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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: More Horrifying Sacrilege From A GNU/Linux Master
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On 2025-08-05 20:36, jroot wrote:
> Not only do I disable *all* security features in my kernel and
> in *all* of my software, but I boot into my system and run everything
> as the root user.
> 
> (Ha, ha!  I can hear those distro toadies already howling.)
> 
> But what's even worse, from a networking point of view, for
> all of my DNS lookups I directly query the top-level root
> servers:
> 
> ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root
> 
> Thanks to pdnsd this is easy to accomplish (plus adding a
> persistent lookup cache as well):
> 
> https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-dns/pdnsd
> 
> Now don't you wish that YOUR distro could do all this for
> you ('cause you certainly can't do it for yourself)?

I have been doing that for decades, with distro provided software, then 
stopped doing it because it is not polite.


> 
> No security.  Root user.  No systemd.  No Wayland.  Root
> server lookups.
> 
> It's the way personal computing is supposed to be.

You are nuts.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.