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zaggynlon I help seniors with technology issues

I would immediately reinstall a just bought laptop from scratch, as in through a Windows/Linux ISO, not through their own recovery, especially from Lenovo, they have been caught with Superfish adware/malware before:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/02/19/super... https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/ps500066-s...

zaggynlon Ask HN: Good private email host with IMAP?

https://disroot.org/en/services/email

zaggynlon Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

There's https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

zaggynlon PipeWire: A year in review and a look ahead

Yeah it's awesome, if only nomachine(https://www.nomachine.com/, MS Remote Desktop alternative) would add support for it, that or I missed something to get it to work.

zaggynlon Element Matrix Services Announces Element Home

The terms of service are interesting:

> This agreement does not apply to Matrix servers run by anyone else - Matrix is an open network like the Web and this agreement only applies to the server provisioned by the Customer and provided by Element.

What do other Matrix servers matter to my hypothetical Element Home server or my selfhosted matrix-synapse server?

>The Customer must ensure that all Authorised Users are at least 16 (sixteen) years old to use both our Hosting and Communication Services or such greater age required in their country to register for or use our Hosting and Communication Services.

So no using it with your younger family or school for example?

I appreciate a service being offered but would prefer a solution that enables an out of the box package for self hosted consumer NAS systems. Maybe something to provide dyndns, a domain and a quick setup.

zaggynlon Raspberry Pi as x2go “thin” client

Site died, mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20210123100731/http:/www.multi-s...

zaggynlon Donate to Signal

Technically, yes, but you'll be limited to people connecting to your own Signal server from what I've read.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

zaggynlon Poll: Switching from WhatsApp

matrix-synapse(server) suffers from performance issues[1], dendrite[2], the replacement should be resolving that but is currently in beta.

Apart from that it integrates fairly well with other networks through bridges.[3]

It can be self hosted and it federates, which is a pro. Not too sure about audits and security, it has improved much, when I started using it (2019) they didn't have login throttling[4] and shortly after that were breached.[5] Much has improved since.

[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is...

[2] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/server/dendrite

[3] https://matrix.org/bridges/

[4] https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1452

[5] https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/83751/data-breach/matri...

zaggynlon ProcMon for Linux

Neat, I already use fatrace on Linux but hurray for more tools.

zaggynlon Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

Learned something new today, thanks.

zaggynlon Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

Try commenting 共匪 on any youtube video, the comment will be deleted after ~15 seconds

zaggynlon Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam

Generally yes, I only wish the VR mods¹ worked on Linux.

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/virtualreality/comments/egccp8/valv...

zaggynlon PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns

Announcement: https://web.archive.org/web/20181109070719/https://snoonet.o...

Original link appears to 404 for some reason: https://snoonet.org/updates/56-snoonet-joins-the-privateinte...

ycombinator article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14101538

zaggynlon Linux Desktop Setup

Cool setup, being able to mold your Linux desktop into what you need is a good thing!

I'm happy on Ubuntu LTS with a couple PPAs for latest mesa and some other applications.

More recreational though, gaming through Steam's Proton or Lutris, big thanks to Valve for sponsoring wine, dxvk an various other bits and pieces!

zaggynlon The F-106A That Flew Itself – After the Pilot Ejected, Landing Gently in a Field

Clickbait.

zaggynlon Completely Silent Computer

Since Linux 4.15, AMD GPU support is in kernel, can't say the same for Nvidia. That said, Nvidia's proprietary drivers still do better than AMD's drivers.

zaggynlon OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS

Send me a DMCA request, I'll take them offline, like Google and other websites do.

Does OpenBazaar do this? Probably not.

Are all these people anonymous on IPFS?

Probably somewhat because they're behind VPNs or proxies, at least that's what I hope they do if they're offering things like above.

Will this stop law enforcement?

No, it will not: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/08/vpn_logs_helped_unm...

zaggynlon OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS

I found most of those: https://i.imgur.com/KKRM5if.jpg

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zaggynlon Disabling the Intel Management Engine

In short, the Intel Management Engine and AMD Platform Security Processor, which are on many motherboards, allow for remote power on and remote control of a PC if connected to Ethernet, are closed source and have known vulnerabilities.[1] This website has a more elaborate explanation: https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel [1]: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec...

zaggynlon Chromium: FTP resources will be marked “Not Secure”

Owncloud/Nextcloud has WebDAV support as well, though that's not great either I guess :/

zaggynlon Show HN: Boot Windows 10 Directly into Linux Desktop of Choice

Cool but appears to be broken, when starting the configurator for the first time, the registry keys don't exist and it fails silently.

Issue here: https://github.com/NathanCastle/BootShellCredentialProvider/...

zaggynlon Gmail – some users being signed out of their accounts unexpectedly

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

>10:44

>Visited Sign in using backup codes - Accounts Help

I don't recall signing in using backup codes..

Nothing odd appears in https://myaccount.google.com/notifications?pli%3D1

zaggynlon Warzone 2100: A Free and Open Source Real-Time Strategy Game

http://www.openomf.org/

zaggynlon Timer-Tab

Neat, there's also: http://e.ggtimer.com/10 minutes

zaggynlon TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging

To get back on this, this might be only the Windows client, just had latest qTox idling on Linux overnight and network data usage is 1.3MB.

zaggynlon TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging

Does it still use 1GB of network traffic per day when idle?

zaggynlon A tiny PC as a router

Based on SUSE/openSUSE I think, their manual/wiki mentions selecting SUSE/openSUSE when creating a VM for Sophos UTM.

zaggynlon A tiny PC as a router

Those tiny PCs are nice for projects like this, I use a Jetway JBC373F38-525-B with Sophos UTM.

Why not using anything with a GUI like pfsense or Sophos UTM?

zaggynlon LXQt 0.11 Released

Thanks for all the work, love Plasma on openSUSE Tumbleweed so far, keep going!

zaggynlon Ubuntu LTS updating failing all over the world

This is why you wait for a service pack or point release before using a new version of an OS.