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eeZi··on Asyncssh – Python Asyncio Client/Server Implementation of SSHv2 Protocol
This is pretty cool. SSH is a perfect fit for this - in common application scenarios, most time is spent waiting for the remote host.

I like that is supports all of the modern ciphers (Paramiko, in particular, doesn't). It's also mostly feature-complete. Props to the author, this appears to be the work of a single guy!

eeZi··on Docker can forkbomb the host system: `docker run busybox “:(){ :|:& };:”`
Yeah but people tend to mistake containers with VMs, and you cannot do this with VMs.
eeZi··on PulseAudio 8.0 released
Fortunately, Gentoo works fine with systemd, too. It's a nice feature of Gentoo that one can choose - ChromeOS uses Upstart and CoreOS systemd (both of them notable Gentoo derivates).
eeZi··on Docker can forkbomb the host system: `docker run busybox “:(){ :|:& };:”`
This. Containers are not ready for production, except for fault-tolerant/distributed payloads. You can't even live migrate them to another host, and CRIU is nowhere near production ready (assuming it ever will be).

Everything else? VMs it is. The overhead is so low nowadays that it's totally irrelevant for the vast majority of use cases.

eeZi··on Unlocking an encrypted rootfs over ssh-server in initramfs
Slightly? Considerably.
eeZi··on Announcing sshexport
Ansible can easily do this out of the box. It's agent-less, too, so you don't need to install anything on the remote host either. And if you're not using config management, it's about time and Ansible is a great place to start!

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/authorized_key_module.html

eeZi··on Convert hand drawn equations to LaTeX
LyX is a LaTeX editor which has a very good visual math entry panel.
eeZi··on Ansible 2.0 released
I actually use Ansible to build Docker containers and it works really, really well. Much nicer than Bash scripts.
eeZi··on SSH Backdoor found in Fortinet firewalls
See relevant thread in r/netsec: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/40lotk/ssh_backdoor...

> It leaves no traces in any logs (wtf?). It keeps working even if you disable "FMG-Access". It won't let you define an admin user with the same name to mitigate it, so make sure that SSH access on your devices is at least restricted to trusted hosts!

eeZi··on SSH Backdoor found in Fortinet firewalls
Fortinet support just uses TeamViewer or Webex when they need access to a device, or you create an account for them.

Source: Fortinet admin

eeZi··on Jepsen: RethinkDB 2.1.5
RethinkDB is great. It's the first NoSQL database I've used so far which I actually liked. The query language is sane and the developers definitely know what they're doing. The realtime features are amazing and work very well with Python + asyncio.
eeZi··on Reverse – reverse engineering tool with pseudo-C output
It installs capstone using "sudo make install". Unconvinced.
eeZi··on The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
Hmm. I see your point. I've first heard about safe spaces by reading about the "Halloween incident" at Yale which left me with the impression that they're a bad idea since it appeared to me that they not only discourage harassment and violence (and seriously, how can one disagree with this?), but also critical discourse, which I believe is very important to our society.

But I also see how "safe spaces" would be useful and how critical discourse could be used for bullying. I've not read enough about this to make up my mind on this. Was the Yale thing an unexpected outcome?

eeZi··on The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
Thank you for responding.

> If you look at it from an outside perspective, both sides are right.

That's kinda how it feels to me. In most of the conflicts I've read about, one side is right (look at this - if what she writes is true - and there's no reason for me to believe otherwise, how would you reasonably argue against that?, but then I read about "safe spaces" at universities and can only think how dumb of an idea this is), but instead of a civilized discussion which might actually change people's opinions, a shirtstorm ensues.

Please disagree with me if you think that I'm wrong on this - I'm really just an outsider who occasionally reads about this on Twitter and shakes his head.

eeZi··on The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
I like that she didn't, since it emphasizes that this is not about that particular conflict, but the way it has been handled. She could have mentioned his name in an effort to make him look bad (this post will probably get a lot of attention), but she didn't.
eeZi··on The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
How is this about making money?
eeZi··on The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
:(...

