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  • My proposition here is that your machine (current mac address) will be once online, through a location used once, with dns-leak protection - yes, your machine will be fingerprinted once, and if the only thing you do when using this particular config is pulling software from the opensuse repos, and pay attention to only ever after live your online life with the spoofed mac and another VPN location, connecting both gonna be near impossible. Who's gonna fingerprint you anyway, if really the only use of the network is the Suse installer pulling rpm's from its own repos? At that, Nord isn't worst than any other since the internet provider for the connection can only sniff you going to some X location for an hour or so.

    Extra Paranoid Step, do it from any public free WiFi across town or something.

    You know, at the end of the day, fingerprinting works very well even behind the standard privacy protection we all know about. An interesting concept I read here was that the more addons / special stuff you add to protect you, the more "unique" is your profile, enabling efficient tracking!

    Good luck with all this

    Tumbleweed/ProtonVPN here

  • I'm guessing your use case require extra steps towards anonymity.

    2 ways :

    1. Download the needed .rpm from software.opensuse.org from another machine, transfer via USB, install manually from terminal or YAST ; it is gonna be tedious since dependencies will be missing and you will have to pull them, transfer them, install them manually.
    2. (cleaner). It's probably easier to wipe your system, re-install while connected behind either a PiHole or a VPN on your phone using HotSpot + a decent DNS provider and setting the VPN to target an unusual location. This time, do configure properly your machine including extra software that may not be available on the offline installation media. Reboot, configure, don't use previous VPN location ever again.
  • Beside the Cube, the Wobbly Windows was my fav feature. It's frivolous, but also so natural to grab a titlebar and having the rest of the window sloshing around like a wet rag.

  • I use KISS. it's super minimalistic, allows fro hiding all the unremovable crap all phones come with today, and is basically a search bar with 5 icons on top. I have my Proton Calendar as the sole widget and that's it. Single screen, no fuss.

  • Wrong. Drive a Miata and you get to fuck girls and boys, clearly a far superior car here.

    According to their metrics anyway.

  • Hey, that's both powerful and cute.

    It took me 13 years to quit cigarettes; I'm not expecting a quiet fight with alcohol tbh. But I've got support, both professional and close by, and I want to get rid of that crap.

    Thanks for your kind words and sharing your personal story. I started cigs and alcohol at 13; one down, one to go!

  • Probably the Facebook effect: you subscribe to communities you feel close to, and your picture of the world gets entirely warbled.

    Don't like r/guns? There's r/socialistsgunowners for you. Have a problem with r/army? We'll gather at r/leftistveteran (names probably approximates, I haven't been there a while)

    In my 10+ years of experience on reddit using RIF, even r/texas would only show up on the front page around horrible stories of LGBTQ rights denials, or tragic anti-abortion laws being put in use. Made me think the world was full of human beings I could relate to.

    An algorithm is just that, a method to get you to keep seeing the ads for as long as possible. In a way, reddit allowed you to stay in your "reasonable" zone easier than FB or, worst of all, YT, which doesn't have the "Community" boundaries. With RiF I was able to filter out gossip newspaper, everything YT, some triggering keywords... You could make it what you wanted. As delusional as can be.

  • Thanks for sharing, that was a great read. Artemis was meh for several reasons, but it still features great world building and it's great to see it used at this level of quality.

  • Thanks for this. I can relate to a lot of it, like knowing that if I fail, it's my first attempt and is part of the process of quitting. I'm going to get help, I'm going to take my medication as prescribed, I'm going to open up to my friends circle since I know they'll support me 100%

    Thanks again for sharing your experience. Tbh, I absolutely dread the cravings, I'm terrified of the next few months.

  • Finding stuff on Mastodon is more about hashtags. Eventually, by subscribing to #stuff you're interested in, you will discover accounts worth following. The Tusky app allows you to subscribe to hashtags like to an account. I don't follow people anymore, I follow topics!

  • Et plein de machins aussi ! Concerts.gratuits, expos, parc acrobatique... Un des endroits les plus fatiguants à bosser (je fais entre 7 et 15 kilomètres par jour, ugh) mais définitivement génial.

    Et comme l'endroit est isolé (oubliez les transports en commun pour venir), on maîtrise bien la pollution lumineuse :)

  • Les Pâtes A La Vache

    Ingrédients ;

    • Tagliatelles, aiguillettes (filets) de poulet, basilic frais, emmenthal râpé, pignons de pin, huile d'olive. (Et pesto industriel du carrouf').
    • Il n'y a pas besoin de vache pour cette recette de pâtes à la vache.

    Cuisson :

    • cuire les pâtes ;
    • griller les aiguillettes de poulet sans matière grasse ; couper en tranches moyennes ;
    • ne pas mettre de vache dedans.

    Préparation :

    • Dans un bol par personne, mettre d'abord les tagliatelles, ensuite une cuillère à soupe de pesto au milieu ; ne pas mettre de vache, sproutcher un filet d'huile d'olive autour, garnir de feuilles de basilic, parsemer de pignons de pins, poser les tranchettes de poulet en périphérie, oubliez la vache, bomber d'emmenthal râpé au milieu. Un tour de moulin à poivre et le tour est joué. Ne pas rajouter de vache maintenant non plus.

    Oui mais Tonton Zen, pourquoi ça s'appelle les pâtes à la vache alors qu'elles sont au poulet et qu'on a pas le droit de mettre de la vache dedans ?

    Parce que c'est une recette que j'ai piqué, puis abatârdie, d'un restaurant à Sihanoukville au Cambodge qui s'appelle "The Holy Cow", ce qui veut dire "La Vache Sacrée". Quand on y allait, on prenait souvent ça. C'est donc la recette des pâtes "à la façon du restaurant la Vache Sacrée". Les Pâtes à la Vache.

    Bon appétit ! (et ça va super vite à faire)

  • Une Nuit des étoiles rigolote : venez observer le ciel depuis le toit de nos fortifications Napoléoniennes le 12 août au Fort l'écluse, si vous êtes dans le coin où se coincent l'Ain, la Savoie, la Haute-Savoie et le genevois !