This guy politics

Not through a Wireguard tunnel

How about a modern fork of Truecrypt that looks and works exactly like it?

https://veracrypt.io/en/Home.html

You can also disable it with a Group Policy too and delete any keys that were uploaded to Microsoft with manage-bde while adding your own keys, but for the average person Bitlocker is going to be how it comes by default.

Pre-builts are even worse because that’s another party who has had access to your keys and there are not laws that they would violate by keeping copies (for your convenience, of course)

Mine is ***********************

Weird, when you type your root password it posts as stars.

but for computers, you can easily use a 10 word passphrase.

Correct Horse Battery Staple

https://xkcd.com/936/

You can also, with a bit of fiddling use hardware security keys like Yubikey: https://gist.github.com/cmedianu/470a49038e919cf5bc98cd0d2299c484 if you don’t want to remember passwords (You can also install a password in another LUKS slot and it will fall-back to the password if your key fails)

Arch for the chads (and authors of future ‘Help my Linux Broke’ OPs)

If only there were another operating system that people could use rather than have their privacy and security raked over the coals by poor design fueled by next quarter’s profits.

It’s a shame that, according to a recent study of social media respondents, 98% of the Internet are Professional Valorant streamers, who play League of Legends and side hustle as a Mechanical Engineer and Digital Artist or they could browse around the world of alternative operating system and mayhaps find some other Operating System which fits their needs (TempleOS).

Oh no, who could have possibly seen this coming when Microsoft decided to back up your full-disk encryption key automatically to OneDrive.

Smart of them to deploy automatic full disk encryption just as open source projects like Trucrypt and Veracrypt were starting to become mainstream, capturing their market share (Netscape Navigator-style). Very incompetent of them to include many glaring backdoors that completely defeats the encryption that they offer.

In addition to being vulnerable to law enforcement through subpoenas on the stored key. Anytime you run a Windows update and the system has to reboot, it writes a ‘clear key’ to the hard drive which can be easily retrieved if the disk is stolen and also they bypass TPM Validation.

You know, the thing that is so important to have that you were forced to buy an entirely new computer… it is not active during a system update and anybody who had access to your hard drive can write arbitrary code into your system files.

Well, you would think that this isn’t very useful, after all they would have to have pretty good timing to catch you updating your computer to remove the hard drive, right?

Nope, if they steal your whole computer and plug it into power and a network connection, the next time a Windows update hits the system will automatically apply the update (absent a very specific Group Policy) and write the full-disk encryption key to the hard drive before shutting down.

I’m no expert computerologist, but I think that any system that requires anybody but you to have your key is insecure. If this is the kind of poor design choices that they make in regards to disk encryption then I would personally have no confidence that their proprietary code is not equally porous.

yt-dlp is a handy tool

In some sense they are not wrong.

The average person has no idea how technology works because these companies do everything for them for free in exchange for their private data.

It used to be common that kids would learn how to use computers to pirate music and burn CDs. Now the incentives to learn (free music/movies) is gone because Spotify and Google give you all you want for the low price of your privacy and eternal dependency on them for access to the fruits of technology.

Getting your privacy back means giving up those conveniences and learning to use the technology that you depend on. For most people that is too much to ask.

“Luckily” the deluge of algorithm enabled propaganda and resultant fascist resurgence have some people questioning this bargain.

Elastocaloric coolers are not new. There are even some versions that you can buy right now, they usually for niche industrial use and have their own set of problems, namely that they’re not remotely as efficient as vapor compression so it costs more and moves less heat.

The breakthrough here was discovering a different alloy that allows sub-zero temperatures. It doesn’t change the efficiency which is the primary barrier to adoption.

Hey guys, stop using Google and Meta and X and Amazon.

They’re kinda ruining civilisation with their terrible ideas and all you get in exchange is news that doesn’t inform you, social interactions that are largely artificial and a permanent inability to use technology which they exploit by selling you enshittification-laden garbage.

The price of their “free” services is way too high. Get rid of them.

If you want a nice way to elevate the usability of your setup use Tailscale (or self-host Headscale) and run your devices on a VPN.

My devices are never not on my “LAN”, they maintain a VPN connection and access my local services as if they’re wired in. Remote pihole, multimedia streaming, password management etc are all covered by this one solution without needing to deal with reverse proxies and certificates.

You’re welcome.

The installation is easy too. GrapheneOS has a WebUSB installation process that is basically plugging your unlocked phone into USB, allowing GrapheneOS WebUSB access, and pressing go. It takes maybe 10 minutes. (I went into it expecting manual jailbreak-level difficulty and was very surprised at how easy it was)

“Welcome to Walmart. I love you”.

It does feel a lot like that 'round here

Yes, it has a sandboxed Google Play service and the Play Store app that you can enable which let’s you access apps with hard Google dependencies.

If you want to use it as a regular Android phone it works for everything that doesn’t require Google’s hardware attestation (so, no using your phone for NFC credit card payments mostly). This limitation also affects LineageOS.

AI Horde has a OpenAI compatible REST API (https://oai.aihorde.net/). They say that it doesn’t support the full feature set of their native API, but will almost assuredly work with this.

OP manually builds the oapi JSON payload and then uses the python requests library to handle the request.

The fields they’re using match the documentation on https://oai.aihorde.net/docs

You would need to add a header with your AI Horde API key. Looks like that would only need to be done in router_fastapi.py - call_model_prompt() (line 269) and call_model_messages() (line 303) and then everything else is setup according to documentation

I do hate that if you speak at a language above ‘Reddit Common’ people assume that you’re a neural network instead of just someone who exercises theirs.