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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Careful with wiping anything with the “boot” flag. That can backfire very badly depending on how your system is set up. Those are small anyways so i would just leave them and only kill the ntfs partitions and combine that space into an extra partition that you can store stuff in.

    Resizing partitions is messy so if you want a clean setup with one big home partition i would just reinstall. You could also copy everything in the home partition to a backup drive and just try out resizing. If it breaks you can create a new home partition and copy everything back.


  • Es gibt eine Limit ab dem die Angst vor einem Gefängnisaufenthalt nicht mehr den Schmerz des normalen Lebens überwiegt für so manche Leute. Wenn das passiert dann wirds lustig. Die Lösung des Staats dafür ist dann immer mehr Überwachung und Polizeigewalt zur Abschreckung. Cory Doctorow hat da sehr schön drüber geschrieben in Surveillance is inequality’s stabilizer

    Hier ein Ausschnitt:

    Spying is part of a broader class of activities called “guard labor” – anything you might pay someone to do that results in fewer guillotines being built on your lawn. Guard labor can be paying someone to build a wall around your estate or neighborhood. It can be paying security guards to patrol the wall. It can be paying for CCTV operators, or drone operators. It can be paying for surveillance, too.

    Guard labor isn’t free. The pitch for guard labor is that it is a cheaper way to get social stability than the alternative: building schools and hospitals, paying a living wage, lowering prices, etc. It follows that when you make guard labor cheaper, you can build fewer schools and hospitals, pay lower wages, and raise prices more, and buy more guard labor to counter the destabilizing effect of these policies, and still come out ahead.









  • ElementX (main mobile matrix client) has live location sharing that works in group chats. Be aware that any location sharing system that loads map data (tiles) from a server automatically leaks your location to that server. The only way to solve this would be to have all the map tiles required stored offline but I’m not aware of any solution that does this. The simplest way to achieve maximum privacy is to just have something that automatically shares just the coordinates as a text message at a regular interval then you can open those coordinates in an offline map app.

    As you can see here, the map tiles are loaded from “MapLibre” when using ElementX or rather its cool fork SchildiChatNext. That means MapLibre would technically know roughly where you are and have been. All apps that dont prompt you to download large chunks of map data in advance will load map tiles on demand and expose your location.

    https://schildi.chat/next/







  • Controlling the software is an integral part of the ethos of self hosting. Literally right in the first sentence of the wikipedia page.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(network)

    Self-hosting is the practice of running and maintaining a website or service, as well as own servers for e-mail, IM, NTP and so on, using a private server, instead of using a service outside of the administrator’s own control. Self-hosting allows users to have more control over their data, privacy, and computing infrastructure, as well as potentially saving costs and improving skills.

    instead of using a service outside of the administrator’s own control

    Plex is outside of the administrators control.