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kibwenlast Saturday at 2:57 PM4 repliesview on HN

If you don't have root access to your machine, it's not your machine.

If you don't have root access to the machine your data is on, it's not your data.


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fragmedelast Sunday at 8:46 AM

If you're a scientist at an institution, why would you need root on the cephs or whatever storage system?

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bobimlast Saturday at 3:34 PM

Brillant, I'm stealing it.

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jama211last Sunday at 4:55 AM

And Linus himself mostly just stores data on the cloud. At the end of the day, practicality matters.

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