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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's detached from reality because you're just randomly chucking in some political terms you learned on reddit under an unrelated comment thinking it's some kind of slam-dunk.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Imagine your issue with .world being that it's too left-wing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Saudi is aligned with the US/west, and even if they weren't, multiple geopolitical powers can be oppressive at once, believe it or not.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I just write everything in vim, including raw html.

Not sure what your use case is, but if it's a static website you'd probably want a static site generator so you can write in markdown and then also include raw html for things that markdown can't represent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If no one's on any kind of private messaging platform, SimpleX is good and fairly easy to use. But I mostly use Signal just because everyone's on it.

Also consider your threat model; Signal is appropriate for just casual personal conversations, but it is centralised and not self-hostable. The servers are run by the Signal org who are based in the US. If the potential of message metadata (which can be used to eg create networks of who's messaging who) getting into the hands of the US state could create significant issues for you, you may want to at least find either a decentralised or self-hostable solution which is not so US-centric. I assume, though, since you're talking to these people on non-private platforms, that these are not super sensitive discussions anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Not at all. I don't eat eggs. Never knew the prices went up (beyond just general inflation) till I saw this post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

SMS 2FA is not secure, and I don't particularly care about the security of my bank account. I have a state threat model as a political organiser, a very real one given the arrests, raids, imprisonment, etc I and my comrades have faced, meanwhile I'm not aware of any rando civilians hellbent on stealing my money. And frankly I don't have that much money to steal anyway. If you're determined to get my sim card to log into my meagre bank account you probably need the money more than me.

I guess if you're that worried about SMS security you could get an esim and rely on device encryption to protect it. Wouldn't be the most secure thing in the world but at least it provides some protection, and if you buy an esim anonymously (e.g. with https://silent.link/) an attacker can't impersonate you to try get your sim card.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I've not responded to the majority of comments in this thread because I'd have nothing to add except "thanks", but here:

They're now starting to experience random corruptions that will sometimes compromise entire folders.

Er why haven't you bought new drives at that point??

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

I've not responded to the majority of comments in this thread because I'd have nothing to add except "thanks", but here:

They're now starting to experience random corruptions that will sometimes compromise entire folders.

Er why haven't you bought new drives at that point??

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

I've not responded to the majority of comments in this thread because I'd have nothing to add except "thanks", but here:

They're now starting to experience random corruptions that will sometimes compromise entire folders.

Er why haven't you bought new drives at that point??

 

It appears to work fine (it contains my home partition for my main machine I daily drive) and I haven't noticed signs of failure. Not noticeably slow either. I used to boot Windows off of it once upon a time which was incredibly slow to start up, but I haven't noticed slowness since using it for my home partition for my personal files.

Articles online seem to suggest the life expectancy for an HDD is 5–7 years. Should I be worried? How do I know when to get a new drive?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You don't need symlinks for games to work. You need a filesystem that supports Unix file permissions. I have my games spread out across two drives with ext4 partitions no problem, works out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You would be surprised at the incompetence of the surveillance state. I've known people subject to terrorism investigations by world superpowers where the state couldn't figure out the basic facts about that person's life, let alone find anything that may be helpful to prosecution. This kind of fearmongering only encourages people to not be cautious. Not that the extent of surveillance isn't terrifying, but at the other end of the table is just other human beings. All humans are fallible, including the ones who spy on us, and we can both outsmart and outmanoeuvre them if we're serious about it.

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I was interested in hosting my own mail server that provides a similar level of privacy for users as Protonmail, ie the server admin cannot read any emails, even those which are not E2EE with PGP. Is there a self-hostable solution to this?

I'm aware the server admin can't read emails that were sent encrypted using the user's PGP key, but most emails I get are automated emails from companies/services/etc without the option to upload a public key to send the user encrypted email. If you're with a service like Protonmail, the server admin still cannot read even these emails.

 

I don't own any controllers.

I started playing Dark Souls 3 which I now understand has a controller strongly recommended. I may as well just look into getting a controller of some kind as I have a few games that have somewhat janky kbm controls and are better enjoyed with a controller.

I just wanted to ask for general advice about what controller to get in terms of compatibility. Also if someone has made a controller that's more in the spirit of foss that also works fine with Steam and Proton games that would be nice?

I know Steam is pretty good with Playstation controllers and I used to use a PS controller (don't remember what generation) with some native Linux Steam games, not sure how the whole PS vs Xbox controller thing is affected by running games through Proton if at all? If it matters let me know, and I'll see if I can procure a controller for myself.

 

Hi, was wondering if anyone knew of an app where you can use your camera to scan documents (like Adobe Scan) which is FOSS.

 

You still have to pay for it because it costs money to make. But it's completely open-source beer so you can recreate it yourself if you don't want to buy it pre-made, or you want to modify the recipe.

I have no idea how to make beer otherwise I'd have a crack at this shitpost myself...

 

I've only ever used desktop Linux and don't have server admin experience (unless you count hosting Minecraft servers on my personal machine lol). Currently using Artix and Void for my desktop computers as I've grown fond of runit.

I'm going to get a VPS for some personal projects and am at the point of deciding what distro I want to use. While I imagine that systemd is generally the best for servers due to the far more widespread support (therefore it's better for the stability needs of a server), I have a somewhat high threat model compared to most people so I was wondering if maybe I should use something like runit instead which is much smaller and less vulnerable. Security needs are also the reason why I'm leaning away from using something like Debian, because how outdated the packages are would likely leave me open to vulnerabilities. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding any of that though.

Other than that I'm not sure what considerations there are to make for my server distro. Maybe a more mainstream distro would be more likely to have the software in its repos that I need to host my various projects. On the other hand, I don't have any experience with, say, Fedora, and it'd probably be a lot easier for me to stick to something I know.

In terms of what I want to do with the VPS, it'll be more general-purpose and hosting a few different projects. Currently thinking of hosting a Matrix instance, a Mastodon instance, a NextCloud instance, an SMTP server, and a light website, but I'm sure I'll want to stick more miscellaneous stuff on there too.

So what distro do you use for your server hosting? What things should I consider when picking a distro?

 

I use a 14px bitmap font as part of my system theme. It is set to display at 14px in my gtk theme which works for tabs, bookmarks, right-click menus, and other parts of Firefox UI, but the Firefox address bar doesn't seem to be the same size and is blurry.

How do I change the font size of the address bar? Is there an element I can target in userChrome?

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