ybloviator

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by ybloviator 3y ago
[citation needed] (not in a snarky way, I want the story!)
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by ybloviator 3y ago
not at all weird for him
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by ybloviator 3y ago
Yes! It was so huge in the ISP space back then because trying to run something like NNTP on Linux at the time was just not a great experience for customers. Indy ISPs aren't really a thing these days I guess, but back then it was a rea
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by ybloviator 3y ago
And I think the userland got a bit of a refresh from current FreeBSD when OS-X came out.
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by ybloviator 3y ago
With heavy use in Netflix's CDN resulting in something like more than 15% of internet traffic being delivered by FreeBSD, that's some kind of success I imagine.
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by ybloviator 3y ago
monoculture is bad, especially for security
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by ybloviator 3y ago
I thought 3.x was the bumpy one (first SMP, IIRC).
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by ybloviator 5y ago
I'm not a security guy, but monoculture always scared the shit out of me.
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by ybloviator 5y ago
(on linux)
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by ybloviator 5y ago
If anyone wants to learn (as opposed to arguing), the papers on Netflix's TLS offloading work are a fun read. And say what you will, something like 20% of all internet traffic has a FreeBSD endpoint. And doing 400Gb/s of encrypted
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by ybloviator 5y ago
This is nonsense. Please educate yourself a bit on systems automation in general if you think this is the case.
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by ybloviator 5y ago
The unsaid thing here is Linux is largely not used by sysadmin/unix types. Devops has driven this bloat so that people new to the field can just not have to learn any fundamentals about the OS they're building their tools on. For
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by ybloviator 5y ago
If your BSD init script is 500 lines long, you've done something horribly wrong.
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by ybloviator 5y ago
And they say BSD users have attitude issues, lol.
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by ybloviator 5y ago
Yeah, it's a weird argument. I've used vnet, but rarely need it. I bind my jails to their own IPs and that's that. That has been available from the very early days of jails. Again, mature, simple and secure, with very few sur
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by ybloviator 5y ago
In FreeBSD see the "-J" and "-j" options to cron.
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by ybloviator 5y ago
And iocage makes all of this extremely simple, it can manage IPs for you and all that nonsense. There's also a sort of "clone" of iocage for bhyve.
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by ybloviator 5y ago
Did you try "pkg install bash"?
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by ybloviator 5y ago
If you're getting the "do it by hand" answer, you're asking in the wrong places. Ansible, SaltStack, all the devops automation stuff is available and can certainly handle "freebsd-update fetch; freebsd-update instal
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by ybloviator 5y ago
This speaks more to the issues regarding the "made of many little pieces without coordination" spelled out in the linked post than to using simple scripts for service management. Also the idea that you would have pid files scatter
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by ybloviator 5y ago
Technically, there are already regulations. SLA lies are fraud. But I'm leery of any business who's so dishonest they fear any outside oversight that brings repercussions for said dishonesty. "If not happy, switch" is si
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by ybloviator 5y ago
Nope, they nuked a local user group's channel simply for having Libera in the topic.
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by ybloviator 8y ago
Didn't one of the major ISPs get their ass handed to them in court for trying to say that they were somehow exempt from keeping exactly this sort of information? I mean, you can SAY it, but it would be sort of insane to make a stateme
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by ybloviator 8y ago
$4K sounds incredibly overpriced.
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by ybloviator 8y ago
Pilot is doing this cheaper than others, look into how they get their fiber in the ground...
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by ybloviator 8y ago
How does it work for torrenting? Does VoIP work? What if I want to run a server at home?
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by ybloviator 8y ago
Ah, so you get free bandwidth from people that want to balance their traffic for better peering contracts. That's clever. Probably not a helpful model for other areas that aren't bandwidth centers like NYC, and should probably b
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by ybloviator 8y ago
"The network connects directly to the internet backbone, so we do not rely on an ISP." That makes no sense. I doubt they're a tier-1 backbone themselves, they have to be purchasing transit from an ISP. It feels like lots of
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by ybloviator 8y ago
Screenshot of a UBNT p2mp at 2 miles in Manhattan please. The dashboard will show the distance. Please post.
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by ybloviator 8y ago
I missed the "industrial grade equipment" part in the arcticle, TBH. In fact I saw no real technical details at all. "Mesh" isn't even really defined. You'd think they'd at least mention what firmware th

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