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0xdeadb00f··on Start Self Hosting
> Maybe I'm unaware or mistaken but if you're editing anything inside /usr as a normal user,

I'm not doing any of this as a normal user. I'm doing all of this as root

0xdeadb00f··on If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)
Well that's fair enough, but I take issue more with the title of the post telling me I do "ssh wrong", because I can't be bothered to setup a CA and fuck around with certificates.

To me, setting up a CA is more effort than I would like.

0xdeadb00f··on If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)
> Users are exposed to key material and encouraged to reuse keys across devices. Keys are trusted permanently, so mistakes are fail-open.

What? This just sounds like you're doing it all wrong then blaming the tools.

Maybe I'm just thinking about it from my POV as a mainly hobbyist user of SSH, but I rotate my keys (not as frequently as I should, but I do), and I remove old ones from .authorized_keys files and I use different keypairs for different servers sometimes too. I never copy keys to other devices - I ssh-keygen on every device, and add my pub key to the authorized_keys file manually.

It isn't even "hard" to do it this way. Sure, it doesn't "scale" for big corps - but I don't need it to scale, so I'm not "doing SSH wrong" by not using certificates.

0xdeadb00f··on If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)
Precisely this. From what I've read it isn't that easy to setup a CA.

Look into step-ca though, I've heard it's.. Okay? I don't know. It seems too complicated still - I'd rather stick with pubkey auth

0xdeadb00f··on Turning off 5G adds hours of battery life to iPhones, iPads
Is this not obvious to everyone by this point?

Putting your phone in airplane mode, and generally restricting it's radio usage reduces battery life? Shocker!

0xdeadb00f··on Mozilla’s Vision for the Evolution of the Web
Google's domination is incredibly worse, almost irreversible IMO.
0xdeadb00f··on Ukrainian escapes war with USB stick holding 40% of his life savings in crypto
Hahaha that's too funny.
0xdeadb00f··on Something isn't right with 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
Like what, for example?

Not cloudflare that's for sure.

0xdeadb00f··on Start Self Hosting
I'm certainly not a layperson, but systemd frequently confuses me.

I want to edit a service to harden it for example. Oh, wait I shouldn't edit it directly with vi? Because it gets overwritten by package updates. Okay, makes sense, I need to use systemctl edit instead. But that opens a file that has everything commented out. Do I uncomment the [Unit] heading? What do I need to keep and where do I add my additions? I recall there being a comment at the start of this file, but unless I'm misremembering it doesn't answer that.

All I ask of it to do one thing - start something.service after other.service. yet it just refuses to order them this way. Why? I have no idea. I also have no idea where to start debugging a problem like this. There's a billion ways to try and do this after all: do I add Before=something to other.service? Do I add After=other to something.service? Both? Wants=something?

0xdeadb00f··on Firefox now only available via snap on Ubuntu
Okay but snap sucks. I don't want it. I never asked for it.

This is why my daily driver isn't Ubuntu (or Debain, because I also hate apt - it also sucks).

0xdeadb00f··on The Pied Piper of Psychedelic Toads
You can buy testing kits on amazon and such to test your drugs. These are not illegal to poses iirc
0xdeadb00f··on The Pied Piper of Psychedelic Toads
I thought it was legal in Amsterdam?
0xdeadb00f··on Fzf – a command-line fuzzy finder
I prefer it also :)
0xdeadb00f··on On the Weaponisation of Open Source
To answer your first question: Oil.
0xdeadb00f··on Node-ipc dev's Twitter hacked
It was someone from 4chan's /g/. I don't have the link anymore but iirc there's a thread archive link floating around.
0xdeadb00f··on Funder bars university from grant programme over white-male award line-up
Thanks for that response. I did take it as confrontational. I apologize.
0xdeadb00f··on Funder bars university from grant programme over white-male award line-up
As a brown man, my heart too would sink. Not because I hate white males, but because it makes me feel as if I'm not adequate. That if no brown men have made it to that point, how could I?

This is all about perspective. Is my perspective here logical? No. Am I blaming these white men? No. Representation matters to minorities. It helps us "feel" like we can actually achieve stuff.

It's difficult to explain this perspective to white people. But too often I see white people dismiss this perspective, seeing it as an attack on _them_. But it really isn't about white people.

0xdeadb00f··on Funder bars university from grant programme over white-male award line-up
Why? Did you provide a source for your claim? No.
0xdeadb00f··on Apple Made $6.5B USD by No Longer Providing Accessories with New iPhones
Of course they did. That was their plan.

Also, if you bought that "environmental" BS they were spewing when they said they'd no longer include charging bricks, you were played, sorry to say.

0xdeadb00f··on TUIs
Why would you ever need a launcher for a TUI? If it's in your $PATH isn't that all that's required?
0xdeadb00f··on Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
I am sick, so sick at seeing all this bullshit that Mozilla is doing to my beloved browser. If this was a standalone issue, I probably wouldn't mind. But this one of a string of crap Mozilla has been doing.
0xdeadb00f··on Sleeping. Closed for business. 10p to 6a
This is exactly how I feel about people complaining about the BLM banner that was on the go website (and others) for a while.
0xdeadb00f··on Masks on planes requirement dropped by some UK airlines
> At some point people learn how to get back to life.

So.. What's wrong with living life in masks for the foreseeable future then? Is that not "life" to you? If not then you are seriously privileged and need to realise that.

0xdeadb00f··on Our universe may have a twin that runs backward in time
Tenet, anyone?
0xdeadb00f··on OpenSSL security advisory: Infinite loop reachable when parsing certificates
Dare I ask if LibreSSL is affected?
0xdeadb00f··on VPN provider bans BitTorrent after getting sued by film studios
I heard sometimes they are part of the peers upload/downloading the torrent content and they just get a list of all the other peers they're connected to and send DMCAs to each of them.

edit: I misread your comment. I was talking about the copyright holders not VPN providers.

0xdeadb00f··on Matrix network planning a distributed approach to online moderation
I think these moderation improvements will be a good thing - not for stopping misinformation or whatever, but for stopping spamming attacks.
0xdeadb00f··on Who's Attacking My Server?
You can run your own self-hosted Tailscale control server with Headscale.
0xdeadb00f··on Twitter's new Tor onion service
Money. They want money.
0xdeadb00f··on Elden Ring's Minimal UI and HUD Elements Have Started Maximum Dev Debates
I don't think I've ever clicked on a Kotaku article and actually read it. I don't think I've breifly scanned one either. Today I have. And by god, this website is absolutely horrible. (I'm on mobile, fwiw).
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