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The motivation is even more stupid than that, it is to compensate authors for "lost" income due to buyers making private copies of their media, which is thankfully legal. For example, if I accidentally scratch a CD and it doesn't play anymore, I won't buy a new one if I had made a backup.
Not much, Revolut just got tricked by hackers into giving out customer information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682087
You can forward logs to rsyslog or something, but you really can't disable systemd-journald. Technically you don't need to run systemd-boot, you can use grub or something else, but then bootctl and systemd kexec stop working. You don't need to run dbus, but if you don't several systemd features break, and it's not even documented what needs it. The list goes on and on.
Also, the fact that all components are in the same repository and need to be built together causes a lot of headaches with packaging due to dependency cycles (like, systemd -> cryptsetup -> lvm2 -> udev -> systemd).
Are there other known ancient games that work like this?
It's cool, but I would never use this for real.
It's very rare to find something that prevents you from directly updating. Nixpkgs tries very hard to no require new Nix features, so it evaluates with even Nix versions from a decade ago. Also, NixOS options and packages are frequently changed, but the automatic migrations (mkChangedOptionModule, mkRenamedOptionModule, alias, etc.) are never removed in practice.
Since the binary cache has never been cleared since its creation (2002?), it should actually be easy to install a super old NixOS release and upgrading it to the latest to see what happens.
By the way, there are LTS versions of NixOS, just not officially supported. See https://docs.ctrl-os.com/.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Encrypt...
That's incorrect, a MitM can only reveal the server hostname by inspecting the SNI during the TLS handshake, but the HTTP request, including the URL and headers, is encrypted.
AFAIK, WiFi has always been doing CSMA/CA and starting with the 802.11ax standard also OFDMA. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_node_problem#Background
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14986324 (2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167686 (2019)
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