoying because of compatibility or bugs or specific software isn't available or work poorly, sometimes Windows is annoying because of monitoring, design choices that favour Microsoft instead of the user, changes - often hidden - to existing practices, or any of the thousand little annoyances. Neither is painless 100% of the time but they're not really so different from a day to day driver if the software you need works well on both, which for many people is basically just a web browser.

I applaud those who game under Linux, you're doing great stuff and opening the doors for everyone in the future.

How it's set up depends on your business needs. We have a few hundred, and ow they're set up and managed is defined by a dozen or so groups. Base image to deploy, then ansible and config management to set up the roles.

Users are generally authorised via AD using sssd. Some have very specific Groups which have normal user access and occasionally sudo privs for specific commands. SSH, RDP or physical access.

Our sysadmins have local users with root privs, but most administration is done at scale using ansible or Uyuni.

Like everything, least privilege is the best way. AD allows us to quickly control access if someone leaves or is compromised, but it could equally be done with any central LDAP system and groups.

sanity check

enable raid 0 striping

Sanity checked: You're mad.

Like laws even apply to rich people in America, let alone rules from a company you own.

Sex was sex, much like it is now, only with less contraception and more privacy.

Then advertisers realised they could use it to sell literally everything and now it's everywhere.