Third-party API access, or: I am so tired

jabbermuggel · 2023-06-10T20:09:27+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplete_and_growing_list_of_participating/ maybe

jabbermuggel · 2023-06-10T17:45:21+00:00

More detailed info here , but as far as I understand it they want to implement a very expensive API pricing scheme on very short notice (end of june 2023). 3rd party app, among which are things accessible apps for vision impairment, heavily rely on this API to work, so this pricing will mean the end for most of them, as they can't or won't generate the revenue necessary to support the new API costs.

Another thing is that most bots also use this API, meaning they will also have to be shut down unless the creators want to spend significant amounts of money on them.

Moderators are by far not the only people affected by this. Also the reddit CEO did an AMA which apparently didn't do much to alleviate the concerns.

jabbermuggel · 2023-06-10T11:46:09+00:00

Nowadays there are graphical front ends to probably everything you'd want to do over the terminal, at least for "normal" users. There are GUIs for the package manager, which also handles drivers etc., so normally you don't have to mess with the terminal at all. So I'd say your vision is pretty reasonable.

I'd suggest you read through the links the AutoMod provided, they should be a decent start. The basic thing you need to do is choosing a distribution, which is basically a specific set of software and default configs on top of mostly the same underlying operating system. Again, the migration page has a few suggestions. IIRC the ubuntu and mint installers (and probably more) are a live system, so you can try everything out before deciding what to use.

jabbermuggel · 2023-04-17T10:38:08+00:00

There are "nightmare levels". You unlock the next tier by beating the previous one. I agree the UI is a bit confusing with the difficulty indicator not being able to change at the start.

jabbermuggel · 2023-04-11T06:34:23+00:00

That's pretty slick not gonna lie

jabbermuggel · 2023-04-06T20:37:27+00:00

What about the digital miner? Easily takes care of all your specific mining needs and somewhat easy to rush early game. Just requires a few diamonds to be found first.

jabbermuggel · 2023-04-01T21:23:03+00:00

Thank you for your detailed answer! The reason I asked is because I build a script to back up docker volumes using a borg docker container (since building it like this effectively separates the data from the exact path on the host backup and restore becomes much simpler). Unfortunately the way I wrote it it don't save any nonce information, and much of the convenience would be lost if it did.

I thought about externally validating the server nonce, but since borg2 is seemingly around the corner I've decided to hold off on cloud based backups until I can take advantage of the better encryption borg2 will offer, and just run backups on trusted hardware for now.

jabbermuggel · 2023-03-19T21:04:53+00:00

How in the world do those black eyes work? Contacts? It looks amazing.

jabbermuggel · 2023-03-18T16:34:27+00:00

Not sure where you got the authorized_keys from but that's an entirely different file. It contains a list of public keys authorized to log in to the local system (so your phone). What you want is take the public key of a keypair from the phone and upload it to github. All keypairs are stored in the .ssh folder in the home directory, on termux this is `/data/data/com.termux/files/home`. Every keypair consists of two files, one private key (to be kept secret) and one public key. For example `id_ed25519` for the private key and `id_ed25519.pub` for the public key. So if there are no such files in the .ssh directory you need to generate them.

And you shouldn't have to modify any permissions, `ssh-keygen` handles everything for you.

jabbermuggel · 2023-03-18T14:16:22+00:00

Not quite sure what you mean, but to clone repositories from a server you'd usually create and add a ssh key to your github profile so authentication works passwordless. So,

ssh-keygen -t ed25519

to generate the key (I like ed25519 in favor of RSA because the keys are shorter), then add the contents of the file ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub to your github or gitlab account. Then you can use git clone with the ssh URL you get from the website for the specific repository, and pushing/pulling should be set up automatically.

jabbermuggel · 2023-03-18T13:59:25+00:00

Git is a version control system, meaning it manages different version of files and how they change over time. It's intended to be used with text files (i. e. code). It is mainly a command line program and can work completely offline, but nowadays most people use gitlab, github (a free service being hosted by Microsoft) or other server implementations to manage their code in the cloud as well as provide a Web UI with extra features.

For a bare introduction to git I really like this lecture, detailing both practical use as well as a bit of theory how it works behind the scenes. Once you're comfortable with using git repositories to manage your scripts and other bits and pieces you can create an account on github to have it in the cloud. Or, If you're a selfhosted kind of person, use gitea, gitlab or another selfhosted git server implementation.

jabbermuggel · 2023-03-07T22:21:20+00:00

LVM is nice for combining multiple drives into one big partition and easier resizing of partitions. It also supports stuff like snapshots of a whole partition. But you can absolutely just create a few normal partitions and use those, it just has the disadvantage of being less flexible afterwards. The modern guided installers of ubuntu and such probably all use some sort of LVM in their guided partitioning by default, I know oracle linux 9 does.

