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  • What's the problem with it? These MIT programs already exists. Anyone can make proprietary version. Including in Ubuntu doesn't change that.

    Also your example is pointless. Canonical would rather make a proprietary pam module instead of a custom internal fork of sudo-rs.

  • Nowadays I deploy most self hosted services as containers. If something is not available as such, I install it inside container and make a Dockerfile of it. Snap is useful too here (cf nextcloud). For some rust/go projects I just run the binary on the host directly as a systemd service. The corresponding update service pulls the release, builds it locally and restarts the service appropriately.

    Which means it totally depends on the project structure, scale and security administration which in turn depend on user. Somebody else might want something totally different but I would suggest go for container.

  • Not necessarily. For those who grew up with winmodems it was the reality. Fortunately where I grew up, dsl and more importantly coaxial broadband took off veey early on. Though there were dsl softmodems, these were rare. The difficult part was a windows logon software provided in isp cds. For macos users the isps usually sent IT guys with 'drivers' initially and for linux users they sent IT guys to help install windows. The 'dialing' program did nothing but few http requests but in those days packet capturing was not so easy.

    A friend of mine 'hacked' the isp (weak telnet or ftp) to steal the debug version of said software to figure out the requests in logs. Unfortunately the local isp discovered the 'hack' somehow and found the 'proof' by seeing linux cds on their desk. Isp guys issued a pretty serious warning for their parents that the kid is becoming a hacker/criminal by using linux. This reminds of that famous text.

  • It's not self-hostable (yet). Would that be important (why?)...

    If I use it as a note taking + sharing with few friends. If I publish the notes on the open internet or use it as a pastebin with nice formatting then no.

    Though in the former case client side encryption also works otherwise.

    Also I generally prefer open and self hostable software cause vendor lockin, central service going down, enshittification etc. If the software is open users can contribute and fix bugs too which makes the service more featureful and robust.