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Submission + - SPAM: Sudo alternative in literate programming style

Submitted by jaromil on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:34AM

jaromil writes: Sudo bothers me, I don't need all its features, less than ever its epic bugs. Last night this thought did not let me sleep so I wrote SUD as a thought experiment and educational excercise for all those proud hackers that will write yet another sudo in the future. Its public domain and all your feedback and criticism and rotten veggies are welcome, in any case I don't think this can ever be worst than sudo. I also want to make a point: short and readable code means better security, Knuth has shown us the way and that is literate programming!
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Comment Re:man page (Score 1) 147

by jaromil on Saturday November 30, 2019 @04:19PM (#59471322) Attached to: The File<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/var/lib/dbus/machine-id Matters For Your Privacy (and Devuan Fixed It)

It is accessed by browsers, Chromium for instance.

Submission + - The file /var/lib/dbus/machine-id matters for your privacy (and Devuan fixed it)

Submitted by jaromil on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @11:53PM

jaromil writes: A few days ago Devuan ASCII 2.1 was announced and one update has been overlooked by most media outlets: our dbus patch to re-generate machine-id at every boot. This patch matters for everyone's privacy and I hope more distributions will follow our example, let alone Debian. We are dealing with important privacy implications: non-consensual user tracking is illegal in many countries and is not even mentioned in the machine-id documentation so far.

Comment Re:hear the EU bell (Score 1) 173

by jaromil on Friday October 04, 2019 @03:56AM (#59268936) Attached to: EU Court: Facebook Can Be Forced To Remove Content Worldwide

There is a big difference between a book and a facebook post. But I'm not susprised you don't know it.

Comment hear the EU bell (Score 1) 173

by jaromil on Thursday October 03, 2019 @05:51PM (#59267602) Attached to: EU Court: Facebook Can Be Forced To Remove Content Worldwide

EU has made GDPR to put an end on data extractivism and commodification of data by profit driven agendas.

Slashdot mates: this Internet thing cannot be just a business and many of us know it here.

Now with this ruling we are giving subjects the sovereignty on their digital self. I believe there are masses of young people hooked to instagramming their idiocy who need this sort of defense. Its also called "the right to be forgotten" and right in the USA there is a fantastic foundation fighting for it for years EPIC.org

disclaimer: I work as a EU commission researcher on the DECODE project that was acqui-hired by FB (see Wired article)

ciao

Comment At Devuan, we knew this was going down (Score 1) 306

by jaromil on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:42PM (#57938910) Attached to: Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet

As stated in 2016 at FSCONS in the Q&A https://youtu.be/wMvyOGawNwo?t...

Comment Re: Has anyone got SystemD usable? (Score 1) 313

by jaromil on Sunday June 10, 2018 @10:11AM (#56759766) Attached to: Systemd-Free Devuan 2.0 'ASCII' Officially Released

I maybe up for a promotion using Redhat/CentOS in a few months and will be judged on uptime and ability to recover from reboots. I am nervous after reading all the hate here.

RH/COS is serving a lot of farms with OpenStack.
but then...
Google is pressing kubernetes at huge trade fairs. M$ is catching up with open source culture.
Ubuntu is enforcing snap and the other everywhere...

who knows what will happen???

I'm sorry it makes you feel nervous. I mostly feel excited :^) and compelled to study where it all goes.

Comment Re: The Coveted Bruce Perens endosement :-) (Score 1) 313

by jaromil on Sunday June 10, 2018 @09:53AM (#56759696) Attached to: Systemd-Free Devuan 2.0 'ASCII' Officially Released

For the *nix seasoning Big Up to Museum.Freaknet.org ... and the ipv7 retro decnet community and the suckless tribes :^)

Comment Re: No one cares (Score 3, Interesting) 313

by jaromil on Sunday June 10, 2018 @09:43AM (#56759666) Attached to: Systemd-Free Devuan 2.0 'ASCII' Officially Released

We hope the inclusion of OpenRC in ASCII's installer (expert mode) can be a concrete answer to your question. OpenRC is also what good BSD folks are adopting.

Comment Re:The Coveted Bruce Perens endosement :-) (Score 4, Interesting) 313

by jaromil on Sunday June 10, 2018 @06:44AM (#56759248) Attached to: Systemd-Free Devuan 2.0 'ASCII' Officially Released

Many thanks Bruce. Your endorsement means a lot to me and other Devuan developers.

Comment sorry for spam (Score 1) 1

by jaromil on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:42AM (#56378901) Attached to: Devuan gives up to systemd

I'm sorry to have caused any trouble to /. editors, understand this was classified as SPAM, but its really unintentional. I follow and post on slashdot since almost 20 years now and clearly remember there was always a tradition of april fools so I thought this submission would be welcome. FWIW I recommend keeping up the april fool tradition next year, its dear to many hackers. thanks and all the best.

Submission + - SPAM: Devuan gives up to systemd 1

Submitted by jaromil on Sunday April 01, 2018 @04:31AM

jaromil writes: After 4 years of struggling, with a beta release of ASCII currently being tested, despite it showing good stability, we, the Devuan developers, have announced today to give up and accept systemd as the new universal Linux management system. We know this is sad news for so many people and we are aware some of you may decide to commit seppuku, but we cannot be held responsible according to GNU GPL Licensing. So long and thanks for all the fish.
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Submission + - Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate announced (devuan.org)

Submitted by jaromil on Saturday April 22, 2017 @01:21AM

jaromil writes: Devuan 1.0.0-RC is announced, following its beta 2 release last year. The Debian fork that spawned over systemd controversy is reaching stability and plans long term support. Devuan deploys an innovative continuous integration setup: with fallback on Debian packages, it overlays its own modifications and then uses the merged source repository to ship images for 11 ARM targets, a desktop and a minimal live, vagrant and qemu virtual machines and the classic installer isos. The release announcements contains several links to project that have already adopted this distribution as a base OS.

Submission + - Devuan Beta 1 Review from a Cranky Sysadmin (wordpress.com)

Submitted by crhylove on Saturday May 07, 2016 @05:30PM

crhylove writes: Basically I love it! Which is saying something, because I'm a grumpy curmudgeon.

Submission + - Devuan releases beta of systemd-free "debianfork" base system (devuan.org) 1

Submitted by jaromil on Friday April 29, 2016 @06:33PM

jaromil writes: Devuan beta is released today, following up the debianfork declaration and progress made during the past 2 years. Devuan now provides an alternative upgrade path to Debian, switching is easy both from Wheezy and Jessie.

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