9488fcea02a9

I’ve yolo’d every major upgrade from debian 8 to 13 without any backups of configs and survived…

For most desktop systems where you’re not dicking around with files in /etc, there is almost no pain ever

For servers, dealing with the "do you want to install the maintainers version of ____.conf, sucks… trying to remember all the things i put in php.ini is a pain

Probably skill issue

Wow!!! I had no idea about the free registration thing! I remember a lot of websites in the early 2000s had .tk addresses…

FUCK ZUCK, FUCK FACEBOOK, FUCK META

How does this compare to merlin? I dont currently have any reason to distrust the cornell university department of ornithology… but if they ever turn evil its good to know there’s a backup

Some of the things in my house were set up so long ago, and running so smoothly, i havent looked at them in years (other than auto updates) now i’m afraid i’ve accidentally left some security hole without realizing it

For example, i set up cerbot 10 years ago and back then there was no DNS challenge, so i had to use open my webserver to port 80 to renew… well since everything was running from https/443, i decided to block port 80

so i edited the systemctl unit for certbot to temporarily open port 80 for the renewal, and close it right after…

It was only 5 years later i realized i made a mistake and port 80 had been open for 5 years to the open internet

Probably no harm since its a public server anyway… defense in depth is the key