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What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
  • xpra: it is like tmux but for X windows (works on wayland), but it can do much more than that. You can seamlessly run GUI programs from a container or VM on your main desktop while still sandboxing their X capabilities, forward windows from Windows desktops, and it has efficient encoding so it is usable over poor connections as well.

  • Proton Mail Finally Releases Desktop Apps With a Linux Beta Version
  • The main benefit is since it is locally installed, it is harder for proton's server to access your encrypted data by serving you malicious JS. A malicious desktop app/update could be served too, but that may be trickier.

  • ISP junk generator
  • It usually isn't super hard to tell apart randomized junk like this from real human patterns. That is why Tor Browser for example tries its best to make everyone look the same instead of randomizing everything.

    That said, for the mere purpose of throwing off the ISPs profiling algorithms, you could make a relatively simple python program to solve this. A naive solution would just do an http GET to each site, but a better solution would mimic human web browsing:

    If you have no programming capability this will be rough. If you have at least a little you can follow tutorials and use an LLM to help you.

    The main issue with this goal is that it isn't possible to tell how advanced your ISP's profiling is, so you have no way to know if your solution is effective.

    Feel free to DM me if you go this route.

  • Do you donate to FOSS projects?
  • Hello open source dev here (though no very popular projects), even relatively small donations are morale boosts (e.g, $5, $10), which is kind of sad but yeah. If you can't do that, at least put effort into bug reports and use good manners.

  • Do I need a firewall for my fedora 38?
  • Its best to have some defence in depth. Ideally you would have a firewall on your network AND your local machine. If you are running a laptop definitely have a local firewall on that as you cannot trust random networks you connect to when out and about in the world.

    firewalld is sufficient, i suggest learning its CLI as it is not super complicated. ufw is ok if you are allergic to command line.

  • What are some great open source games?
  • One Hour One Life is open source, it is a 2D hand drawn survival game where you have 1 real life houre to live from a baby to an elder and contribute to the player-made society in your life as best you can.

    You have to pay for an account on the official servers, but i recommend you do to support the development.

    Not sure if the dev accepts community patches or not, but the game is public domain license.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hour_One_Life

  • How to write a 'tar' command
  • I don't think tar is actually hard, we are just in the time where we externalize more information into resources such as Google. Its the same reason why younger people don't remember routes by name or cardinal direction as much anymore.

    side note: $ tldr is much better than man for just getting common stuff done.

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    gibson @sopuli.xyz

    programmer interested in privacy/security. Mostly Go and Python

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