Onyx tablets reportedly phone home and send "data" to some servers in China. The manufacturer apparently refuses to publish the source-code modifications to the OS and the open-source apps they are using and they even go as far as violating GPL.
Of course I learned all that after buying this tablet. To ease my mind, I spent some time debloating it and then blocked the outgoing traffic to
[!NOTE] This is a satirical depiction of an experience I had in an IT organization. The point is to share the same message with a broader audience. Obviously, convincing people to make big changes requires patience, perseverance, and long-term support.
Today, I had a conversation at work which reminded me of the 2000 animated adventure comedy, Chicken Run. Here’s how that conversation would look like if
Make sure network-online.target gets triggered correctly: https://systemd.io/NETWORK_ONLINE/
Run the following:
While experimenting with dqlite, I needed to create
multiple virtual machines from a custom template to manually test a few
scenarios. cloud-init combined with one of the cloud
images from here would have
worked, but I wanted to avoid waiting for the VM to boot and configure itself
each time I spun up a new instance.
After some research, I discovered virt-sysprep, which turned out to be the
I was once working with a client, and our team was facing a mix of technical and non-technical challenges in shipping a relatively simple web application. During one of our meetings, I cracked a silly joke: "At this rate, we might as well zip up the source code and send it to anyone who wants to try it." (note for the reader: our users were non-developer colleagues from the same organization)
Of course we chuckled and we moved on. But later, I found myself aching to try that silly idea out. Or a refined version of it: