lemmyreader

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[Question] Securely Passing Host VPN to KVM?

I've attempted to create a VM on my ubuntu host machine that is accessing the internet via a dedicated VPN app. I'm able to disconnect my host VPN and access the web within the VM, but cannot access the web when the host VPN is enabled. Ideally I'd like to enable the VPN on the host and pass through web access to the VM....

lemmyreader ,

The moment your VPN app starts it will change gateway and name servers for your host. If the virtual NIC of your VM is bridged with your host I would expect it to work fine for the VM. Is this with KVM or Qemu or VirtualBox or something else ? How is networking configured ?

lemmyreader ,

Try Linux Mint.

lemmyreader ,

If you want to test several Linux distributions Ventoy can be useful. You can have 10 or more different Linux distributions on one USB stick depending on the size of the stick. This will also save you time "flashing" an image iso to the stick each time because with Ventoy you'd simply copy the image iso files to the stick, quick and easy.

https://www.ventoy.net

lemmyreader ,

the two you suggested though are US based though.

Disroot is in Europe.

lemmyreader ,

Proton is the only one I know of who takes mailed cash.

Proton accepts payments via postal mail you mean ? Posteo and mailbox.org do that.

lemmyreader OP ,

Thanks! They have indeed several blog articles about that. Here's a few :

lemmyreader ,

https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/112401461102514792 May 07, 2024, 19:29

The name/address of the terrorism suspect was actually given to police by Apple, not Proton. The terror suspect added their real-life Apple email as an optional recovery address in Proton Mail. Proton can't decrypt data, but in terror cases Swiss courts can obtain recovery email.

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    lemmyreader ,

    • According to this WiFi should work with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64 Bit Did you install 24.04 or 22.04 ?

    • I'd expect most USB devices to work out of the box. Did you try : sudo dhclient ?

    Easiest is probably to perform an installation that comes with a GUI. If the default Ubuntu installation iso is too large, there's for example Lubuntu.

    lemmyreader ,

    Agree about nmtui. Nice tool.

    How are companies or developers supposed to make a full time living with OSI opensourced projects? ( opensource.org )

    There has been a lot of talk about companies and individuals adopting licenses that aren't OSI opensource to protect themselves from mega-corp leechers. Developers have also been condemned who put donation notices in the command-line or during package installation. Projects with opensource cores and paid extensions have also...

    lemmyreader ,

    Three examples of open source software where at least one developer could give up their regular job and work full-time on the open source project. I'm sure there's more (The Linux kernel maybe ?) :

    In both cases possible because of people donating. The last example is quite remarkable given the personal history of the developer and the fact that it was "just" a fun project with the developer sharing videos about programming for the fun project.

    lemmyreader ,

    https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/

    lemmyreader ,

    Long time ago Riseup, focused on activists, required two invite codes, probably to avoid abuse. They've relaxed it with asking for only one invite code. You should imho not be asking for invite codes on the Internet but ask your activist friends or read this : https://support.riseup.net/en/knowledgebase/1-accounts/docs/13-how-do-i-get-an-account

    lemmyreader ,

    Disroot stopped using RainLoop long time ago when people became aware of a security bug in RainLoop and the fact that the RainLoop project appeared to be dormant. I think Disroot switched to SnappyMail, and then to Roundcube.

    lemmyreader ,

    Apparently it’s (by default) everything that doesn’t explicitly specify a license (especially a FOSS one) within the javascript code of the page, which is a ridiculously huge portion of JS on the internet.

    It is never to late to start something and make people aware of problems and as far as I am concerned not only about software licenses but JavaScript as a security problem.

    Would Lemmy Benefit from Implementing Polls? ( slrpnk.net )

    A popular way of dealing with discussions, and familiar to most people, I assume. As far as I see it, adding a poll system to Lemmy is a good way to enhance user engagement. I'm not really aware if this has been a topic before or not, tried looking it up but didn't see much juice on the topic, so thought I'd spark it up....

    lemmyreader ,

    I'd welcome polls implementation on Lemmy but maybe this is difficult with federation ? I wouldn't mind instance only polls.

    lemmyreader OP ,

    https://forum.aux.computer/t/the-future-of-nixcpp-lix/483

    The announcement resolves one of my last fears for Aux: development on Nix itself. It is no secret that the number of people knowledgeable about the project and are willing to work on this CPP codebase is small. You have probably seen me mention multiple times by now that @sig_cli needs all of the help that we can get. Lix resolves this entirely with a trusted team of experts. This means that Aux is now able to remove Nix development from our priorities and can instead collaborate with Lix moving forward.

    lemmyreader ,

    There used to be wicd as alternative for NM but its development is stalled. There is ConnMan though with apparently GUI and TUI options :

    lemmyreader , (edited )

    According to this Samba 4.16 removed the support for the old SMB1 Protocol.

