Mordikan

Turkish DNS is really an interesting thing. Awhile back, the govt hijacked Google’s DNS service via bogus BGP routes so they could block/censor traffic. They then also started directing DNS queries away from the EU and pushing those to APAC.

Not sure what the sites are or what they resolve to on your end, but you might try using openssl to see if its a bad cipher or outdated cert maybe: openssl s_client -connect domain.com:443 -ciphersuites TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 -tls1_3

I would just use https://pcpartpicker.com/ to figure out compatibility if you haven’t ever built a PC before. Most users tend to use AMD because it is a little better supported, but honestly having an NIVIDIA GPU doesn’t stop you from doing anything.

I bet they spent more time working on making a cool sounding acronym than they did actually writing the bill. If this actually passed, it would do nothing except encourage people to use an out of geo VPN, I2P, or non-US DNS server.

Yeah, GPG keys expire, but that happens with all package management systems if left alone long enough. I mean you’d have to maintain like 3 packages (linux, wireguard-tools, archlinux-keyring). In Debian you’d have to maintain the kernel, debian-archive-keyring, and wireguard-tools. Its the same.

If its solely for setting up a wireguard server, it doesn’t need to be rolling release. Nothing should really need changing.

1. Alpine Linux due to it being lightweight and hardened
2. Arch Linux due to it being lightweight and fast
3. Rocky 9 due to HAProxy in case you decide to turn this into a DIY datacenter :)

1. lazydocker: terminal based docker management
2. ncdu: disk usage analyzer
3. nmtui: terminal based network management
4. browsh: terminal based web browser with headless Firefox backend

One other thing I didn’t mention is it depends on the backup tool you use. Not all of them are filesystem aware. What that means is if you have hardlinks present those will not be preserved.

That can be important to remember as it will bork things down the road with the restoring. If you aren’t familiar with linking: Hard links point to actual data (think of it like a pointer in C). Soft links (symbolic) point to file path.

For me, I tend to focus on specific directories I know I’d need data from (or that will just be a hassle to rewrite config for). I have a scripts folder that gets backed up, Books, .mozilla, etc. A lot of things I just know I won’t need like .cache. That folder is 7GB and mostly just the cache from yay needing to be cleared out.

I don’t backup my entire home directory because I’m worried ACLs may change or other little issues that will take more time than its worth to correct. That said, you could. You worried about something like that, you could pull the existing ACLs: find ~/ -type f -exec getfacl --absolute-names {} + > home_acls_backup.txt and then restore them: setfacl --restore=home_acls_backup.txt

I haven’t really used KDE much, but I know it has a theme data in .local/share that you’d want (and probably the .cache folder as well). GNOME keeps theme data in .themes, .icons, .fonts. They might just be defaults, but if you have anything custom, you’d want those folders too.

For Arch you run pacman -Qe which lists all installed packages that were not installed as a dependency. I output that to a location via golang script which is monitored by the pCloud client for automatic backup along with a lot of other configs from $HOME/.config. I then have a systemd service that fires the script and a timer to kick off that service periodically.

Adtech relies on the OpenRTB 2.5/2.6 spec for tracking, you would have removed 1 identifier out of a hundred (one that isn’t really used anyway given SSAI is so popular). In addition to that, cookie expiry timers are typically set to 365 days meaning you’re VPN would need to enabled at all times to not invalidate multi-hop. WebStorage API based trackers tend to be indefinite.

ORTB spec: https://www.iab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/OpenRTB-API-Specification-Version-2-5-FINAL.pdf

That is not true, the sites do still track you. VPNs don’t prevent tracking, they just make sure the tracking is done through a secure tunnel.

That channel is selling people their own insecurities back to them. There is nothing there that you need.

You can use the gparted tool to graphically remove the partition(s) and then format them to whatever file system type you are interested in and just have those mounted as extra data drives. Or merge them into your Linux partition (depending on setup). That will require gparted to be run as sudo as you are interacting with disks.

Alternatively, you can a tool like fdisk to change partitioning in terminal. You can pull the disk info using something like lsblk, so if you had a specific drive it might be sudo fdisk /dev/nvme0n1, then you’d want to print the current table and look through the help.

Because as you already stated, that’s all it says. There is a lot of open interpretation to what that means and not all of it refers to big publishers/devs like EA.

For example, indie games like Objects in Space. It was Early Access and ran into technical issues which led to funding issues as they could only work so long on it. Its broken essentially. But it doesn’t matter if the project was beyond their scope of skill or they ran out of money, they would be forced to pay to fix it. This means (and for other indie devs) if not certain their project will succeed, having to block sales in EU. Its potentially the most damaging not to the Ubisoft’s and EA’s, but to the Flat Earth Games, Bugbytes, ColePowered Games, etc. Its asking new indie developers to take on optional risk by releasing in the EU. Remember no where in the petition does it mention live service games. Only just games.

Additionally, the points brought up in the petition needed to be bullet proof. The moment that petition started to get close to 1M, you know publishers started turning gears to block future legislation. The committee of petitions will verify the petition and then refer it for fact finding. The points needed to be concise for the purpose of the fact finding committee. And they needed to be geared towards the EU acting which around a dozen times now have stated that while concerns are valid, it is up to the member nations to propose legislation on this (which is who the major publishers are reported to have approached - not some EU committee).

I’m still salty about EA’s Darkspore (which I might add doesn’t mention on the case that internet access is required to play - which I did not have back in the day), but this petition just feels like minimal impact. I would just like to remind people that advocating SKG may feel good but that rarely equates to doing good.

NOTE: I’ll probably be downvoted to hell on it, but I imagine that is all that will happen. There really is no solid argument against what I’ve said.

I mean I was critical of it well before it hit 1.4M signatures. As it ramps up in articles about it, I’d assume an increase in negative sentiment in addition to the positive side. Its not a perfect thing and has different viewpoints, so it makes sense.

Its not zero-effort, but you can safely torrent without a VPN using I2P. You’d have to have an I2P router running on the backend and use something like i2psnark to connect. Out of the box, I2P won’t work, you have to adjust the config, but after that you could go VPN-less. Two things to consider though: 1. Torrents will run slower. 2. Only trackers inside the I2P network would be reachable.

Another option to preventing leaks is to run the qBittorrent application inside a namespace that only has the VPN interface passed through to it. Its basically like docker only you are just pulling the networking component out and using that. wg-netns is one tool that uses that approach to things. Might be more geared to the self-hosted community, but worth mentioning if anyone is wanting that level of security.

I’ve been an Arch user for about 15 years now, and I’ve never posted to the forums. Not because I’m great at this and don’t break things. I constantly break things and need to fix them. I don’t ask questions there because before you’ll get any help you are going to get sat down and explained (in great detail sometimes) how you are the stupidest piece of shit on Earth.

You got your cheeks clapped in an argument and now you’re trying to downplay it. 👏 👏 👏

No, it wasn’t chess. It was me spanking you logically, pigeon.