PureParadigm

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by PureParadigm 7y ago
This seems very similar to Borg Backup [1], so I'm interested to hear from others who have used both on how it compares. More generally, I've been looking for a solution that helps distribute backups in a peer-to-peer way. I have
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
Maybe you need to qualify this with the legal system should also only punish those convicted of crimes. Perhaps threatening to punish family members for crimes is an effective deterrent and ends up preventing more crimes (and thus fewer vic
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
I've transitioned all my self-hosted services to behind a Wireguard VPN. This even includes SSH, so there are no ports exposed except the UDP port for Wireguard.
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
As an alternative solution to the SSH key security concerns raised here, I use a Yubikey as a smart card for my SSH access. This way, even if my laptop is compromised, an attacker has to physically steal my Yubikey (and know the PIN on it).
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
You can buy your own domain. Then when you switch email providers you'd just change your domain's mail records to point to the new provider. You can even transfer your domain between registrars if you decide you don't like yo
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
From what I can tell, one of the main goals of IPFS is decentralization. Anyone can be hosting the file you want and it will download from any of the peers. Does OnionShare do this? As you mentioned, I've also found IPFS to be fragile,
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
In high performance computing, the supercomputing cluster is usually a shared Linux environment. Each user gets a home directory and groups are used for projects. As an intern working on one, they gave me limited sudo access to run a few co
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
I'd argue those "humanistic values" are only advertised to improve public opinion about Apple's brand... and ultimately make more money. If customers feel good about supporting Apple, then they'll be more likely to
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
Yes, there's definitely some truth in what you're saying -- UC Berkeley managed back in 1868 presumably without power, but it's also much bigger and has different facilities now. It's not as simple as just telling 40,000
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
At UC Berkeley all classes were cancelled today (Wednesday) because PG&E said campus would lose power. Buildings, libraries, computing services all shut down... but power stayed on all day. I'm sure the administration is very upset
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
You can also try syncthing [1], which has been working well for me on Linux and Android. 1. https://syncthing.net/
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
Yeah, thanks for looking deeper into it. I found before that I could do it by running my own DNS server (like dnsmasq) on the local device (so I could do it no problem on my laptop), but that isn't easy on a phone.
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
Thanks for your answer. I think the sources you linked to are tunneling all of their DNS queries through Wireguard. I don't want to do this, since my work has some DNS records which only resolve internally. Basically I want to be able
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
Sure, of course there are and should be reasonable restrictions (shouting fire in a crowded theater causing immediate danger, for example). But is this a restriction that society should accept? How could you expect to have a functioning dem
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
Wouldn't that seem to violate the idea of freedom of speech? What if someone running for public office requests that I "forget" and not share what I know about some bad things they did in the past?
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
Have you managed to get WireGuard to do split tunnel DNS? I've been wanting to do this, but couldn't figure out how to make it work on Android, for example.
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
thanks :)
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
Is it an advantage that the 9989XE has more cores and threads even if, according to the article, the Ryzen still wins in overall multithreaded performance?
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
Just to give an example of a blockchain approach to this: Ethereum Name Service [1]. 1. https://ens.domains/
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
Thanks for sharing. I'd like to read your guide about being social. Did you mean to add a link?
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
The AdNauseam extension [1] does exactly that, and Google really didn't like it (banned it from the Chrome extension store [2]). 1. https://adnauseam.io/ 2. https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into whether a VPS is viable, but we often have poor internet at our LAN parties and get the best experience when the server is local. It's a vanilla server and I also get around 4 players. The
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
In all seriousness, I've been wanting better single threaded performance for running a Minecraft server.
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
Leap seconds definitely add way more complexity/uncertainty when dealing with timestamps in the future. I once made a program that would output the amount of time remaining until some time in the future (with the future time represente
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
If running Linux you can disable the meltdown/spectre mitigations with the nopti option [1]. 1. https://yux.im/posts/technology/security/disable-meltdown-an...
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
Thanks for your insight. I think those are definitely real challenges to a fully decentralized system, but allowing some sort of federation can't hurt. The worst case scenario would be if GitHub is the only one pinning all the packages
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
I'm worried about the resiliency of code distribution as we continue the trend of centralizing distribution in a few large companies. GitHub has had service outages in the past, so what happens when not just our repositories but also n
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by PureParadigm 7y ago
One counter example is GreatFire, who use GitHub for their wiki [1]. [1] https://github.com/greatfire/wiki