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TjWallas

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TjWallas··on Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tracking data
Questionable action but, one could freeze extensions via extended file system attributes & permissions or work around the auto-updates through the hosts file or other means... https://serverfault.com/questions/354606/where-do-i-find-the...

.. Or even a combination of the above.

TjWallas··on Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tracking data
Same here with a tiny twist: opensource and has a SHA512 mentioned somewhere in the repo that could be verified against whatever comes from the chrome appstore.
TjWallas··on Show HN: Monitor in a Box – Instantly usable, open source monitoring
Very interesting. As one of the sufferers who struggled many times with setting up icinga2 with distributed (and SSL-Encrypted) monitoring, this automation takes a way a lot of the hassle. I think it is one step in the right direction. Reminds me with: https://mailinabox.email/
TjWallas··on Key for chromium's encrypted cookies store in Linux is “peanuts”
Some more details from the source:

Password is: "peanuts" Salt is: "saltysalt" Algorithm used: AES-128-CBC The number of KDF iterations is: 1

Edit: Indicate that no. of iterations is for the Key Derivation Function