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I've got a domain but whats next?
  • I've self hosted at least one domain for decades.

    Initially self hosted email, webserver, and whatever else I wanted. But now I've started paying for some of the hosting.

    If you want a really reliable service and aren't an sysadmin already, pay someone.

    If you want to learn and do it yourself, go for it.

    I still mostly host myself on a VPS node (Web, Blog, ssh git access, and DNS master), but pay to have email hosted. Server is a VPS at Linode I've had for probably nearly two decades. Email is hosted on Google Workspace so it includes calendar, address book, storage, groups, Google Docs, etc.

  • Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”
  • This is why we prefer to buy physical media, getting a digital with it is nice, but physical is key.

    It wasn't even me was pushing for us to get physical media, it was my spouse. Of course my plex server the house probably helped. But after a few "forever" is only until next month, or shows completely disappearing altogether from any streaming, they started pushing for more physical media.

  • Streaming media company Plex raises new funds as it nears profitability
  • You know what would be a killer feature?

    Being able to buy movies without DRM crap at full resolution (blu-ray or 4k HDR) at a reasonable price (same or less than physical media) that includes extras. Extra points if everything is already named and in the correct folder layout to just drop it on the server in the right folder. Extra Extra points if Plex manages the download in the background and puts it in the right place when finished, or an incoming folder that awaits approval. Even several hours or more to download it would be fine (just make download resumable).

    (yes I know this is exceedingly unlikely to happen, but we can dream)

  • Extreme Radiation Hazard in Marshall Islands, Critical Airspace Warning Issued
  • Says to contact base to deconflict with radiation hazard. Which would suggest it isn't nuclear radiation as that would just be contamination that isn't under control and able to be deconflicted with. Probably a powerful radar or electromagnetic weapon.

  • Apple will avoid ban by selling latest Apple Watches without blood oxygen feature
  • From the original ruling it sounded like having the even just the sensor in the watch would be infringing. It sounds like these are new watch they are importing, but the article doesn't make it clear if that is the case.

  • Can one recover from an accidental rm -rf of system directories by copying those files back in from a backup?
  • Depends on specific machine setup and how good the backup is.

    Backup requirements for /usr there are sticky bits set on some binaries. That needs to be preserved. In all cases soft links likely need to be preserved for things to work correctly on future package installs. Hard links can be problematic, but if you have a large enough drive or not that many it wont matter. Running package verification can be help after restore to make sure everything looks right. If running a Linux system with SELinux in enforcing mode (RHEL on many derivatives), then the security context will also need to be preserved BUT running a relabel will probably work if the security context was not included in backups. Sometimes running the relabel process wont work if there are files that needs a specific security context but are not listed in the security context database. Can't provide more details because most of my experience with that is on systems we just replace (LSPP custom labeling resulted in systems that if you booted into permissive would then be unbootable, so they were just reinstalled once any debugging was done).

    For /boot things can get tricky depending on the distribution, what boot manager is used, and /boot was a separate partition or not. Basically the boot manager (probably grub) needs to know how to find the files in boot so it can load the kernel. In most cases if you restore /boot and rerun the tools to update the boot manger everything will be fine. BUT some distributions, hardware setups, or dual boot configurations are more complicated, so extra work might be needed.

    You didn't mention /dev, which is all special files. These don't need to be restored, just make sure the right processes recreate them. There are tools to do this, hopefully the packages are installed. Or boot from a rescue disk and fix it. Look up instruction for your specific distro.

  • New systemd update will bring Windows’ infamous Blue Screen of Death to Linux | Ars Technica
  • More of it will display the LOG_EMERG message instead of just stopping without displaying anything.

    There are some headless servers I'd prefer to just reboot, but unless actual hardware is faulty I would not be too worried about it.

  • Google urges US lawmakers not to ban teenagers from social media.
  • This is a response to the very bad kids online safety act. See EFF's post for details on why it is bad: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/kids-online-safety-act-heavy-handed-plan-force-platforms-spy-young-people

    EFF's article is better, but here are some of the details of why it is bad. The effect of kids online safety act will be censorship and tracking of kids online when research suggests that is counterproductive for the age group being added. Would require more detailed tracking of everyone, not just kids. Services likely would need to block certain content from everyone to reduce liability to a reasonable level. They would potentially be liable if kids got access to content even when it wasn't for kids no matter how the kids got access (lying, using someone else's account, bypassing filters, etc.). Content to be blocked is vague and open to be interpretation by the most conservative people in the US, which is obviously problematic. The previous COPPA needs updating, but the version of kids online safety act has so far been financially flawed.

  • Over 10,000 Cisco devices hacked in IOS XE zero-day attacks
  • On Monday, Cisco disclosed that unauthenticated attackers can exploit the IOS XE zero-day to gain full administrator privileges and take complete control over affected Cisco routers and switches remotely.

    That seems to be on Cisco in this case.

  • Elon Musk thinks auto union workers have lost their minds. The auto union’s jaw-dropping demands could have far-reaching consequences for the economy.
  • Wow that article is disingenuous and opinionated. UAW with Ford (and others) took a significant pay cut total hourly including benefits went from over $70 all the way down to $55. Now UAW wants to get some what they gave up to help the companies during the great recession of 2008 now that those same companies are making record profits. That seems completely reasonable position to take. Wages have not kept up with inflation for DECADES. The rational thing to do would be to try to push wages to make up for those year over year effective losses.

    So here's the reference to UAW taking a pay cut in 2008 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ford/ford-uaw-deal-cuts-wages-to-55-an-hour-idUSTRE52A3YQ20090311 Pretty sure it was not only Ford and this isn't the only article about it.

  • SpaceX Might Have Lost 200+ Starlink Satellites In Just 2 Months Shows Data
  • Yes it will. Just like doing the exact same thing for power and phone lines to every single place in the entire US ran prices up. Difference is we paid for it and enforced companies do to it. For internet access we just paid for it and then never made them provide the internet access to everyone everywhere.

  • SpaceX Might Have Lost 200+ Starlink Satellites In Just 2 Months Shows Data
  • And the country should fix this just like during electrification and running phone lines to everywhere.

    In the US we paid for internet to be run everywhere (like we did for electricity and phone lines), then the phone companies just didn't do it. Neither congress nor FTC followed through with any consequences for companies not doing this. So here we are in the US.

  • SpaceX Might Have Lost 200+ Starlink Satellites In Just 2 Months Shows Data
  • Over a long enough term it will be worth it.

    But as a said elsewhere neither electricity nor phone being run to rural US homes was cost effective for companies. So the US decided that was shit and paid for it to get done. Started to do the same for internet access. Phone companies refused, used the money for other purposes, inflated prices faster the inflation, etc. and yet neither FTC nor congress held them accountable. Other countries have done the same thing for power and phone, there is nothing fundamentally different about physical internet access stopping anyone from doing the same thing.

  • [Analysis] Speaker McCarthy is running out of options to stop a shutdown as conservatives balk at a new plan
  • What they've talked about so far is dead on arrival in the Senate. Democrats are not going to accept it and have been clear for months on sticking to the negotiated deal with Biden. Instead the most extreme of his caucus continues to go back on that deal and demand McCarthy pass what they want. Some of that group have more or less said they will oust McCarthy (only takes one rep) if they don't get all they want.

    I don't see the Democratic Senate caving to what the house GOP has proposed, and some of the Senate GOP have also said what the house GOP wants is a non-starter.

    Unclear if they are actually bluffing about ousting McCarthy, I think there is a reasonable chance they will oust him. At which point who knows what will happen.