Ramblings from a random GNU/Linux user, sysadmin, and professional multi-instrumentalist
dmca.pro has been issuing DMCA notices against Twitter content accessed through our Nitter instance every week for almost six months. I spent a few months ignoring them but they started CCing our server provider, Hetzner . For the last few months, Hetzner has been forwarding these notices to me and creating abuse tickets for every single one of them. They’ve started threatening to disable the IP…
I’ve already posted about it on on Mastodon but I thought I would do so here as well in case anyone subscribes to the feed who isn’t on the Fediverse. I will be hosting a community hangout on Mumble at some point on April 24th—coincidentally the same day I’ll be deleting the old Mastodon server—and I’ll be around for an hour or so to talk about whatever; there is no specific topic. If you want to…
Forward You should always be careful when choosing a VPS provider. In the online world, everyone relies on someone somewhere in the chain. Even if you’re self-hosting your services on your own hardware in your living room, your ISP could suddenly decide that you’re using too much bandwidth and throttle your speeds or possibly cut you off entirely. When you’re using a VPS provider (as will be…
After the release of the videos from SouthEast LinuxFest 2019, I found that mine was cut off at the beginning. Because of that, I decided to do a series of posts essentially recapping the talk but including some additional information. If you haven’t seen it, you can watch Building your own cloud on YouTube , Invidious , or PeerTube (recommended). Forward When you’re trying to set up a new…
My server has been sporadically down for the past couple of weeks as I attempted to take advantage of my increased storage. The server has 160 GB but I was only able to use 40 of those because the partitions were too small. I just figured it out and thought I’d write about it 😉 Forward There are ways you can do this entirely in CLI but I found a GUI easier. I don’t say that often but it holds…
Changing your default DNS servers to ones that use DNS-over-TLS can do a lot to make your systems more secure and private. DNS is also a serious tool for censorship and tracking if used foolishly. Before choosing a provider, make sure you actually read their privacy policy and terms of service. There are some good recommendations here (I’m partial to UncensoredDNS) and of course I have to shill my…
Forward The more I interact with people who don’t care about ads, the more I feel like I need to do something about it. To be quite honest, ads annoy the hell out of me and I can’t stand them when I’m listening to audio (podcasts are an exception as long as they aren’t too intrusive), browsing the web, or watching videos. It’s a major inconvenience on both mobile and desktop so this article is…
This post was mirrored from Privacy Today on Telegram. t.me/PrivacyToday Due to recent events we felt compelled to write an impromptu article on this matter. It’s intended for all audiences so it will be kept simple - technical details may be posted later. 1. What Is DNS And Why Does It Concern You? DNS stands for Domain Name System and you encounter it daily. Whenever your web browser or any…
The other day, I had a friend of mine create an account on my Mastodon instance . I made him an admin account thinking I’d have the ability to demote him if I needed to only to find that I couldn’t. So I had him delete his account thinking that he’d be able to remake it with the same username only to find that he couldn’t. This is the username he uses everywhere (like me with Amolith) so I wanted…