programmer interested in privacy/security. Mostly Go and Python

VoidNet.tech

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  • Its best to have some defence in depth. Ideally you would have a firewall on your network AND your local machine. If you are running a laptop definitely have a local firewall on that as you cannot trust random networks you connect to when out and about in the world.

    firewalld is sufficient, i suggest learning its CLI as it is not super complicated. ufw is ok if you are allergic to command line.





  • gibson@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.mlHow to write a 'tar' command
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think tar is actually hard, we are just in the time where we externalize more information into resources such as Google. Its the same reason why younger people don’t remember routes by name or cardinal direction as much anymore.

    side note: $ tldr is much better than man for just getting common stuff done.


  • gibson@sopuli.xyztoPrivacy@lemmy.mlMolly - a better signal
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    Yes and no. decentralization is great for a lot of reasons but it does come with downsides. I don’t know about you, but i convinced my family and friends to use and keep Signal for years now and i don’t think i would have had such luck with Matrix/Element, let alone a p2p app.

    I’m glad decentralized options exist and think they deserve more funding and love, however.



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    1 year ago

    Depending on what you’re doing, Local LLM can help a bit. Like if i want a recipe for an apple pie i could use LLaMA-2 to find out even without an internet connection.

    Not saying its a replacement for a search engine, i just think its worth mentioning.

    (edit for grammar)