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Nice try Mr Hacker, you’re not getting anything out of this BOFH 🙃

I have a wiki! Covers way more diverse topics than self-hosting though. It’s mostly a copy pasted stream of consciousness and links to other resources, with varying quality. Lots of stub articles.

https://wiki.tilde.fun/

Using Ansible, but it still means I need to run it and schedule patches etc. – you can’t just patch stuff when people are currently working on it.

You can use configuration management software like Ansible or Puppet. I wouldn’t write my own scripts when there are good Ansible modules.

You quoted something directly contradicting what you said. Nothing is concealed, every line of erroneous code could have been analysed for 15 years. All information needed to find the bug was public since it the code has been written and checked in publicly.

You confused “obscurity” as in a synonym for low popularity with the word “obscurity” as in people not knowing how it works and people deliberately hiding the inner workings of a system.

Everyone using Linux can know how it works, that’s the opposite of obscurity in the sense it is used within “security by obscurity”.

Apart from that, Linux is very popular, just not on the Desktop. It is therefore not obscure in the sense of popularity either, at least the components which are hit by the bug mentioned in the article.

ugh shit next week will be awful at work patching all those servers. At least they found it before bad actors did.

What benefit does that give you for media viewing?

What exactly about X.509 is trash for that use case?

Sadly couldn’t find anything. Thing is, if you watch your own media, why use TOR?!

you’re not actually against AI, you’re against hustle culture, influencers and unsustainable practices.

96.5% of all AI projects are linked to that. If 96.5% of my tap water tastes like poop and 3.5% are potable, I’d still not want to drink it.

I always wonder if veterans really need to know that much information at all times.

Actually I suffer from something called “monitoring fatigue” or “notification fatigue” at work. There’s so many monitoring notifications, half of which are nothingburgers, that I seriously hate that part of my job is responding to them.

I already disabled notifications for my email in our monitoring system and now there’s just another department monitoring the monitoring system and creating tickets for me. I can’t escape it.

I’m in the “Fuck AI” crowd even though I currently heavily use LLMs, specifically for the reason that slopcoders, techbros and memelords destroy the planet.

I’m in the same boat as those people and that’s specifically why I hate it.

Sounds interesting.

Can you link those projects please?

Your link is broken and currently displays a Claude Code announcement. Are you even real?

Usually these tools are very basic.

If you read this community in the last weeks you’d know that slopcoders don’t stop at basic projects.

For Android there’s PhotoSwooper which works somewhat similar @uuj8za@piefed.social

Here, a random link explaining why using bandwidth for no reason while people provide it to you for free might be ethically questionable

https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/21067/tor-streaming-videos-is-it-ethical

Should I explain it further?

Or to not do security by obscurity at all.

Streaming videos puts a huge burden on the TOR network. Please don’t do it if you don’t need to, setting up a VPN is faster and doesn’t slow TOR down.

Or you run ncdu and save some keystrokes.