Genius is as genius does: always as a degenerate

It was a grand idea: to fork the rotting corpse of PFSense and to rebrand it as OpnSense. So far so good.

Unfortunately, as genius developers always do, they overdid it. The web developer of OpnSense admin UI is a degenerate as are those who hired and appointed him/her/it. What's up? It's the design, baby.

As a home router, OpnSense is Okay.

As an enterprise router/firewall, it is not.

The problem is its architecture, whereby most of the processing is done on the client browser, in JavaScript, i.e. painfully slow. The worst piece is their alias editing screen. Their genius web developer decided to tokenize IP addresses and subnets as well as all other content. The tokenization code is slow and uses up lots of memory.

How slow you might ask? It takes up to half an hour to edit large aliases. Even after the alias content is saved, one has to apply the change, and that takes additional half an hour. One hour to do a simplest of tasks, for crying out loud. And when one tries to edit another alias after that, it's another half an hour because they failed to finalize something and dispose of memory or something along those lines. Genius!

Bottom line is that genius is as genius does: always as a degenerate.

Why do I not bring it up? Because they are genius, and as all geniuses they are very touchy to the point of becoming enraged and hostile from every bug report. Some tried, and I've seen the dev's reaction, so I am staying out of it and still using my trusty old F5. Fuck the FOSS.

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