The “tank” has an immobile or mostly immobile turret, depending on the particular design of this piece of battlefield ingenuity. Units appear to be making these modifications at the frontline to improve survivability against FPV drones but there isn’t a standard package.

Pay them for a public ipv4.

I’d trust also the official Arch repo.

Yeah they’ve only rolled out a version of curl that broke the package manager a few times.

I may be a touch biased, but I feel like you might enjoy trying Gentoo one day, especially with the recent official binary package host.

IRC is fine, so are mailing lists; I use both, plus various git forges, to contribute to open source projects.

IRC is still going strong on OFTC and Libera.chat

I get that the younger folks like discord, but seriously it’s a proprietary mess that locks everything behind a wall and tries to extract payment from each and every user.

I’m not worried about that 😎

You should be. Your name will be associated with abuse forevermore.

The admins can tell me what’s the frequency/number they’re comfortable w/ and I can reconfigure the solution.

Or you can set some sane defaults and a timeout period. 1 request / 5 mins is fine to check if something is online and responding.

Dynamically linked all the way; you only have to update one thing (mostly) to fix a vulnerability in a dependency, not rebuild every package.

What about authoritarian communism?

That’s probably the most straightforward implementation of instance-wide blocking for users. I like it.

Guys, 9/11 won’t be funny until the 29th of December. I know you’re excited but until that moment you have to continue treating it as the sombre event that it is /s