spytfyre

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New Linux kernel bug lets you get root on most modern distros in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

If I'm not mistaken this bug was present in the kernel for years and to be honest was extremely subtle in the first place

I want to switch away from gmail in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 years ago (6 children)

At the end of the day it will depend on the amount of money that you are willing to spend on this (and 0 is a perfectly valid choice) but what I would suggest is that regardless of provider, you buy and use your own domain so that

  • you own your identity
  • can change providers in the future without sending a notice to all your contacts about the change
2021, a new era that saw software licenses with a time warp ;) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

I saw something similar the other day on the sentry repo https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/master/LICENSE . IMHO using a copyleft free and open source licence before the "pivot" (?) is a lot better than what sentry went with. How much that helps the situation with corporations leeching off open source work is left to see