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  • For me, educational stuff was all windows with a small amount of macs and I don’t think I ever saw a Linux system in actual use anywhere.

    Linux systems started being common in CompSci schools around mid-90s, around the time LAMP took off (fun fact, Apache, MySQL and PHP were all launched in 1995).

    Previously in CompSci you’d get to use all kinds of UNIX servers. My uni still had Solaris servers with dumb terminals, and I got my first sysadmin certification on SCO.UNIX / OpenServer.





  • I am still hoping it will hit 10% market share within my life time.

    Do we really want that?

    We have it pretty good right now. I would actually say we’re living in a golden age of desktop Linux: there’s constant innovation, good support, you get to do pretty much everything you need, while flying under the radar.

    Linux has won the majority of the industry (servers, mobile etc.) so it’s not like it has anything left to prove.

    If it starts getting noticeable on the desktop I fear we’re just gonna get negative attention. Users who take and not contribute, because Windows had taught them to be entitled. Unwanted attention from Microsoft, who I bet are not going to be doing nice things once they start getting paranoid about it.

    I really don’t think that large companies like Adobe will care about Linux even at 10% and even if they did, they are a super toxic company nowadays, the least we get to interact with them the better.


  • This whole debacle is a festival of stupidity:

    • It’s a personal project that taxes the sole maintainer disproportionately.
    • Millions of idiots use it blindly and end up building elaborate software on it. https://xkcd.com/2347/
    • I’ll bet you 99.99% of those idiots use it only for ip.isPrivate(), which you can write yourself in 5 minutes.
    • The CVE is a non-issue (who the fuck would call a function that takes string notation with hex numbers?)
    • Appealing and reverting or downgrading CVEs is super complicated.

    At this point the maintainer is fucked no matter what they do, so archiving the project and telling everybody to fuck off right back was really the only sane thing to do.










  • If you mean to do that in the public DNS records please note that public records that point at private IPs are often filtered by ISP’s DNS servers because they can be used in web attacks.

    If you don’t use your ISP’s DNS as upstream, and the servers you use don’t do this filtering, and you don’t care about the attacks, carry on. But if you use multiple devices or have multiple users (with multiple devices each) eventually that domain will be blocked for some of them.