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by dngray 7y ago
I did exactly that: • http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Linux_Router_with_VPN_on_a_... • https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Linux_Router_with_VPN_on_a... My printer is in a VLAN which has no route o
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by dngray 7y ago
> My friends love dollar shave club, and I'm like "buy a safety razor for $20-30 bucks and a bulk pack of razor blades and you will set FOR YEARS. I got given one of these https://getrockwell.com/products&#x2F
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by dngray 7y ago
> Basically, you pay $3 a month and can print up to 50 pages. HP remotely monitors your ink levels and sends you replacement cartridges automatically when the cartridges need to be replaced. Ugh dollar shave club for printers or someth
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I have the HL-L2360D and it's been great. I love the IPP Everywhere drivers and don't have to worry about anything in particular anymore. After this I would only get a printer which has IPP Everywhere or at least is supported by f
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by dngray 7y ago
I use my system resolvers on all my hosts, hand the IP to my unbound DNS server out and recurse over DoHs, that way everything is doing DoHs even if the underlying software doesn't implement it. DNSCrypt can do both it's protocol
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by dngray 7y ago
Markdown Here appears to be unmaintained and is certainly incompatible with Thunderbird 68.0. I have not been able to raise the developer of it at all and PRs are not being merged. https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-her
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by dngray 7y ago
> I really hope the community get behind the open source options and don't let more things get eaten up by commercial silos cough slack cough. Don't forget Slack also bans people who they think are from sanctioned countries:
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by dngray 7y ago
I am hoping they go with Matrix, least then I will be able to have the choice of having a client appropriate to my needs. I do prefer my chat client to not be a part of my browser. That way I can close my browser, start my browser and chat
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by dngray 7y ago
> The IETF QUIC isn't finished. Periodically the Working Group thinks it has stopped fiddling with the low-level bit layout and is ready to focus on polish, then somebody finds a show stopper that means revisiting the low-level bit
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> Or -- much better -- use DoT instead of DoH so port 443 isn't getting misused for DNS. DNS over TLS has other issues. There's a nice comparison there https://dnscrypt.info/faq/ I have been using local
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by dngray 7y ago
> Smartphone hardware is done. There's no significant gain in buying a new smartphone if you have bought one in last 3 years, absolutely nothing if the battery is replaced; I am excited about the possibility of graphene based batt
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by dngray 7y ago
and yes.. I agree with nearly everything you said in your post mikekchar. The one thing I would keep in mind is elevating a person's opinion because: " recognized security expert ". Their comments should be taken at face valu
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by dngray 7y ago
> "literally pastes replies" Okay I did check, and point taken on the literally part. But I do still stand by many of his replies start with: "Use Signal/Wire......"
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> To be completely fair tptacek is a recognised security expert. Recognized how, by whom? > Yes, he likes Signal. Apparently like you, I disagree (their refusal to implement non-personally identifying information as an identity is
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by dngray 7y ago
> Margrete Vestager is from a very liberal (as in free) party, and she’s pushing some of the toughest regulations on big tech companies that we’ve seen in years. Then it's the illusion of freedom. Free when they declare freedom, b
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by dngray 7y ago
> Would that really change anything? I think what we’re seeing is the inevitable result of the internet and tech companies becoming the most important aspect of modern civilisation. I think what we are seeing is the implementation of a
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by dngray 7y ago
I'm from a US-friendly nation but I get terribly sad when I hear things like this. Contribution to the free software world should transcend where someone is from whether it be China, Russia, Iran or whatever new "enemy" our
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by dngray 7y ago
> Can you find a concrete example of that? I should have been more clear on that. Their own replies, look at their post history. It's usually something like "Use Signal/Wire blah blah they are so good and will solve all
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> Signal uses standard cellular mobile numbers as identifiers Exactly and what's to say I want some random guy on the internet being able to call my phone. Keep in mind tptacek quite literally pastes replies gushing about Signal&#
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by dngray 7y ago
> The situation ironically illustrates why I didn’t write about this at the time. I did some testing on Windows 1809 last year, but I didn’t allow it to connect to the internet to finish setup. Good thing I didn’t. If you do, you can’t
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by dngray 7y ago
> I'd really recommend you take another look at Mutt I think I will do that. > Notifications can be configured to do pretty much whatever you want (by invoking a command when new mail arrives) My understanding was that was pr
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by dngray 7y ago
> Yeah. The Downloads directory inevitably accumulates sensitive data over time, especially lacking automatic cleanup/expiration of files. For this reason alone, Firefox should follow the Chromium/Edge policy. > Then SELi
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by dngray 7y ago
> Looks good (thanks), but my days of running servers for anything are long gone. My tolerance for anything sysadmin-related has reached very close to zero. You don't technically need a server. It's a very simple, single bina
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by dngray 7y ago
If you're looking to consolidate your email the best way is imapfilter https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter I use this LUA script (this is the Jinja2 template so obviously you'll need to substitute the portio
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by dngray 7y ago
I couldn't agree more, and for the same reasons you've mentioned I end up coming back to Thunderbird, even though I'd like a TUI client. I looked at this video about mutt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jMInH
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Yeah I saw this a while back https://drewdevault.com/2019/06/03/Announcing-aerc-0.1.0.htm... He has a really nice video there demonstrating it. I wonder how it compares? I guess both are pretty alpha at the m
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by dngray 7y ago
TBH mozilla is right about that though. There's better ways than using /etc/hosts. I run DNSCrypt and Unbound on my router: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Linux_Router_with_VPN_on_a... then I simply p
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by dngray 7y ago
> I don't use it and I don't have any issues with my current Linux desktop (using xmonad). It looks like there's an effort to port it to Wayland https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad The fact is X11
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> Anybody else have thoughts/plans on the future of X if Wayland really does take over? I have been thinking about this for a few years at least (happy i3wm user). I am looking at moving to Sway https://github.com/
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by dngray 7y ago
> Almost all of the things I post to HN get buried and are never seen. Have a look through my submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jordigh > The fact that this one was seen indicates that there is a

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