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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 08, 2023
Reviving the Glory Days: NsCDE Desktop for UNIX Buffs
=> https://blog.powerdns.com/2023/09/07/authoritative-server-4-8-2 ↺ PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.8.2
In Authoritative Server 4.8, the LMDB backend gains a new Lightning Stream-compatible schema, which requires a data migration (this is automatic, and there is no migration back to the old schema). LMDB backend users should pay extra attention to the Upgrade Notes.
=> https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/09/adding-a-website-next-to-your-shiny-server/ ↺ Adding a website next to your Shiny server
I have been off from the blog lately due to a big load of personal projects. Just lately I got a few days off and found time to work on my personal website, to be ready soon. That made me get more into Nginx configuration, where I consider myself a total rookie. However, I was mainly adding a few domains that are intended for different purposes. That is incredibly easy to do using Nginx even with minimal knowledge, and that's what I want to show here.
Basically I want to have my shiny apps under one domain, and some other sites under different domains, but using only one server. I also decided to add my own customized 404 error page. There are different ways to accomplish that, here are just a couple of them. I hope they can be of use.
=> https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/remembering-molly-one-of-the-greats/ ↺ Remembering Molly, one of the greats
So thank you Molly. For pushing for web standards and the open web and a better web. For writing your books and sharing what you know. For facing off against anybody who needed a push (even when that person was Bill Gates). For being the loudest in the room when no one was listening to what everyday people needed.
=> https://carlschwan.eu/2023/09/07/freedom-not-fear-2023/ ↺ Freedom Not Fear 2023
Last weekend, I went to Freedom Not Fear 2023 in Brussels. Fnf is an unconference for and by European digital activists. It covers various topics, from the latest terrible European law (Chat Control) to discussing how to get more involved in our democracies.
I usually attend more technical conferences, and it was refreshing to participate in a conference where ethical and political discussions around digital rights were a central topic. It was an occasion to meet people from different backgrounds, from a Dutch politician (and self-proclaimed student for life), to a member of various organizations (e.g. Edri, NlNet, epicenter.works, Chatons, …) and journalists from Netzpolitik.
=> https://www.datagubbe.se/proghack/ ↺ The Wachowskis and the Hacker as a progressive archetype
To serve the positive connotation, hacker culture needs to be fairly broadly defined. It usually encompasses various in-group markers and qualities that the bad hackers lack - most often a set of morally pure values with a countercultural, often progressive twist. Early real world political markers of hacker culture were distrust of the (deep) state, safeguarding personal privacy, free speech advocacy and an opposition to predatory capitalism - a heritage from the counterculture prevalent at the time and place of its birth, the US in the late 1960:s. This has since been echoed in many a hacker tract, factual as well as fictional. WarGames (1983) pits a mischievous boy next door against the hubris and excess of the military-industrial complex. Sneakers (1992) features a group of aging hippies doing battle with foreign as well as domestic political actors, and The Lone Gunmen (2001, originally from The X-Files) are at constant odds with both megacorps and US intelligence agencies.
Through the increased ubiquity of networked computers and the gradual reframing of hackers from criminals to freedom fighters, the connotation of the word hacker itself has gone from largely negative to largely positive. In the word hack's capacity of describing a clever solution to a problem, it's even trickled outside the realm of technology and blessed us with life hacks in general and specific ones like kitchen hacks in particular. Hence, new words must be constructed: bad hackers are now instead cyber terrorists or cyber criminals.