What is the goal, exactly, and what is your threat/trust model?

FYI: CUPS was recently outed as extremely insecure and irrevocably broken by design. So if you’re not actively printing, it’s probably best to uninstall it.

I have found that it often takes a very long time for Tor to build a circuit (bootstrap) using obfs4, because of what seems to be difficulty finding bridges.

It’s about time! That’s good news for other rare, overpriced DVDs of popular movies and shows. The secondary market for Dogma was (is?) wild.

Every now and then this question comes up. It’s a timeless software engineering conundrum. Kind of like how med students might start to think they have all kinds of diseases and conditions because they’re learning all these symptoms.

Software engineers, especially new ones, tend to be heavily biased toward applying technical solutions to non-technical problems. Most never actually grow out of this.

I’ll advise what I advise every time someone approaches me or one of my peer groups with this very question:

Get yourself a notebook and a pen.

I’m dead serious, not trolling, and not some kind of technophobe zealot.

When it comes down to it, if you let go of what you think you need in a to-do list app, you’ll find that what you actually need is much simpler.

Notebooks are e2e encrypted. Self hosted. Offline. As ephemeral as you like. Indexable for search. Versatile. Take a picture of a page if you really want to. OCR it if you need to.

Pen and paper.

Tor comes packaged with torify which you can prefix any CLI command with to have it route through Tor and resolve onion sites properly.

No, you’re not looking to understand. You’re looking to persuade.

Can’t close your account or request deletion of your data, either. Same thing happened to me.

love it.

Seems like something you may need to change in Transmission’s configuration, somewhere. Because it’s Transmission that is redirecting you and what you want is for that redirect to include the uri prefix.

Otherwise, I see two options:

• use a regex location block and match against all expected patterns
• use a dedicated subdomain (i.e: server block) for this (each) service you want to proxy and just proxy all traffic to that domain with a root location block.

The latter is what I would do.

https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017

General advice from EFF. A bit dated, but much of what I would have advised is here.

SSH is all you need. You can clone directly from one .git directory to another.

e.g

git remote add desktop git@desktop:project/.git
git push desktop main --set-upstream

Not sure if you realize how derogatory this comes across.

To me, the single biggest argument against LLMs and generative AI is this:

It is a technology whose sole purpose, by design, is to persuade humans to accept what it has produced, with no regard for correctness. Bottom line, that’s mechanically how the technology works. An automated grifter, thief, liar, and manipulator.

And it’s so disturbingly effective and in widespread use that our very sense of reality and truth under attack.

The way this comment is written doesn’t sound anything like the OP or the GitHub issue. Different tone, different dialect/spelling… lot of linguistic red flags. Not that I’m judging either way, it’s just suspicious how vastly different they are.

In years past, I’ve used Elasticsearch and Kibana. The learning curve is steep and the system resource requirements warrant a dedicated machine, but once you get it dialed, it’s really effective as a centralized logging server.

Prometheus and Grafana are for time-series data (metrics), not logs. If you’re already getting that from netdata, don’t bother with these, as they’d be redundant with what you have.

syslog is about as idiomatic as it gets for log management in linux, but i don’t have enough experience using it effectively to give any pointers there. If you don’t really know what you want, yet, and just want to collect logs from all the things and see them in one place so you can begin to try and make sense of them and make refinements from there, then syslog seems like an excellent place to start.

I’ve installed Debian Linux on over 50 devices by now. A vanilla configuration with GNOME works pretty much out of the box for me on a high-end desktop with a modern NVIDIA graphics card.

I’d say the biggest part of the learning curve is figuring out which apps are good and suitable for what you’re trying to do. Just like with Windows and macOS and Android and iOS, there’s only a handful of viable options among an overwhelming sea of poor ones.

There are many wrong ways to install NVIDIA on any given Linux distro and architecture, and only one functional way. As others here are saying, that’s on NVIDIA, not you or Linux.

General advice: whenever possible, strongly prefer your distro’s standard package manager to install things over any other method. With Ubuntu, I believe that’s either apt or snap.

Also: if you find yourself poking around in some obscure system internals while troubleshooting an issue, you probably took a wrong turn somewhere.

As someone who was recently fired for, among other things, being a stick in the mud about AI, I have some thoughts.

Try not to take work too seriously.

I drew a picture of Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force saying, “It don’t matter. None of this matters.” and put that by my monitor in my office. Whenever I started to feel activated about some bullshit, I just glanced over at Carl. It calmed me down to be reminded that my real job is to simply not lose the job.

It’s a very bad time to be unemployed and anti-AI right now. Just tread lightly, ride out the storm, and let the inevitable reckoning eventually come to pass.

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If you’re using Gmail, and you’re considering alternatives for privacy reasons, then 100% without a doubt, objectively and unequivocably, Proton is the better choice of the two.

There are other email providers with privacy assurances, and yes, you can self-host, but don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good.

To address the trustworthiness of Proton directly: I’ve been a Proton user for about 10 years. It gets the job done. I have complaints, but privacy is not among them.