As someone who didn't really follow the whole controversy the past years, this was an eye-opener for me. Did it really get that bad?

Stop tolerating the intolerant! Also, I don't understand the point of GamerGate. As an outsider, all I see is two groups making themselves look really bad and everyone else loosing. You don't convince others by threatening and harassing them, something the extremes at both sides seem to do. Why?

By the way, note how she did not mention the harasser's username in her post.

eeZi··on 32C3 – Chaos Communication Congress – Streams Online
Literally. They once has a 100 Gbit upstream, but it wasn't maxed out, so now there isn't. It's "only" 40 Gbit now I think?
eeZi··on GitLab 8.3 released with Auto-merge and GitLab Pages
Phabricator has a Kanban board. It's also a fine replacement for JIRA for many use cases.
eeZi··on GitLab 8.3 released with Auto-merge and GitLab Pages
Ack, OP is talking about Phabricator vs. GitHub though. For anyone wondering.
eeZi··on GitLab 8.3 released with Auto-merge and GitLab Pages
Opposite for me. After using Phabricator for a while, the GitHub issue tracker feels so primitive.
eeZi··on GitLab 8.3 released with Auto-merge and GitLab Pages
It's a fine substitute for GitHub. Both are source code and project management tools. Just because they have different user interfaces doesn't meant that they don't solve the same problem.

Phabricator is much more flexible and that comes with a small cost in complexity, but the result is a system which provides a superior workflow, especially in enterprise environments:

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-Phabricator-ha...

http://cramer.io/2014/05/03/on-pull-requests/

eeZi··on GitLab 8.3 released with Auto-merge and GitLab Pages
Yes, it does. It's called Harbormaster.
eeZi··on GitLab 8.3 released with Auto-merge and GitLab Pages
It's much better suited for open source projects than GitHub, not only due to the powerful issue tracker and other community features.

An incomplete list of projects using it, some of them VERY large:

- Blender (https://developer.blender.org/)

- LLVM (http://reviews.llvm.org/)

- Haskell (https://phabricator.haskell.org)

- Wikimedia (after lots of discussion and a lengthy selection process, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/)

- FreeBSD (https://reviews.freebsd.org/)

- Fedora (in some places, for example: https://phab.qadevel.cloud.fedoraproject.org/)

- Khan Academy (https://phabricator.khanacademy.org/)

- Enlightenment (https://phab.enlightenment.org/)

- KDE (https://phabricator.kde.org/)

- Freedesktop (https://phabricator.freedesktop.org)

- lighttpd (https://review.lighttpd.net)

- Kolab (https://git.kolab.org/)

- ...

Wikimedia hat lots of content about their choice and the migration process: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/FAQ

Phabricator has been in use as a production tool for years and it shows. It is much more sophisticated in terms of workflow and real-world use than alternatives.

eeZi··on Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors
Now? The code was introduced in 2008.
eeZi··on The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases
I admittedly did not know that they published a specification . It's still a proprietary file format though. Proprietary does not mean "binary and undocumented", it means that it's not an open standard.
eeZi··on Western Digital and OwnCloud Team Up to Bring OwnCloud to Home Users
I don't agree with him, I just understand his point. Actually, I wouldn't really trust either product at this point - there have been too many vulnerabilities in OwnCloud for my taste, but buying a proprietary application is not an alternative either for my personal use.
eeZi··on The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases
Spacemacs has pretty good docs: http://spacemacs.org/#learning-spacemacs

org-mode and evil-mode alone, without Spacemacs, work pretty well already. It's just additional glue to make it more seamless.

eeZi··on The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases
That's not mutually exclusive - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739693

Most people use it for planning, but it's also a very nice personal wiki. The great thing is that you can define your tasks inline, if you want.

eeZi··on The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases
I suspected as much, but I've never tried it.

Thanks for the reminder!

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