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Username: IAmNix
Joined: June 2022
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Last Active: December 24
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> [@tentor said](/discussion/comment/224952/#Comment_224952): Sorry if I wasn't clear. There is still trust to whatever provider operating the hypervisor node hosting your VPS. You are trusting th…

Thanked by (2)oloke tentor
> [@terrorgen said](/discussion/comment/224797/#Comment_224797):

>With dirt cheap prices and virmach's preceding reputation you know what you're buying. If you know about v…

Thanked by (1)jcn50
> [@tentor said](/discussion/comment/224849/#Comment_224849): Extracting LUKS encryption key from VPS RAM isn't particularly hard task unless memory encryption is used (AMD SEV). With unencrypted …

Thanked by (1)oloke
Accepting payment for services you're not able to deliver, regardless of good intentions/poor judgement, makes you have the same damage and pattern as a malicious actor, scammer.

Undou…

Thanked by (1)jcn50
> [@lowendmeow said](/discussion/comment/224550/#Comment_224550):

>All my personal devices are encrypted but I am skeptical of the benefit of having an encrypted volume or …

Thanked by (3)bikegremlin lowendmeow skorous
Just after christmas is the best time to pick up a secondhand macbook :) Everyone's dumping their old model.

Thanked by (2)vyas imok
> @Not_Oles said:
> I am investigating open source hardware and software Chromebook alternatives. The questions are, what, and how. :)

Perhaps you want to look into flashi…

Thanked by (1)Not_Oles
> @Not_Oles said:
> Thanks @Cloudnium_Tang!
>
> Here is the link: https://aliexpess.com/item/1005005164078669.html
>
> And what I saw when I vis…

Thanked by (1)Not_Oles
The problem with cloudflare isn't that it's less reliable, it's that it's a private for-profit business based in the US whose business model is to privatize the entire internet and centralize all tra…

Thanked by (6)wankel gremeyer sh97 AlwaysSkint bikegremlin quicksilver03
Review after 9 months:

Useless. A transparent scam.

- VPS now magically only have 1 vCPU and 1 GB RAM
- Filesystem goes into read-only mode a few minutes after bo…

Thanked by (5)charleenk mandala jcn50 Kris Blembim
Edit 2: after writing this reply, I noticed that @ThatDevAaron [runs a competing, very sketchy VPN service](https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/7784/free-to-use-vpn-independently-audited-vpnaas-org-e…

Thanked by (2)fluttershy skorous
@somik,
Sorry, I don't really understand what you're arguing here. And I don't feel like having several more messages to understand you.

To any causal readers, I repeat this ad…

Thanked by (1)wankel
> @somik said:
> The trick is to NOT keep your system "extremely well updated".
>
> This is present only in the bleeding edge packages with xz version 5.6.x (confirm…

Thanked by (1)someTom
Ansible.

It's a sysadmin framework that abstracts away a lot of the OS specifics, but still lets you write simple code that can either just run pure bash, or do simple/advanced sysadmi…

Thanked by (3)tentor GeekWanderer wankel
The committer who made the backdoor, has been active for two years before planting this backdoor. They have touched many other pieces during those two years. They had many opportunities to plant simi…

Thanked by (1)someTom
> @FatGrizzly said:
> so no more DMCA ignore?
> Will it still continue on?
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> @Calin said:
> Of course, our top priority remains Ignore DMCA, priva…

Thanked by (1)FatGrizzly
I would take this quite seriously if I were a customer at one of the providers in the list, and ask the company how they are dealing with this.

Remember - the risk isn't that your serv…

Thanked by (1)Lantern1368
Oh, there's a script to detect infection:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4/3

Thanked by (1)bliss
> @Freek said:
> > @AuroraZero said:
> >
> > Black Magic lmfao!!! You were on the right scent with wireguard.
> >
> > May I ask …

Thanked by (1)Freek
What you need is indeed that iptables magic. I actually had this exact issue last week, and gave up at the same step. :D

If you're able to reinstall the Linux VPS, perhaps using a rout…

Thanked by (1)Freek
> @Otus9051 said:
> Upon very very closer inspection with the help of my sister, I have come to find out that a chip RT8059 which is responsible to power the DDR has blown up.
>…

Thanked by (2)wankel yoursunny
> @AuroraZero said:

> I run about 50 Tor exists around the globe, countless GFW hacks for people that where and how to look, I sponsor a Vet's integration program in my area, bui…

Thanked by (1)Chievo
My mom taught me, that whatever I have extra of, I should share with others. So I am trying to share the servers I have access to, in a productive way that benefit people less privileged than me.

Thanked by (1)Lantern1368
Yes, vastly.

I'd say three major effects are in play: Entropy, guessability and 2FA aka Wrench Proofness

**Entropy** in short means how much randomness is contained. Mor…

Thanked by (6)Freek rcy026 wankel Lantern1368 yoursunny Wonder_Woman
> @IAmNix said:
> I'm not able to install tailscale on my VPS, because https://pkgs.tailscale.com return `451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons` on seemingly all requests, making even `apt …

Thanked by (1)treesmokah
> [@bikegremlin said](/discussion/4866/selling-a-15-gb-download): I expect a relatively steep rise of downloads, that will taper off to a low number of downloads over time.

Torrents…

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