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VPN as the day of today?
  • That depends on your threat model. It's a useful strategy to hide your traffic from your local network admin (e.g. at the workplace) and your ISP, but it's a bad strategy for hiding your identity from the sites you're visiting.

  • VPN as the day of today?
  • Privacy is a trade-off against convenience, and there is no perfect privacy.

    VPNs are a mediocre privacy tool, because they presuppose trust in the VPN provider. Tor is flawed because it is open to correlation attacks.

    There are low-hanging fruit that everybody should be using like sensible cookie policies, HTTPS-only mode, and DNS over HTTPS.

    If you are looking for a solution on the far end of privacy/inconvenience you could look into I2P and use that situationally.

  • Accidentally bricked my Linux system, help
  • If you have backups, reinstall.

    If you don't, boot a "live CD" USB stick and make a backup, then reinstall.

    Then think about how this happened and how to avoid it in the future:

    I tried updating Kubuntu to the newest version, and it got screwed up the first time,

  • Difference between Github, Gitlab, Forgejo ?
  • Pretty sure codeberg.org uses forgejo under the hood.

    Another very solid option for self hosting is just adding a git user to a server with git installed, initiate bare repositories there, then talk to them with git@example.com:repo-name

  • What information could DOGE glean from the data they stole and how would it benefit this administration?
  • Yeah there was a probably a nicer way to do what they are doing

    I understand the worry that this is coup

    but if you choose to believe

    Seeing as there is nothing I can do about it

    I empathize with the sentiment, but you're delusional.