I’m surprised this strategy was approved for a public server

The goal was to avoid getting hacked on a server that could have many vulnerable services (there are more than 20 services on there). When I set this up I was basically freaked out by the fact I hadn’t updated mastodon more than a week after the last critical vulnerability in it was found (arbitrary code execution on the server). The quantity of affected users, compared to the impact it would have if hacked, made me choose the option of auto-updates back then, even if I now agree it wasn’t clever (and I ended up shooting myself I’m the foot). These days I just do updates semi-regularly and I am subscribed to mailing lists like oss-security to know there’s a vulnerability as early as possible. Plus I am not the only person in charge anymore.

Use a non-chromium browser son that web environment integrity doesn’t work. (Librewolf)

If you don’t mind around 4 hours of downtime per month (for now) I could host it for you at renn.es (contact info is there, just send us an email and we’ll send you an invite to a matrix room or something). We basically have a great server with nothing on it, so having one more service running wouldn’t really have any impact (we have 2-3 gigs of ram usage avg. out of 32).

EDIT: the server is in france with 6gbps down and 2 gigs up

I’m not a distrohopper, but GNU stow is delightfully simple. See my dotfiles as an example.

Great! Exactly what I did too, I’m keeping my account until they make the API changes and will participate in the flood of data deletion requests :-)

You deleted all posts and comments, right?

Right?

Main computer: Arch (BTW) because I am a WM user (awesomewm) and AL has no bloat to remove. Also because of the AUR.

Servers:

• main server is a gentoo beast. I chose gentoo because systems was actually causing some problems and reporting a “degraded” status. OpenRC is really nice after years of systemd :-)
• second server, used for backups: NixOS, for no particular reason. I might install Debian 12 on it one day.

I wasn’t born back then, but it would have been the fact that search results weren’t total crap like today: only reddit seems to offer decent results if you don’t want sites like wikihow to come up… I wrote a more elaborate blogpost partly about it.

Total wealth of people who died because of titanic: two similarly sized spikes

Librewolf, icecat, qutebrowser, iceraven, surf… are not chromium-based.

More like “Installing… Do you want avast or X or Y installed along with it?” No thanks, I very much prefer Linux package managers.