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