Posts by tallship@misskey.de
(DIR) Post #ACmuAcdiBACdDnTuFs by tallship@misskey.de
2021-08-06T16:50:44.926Z
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https://gary.vger.cloud/videos/watch/05555736-a287-47b1-bfe4-f9656ccac553RE: https://pleroma.cloud/objects/a08dd015-2c6d-41c3-bc5e-65a87b2f0020
(DIR) Post #ACmuDRCTAPOSbz57aa by tallship@misskey.de
2021-01-16T19:03:36.151Z
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My itty baby Bobo
(DIR) Post #ACmuFaEsX1LZDyEQJE by tallship@misskey.de
2021-01-16T18:44:29.546Z
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I remember when I was a little kid, my cousin's used to taunt each other like this... until one of them would explode and beat the living shit out of the other.I'm not touching you! I'm not touching you!
(DIR) Post #ACmuGbZd3SNXeZQNto by tallship@misskey.de
2021-01-16T18:39:37.426Z
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I'm Batman!
(DIR) Post #ACmuIrwVANrP03CczI by tallship@misskey.de
2021-01-16T18:38:24.632Z
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Well I don't know about anyone else, but the great pumpkin isn't like, y'know, Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny... Those guys are actually real.
(DIR) Post #ADADEaSHCJ3DBc7VnU by tallship@misskey.de
2021-11-07T16:31:43.646Z
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I"ll also boost this from my home server Gabe.RE: https://mastodon.social/users/gabek/statuses/107221481526084774
(DIR) Post #AF0EYYrPM56D5AX4a0 by tallship@misskey.de
2022-01-01T17:04:21.416Z
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Welcome to 2022 everyone....Happy New Year!You can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔#tallship #Vger #Happy_New_Year #2022 ⛵
(DIR) Post #AGfrD6c0rJiFyPQgDo by tallship@misskey.de
2022-02-20T16:52:39.909Z
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@divVerent Um..... su cannot replace sudo - sudo is a way to invoke su with particular, granular, constraints, as it should be.The problem, is that because of a bunch of boneheads coming from Microsoft camps who still, after decades, can't understand that it simply is not okay for non-privileged users to act as priviliged users such as root, sudo has been bastardized by folks pandering to those from the Microsoft Borg collective and popularized - primarily from sus companies like Canonical and their ewb00ntew distro.I do agree, if such was your implication by virtue of listing su as a replacement, this lends itself to the traditional and further, the recommended method for administering a UNIX system. The non-privileged user, being the administrator of the machine, su's to root, affects changes as the superuser, and then when finished, ^d's out of the root shell and back to the everyday user.This is the correct model. Now, ewb00ntew folks might argue that this is what is happening when they preface every root command issuance with sudo <command>, but this is not so. First, problems can arise with respect of sudo'ing to root not distinquishing between a login shell or a non-login shell. Environment variables are kinda important much of the time.Next, not having permission to su or su - to root presents its own set of inconveniences for an administrator who understands and accepts the recommened methods of su'ing to root and then exiting out of that root shell. So the administrator will usually just sudo su - anyway, instead of just doing an su - as they should be able to.Sure, you could, depending on the UNIX flavor of BSD or the distro of Linux that you're running, merely add yourself to the wheel group, or whatever mecahinism exists, and bypass the whole need to use sudo in the first place.Some will attempt to argue that this exposes the root password to this administrator and is therefore an insecure method of obtaining an elevation of privileges to that of the superuser, but this argument is nonsense:$ sudo su -# passwd# ^dAs you can see, the user simply sudo's to root, changes the root password, then Ctrl+d's out of the root shell back to the non-privileged user - so such an argument is moot.Here's what sudo, before having been bastardized, is really, truly, actually for...Let's suppose you are the administrator for a machine. And let's suppose you are running BIND (named) and an httpd daemon. You have a couple of hundred users who are responsible for maintaining their own DNS zone files and websites.One of those user accounts is "joeuser", and joeuser just created another A and AAAA record in his domain's zone file for a new host. Now that he's changed the serial number and the A/AAAA RRs in his zone file he needs the BIND daemon, named, to reload his new zone file for these changes to take affect.So you, the administrator, su to root, then visudo and affect the changes to the sudoers file allowing him to run the very specific command to reload only his particular domains zone file. Now all he has to do is use sudo to run this particular command - the only command he is allowed to run as root, and everything is secure and everyone is happy.Another user, "janedoe" needs to be able to do a reload for Nginx due to certain changes with her website, so you add that particular permission for her to run, say, either apachectl reload' or systemctl reload nginx`... Problem solved, your system is secure.So why make the one user account on a one person box have to use sudo? There is no good reason. They should use su - instead, and then exit out of the root shell when they're done affecting the administration tasks that are required.Otherwise, they're just going to sudo su - anyway, and why make someone waste all of those extra keystrokes?Okay, next, someone might be really obtuse and say, "But they have to know the root password to do this!!!" Yes, they do. And if it's a one person, or solitary administrator machine, what's the point? They need to know this anyway - Duh!Not to mention that even if they didn't, they could boot up the box and take root by starting it with linux single, or whatever method boots the kernel in single user mode. Or even other methods.Now the naysayer contends that in an environment where there are multiple administrators of a machine this is bad security. Fair enough, just go back up and pay attention to the previous DNS and httpd examples above. Some administrators will have certain root tasks allowed in the sudoer's file, some may have ALL, but one administrator still needs to know the actual root password.So if the system in question is to have something besides sudo as the method that someone needs to obtain elevated privileges, then it is simply a matter of preference for the main administrator of the system to decide which facility to use.⛵.
