First thing a malware would do is to replace top/ps and related utilities, to mask itself. Or directly replace kernel calls. You will not notice by just checking running processes

One thing that hasn’t been said in this thread is the following: Do you trust your router? Do you have an isp that can probe your router remotely and access it? In those cases, you absolutely need a firewall

Same, always eorked great for me

For an adult that liked looney tunes a lot when they were a child, what was there? And what is available through torrents? What should I archive?

Not a single app, not minimal dependencies. It’s a file that gets processed and creates many gigabites of leftovers, with an enormous runtime and piles of abstractions

Unless you are a business with millions of users, I would be really skeptical of redis improving performance. At the end of the day, any simple KV store can replace it. It’s not like postgres where having sqlite in it’s place means not only a different performance profile, but also different semantics, sql dialect, rpc protocol, etc

What is it? Why do you find it useful?

Dbeaver

I ditched nix and install software only through portage. If needed, i make my own ebuilds.

This has two advantages:

• it removes all the messy software: i am not going to install something if I can’t make the ebuild becayse the development was a mess , like everything TS/node
• i can install, rollback, reinstall, upgrad and provision (configuration) everything using portage
• i am getting to know gentoo and portage in great details, making the use of my desktop and laptop much much easier

It’s sad how self contained now means “only” one docker image

It syncs my extensions, except for mobile the ones that aren’t available (obviously)

This is very cool.

I an slowly building my own syslog server with visualization, but it’s cool to see new stuff on the block.

I have always been wary of big commercial services like kibana, grafana, etc…

Or don’t, because they are going to kill it eventually.

There are less convenient possibilities, like pass and keepass, even a markdown file pgp encrypted and git. Yes, less convenient, but guaranteed to work in 5,10,20+ years

Holy fudge i didn’t expect this but it’s great. I suggest everybody to try it. And yes, ed2k is as alive as ever, especially for it, es, fr comtent

this is a very bad article. It talks about “zero trust” but then suggests you to use corporate software, the cloud, sketchy russian apps to monitor your traffic at home. Also, I am not spending 2 hours a day going through my logs, nor I want a VM/container with 8GB of ram wasting 40% of my GPU on grafana.

For most stuff i release, x265 objectively (vmaf and other metrics) and subjectively looks better than av1, especially for grainy stuff and older anime. I have had success only with some action movies.

Opus on the other hand… it’s great

I mean… do the math and you can figure out by yourself that it’s a fair price but in no way some sort of very convebient situation for the users. A 20tb hard drive goes for about 450€ and then you can consider the advantages that they have buying hdd at scale.

In the past I used airsonic. It has the best support for different music files and good support for albums ripped as single track, like most classical releases.

The problem with airsonic and its protocol is the lack of good android clients.

If you need to listen through the phone for most of the time, go with jellyfin + finamp. Otherwise try airsonic + its web ui.

For music acquisition:

• torrent for the mainstream stuff
• niche trackers for niche stuff
• nicotine+/soulseek for everything
• bandcamp to support the artists

It is unrealiatic, that in a stable software release there is suddenly, after you tested your backup a hard bug which prevents recovery.

How is unrealistic? Think of this:

• day 1: you backup your files, test the backup and everything is fine
• day 2: you store a new file that triggers a bug in the compression/encryption algorithm of whatever software you use, now backups are corrupted at least for this file Unless you test every backup you do, and consequently can’t backup fast enough, I don’t see how you can predict that future files and situations won’t trigger bugs in a software

Going unmaintained is a non issue, since you can still restore from your backup. It is not like a subscription or proprietary software which is no longer usable when you stop to pay for it or the company owning goes down.

Until they hit a hard bug or don’t support newer transport formats or scenarios. Also the community dries up eventually