nakal

There is a lot of power to waste for the savings you made, when not buying expensive SSDs (20€ a year is not much). Where we use HDDs, we don’t care about noise. Durability? We use huge RAID systems with lots of redundancy.

I personally like to swap new drives after 5 years to avoid failures. So when you find a 16 TB SSD for 350€, you send me a message.

I mostly use lightweight virtualization with containers and jails at home. I have one BHyVe VM, but I plan to eliminate virtualization completely. It’s a waste of resources for my setup.

Wait, I thought the terminal/shell was the modern UI…

I’ve been using vim/neovim for more than a decade. Here are my favorite plugins (ranked):

• junegunn/fzf
• junegunn/fzf.vim
• bling/vim-airline
• airblade/vim-gitgutter
• w0rp/ale
• Shougo/deoplete.nvim
• tpope/vim-surround
• tpope/vim-fugitive
• tpope/vim-unimpaired

I have never needed iMessage in my life and I haven’t even seen it. Proprietary messaging apps are not trustworthy.

You should notice that I use the word “trust”. I install stuff on my servers and PCs from people who I trust. Why should I trust someone who makes an anticheat engine. Why should I have a reason to do that?

You should also understand that a kernel-level piece of code that can be updated is a very good rootkit. It contains all essential tools to modify hardware, kernel, install drivers, keyloggers etc. It satisfies the definition of “rootkit” very well.

One single piece of code is enough to be a rootkit.

Also definition by antimalware vendors:
https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/definition/rootkit
https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/what-is-rootkit
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/rootkit-revealer#what-is-a-rootkit

Popular definition (e.g . Ionos):

Rootkits: The rootkit is considered to be a type of Trojan horse. Many Trojan horses exhibit the characteristics of a rootkit. The main difference is that rootkits actively conceal themselves in a system and also typically provide the hacker with administrator rights.

If you compromise your system with software that you don’t know and potentially can introduce a backdoor (even involuntary via bugs), you have a rootkit installed.

If you don’t trust it, don’t install it with admin privileges. Maybe don’t install it at all. Anticheat is a shady business. And mostly not owned by the company that produces the maybe trusted product to be protected.

Anti cheat = rootkit. You should not install it at all.

I know enough about XMPP or earlier called Jabber to not to run it anymore, after years of self-hosting Prosody.

You just need a client like Element.io or other clients. If you don’t want to connect to the main server matrix.org which is quite slow, you choose one from the federation.

People who own a server and know how to do administration tasks can install their own instance and attach it to the federation. You can use one of the Matrix server applications for self-hosting.

XMPP needs a connected network socket which is pretty bad in a time of mobile services. The 90s are over.

Thanks for the lesson… haha

Of course, but OP wanted to implicate that this worm stays local in a network. You need an USB stick to carry it over.

I can only use Xmonad as a window manager, so I’d like to avoid Wayland. But what Mozilla enables as default is fortunately not relevant.

Linux distributions compile stuff by themselves. No one uses vendor-provided software if there is a way to compile it.

It looks like Gitea. Is it a fork?

It’s called entertainment. It makes as much sense to mix up addiction with games, as with NFL, football, TV, movies etc.

I honestly hear the first time about this. Who sends you share requests?

You’re 27 years late, according to my watch.

It’s especially a problem to explain that you don’t have any particular popular social media account.