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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • Being encouraged to learn about the basics isn’t gatekeeping, it’s just sound technical advice. Self hosting can be great, but when you shift critical services/infrastructure and something goes south you expose yourself to some serious harm (think self-hosting your password management), or perhaps leave yourself open and vulnerable to threats you don’t understand.

    Having access to easier/friendlier tools is great, but using them without fundamental understanding is risky.







  • So I did some digging, and it’s less clear than I thought.

    I come from the embedded development world, where bare metal has been in use for a long time. Pre-2000s, this is exclusively what the term meant. Sometime around the mid 2000s, the virtualization services starting coopting the term.

    So I guess it does indeed mean both, but being a stickler for tradition it doesn’t sit right with me. The term just makes more sense when you’re applying it to the hardware; bare. No middleman, and that includes an OS.








  • I remember this game being promoted by a gaming article that popped up in my news feeds a few months ago. Beware of free games. Not saying they’re all scams but it’s worth your time to vet the authenticity. What are their motivations? What’s their development history? How do they intend to make money? And if they don’t intend to make money and it’s not FOSS, what’s in it for them? Steam charges a fee for publishing before you’ve even made a dime, so free games cost the developer more than just their development effort.