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This page lists some of the changes I make to a vanilla install of FreeBSD for security hardening. Some changes to increase network performance or make things a bit more more sane are also included. It only covers basic changes that a sysadmin can make to a running system.

Python’s requests package is very popular. Even if you don’t use it directly, it’s highly likely one of your dependencies does.

One wrinkle in requests’ design is that it has no default timeout. This means that requests can hang forever if the remote server doesn’t respond, unless the author remembered to add a timeout. Issue #3070 tracks the discussion on adding such a default timeout, but it has been open several years. httpx learned a lesson from this and it has default timeout of five seconds.

Since I joined Charm, I’ve been working and learning more about SSH, and I thought I would share a few quick tips and tricks with you.