Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 03, 2023

• Fedi is like email

  Email has a lot of the same problems fedi has. It’s used by some very bad people, there’s not a lot of moderators, there’s spam and bad faith servers that you need to block on the instance level, if you get kicked off a server or a server operator folds you need to migrate your address and that’s a 🐝, the protocol is also really complicated these days with many layers and spec addons, it’s difficult to find a place and crowd that’s good for you etc.

  Fedi also has some of the same advantages as email: no-one owns it, it can be used for all kinds of things, it’s free etc.

  Email and fedi work very similarly except fedi has more bugs.

• The version of vi shipped with the BSDs

  Hackaday ran a story about Vim with some interesting history. I knew the late Bram Moolenaar had started the project on the Amiga, though I didn’t know the history of the original code going back to Tim Thompson’s Stevie on the Atari ST, and the ports made by Tony Andrews. I swear the world is conspiring to get me into buying a 520 or 1040ST.

• The world seems so loopy. But at least someone's written a memory-safe sudo in Rust

  The sudo utility provides a way for privileged users of Unix-like systems (eg: Linux and FreeBSD) to run a command as root. It presents a bit of a risk in that low-privileged rogue users or software could find a way to abuse it, such as by exploiting a bug in the code, to elevate their access to root, or superuser, level. Ideally sudo and su should be as secure and vulnerability-free as possible, as they act as gateways to taking full control of a system.

• 2023-08-31 [Older] 5 Best GUI-Enabled USB Image Writer Tools on Linux

• 18 Open-source and Free Cloud Backup Solutions

  Cloud and FTP backup are two different types of backup solutions used to store data in a secure and easily accessible location. Cloud backup involves storing data on remote servers operated by a third-party service provider, while FTP backup involves transferring data to a remote server using the File Transfer