From f55fe3f58ef1b3f9b401d79610ecc9190a5520df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ubergeek Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 08:26:35 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] State of the Thunix Feb 2020 --- articles/news.md | 78 +++++++++++++++--------------------------------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/news.md b/articles/news.md index 348d6bd..780b17c 100644 --- a/articles/news.md +++ b/articles/news.md @@ -1,59 +1,29 @@ -# 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) :)