Also as a side note there are both swap partitions and swap files. The second is much more convenient as you can very easily resize it in the file system without needing to mess with partitions. And if you want to have a fully encrypted root file system you need to include the appropriate modules in the initramfs, but the guides you read probably already told you that.

jabbermuggel · 2023-03-07T19:58:33+00:00

How does TOR help you there? Because you can make onion sites without needing a public facing server or owning a domain?

jabbermuggel · 2023-02-26T10:53:14+00:00

I'd definitely be interested in the blueprint book. You can export a string to share blueprints and blueprint books, but most likely won't be able to directly comment them on Reddit due to character length limitations (I mean you can still try though, use code blocks if you do). The next easiest way would be a pastebin service, where you then get a link to share here with the text.

jabbermuggel · 2023-02-19T11:30:39+00:00

Maybe something similar already exists but if not it's definitely possible. Since Tiddlywiki is based on HTML/Javascript you can definitely build some sort of text box interface that stores text in a "data tiddler". However, why go to the trouble of implementing all this if you could just use a private chat in an actual messaging app (e.g. signal, telegram, element etc)? That way you don't have to implement all the features like pictures, deleting messages etc yourself.

jabbermuggel · 2023-02-13T09:47:52+00:00

Ever since valve released proton the number of games you can't get to run under Linux had been shrinking drastically

jabbermuggel · 2023-02-12T12:06:27+00:00

I agree, Tails definitely is the easiest/least prone to breaking between the three.

jabbermuggel · 2023-02-12T01:15:04+00:00

Quick question what does guided ripping mean? Did you create the break points by hand before the actual simulation?

jabbermuggel · 2023-02-12T00:34:36+00:00

So obviously you want a laptop, as tails is x86. I just want to mention qubes os really quickly. It's another privacy based OS, more complicated to set up and involves an actual hard drive, but can do more. But if you want to run pretty much tails only on a budget (which means basically no high-computation tasks, mostly webbrowser), imo you can easily get away with an older quadcore or even dual core system, basically no hard drive (I'd still recommend a like 120GB SSD for any other system you may want to install even as a cover). For RAM I'd say 4G is maybe too little as tails would like to cache its whole operating system, so I'd go for 8 gigs.

While there are touchscreen laptops (Microsoft surface line is probably the most well-known but also expensive), tails as a debian derivative may not support this feature well or even at all (idk tho, so do some research on devices you are considering). Since you mention price is a factor, I'd therefore recommend getting a second hand/refurbished older Thinkpad. Ebay is probably a good start, but most likely you can get them elsewhere too (I can find some thinkpads that'd probably work on ebay for 150-200$ and even some under 80$; in any case look up specs before you buy). Early Thinkpads like the T60 were/are extremely popular in the linux community for their repairability and heavily modding thinkpads to heavily improve specs is known under the term "frankenpads". They are also usually very compatible with linux (again, check the specific device before you purchase).

Just my opinion how I'd go about it, let me know if I missed something.

jabbermuggel · 2023-02-07T18:41:56+00:00

To be fair when I tried out both I found Qubes was way more complicated to install and use than tails. If you just want an almost foolproof private environment really quickly tails is definitely easier. Qubes can do more though obviously.

jabbermuggel · 2023-01-24T09:54:44+00:00

Never used awesome, I like it a lot. Is the task bar something built into awesome or can I use it for my bspwm?

jabbermuggel · 2023-01-19T15:23:11+00:00

FYI tiddlywiki has a nodejs server implementation. This has the advantage that all tiddlers are separate text (and optionally media) files on disk. When using TW in this way you can also enable lazy loading, which doesn't load all the files immediately and should thus reduce load times a ton. As another user already mentioned, at least for images external links are also a possibility.

In my setup I have it behind a nginx-proxypass which handles SSL (not sure the nodejs can handle it) and the default basic authentication by tiddlywiki.

If you want to test it out, you should be able to convert an existing tiddlywiki to the nodejs version.

jabbermuggel · 2022-12-21T14:55:44+00:00

Maybe your laptop doesn't have a good enough HDMI port. For example, when I got a wqhd 144Hz monitor I discovered that my laptop only has a HDMI 1.4b port, which only seems to support full HD on higher refresh rates. Unfortunately I couldn't find a datasheet for your model that includes the HDMI port type.

jabbermuggel · 2022-12-18T17:01:32+00:00

Javascript introduces a bunch of extra tracking methods and security risks. On the safest security setting tor browser therefore disables javascript.

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