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  • Bujold

    I was about to recommend her work until I saw this. She’s one of my fav authors.

    Some stuff I’ve read recently that you might check out:

    • This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar. Sort of a spy vs. spy through time.
    • His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik. What if they had dragons during the Napoleonic wars?
    • Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas. Time travel is invented in the 1960s, quickly resulting in a time travel Agency. This novel explores a lot of facets of how such an Agency would function.
    • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (and its sequels). It’s excellent, but I’m struggling to describe it succinctly, so I’ll just quote from Goodreads

    A race for survival among the stars… Humanity’s last survivors escaped earth’s ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?

    • Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear (White Space series). Far-future salvage ship operators discover lost alien technology.




  • elephantium@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldAlternative to ClamAV?
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    Simple: Computers are not doors with locks. Antivirus is not a deadbolt, and IMO it’s really misleading to compare them. You’re trying to tell people in this thread that you need AV on Linux, against consensus, “because security”. I still don’t understand why you think it’s necessary. What’s your threat model? How does AV improve security on your servers in a way that a firewall doesn’t?



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    But would you put a deadbolt on your garage door? Or on your fridge door? IMO, arguing by analogy here just obfuscates the points – your servers aren’t physical doorways with locks, and comparing them just confuses the issue.

    Can you explain what added security an antivirus package would offer for a Linux server? I haven’t done much with Linux administration, mostly just using Docker images for stuff at work.

    I’m not a super Linux expert or anything, but I do grok tech, and I’m curious about this topic.