The problem with using an LLM for information is that you can ask chatgpt:

"please provide me with 3 different interpretations of the main function of the Linux command ‘ls’

and you’ll get what you ask for. An llm is an inappropriate tool to lookup accurate information.

Meh… There have been a whole lot of braindead “pls do it for me” posts going around since the influx of windows refugees.

I’m not one to be a prick about answering questions to help out, and we all start somewhere, but “help me get steam and my LLM working on Kali linux” where ppl get in way over their heads is becoming a real problem. Worse, they will call the linux community toxic for suggesting they need more fundamentals first.

I interpret the post title as a general “try your best, and come to us when you’re stuck”.

The wonderful thing about Linux is that you can do what you want. The concept of what is a “server” and what is a “desktop” has, to some degree, been peddled to us by MS and Apple. In reality, what you have here is perfectly acceptable if it works for you.

Honestly, incus.

I know it’s not strictly a utility, but holy cow, Stephane Graber and his team have put the work into that product, such that anything you can do in the ui can be done in the CLI, and more.

Tab completion entries for all the resource types (storage, instances, image repos, etc), help entries for everything, it brings a tear to the eye.

I once thought it was cool to have standardised man entries, but even better is context-sensitive --help entries that work well. Almost all the discovery I’ve made using incus, I’ve made using the commands themselves.

It’s a real testament to how putting in the documentation work might be tedious, but it is a boon to both users and devs.

Oh, come on. Pretending that foss devs have no connection to users or the community is not a take based in reality. The Linux world is full of changes made or reversed by community sentiment, even for bigger players like Canonical.

The very core of Foss is allowing popular and useful projects to gain momentum by appealing to users. Sure, you can fork a project or start your own, but that independence of the devs is rooted in community support to go do what you want.

And I’ll repeat myself: this is different, foss devs and users both will not have the option to just “go do their own thing” if these laws all become reality.

I was with you, particularly with your anti-violence stance, until this comment.

The answer to disagreements in the Linux world has been to fork a project or make your own. This is different, neither devs nor users will have a say if these various laws are instituted.

The majority of users do not care, and even if they did it’s still not the user’s place to demand the FOSS developers listen to them.

Linux is not a megacorporation. It is an array of different interests that still manage to get lots of interesting stuff done, even with those differences.

This was not a cool thing to say.

Ah, that is odd. The systemd-analyze -blame command would break down all the systemd services by time, but if the delay is before or after the systemd startup process, dmesg or system logs should give you some hints about what is taking so long.

systemd-analyze

Can tell you about how long thing took to start, and the -blame flag can help pinpoint hangs and so on.

Ansible. At least that I’ve found.

Edit: I use generic commands to do things like update and reboot. O believe there’s an openwrt module for ansible as well, which kicks back a bit more info to ansible.

I’ve found openwrt to be extremely stable and doesn’t need a lot of intervention.

Openwisp is an orchestration platform, but it is very overwhelming to the home/homelab user and not suitable for someone expecting the Unifi “single pane of glass”. It works best when most devices are the same model, otherwise you’re just making templates for many diferent device types.

I only run two instances, both run nginx and static HTML sites (plus all the stupid mandatory bits like fail2ban, python for ansible, certbot, etc. They are very low usage and get no seo or anything so they are really, really low usage.

I’ve never been warned about resources so far, and it’s been 3 years. I intensionally don’t run any high-bandwidth stuff like a matrix server or file sync for that reason.

I just lock it right down with keys and firewall entries for SSH. Logs are pretty quiet, except for llm scraping, but they are rate-limited, so they go away quickly.

Be aware that Oracle presents image “shapes” as the os images for use,which include oracle, Ubuntu, and a few others. These do have oracle metrics gathering and agents installed to help with migration between data centre zones, so it’s conceivable that they can read what’s on the os. I don’t have any PII on there except public keys and my email address.

The install script ceased being supported 3 years ago on Alpine. I think it was over handling of non-systemctl systems, but I can’t remember.

I used to run pihole on alpine containers and one say the install just wouldn’t update the FTL server. I switched to another DNS solution at that point.

Best suggestion is to run the docker container, as another user suggested here.

Just to add to your comment:

As much as I hate oracle, I run their free-tier vps in a Canadian datacenter and it never required my cc. I think it’s geographic location-dependent.

My disagreement with your posture is your implied insistence that protecting children is the only goal of these proposed laws. The military example should have shown you that this is obviously not the main goal of these laws, but you seem to want to ignore this.

Most ppl agree with protecting kids from mature content.

This law(s) is framed in a way to be unenforceable, yet the laws are coming regardless. This would suggest there is another reason for the laws.

• How would the law work for new Linux server rollouts?
• Over 18 only, no learning Linux in school?
• Change working age laws so no under 18 can administer servers?
• Consent on every automated install? How would that work?
• If servers are excluded from the law, will ppl just use a server install and add a DE on them after?
• How do we validate who is actually at the keyboard? (Hint, you can’t)

Are you seeing how unworkable this proposed law is yet?

We don’t prevent kids from going into hardware stores that carry dangerous tools, we assume children are accompanied by a responsible adult. This is no different.

I don’t think you’ve thought this analogy through, or else you haven’t had much experience with bars. Drinking establishments have a duty to “cut off” intoxication, but that ends at the door.

The us military has a history of being very interested in recruits from tweens and teens online. And obviously the us military isn’t alone in this.

If what you are suggesting is true, that “it’s all OK because protect the kids”, it would be fairly awkward to explain this practice.

You are misleading yourself.

Consider a vehicle. We understand that there is a threshold of age and responsibility to operating a vehicle safely, but we don’t hold the vehicle manufacturer responsible for driver error if the driver is under the age of licensing.

You are suggesting that an os maker can be held responsible for user decisions, which is both unenforceable and legally unsound.

How does it route an xdp packet across an IP network of unknown hops? I thought xdp required the same broadcast domain for hosts to be able to use it.

xzutils doesn’t require systemd.

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Sorry, I’m failing to understand what this does, mostly because your description is mixing tcpip, socket, and xdp terminology.

It’s an implementation of Single Packet Authorization that works at the XDP level.

Sure, but to do what, exactly? Is this meant to run on Linux routers as a prefilter? Or on hosts themselves? In the second case, why not just use 802.11x?

I don’t get the use case, or what this has to do with DDOS.