    Looking here : https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=samba you can see the difference between Jammy and Noble : 4.15 -> 4.19 So it looks like you're out of luck with fast and easy solutions. Maybe downloading the older Samba package and its dependencies and downgrade and then put the package on "hold" is maybe possible. During such an attempt using aptitude instead of apt could be helpful.

    kbal , to Linux
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    Update available! This version is very old.

    Xscreensaver has apparently been checking for updates and is disappointed that it hasn't had one for 14 months because Debian is too stable. Can anyone recommend a linux screensaver which would work with xfce and can be trusted to never do that?

    lemmyreader ,

    https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#upgrade

    lemmyreader ,

    Well, if you read some more of jwz's blog posts about the horrible security bugs that others have added while creating derivatives of Xscreensaver you might think twice before doing so. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition For me a screensaver is no longer about trying to prevent dead pixels (or something like that) but being able to safely lock the screen when being away from it for a while.

    lemmyreader OP ,

    Dillo browser's original project goal was to provide a web browser for people with slow Internet connection.

    Here some screenshots of Dillo browser on a phone and how the developer did that :

    lemmyreader OP , (edited )

    Stunning - EDIT: The Android and Dillo browser part I meant!

    lemmyreader OP , (edited )

    The screen shot has a document Xubuntu -> Chicago95 open which appears to be related to this :

    lemmyreader OP ,

    https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/dc483fe8-5441-4703-a932-b2668cdacf7a.jpeg

    • Thanks for the reminder!
    lemmyreader ,

    OP was banned. Time to move on.

    lemmyreader ,

    I prefer to use debs (apt) for most packages and just a few Flatpaks. Avoiding snaps (Among others because I find the Snap Store too messy) and I do not bother with AppImages. But if you (OP) would need certain software that is only available as AppImage then go it.

    lemmyreader ,

    No need to have an account.
    https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=riseup

    lemmyreader ,

    um I don’t use a vpn. Please tell me why I should use a VPN.

    It is up to you to use a VPN or not. Some people use a VPN to watch regular TV series which are blocked in their own country. Some people, like myself, despise the ad- and tracking- exploitation industry, other people may want to download e-books from anna's archive or simply do not trust their ISP. Other people live in countries where their government is very oppressive and intends to arrest and torture any critical voices.

    I have nothing to hide.

    Reminds me of : "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

    Recommended viewing : https://piped.video/results?search_query=Shoshana+Zuboff

    lemmyreader , (edited )

    Good that you mentioned that. Reminded me that I have an Arch Linux install here where I forgot that I did choose BTRFS during installation. Within maybe a month I noticed FS errors. Looked scary. Nervously searching for documentation was even more scary :

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/btrfs#btrfs_check -> This article or section is out of date. (Discuss in Talk:Btrfs)
    Warning: Since Btrfs is under heavy development, especially the btrfs check command,
    it is highly recommended to create a backup and consult btrfs-check(8) before
    executing btrfs check with the --repair switch.

    What is this? My beloved Arch Wiki is not 100% perfect!

    Then found this :

    WARNING: Using '--repair' can further damage a filesystem instead of helping if it can't fix your particular issue.

    Warning

    Do not use --repair unless you are advised to do so by a developer or an experienced
    user, and then only after having accepted that no fsck successfully repair all types
    of filesystem corruption. E.g. some other software or hardware bugs can fatally damage
    a volume.

    I figure this explains the popularity of BTRFS snapshot configurations.
    Luckily I had some backups :)

    lemmyreader ,

    Note that ext4 is damn old

    Hmm ? Linux kernel is way older than ext4. And before ext4 there was ext3 and ext2. Linux users also have the choice of using XFS file system and for IT persons working for corporations XFS can have some advantages. Let's see, XFS was born in 1993.

    more modern ones like btrfs or bcachefs

    Years ago I thought that bcachecfs looked interesting but last thing I read about it this year was not very promising regarding reliability. Not sure whether it was in comments on Lemmy but here I found something from Linus himself : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcachefs#Stability

    lemmyreader ,

    That reminds me : Last time I tried Garuda Linux it came with a local Whoogle instance.

    lemmyreader ,

    It can be, but for that, I would rather recommend Aurora or Bluefin. They are almost the same, but without gaming stuff.

    Both links in your comment rendered invalid. Providing the correct links for other readers, based on the README from https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin :

    lemmyreader ,

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_flash_installation_medium#Using_ventoy

    Note: archlinux-2024.05.01-x86_64.iso should be run in GRUB2 mode to work. See Ventoy issue #2825.

    lemmyreader ,

    Guess only North-Americans will worry about PixelFeds names :-)

    lemmyreader ,

    Mastodon is about micro-blogging, with text, images and videos. PixelFed is only about images which can have a short or longer description. There's Loops, a work in progress, which will enable short videos for PixelFed. If you would follow others on PixelFed from your PixelFed account you'd only see images.

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