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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Short answer: yes.

    One of the tenets of security is that a user or process should have only enough access to do what it needs, and then no more. So your web server, your user account, to your mail server, should have exactly what they need, and usually that’s been intricately planned by the distro.

    If you subvert it you could be writing files as root that www-data now can’t read or write. This kind of error is sometimes obvious and sometimes very subtle.

    Especially if you’re new to this different access model, tread carefully.

    Great news! If you need it up, many distros are really great at allowing you cm to compare permissions and reset them. The bad news is that maybe you’re not on one of those. But you could be okay.






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    7 hours ago

    I doubt they’d go and jam the entire spectrum between 2.4 and 7 GHz.

    I wish I could tell you how I know: they can burn out a wifi router, but it’s permanent and costly because they have to go replace it. It’s a rarity. They absolutely DO employ people as plants in one of our major ISPs that I know for sure, and I’m certain they’ll be doing it to all of them. Shut off your wifi for 30 min? Okay.

    Whether your wifi goes off or not, if someone’s at your door you don’t know, don’t open it. That’ll just encourage people to do it again.


  • Delivery lockers are the way.

    We have a system here by the blueBox people. In form and function it closely resembles an Amazon locker system; but this is for anyone. My wife’s Desky setup was largely delivered over the course of a few days into these lockers for me to grab when I had a moment.

    But they under-planned for capacity, and access to that vestibule is open to the public 8x5. So when the amazon driver sees the lockers are near full, he seems to upend his cart and peace out, and it’s a ‘blue-light special’.