NaibofTabr @ NaibofTabr @infosec.pub

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We could all just revolve in place.

Well well, how the turn tables.

of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy

Your suggestion that racks of server hardware shoved into a shoe closet is unnecessary overkill betrays the very ethos of selfhosting! Your dangerous philosophy of minimalism and efficiency cannot be tolerated!

Burn the heretic!

You are now banned from /c/selfhosted

And then cry when you land your first development job, knowing that you'll never get to build anything so clean and effective that will actually get implemented in the real world.

And take money away from education for poor people!

I have run it on a laptop in the past, and I think it's a good option for a mobile system that you may be using on public/unsafe wifi and/or if your laptop is your primary computer and is actively carrying sensitive data (e.g. PII, financial records, health records, etc) that you want to keep in a separate environment from normal activities (though my advice would still be to keep such data on an external drive that is normally unplugged). It's not a good choice if you want to use that system for gaming - the hardware driver abstraction and segregation causes problems.

I don't really have a use case for it at the moment so I don't have any systems running it. It's OK for general use if you're not doing anything particularly complicated. Document editing, web browsing, code development - no problem. I wouldn't recommend it if you're doing CAD/3D modeling, graphics, audio/video editing, &etc - it's not really a good platform for doing creative work, too many complications.

The base system is not particularly heavy, though obviously the more VMs you run concurrently the more resources you'll need. It does require specific virtualization features for the CPU (documented in Choosing Hardware), which are not always available especially on laptop processors. My laptop had a mobile version of AMD Ryzen which worked. That was a 13" lightweight laptop, nothing too beefy, and it ran Qubes with a couple Debian VMs just fine.

Once you understand the basics of using dom0 to control the other VMs (and that you don't ever use dom0 for anything besides configuring and launching the other VMs) it's fairly straightforward. You do have to get used to virtually unplugging any USB devices from one VM and then plugging them into another (no bridging VMs via USB, that would break data security) but it makes sense if you think of those VMs as separate computers.

I think it's great if you're traveling a lot with a personal laptop and you won't have control over the networks you connect to, because you can basically seal off any sensitive data from any external/untrusted connections in completely separate virtual environments. You can have VMs which just don't ever have network access and so are "air gapped" by virtue of not even having network drivers installed, and then just manually transfer specific pieces of data as needed.

The code might be open. Are the training data sets?

Hard to do anything in an elected government if you weren't elected.

Depends.

If you just want a map to find things, OsmAnd is good.

If you want to prepare hiking/biking trail maps and then download them for offline use, Alpi Maps is really nice.

If you want useful navigation that includes traffic data and gets the realistic arrival time close to correct, Magic Earth is really the only option (traffic time estimates depend on users agreeing to share their location data while using ME for navigation so that it can make traffic speed assessments - quality will depend on how many other ME users in your area have agreed to share their data).

All 3 ultimately depend on OpenStreetMap for their map data. If you use them, consider creating an account and contributing with a tool like StreetComplete.

If you want something that has locations of businesses &etc with accurate names, operating hours, contact information, pictures of the location, street view, user reviews... there are no alternatives.

One of my favorite AI image apps

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Douglas Adams

yeah but if you want actual security you use Qubes

and for the love of Torvalds don't use Tails as a daily driver, it's not for that

also have you seen Stallman's other video?

The Fear - Ben Howard [2011]

Wisely & Slow - The Staves [2012]

Bad Things - Milky Chance [2017]

Release Your Problems - Chet Faker [2014]

Nameless Path - Marcus Foster [2011]

I've no doubt there are some genuine commies on .ml. The problem is that it's the other people who are running the instance and moderating the communities.

Benno Rice gave an excellent talk on this:

The Tragedy of systemd

The genuine commies are totally fine. It's the authoritarian apologists that need to fuck right off.

Ah, I see, I misinterpreted your original post.

Well in any case, the email will probably be the recovery path for the accounts you set up ("I forgot my password"), so if you want to stay in control of them you should pick a service that encrypts the inbox.

You might also find subaddressing useful. For example, if you have myaccount@email.com and you then use myaccount+pixelfed@email.com, and later that email subaddress gets exposed and you start getting spam specifically through it, then you know which account was exposed (the pixelfed one) and can attempt to address it individually. Basically the +alias lets you know the source(s) of incoming emails because you know where you've used that alias. Many services support this feature.

You say you want a revolution

Well, you know

We all want to change the world

You say you got a real solution

Well, you know

We'd all love to see the plan

You tell me it's the institution

Well, you know

You'd better free your mind instead

Don't you know it's gonna be... alright...