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Our organization dropped trust of Cloudflare and all it's IP address assignments a while back. We don't allow any data from their networks, CDNs, or A-DNS's to be received by our n…

Although a bulk of my career has been in the IT space, I've been a developer for a lot longer. I can tell you, anytime you build software as a means to a "community" it never works…

I haven't heard of this distro before. What made it unique?

There is a reason that anyone who cares about forks being private forever, (even if you delete it) should never use or trust a third party. I never use Github. I run my own git ser…

Sadly my data was actually exposed during the hack and I haven't even had AT&T for the last 5 years. So it's pretty bad when I haven't used their service in years. I currently use …

In my opinion, the term "open source" means "the source [code] is open for people to see". You might be able to stretch that to include "and modify" but that is stretching it. That…

I love how people have this unqualified belief that the OSI somehow owns the rights to define the term "open source". I guess these people don't know that OSI doesn't own any right…

I wrote an application that sends GPS coordinates to a Web API that plugs into Home Assistant which I use to open and close the garage door when I come home, or leave the house. 2 …

I might look into a few clients and see if I can't contribute to make them better. I also prefer a TUI/CLI client. I don't use X11 very often personally. My biggest consideration f…

So efforts would be better served in training materials and perhaps software (clients and such) that is easier to use then what is current present today. Am I taking your response …

I guess what I mean is, there is a lot of things that Usenet does because back in the 90's we didn't have a lot of the technology we have today. Today there are more solutions then…

Usenet, having been around for several decades now has gotten to the point where you can't just host your own server. While I get the reason behind that, why is not a good idea, to…