Hey! Thanks for this. I’ve worked with Ubuntu and Debian but mostly work on Mac. I’m interested in going deeper into Linux distros and am completely fine with working from terminal. I’m just curious what exactly makes the Fedora and secureblue distros more difficult to understand how far I am from running a secure distro.
I think cops are just getting fucked over by dealers so they don’t know the real prices
I’ve read a lot about using a VPS with reverse proxy but I’m kind of a noob in that area. How exactly does that protect my machine? Couldn’t an attacker with access to the VPS still harm my local machine? Currently I’m just using a WireGuard tunnel to log into my server, from what I understand you’d tunnel the service from the VPS to the homeserver and then on the VPS URL you could watch right m?
And do I understand correctly that since we’re using the reverse proxy the possible attack surface just from finding the domain would be limited to the web interface of e.g. Jellyfin?
Sorry for the chaotic & potentially stupid questions, I’m just really a confused beginner in this area.
OP that’s a killer list of books you’ve read. IMO you have a point. To all the people who say that you’d be alienated from watching old movies, that method acting is important and that special effects of the last 20 years are what makes it different, idk. It really depends on what you’re looking for.
Hitchcock movies or the stuff with Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, even the super racist Italo Western movies, the very old Kubrick stuff, that’s all great cinema.
I’m as left wing as it gets but I also get very alienated by the “diversity” and “feminism“ modern Hollywood & Netflix cinema. It’s the same type of diversity and feminism that exists in corporate, where there is diversity in terms of ethnicity and sexuality, but only within class. It’s a fictional world to me the same way the old movies are, just done by a different bunch of people living in their own world.
There’s still some good cinema and good shows out there every now and then, but to think old movies can’t compete with modern TV & cinema just because they’re old is a very simplistic take.
AppleTV is smooth but as others pointed out you shouldn’t trust their claims that they’re private. They’re probably more private than e.g. Google out of the box, but not an actual privacy company.
Side note: in case you’re an Apple user and you weren’t aware of this, you can make it a bit better by obtaining your private key so that you have actual E2EE and you can add hardware keys for 2FA which makes it more secure. Of course this should be the bare minimum but it’s nice that they support these things out of the box.
Regarding metadata: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651#:~:text=This metadata is always encrypted,Advanced Data Protection is enabled.
Maybe it’s worth checking if you’re okay with what kind of metadata they’re processing.
Don’t ever mention Winnie the Pooh
No porn and drugs but „free speech“? Yeah right, no thanks. If my account on mastodon gets banned on an instance I go somewhere else.
Of course if fediverse becomes too centralized the couple instances left might just defederate from everyone else, but OTOH what protects me from a couple individuals downvoting me into oblivion on Bastyon?
They’re both decentralized in their own way but communities have to fight against malicious actors that attack the decentralization.
Typical politician, identifies the problem only to draw the absolute wrong conclusion.
Lmao great find. Academic publishing companies are absolute parasites btw, Libgen did the world a favor
Nah mega upload is nice but he’s a piece of shit and always has been.
I‘m referring to them handing over the data to law enforcement of the US and other unknown governments.
What exactly they hand over I can’t tell you, it might be harmless. In the case that they revealed they used push notifications data to identify a pedophile who was using some encrypted messaging service. I hope he gets what he deserves but for us it means we shouldn’t trust anything that uses Apple‘s or Google‘s push notification servers.
Yeah I know about Molly etc., but the point is, no one I know is going to degoogle their phone and use that. It would be easier if they’d just use a more private, decentralized app that also doesn’t ask for a phone number ffs.
I think that’s really cool. Unfortunately most people won’t be doing that, they don’t even care that WhatsApp, etc. are scraping all their data :(
Oh boi I’m trying to get people to use simplex exactly because of this. I managed to bring most people to Signal and they’re cool with it because it just works, but I don’t trust them at all. Sure there was this court order where they didn’t have any user data except account created date and last active date, but since almost everybody uses either Google‘s or Apple‘s push notification servers turns out that doesn’t matter so much from what I undertstood.
another core.js story. Read that dude’s story.
Was referring to this part of the top level comment. The maintainer of core.js posted his story on his GitHub page, really fucked up shit that I can’t even summarize adequately.
I just read the story of the core.js guy and it’s absolutely heartbreaking, makes me think I was smart to abandon any FOSS projects I was involved in even though I’m sad about it
I don’t like the crowd they cater to but in my heart I’m forever 9 years old and I want to keep my @loves.dicksinhisan.us email address
Ok fuck them I hadn’t seen the removed domains
Looks like my telegram dealer has opened up a VPN provider startup, very weird aesthetics. Can’t say anything about the product though, I guess it’s good to have more competition in the market?
Yeah the device limit is annoying. I switched to AirVPN when Mullvad stopped doing port forwarding and it’s been fine so far. But you’d run into the same issue with the device limit.
I’m not a network expert so I honestly don’t know the difference between the two protocols enough to say that they’re any benefit of one over the other, but there might be a reason that WireGuard is becoming the default? Idk honestly.
Anyway, AirVPN still suports port forwarding and supports OpenVPN so might be an alternative for you. They don’t do security audits which is imo sketchy and makes me question if they are honest about their no logs policy, but otoh they have been around for a long time and there hasn’t been any incidence, which makes me think they’re probably good enough for torrenting.
Why not use a qbittorrent WireGuard one?
No I get that, thanks a lot for explaining! I work with a bunch of other stuff where help is mostly also only available on discord so that’s fine.
I really need to read into the whole Android stuff more. I know privacy and security are different topics, it’s just a weird thing to wrap my head around that Android would be the most secure option.
Another issue is that for what I’m doing I need to rent VPSes and there you’re already quite limited as to what you can run on them, probably Android wouldn’t be an option right? And let’s say I want to deploy some apps there would this work on Android out of the box? I know it’s Linux under the hood I’m just not really deep into the more advanced Linux stuff tbh.