enthus1ast
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Packaging was the reason I left python (in favor of Nim) roughly 10 years ago.
I've build a simple telnet honeypot that emulated some embedded device.
I also got thousand of samples. I think it was mostly different strains of Mirai.
I learned some things about how bots fingerprint the honeypots, and patched it accordingly that they do not identify my service as a honeypot.
The funny thing about this was, that my ISP send me a letter (by post o.0),
that i run a vulnerable service on my network.
The honeypot had a "MOD" from an old nuclear power plant, and did some random tarpit and randomly let random user/password combinations to log in.
It was a fun experiment
Since a few month i use grist extensively.
For example:
As part of a monitoring system.
HR / crm Database.
Self serving vacation planner and approving system.
Tamperproof GMO(genetically modified organisms) database.
As my go to source as a quick and dirty data dump while hacking...
Grist is a great tool!
I tried FreeBSD a few times, but after ~4 hours of reading docs, searching the forums etc, I was not able to create a fully featured systemd like service. With stop, start, restart and auto restart support. something was always missing or not working correctly.
But what I found was lots of hate and stupid talkin against systemd, that they all hate it and that FreeBSD will "never have this $hit"
I thought to myself, yeah just hate systemd but not able to produce an easy to use and full fledged service manager. The arrogance was staggering, and I stopped my use of freebsd since then, in almost all aspects linux is superior anyhow.
Such a fully featured systemd service is easily done in 6 - 8 lines of configuration.
loosing parts of your code is bad. The same goes for braces, if you loose them in a big c program your day is ruined as well.
and then you do both, indents and braces,
indents that it looks nice and braces to satisfy the machine. Then you can just omit the braces... If i would just got a penny for each time i've counted braces...
and in the real world you do configure; make install then ;)
edit: or docker every one i've met so far, uses docker as a kind of "package manager". Database? Oh year use this docker image, elastic search & kibana? shure docker. What they actualy want most of the time is: an easy way to install this stacks, in an non ancient version, where i can actually use the stuff i need to use.
i must admit that i'm not a big fan of nimble (nim's package manager; for a few reasons) but on the other site you have apt, pacman, yum, whatelsenot, afaik most of them are not even able to install two versions of the same library side by side. The situation is so bad that most applications these days are packed with `flatpack` or something else, because of the so broken linux package management...
In contrast to eg. npm nimble is superfast.
the last 8 years (or so) Nim lived withouth big bakers