eleijeep

So the main parts that you need aside from Wireguard support in your OS, is the Tailscale client and the Headscale hosted server?

Is the client fully FOSS? Or are there still any parts of this typical deployment that could be rug-pulled if the company gets enshittified?

What exactly is it that you’re trying to achieve?

“Lurk for a while before posting,” has been a standard rule of netiquette for at least the 30 years that I’ve been using the 'net.

You’d be insane to still be using this for anything important.

Yes that’s the one I was referring to.

Did the LLM choose the name? There’s an obvious existing semantic link between PRISM and intel, so congrats on choosing an un-searchable name.

Restic has quite a good solution for this: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/060_forget.html#security-considerations-in-append-only-mode

The ones that survive are the ones that you forget are forks

LibreOffice (from OpenOffice)
Jenkins (from Hudson)
VeraCrypt (from TrueCrypt)
ValKey (from Redis)
MariaDB (from MySQL)
LibreWolf, Waterfox et al. (from Firefox)
Angie (from nginx)
CoMaps (from Organic Maps)

The list goes on and on. Just about every Linux distribution is derived from one of the three or four earliest ones.

The rsync developer has gifted us with positive value for many years. Now he is gifting us with negative value by making his project worse. So in a real sense he gave us what we were owed: he owed us nothing, and he gave us nothing. Net nothing.

In a real sense though, linking this article (from 2018) to the rsync situation misses the point, because backlash like this in the open source world is never about what people believe they are owed. Software users are and have always been entitled, yes, regardless of whether the software in question is open or proprietary. The difference with open source software though is that when a project diverges from what most people want, it can be forked.

The outrage against open source projects going in the wrong direction then, is not outrage that the developer is not giving them what they are owed. Rather it is the anger stage of the grief cycle related to the realisation that there is now lots of work to be done to fork or replace the project.

Why give a gift and then take it back? Is it reasonable to decry the anger and resentment that such an act engenders?

Remember the left-pad incident? Was the developer within their rights to withdraw their work? Yes. Was it a dick move? Yes. Was the anger against them justified? Yes. The rsync situation is analogous. We scream into the void and then we move on.

You wrote this shit with an LLM, didn’t you?