When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
The problem with a threat model is that higher threat models are plainly dismissed by the community. For example, if your threat model is to escape the NSA, it doesn't matter if you're using a burner over TAILS to post this message, you will be dismissed.
The problem is not the tech, it's the community that doesn't want to engage
Except that forums are exactly the best place to talk about (at least in theory) better OPSEC practices. Crowd-sourced knowledge is fairly good in technical spheres, even if they try to influence it
I torrent to a seedbox, and said seedbox has great access tools and you can install plenty of useful applications like Resilio Sync, Syncthing, etc....
Do they offer multi-region replication of storage? This stuff is fairly important to me and I've not exactly heard of BuyVM in the same league for Cloud storage providers like AWS, BackBlaze and Cloudflare
Hi, I was planning to encrypt my files with GPG for safety before uploading them to the cloud. However, from what I understand GPG doesn't pad files/do much to prevent file fingerprinting. I was looking around for a way to reliably pad files and encrypt metadata for them but couldn't find anything. Haven't found any...
I also have media and other binary blobs which I'd like to archive in an encrypted fashion, will GPG suffice? ChatGPT mentioned OpenSSL for this but I'm not sure where that's taking me.
I'm using rclone, do you recommend I run borg on top of it to encrypt said files? And does borg explicitly do what I'm trying to achieve? I'm going to take a look at the documentation, thanks
Is there no way to encrypt the metadata of files using GPG? And how do people pad their files to prevent fingerprinting? Surely I'm not the first person to be asking about this? I haven't had much luck searching online
It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community....
This is a woefully underpowered laptop I got for free! I'm working to make it into a secure portable machine (since it does support secureboot & TPM-backed disk encryption) to take on the go that I don't fear losing. This is mostly for doing programming & study, on stuff that doesn't require high-performances, so the 2 gigs of...
Not having an opt-out toggle should definitely be a cause of concern. Not everyone is running Debian just for the FOSS-only firmware, but there's definitely a sizeable number of people doing so. Letting the user choose whether they want to install proprietary firmware or not is absolutely an important choice.
This is assuming there really isn't an opt-out somewhere in the install menu.
Edit: it may be that I am running something without FOSS drivers for it. I happened to forget about it. So what? I'd rather it not run (unless it's critical), and I definitely want to be prompted that a proprietary driver is recommended to run the specific device because no FOSS driver is available. Not doing so is taking away my choice in the matter, and if Debian is really doing that, then I will personally have to rethink my options, including my donations
StartOS facilitates the entire process of discovering, installing, configuring, and using any variety of open-source software from anywhere in the world without trusting anyone.
Ubuntu has too many problems for me to want to run it. However, it has occurred to me that there aren't a lot of distros that are like the Ubuntu LTS....
I thought I'd take the opportunity to share a Bash script I made to automate ripping music off CUE/BIN files. It splits BINs into separate files, so it's 1 file per track, and strips pregap data, encodes audio tracks to FLAC or Ogg Vorbis, and it also generates new CUE sheets....
I'd like to be able to contribute financially to people/communities who run infrastructure, such as nodes, for layers like I2P and Freenet. Where do I find them, and does contributing directly to the projects themselves help in this regard?...
Halp! Calibrating touchscreen on Panasonic CF-30
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12310804...
Is Privacy Worth It? ( blog.thenewoil.org )
When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
Syncing local server with seedbox
I torrent to a seedbox, and said seedbox has great access tools and you can install plenty of useful applications like Resilio Sync, Syncthing, etc....
TIL about the utility "Smokeless_UMAF" That lets you access advanced BIOS options on AMD-based systems. ( github.com )
What is it?...
[Repost] Reliable alternatives to AWS Deep Glacier for ~5TB?
Hi everyone,...
How to randomly pad files before encryption to prevent file fingerprinting?
Hi, I was planning to encrypt my files with GPG for safety before uploading them to the cloud. However, from what I understand GPG doesn't pad files/do much to prevent file fingerprinting. I was looking around for a way to reliably pad files and encrypt metadata for them but couldn't find anything. Haven't found any...
[ META ] What is the community's opinion of Pop!_OS?
It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community....
[dwl] hacking together a search engine on a work-in-progress setup :3 ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
This is a woefully underpowered laptop I got for free! I'm working to make it into a secure portable machine (since it does support secureboot & TPM-backed disk encryption) to take on the go that I don't fear losing. This is mostly for doing programming & study, on stuff that doesn't require high-performances, so the 2 gigs of...
General Availability of AlmaLinux 9.4 Stable! ( almalinux.org )
Sovereign Computing | Start9 ( start9.com )
StartOS facilitates the entire process of discovering, installing, configuring, and using any variety of open-source software from anywhere in the world without trusting anyone.
I found a beautiful alternative to MusicBee (audio manager & player)! ( lemmy.sdf.org )
Link: https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/...
European Law Enforcement Officials Declare Encryption Must Be Broken To Ensure Public Safety ( www.techdirt.com )
from the less-safety-equals-more-safety,-say-EuroCops dept
Digital surveillance is omnipresent in China. Here’s how citizens are coping ( theconversation.com )
So now what distro are we running for LTS desktops?
Ubuntu has too many problems for me to want to run it. However, it has occurred to me that there aren't a lot of distros that are like the Ubuntu LTS....
YouTube could roll out ads while videos are paused after “strong traction” in experiment - Dexerto ( www.dexerto.com )
A Bash script to rip music off CUE/BIN files ( lemmy.ml )
I thought I'd take the opportunity to share a Bash script I made to automate ripping music off CUE/BIN files. It splits BINs into separate files, so it's 1 file per track, and strips pregap data, encodes audio tracks to FLAC or Ogg Vorbis, and it also generates new CUE sheets....
Exclusive: New Google Pixel 8a Renders Leak with 7 years of Security Updates & More ( www.androidheadlines.com )
Can someone explain to me the brief process used to create the meta-pine64 minimal image here? ( github.com )
publication croisée depuis : https://lemmy.world/post/14573897...
Can someone explain to me the brief process used to create the meta-pine64 minimal image here? ( github.com )
publication croisée depuis : https://lemmy.world/post/14573897...
NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden ( cointelegraph.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14393091...
Donate to people/communities who run I2P/TOR/Freenet infrastructure?
I'd like to be able to contribute financially to people/communities who run infrastructure, such as nodes, for layers like I2P and Freenet. Where do I find them, and does contributing directly to the projects themselves help in this regard?...
Can one use a pre-paid debit card with privacy.com?
Has anyone tried this?