I am looking to buy a new mini PC home server and I want to be able to pass through my iGPU and NIC to different VMs. Where can I find a well-maintained database of IOMMU groups so that I can pick a good match for my needs?...
I can understand why all the other things would be listed here, and I would understand if sexuality in general was considered inappropriate for children, but why homosexuality in particular? This is strange to me....
Man, I forgot what it was called, but once I was on the website of some batshit paranoid linux / bsd distro, which had a list of argument for why they removed certain packages.
It definitely seemed like the maintainers were reading the source, but some of the arguments were also really out there.
Hope somebody can remind me of what it was called.
Package has different security-issues and is not oriented on the way of technical emancipation as Hyperbola is trying to adapt lightweight implementations.
It sounds like something chatGPT would hallucinate.
I’ve been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I’ve given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It’s unreal how strict the requirements are now....
Your VPS has an ip. All your traffil will go through it if you set it up as a VPN. So your behaviour patterns will be tied to that one IP. You will be the only one on that VPN.
A commercial VPN has many users at the same time on a given Server. So the traffic and behaviour that comes from that servers IP will produce garbage data for analysis.
You could selfhost a VPN on your VPS and let others use it for free somehow to obfuscate your behaviour and patterns, but you as the VPS owner will have to deal with legal stuff then.
By the way, the earlier posted article restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data… had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary
Read the blog by the guy behind cock.li , he refused multiple illegitimate warrants so far.
What matters is the jurisdiction of the service, not the one of the warrant author, otherwise china would have already warranted all data of all other world citizens lol
That is true. But I wasn’t debating about this specific case, but rather the generalized statement.
The comment I replied to implies “If there is a warrant, it is always legitimate and you have to follow it, because a lawyer said so”. That is not true and if it were the world would quickly go to shit, which I pointed out.
I don’t think it applies here, but I’d like to tell you my perspective in case you find it interesting anyway.
I am a developer and I often need relatively new versions of everything dev related.
Contrary to popular belief - I had the best experience in regards to stability with archlinux. I have it installed both on a PC (when I need to do some Blender or heavy Photoshop work) and on a thin and light Laptop (for a flexible work space and stuff on the go) - and I use both about 50/50 of the time.
To be fair, I am knoledgable in the Linux user libs/apps space and it took a lot of knowledge to set everything up in a reliable way just the way I want and need it. I’d say arch is extremely customizabe and there exists a narrow path where you can make it pretty reliable, but there are also many sidepaths which can be unreliable and break often.
After setting it up though, my maintenance times for archlinux were significantly lower than each of the following
Windows (Going to ~30 different websites weekly to check for new releases and manually downloading and installing them)
Mac (homebrew constantly breaking dependencies)
Debian/Ubuntu (which I was upgrading to the newest release every 6 months and it was a PAIN)
But also take this with a grain of salt, because my so. also has a pretty similar arch linux setup on similar hardware and they have more issues than I do and we don’t really know why :D
Search for the Distro or Laptop you want and chrck the user reports for the other factors. I noticed that some Laptops work better with some distros than others so lock the factor that is more important to you.
For distro stability, something others have not mentioned:
Zorin OS has a pay once option where allegedly everything just works. Maybe thats interesting to consider as an option.
There is archinstall now, which is pretty easy to use and usually just works. I recently used it again and it took me about an hour from start to fully installed, running arch with all the packages I need.
If you try again, make sure to use btrfs filesystem and set up snapper and bootable snapshots. That way you can always recover from a fuckup in a minute.
Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. But new research suggests this is a dangerous assumption when connecting to a VPN via an untrusted network, because attackers on the same network could force a target’s traffic off of the protection...
Huh? I thought the whole point of a VPN is to encrypt all traffic between my PC and the VPN server. Please be so kind and educate me on anything I have a misconception of:
For example, I use Safing Portmaster and I have set it up in a way where all the packets have to go through their VPN and if they don’t, they get dropped before they leave my PC.
Before that I was running openvpn with a killswitch, which I thought besically did the same, it had a tunnel to the VPN server and if it is down, no packet leaves the PC.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I think I get it now!
I did look into it with ip route show when using nothing vs portmaster vs openvpn and it is just like you said, when using openVPN it just creates additional routes with a higher priority, but the normal route is still open.
And Debian is supposed to be the stable one (lemmy.ca)
The last two upgrades have broken my audio setup....
Best IOMMU Group Database?
I am looking to buy a new mini PC home server and I want to be able to pass through my iGPU and NIC to different VMs. Where can I find a well-maintained database of IOMMU groups so that I can pick a good match for my needs?...
oars (OpenAgeRatingsService) in appdata.xml files: why "sex-homosexuality"?
I can understand why all the other things would be listed here, and I would understand if sexuality in general was considered inappropriate for children, but why homosexuality in particular? This is strange to me....
OSX-KVM single GPU passthrough
I am trying to set up a way to use my Linux normally and then on demand fire up an OSX VM with GPU passthrough....
Does any distro read through 100% of the source-code of a package before adding it to its repo?
ArchHub (sh.itjust.works)
Disk imaging
What are we doing for disk imaging theses days?
Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account
I’ve been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I’ve given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It’s unreal how strict the requirements are now....
Does self-hosted VPN make sense?
Hey all,...
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
By the way, the earlier posted article restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data… had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary
welp ... (lemmy.ml)
Stable, consistent workstation recommendations?
First, thanks for reading and commenting....
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Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims (krebsonsecurity.com)
Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. But new research suggests this is a dangerous assumption when connecting to a VPN via an untrusted network, because attackers on the same network could force a target’s traffic off of the protection...