State of the Thunix Feb 2020

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# State of the Thunix - Janurary 2020
# State Of The Thunix - February 2020
Well happy new years to all you Thunixers! Hope 2019 was a blast.
New month Thunixers, and latest update!
Thunix.net is officially over 1 years old this month! We've had some
great times this year, and have some seen some awesome improvements:
Things are moving along swimmingly, more or less. We implemented a new
account recovery feature, which users are taking advantage of. And,
if you're in the IRC channel, you've been noticing a new project being
worked on: The Thunix API. Also, we were planning a migration to new
hardware this month, but that has been postponed.
* We started off on a tiny Digital Ocean Droplet, and moved to a
dedicated server
* We've implemented a Continuous Integration/Continuous Development
system for our website, man pages, gopher site, and system ansible
playbook.
* We offer:
* Basic web services, like page hosting, email accounts, etc
* VHosts if requested
* DB's if requested
* Rather liberal storage, RAM, and CPU usage guidelines
* Our services are encrypted via TLS whenever posssible (Email, chat,
website)
* We have a Tor Onion service for all services
* Multiple open source projects have had their births here
* We've iterated through **three** major software versions for our website
* We now have a community wiki
If you've not set up your account recovery information, please make sure
you do so, soon, to ensure you can recover your account in the future,
should the need arise. Just put an email address or recovery passphrase
in ~/.thunix/recovery, and chmod 600 that file. This ensures only you
can see it (And the admin team when we need to), and we have a way of
reaching out and verifying it is you requesting the recovery.
And tons more. This is all largely thanks to you, the community that,
and our admins Naglfar and Fosslinux (aka Fossy). Our
goal it to continue to tightly focus on building the community of users
here, and to make the system more privacy focused, and secure. To make
it a better place for you, and a safer place.
We are projecting to do the hardware migration in February, but it is
still in flux a little. We'll let you know in IRC, and via email when
the time comes. You shouldn't notice anything different other than a
new IP address, but we will preserve the ssh keys, so you won't have to
worry about ssh breaking.
At the close of the year, we will be re-doing some of our policies. No
major deal breaking changes, but more or less making official some of the
things we do, and being even more open and transparent, which is our goal.
We've always tried to remain as transparent and open as possible, but we
also recognize that we can always do better at it.
Namely, our terms of service will get cleaned up, and some additions made.
The privacy policy will be getting reworked as well, to be far clearer in
what we do. We will also be considering adoption a separate "Code of
Conduct" for community members.
That being said, last week, we implemented a third party email monitoring
service. NO. They do not get your emails, and scan them. We would never
even consider that. But, our deliverability reports are sent to a company
called "Postmark." They aggregate our DMARC reports, and send us nice
reports. They do not get any of your personal information, but we most
certainly want to be open about when we engage in third parties for our
data analysis. When we can, it will be replaced with a open source tool,
but that requires us to write one, because at this time, none exist.
So, all that: I'm looking forward to a great 2020! We will keep growing,
and maybe the US will come out of it with a sane president, instead of the
current dumpster fire :) Cheers, and excited to have you all aboard for
many more years to come!
Your sysop,
ubergeek/ub3g33k
Also, we are working on an API to get info about the Thunix
systems, and also, to do some of the management for it, remotely.
This will enable us to (in the future) build some pretty awesome
apps around the system itself. If you would like to help with
the API development work, feel free to join us at [thunix_api git
repo](https://tildegit.org/thunix/thunix_api) :)