Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: More Horrifying Sacrilege From A GNU/Linux Master Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 22:11:02 +0200 Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <106vir0$3c9cr$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Jttp5d7Jq2gFy0MQJXta+AAE0l4akgMJvkqDk5A0pOL++qu2It X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:hxAjTMCESrNlBHqbzMm+dSW0h6c= sha256:zs53Y09gAu12ExjOYbK6GRE7nj1C3UwQj5rYcyIMCeA= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <106vir0$3c9cr$5@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70570 On 2025-08-06 14:46, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 05/08/2025 20:34, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> 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. >> > Npo. Just having a different relationship with his computer. > I mean LGBTQ is all the rage, Why not root user, terminal  and no security? I have no problem with people doing what they please on their computer. But trying to ridicule the people that don't do the same as him, saying the rest of the people are stupid, is different. > https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WJlhjWCfhRk Badly made. There is no video, it is a photo. The subtitles at the bottom get partly occluded with a button asking to subscribe. -- Cheers, Carlos.