(DIR) Post #AGnjpjfOrGnzjbbOoy by tallship@misskey.de
2022-02-24T12:07:33.041Z
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Yeah, and I see a little bit of Red Hot Chili Powder on her sleeve there too, some Black Flannel below her other lapel, with some D|< up there next to her collar... whatever that means.But I like this chick - A true manic satanic heavy metal maiden - \m/RE: https://octodon.social/users/kingu_platypus_gidora/statuses/107852852347490655
(DIR) Post #AHyPKku68EzMMN7iim by tallship@misskey.de
2022-03-31T13:22:22.279Z
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I'm not only of the mind that they don't need to change, but also, that they shouldn't - we should, as FOSS and Privacy Advocates, do all that we can to see that they wither and die on the vine... Just like Myspace did.I use Myspace as an example because it is classic. It is litterally still extant, in an almost completely unusable state, and that is laughable. I also point to Myspace because its demise began when they originally broke the capability of users to "Pimp my Myspace". This was a really big deal with a userbase that could have ownership over the look and feel of their accounts with aliased handles instead of "real names", like Faceplant enforced.It also stands as an example of just how quickly a house of cards can fall when the public vote with their feet. The Fediverse at this time is merely a confederation of federating platforms, mostly based on ActivityPub, not really truly decentralized in the sense that full decentralization means that identity is fully portable, but that is coming, and so is the fall of Twatter, Faceplant, Robbit, InstaSPAM, and EweTube.Sure, as those building crumble, those so-called "big tech" juggernauts will scramble to establish new vehicles from which they can violate people who participate as part of their respective user bases - but they will be directly competing against FOSS based, privacy respecting, horizontally scaling and self-hosted solutions where identity is fully nomadic, and cares not whether you think you ( the proverbial big tech you) are competing with it.FOSS doesn't care. it has nothing to lose, and people use it or they don't, but in our emerging techo-socio-political Internetworking culuture, there will be an increasingly diminishing inventory of people to subjugate, package, inventory, and place on the shelf.RE: https://epicyon.libreserver.org/users/bob/statuses/107751723127079434
(DIR) Post #AHyRc4lBlA5am4LKIy by tallship@misskey.de
2022-03-31T13:59:29.952Z
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@tallship@gary.vger.cloud Incidentally, Im an L.A. County Underwater Instructor and a NAUI instructor as well.* L.A. County UIA Instructor #UICC-3515* NAUI Instructor #10635
(DIR) Post #AIwEkHiYcZbO0xDqxU by tallship@misskey.de
2022-04-28T20:12:50.901Z
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@silverpill@mitra.social @soapbox@gleasonator.com No mo hellthreads that fill up the 500 char limit on MastoPub servers lolz.Seriously though, it's really ugly scrolling down half a page of nothing but user's addresses when you're reading a hell thread.I was completely unaware of this and frankly, even as recently as ten minutes ago on my Gleasonator account I saw addresses in replies. Is there something special that I need to do in order to obfuscate those?
(DIR) Post #ANrnqu0Xlhlqxlbt9E by tallship@misskey.de
2022-09-23T18:26:51.252Z
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Here's something to ponder...I understand why the Soviet Union, France, United Kingdom, the United States, and China have a permanent seat on the UNSC (United Nations Security Council), but the USSR no longer exists...So why does Russia enjoy permanent member status?With that thinking, why doesn't Georgia, Belarus, Ukraine, etc., enjoy permanent status as well?Russia was just one member of the union that ceased to exist on Christmas Day 1991.An interesting thing to consider, perhaps?What are your thoughts?
(DIR) Post #ANwcWMeTwnx40y5w8G by tallship@misskey.de
2022-09-26T03:51:55.643Z
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@alex@gleasonator.com Yay!You go soy boi...Congrats Alex, add i hope you get your fiber soon too (no pun intended lolz). 🤘😎🤘
(DIR) Post #AOnGjmtDc35MczZPm4 by tallship@misskey.de
2022-10-21T09:31:35.057Z
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@silverpill@mitra.social Here's what the screenie looks like in Misskey on Vivaldi browser runninng Android
(DIR) Post #APbY0LebdRdgN9veIS by tallship@misskey.de
2022-11-14T17:35:19.334Z
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@alex@gleasonator.com Excluding #Fediverse platforms borders on the criminal. Considering the cold, hard, dry statistics askew as a result of such evil data manipulation that the Fediverse is supposed to be free of, I suppose there's not much distinction between that and the current Fried/FTX fiasco in moral, ethical terms.
(DIR) Post #AQNiUYWKeU571B0WNU by tallship@misskey.de
2022-12-08T01:29:05.699Z
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#Fedilab #AndroidRE: https://gleasonator.com/objects/74547012-ba88-464e-a21c-98697b5b8a71
(DIR) Post #AQNiZub5zxA0w5n0tc by tallship@misskey.de
2022-12-08T01:26:17.235Z
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Make me write bad checks!RE: https://quanta.wiki?id=63913760f8d5d971cc45810e
(DIR) Post #ATsvEvM2gfw8jM5ga8 by tallship@misskey.de
2023-03-22T20:03:56.521Z
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New release of the very best #Fediverse client for #Android#tallship #FOSS ⛵.RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/users/apps/statuses/110068009367577521
(DIR) Post #ATsvHR1ttIW9Y3rnqS by tallship@misskey.de
2023-03-22T20:01:09.874Z
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@tallship@gleasonator.com Santa Clause: "You'll shoot yer eye out, kid!'