CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@cas right after installing CrazyOS I'll make a video of it and put it on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram of course (I really dig their services, I have accounts everywhere, ha!). Hey, did you hear the web folks have cookies! Yummy! So good!

@cas i never trusted these people in the first place and boy was I right. I'll now move one of my machines to CrazyOS because it stores no PII at all. That will hurt Kernighan and Ritchie, Ha! CrazyOS will not store *any* PII, it's so good! It doesnt have a password (MS-DOS back in the day already had that, and it should be common sense), you just are let in right away. It's kinda annoying though that it has no $HOME to store data in, but of course that's cool, because that would be PII...

@cas It's as if UNIX carries AN ENTIRE DATABASE of PII in /etc/ without any consideration for user's privacy! Unbelievable!

I think we all need to *demand* from Kernighan and Ritchie to immediately drop /etc/passwd and related files from UNIX, and stop helping the government with collecting this kind of data. It's really appalling that no one has called them out on this yet! The shock! The horror!

@cas i am waiting for the moment when these folks who partake in this misguided shitstorm learn about the kind of PII the good old GECOS field on Linux/UNIX carries...

And once people are over that the next shock waits for them! There's a file in /etc/ that contains a hash (i.e. a unique identifier!) of your most personal, private, secret data: your password. And linux systems even kinda insist on you on providing that on first install! Can you believe that?

--ephemeral is a way to run a throw-away VM based on an existing disk image, where no changes made during VM runtime actually affect the original image, but are entirely buffered ephemerally and lost when the VM terminates.

1️⃣3️⃣ Here's the 13th post highlighting key new features of the just published v260 release of systemd. #systemd260 #systemd

systemd-vmspawn is systemd's wrapper around qemu, that integrates it nicely with various of systemd's interfaces and subsystems, while providing an interface closely resembling systemd-nspawn's.

There's one really useful switch systemd-nspawn has that systemd-vmspawn so far didn't: