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quoiquoi··on A currently maintained fork of SSHFS
If the user account is only supposed to have file transfer capabilities/no shell access, add it a to a specific group e.g. `sftponly`, and only allow this group to use the `internal-sftp` command in `/etc/ssh/sshd_config`

    Match Group sftponly
    ForceCommand internal-sftp -l INFO -f LOCAL6
    AllowTcpForwarding no
    AllowAgentForwarding no
    GatewayPorts no
    X11Forwarding no
quoiquoi··on Decentraleyes: A Firefox addon to prevent tracking via free CDN providers
There's no need to use Disconnect anymore. Disconnect's list is now included in Firefox's native tracking protection feature (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-pbm), and is also available through uBlock Origin subscriptions.
quoiquoi··on Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive
alias rm='trash-put'
quoiquoi··on Primer – CSS toolkit and guidelines that power GitHub
hold middle mouse button, drag
quoiquoi··on Internetarchive.bak
can you give the tl;dr? What are possible attacks?
quoiquoi··on Google now automatically converts Flash ads to HTML5
https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker
quoiquoi··on Youtube-dl
There's also a GUI wrapper for it: https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui/

And a php web app that uses youtube-dl as a a backend: https://github.com/Rudloff/alltube/

quoiquoi··on Youtube-dl
I use xargs

    youtube-dl --get-url "$1" | xargs mplayer
quoiquoi··on What I use instead of Google services
This is what I use:

* Search engine: http://www.seeks-project.info/, https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

* Maps: https://github.com/MapBBCode/share.mapbbcode.org/, https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/ (routing, hard to setup)

* Mail: https://roundcube.net, http://rainloop.net, https://www.mailpile.is/ (the hard part is getting the mail server right)

* Media: https://github.com/sebsauvage/minigalnano (FTP/SSH upload only), http://mediagoblin.org/

See something missing?

quoiquoi··on What I use instead of Google services
> I'd still want a webmail interface though

A few ones to check:

* http://roundcube.net/

* http://rainloop.net

* https://www.mailpile.is/

quoiquoi··on Email will last forever
There are tons of open source alternatives based on standard protocols:

* https://jappix.com/ Jappix (XMPP)

* http://gnu.io/social/ GNU social (statusnet/pump)

* http://twister.net.co/ Twister (p2p microblogging)

* http://redmatrix.me/&JS=1 Red Matrix

The thing is: noone uses them.

quoiquoi··on Email will last forever
Relay.js is a user friendly IRC client, see http://relayjs.jit.su/ for a demo. Converse.js (https://conversejs.org/) is an XMPP web client that supports XMPP conference rooms. So I'd say we already have good, nice-looking clients and there's room for improving integration on a single service to reach for the masses.
quoiquoi··on Urgent security warning that may affect all internet users
Why not use your browsers' password manager?
quoiquoi··on Urgent security warning that may affect all internet users
You still have to do it manually I think. Having a standardized API to change passwords (a "Rotate all my passwords" buttons) would be nice, but potentially a huge step forward in automating password attacks.
quoiquoi··on Urgent security warning that may affect all internet users
Soooo you're still using a cloud service to sync your passwords, right?