Oddbean new post about login | logout @Listens to Baroque while coding murder.exe :newt: Just made Nginx listen on 27193. Crisis adverted. The planet is now saved. https://youtu.be/pvuN_WvF1to
@Listens to Baroque while coding murder.exe :newt: (actually I clicked on the article it linked to on climate change, it’s dead, so I found a snapshot on IA. it literally talked about virtualization and moved onto some philosophical shit that barely has anything to do with climate change)
@Eric Zhang @Listens to Baroque while coding murder.exe :newt: interesting that the word “climate” only occurs twice on the page, both are just in the title. I can’t be bothered to read the whole thing, but it looks like the gist is “we use VMs because of privilege/root access and VMs require more hardware/energy than if we just ran everything on the host OS”. *eye roll*
@8666b6b1 @Eric Zhang if you read further, the dude actually makes a decent point that most system-wide services like ssh or sqld don't need to be installee system-wide. There's nothing in the world that shall prevent you from running sql dbms as an ordinary user, except scarce resources like limited number of ports and the fact that L'Eunuchs distros are trash. Imagine a system where every user is allocated his own IP or even a block. This doesn't require virtualisation at all. The idea of privileged ports also goes away with this one. Sounds actually pretty neat, if you ask me.