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kondbg
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Using debit cards means that you need to keep a sufficient balance on a zero interest checking account in order to make transactions.

Using credit cards allows you to keep close to a zero checking account balance and manage your own cash flow, since credit card bill dates are deterministic.

Why would anybody want to keep _any_ amount of money in a non-interest bearing checking account right now especially when the risk free rate of interest (US treasury bills / equivalent money market funds invested in US treasuries) yields 4.00%+ APY now?
kondbg
·5 yıl önce·discuss
Using Cloudflare to proxy B2 content seems like it directly violates Cloudflare's ToS.

https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/

> 2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content

> The Services are offered primarily as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless explicitly included as part of a Paid Service purchased by you, you agree to use the Services solely for the purpose of (i) serving web pages as viewed through a web browser or other functionally equivalent applications, including rendering Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or other functional equivalents, and (ii) serving web APIs subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.8. Use of the Services for serving video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content is prohibited, unless purchased separately as part of a Paid Service or expressly allowed under our Supplemental Terms for a specific Service. If we determine you have breached this Section 2.8, we may immediately suspend or restrict your use of the Services, or limit End User access to certain of your resources through the Services.

If this was truly acceptable and not in some grey area, why doesn't Backblaze simply route all downloads through Cloudflare by default, rather than having each individual customer go through the hassle of setting this up?
kondbg
·6 yıl önce·discuss
The git repository stores only the packaging related items (the specfile, the custom patches, etc.). The actual source is stored as a binary artifact that is downloaded by a `get_sources.sh` script.

The build process is documented here: https://wiki.centos.org/action/show/Sources?action=show&redi...
kondbg
·6 yıl önce·discuss
Devil's advocate: why should I choose this yet-to-exist distribution over something already existing, such as Oracle Linux?

The most common argument (Oracle is evil and litigious. Therefore, using Oracle Linux will result in me being sued) honestly seems like FUD.

All RHEL downstream distributions rebuild the same SRPMs that RHEL provides. Doing a quick comparison over some common packages (kernel, httpd, openssl, etc.) between CentOS 8.3 (https://vault.centos.org/8.3.2011/BaseOS/Source/SPackages/) Oracle Linux 8.3 (https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL8/baseos/latest/x8...) shows that they are indeed byte identical (with the exception of certain spec files including debranding patches).

What is the value of having a separate RHEL derivative? It isn't as if the "community" can propose/submit any changes, since any changes will cease to make the downstream distribution a "bug for bug" compatible RHEL derivative. If I actually wanted to participate in the larger RHEL-derivative community, I would need to actually submit my changes to the CentOS stream project.