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  • When a kernel update requires a change in dependencies, something Proxmox kernels do frequently, apt just quietly “keeps back” the package. It doesn’t fail, it doesn’t break the system, and it doesn’t trigger a rollback. It just waits for me to notice.

    This should save a click for hopefully everyone.

    Yes obviously, if you do not update the packages then they do not get updated.

    If you do not read the output of a command then you will not notuce that.


  • 7.0-rc7 is probably due to the 7.0 release early mid april. So the fix was in the mainline on 1st of April. The commit on 11th from GKH was probably due to the release.

    I am not that familiar with the commit and release structure to get more into detail. But to me it clearly looks like the statement on copy.fail is correct, that the fix was in mainline on 1st of April.

    From my point of view, I would suggest that maybe the communication downstream to the distros was not handled that well? But who would be to blaim? The researches that would need to communicate this issue to most existing distros? Linux maintainers? Distro maintainers?

    Hard to say, without knowing the communication of the related mailinglists and disclousre etc.





  • I heard the wisdom once that you should self host everything except for email. I’m sure there are great tools to make it manageable but the effort/gain is just very high.

    I find it irretating that you speak on the matter with hearsay without having even tried it with modern tools or project.

    With projects like Mailcow its a simple setup. Rspamd handles spam better than many professional industry spam filters i have encountered.

    Yes there are some pitfalls someone should be aware of and some know how required, but as of right know, it very easy with very little maintenance.




  • By default this applications allows when adding a server, that the communication is not encrypted between the app and the server. This should be configured by default to enforce TLS encryption. If someone would want to disable dis behavior and allow unencrypted communication, then this should take extra steps.

    As i commented somewhere else, to say that since it is turned off it is secure by default, is like saying: “The SSH server is turned off by default so the configuration that comes with it does not need to be secure when shipped”






  • If the target server is compromised or taken by LEA the data is gone.

    Laying the responsibility into the hands of the user is not ok for such an data aggregating service. Such highly critical, private and intime data should be protected and secure by default.

    Not even transport encryption is enforced in the project. At first glance, http is allowed on local connections?!? Generate a self signed SSL cert on start and pin it in the app. Easy.

    It is no excuse that other services do not follow these state of the art protection measures.