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Self-confessed paronomasiac, Unix-like(r), FreeBSD sysadmin, and a hoopy frood. Aficionado of the color purple. Naming computers after sentient AIs since 1994.
Sep 17, 2018 4 tweets 4 min read
@chris_tarquini @Hacker_Horse @TheTechStewart @CarlCravens The thing is, it demonstrably doesn't do things well - its graph theory is broken/unproven (in the scientific sense), it has bloat (qr writer and httpd), and scope creep outside of a system configuration layer (ip forwarding and masq as well as firewall controls) and .. 1/n @chris_tarquini @Hacker_Horse @TheTechStewart @CarlCravens changes well-established existing behaviour (KillUserProcesses was switched on by default to fix an issue that's still not fixed) _without proper deprecation notices_, and hardcodes values which are questionable (putting aside whether a configuration layer should handle DNS).