Category: internet

have to give a HUGHE praise to the Tor Project! just checked and they DO AN EXCELLENT job at keeping the user private the developers who constantly work to make the system better the thousands of volunteering admins that run […]

https://app.diagrams.net/ there is also an cross OS offline version but: Security “draw.io Desktop is designed to be completely isolated from the Internet, apart from the update process. This checks github.com at startup for a newer version and downloads it from […]

mass surveillance is real & cencorship is real: Why does Google hate Tor? Because Google is a mass-surveillance AI. And surveillance hates anonymizing networks such as Tor. That’s why the visitor of this website SHOULD donate to Tor and Signal […]

one fine day, DNS stopped working. the reason this time was NOT on the server-side, but on the Google side, blocking all DNS servers that are NOT google. while this can be understood in the terms of CyberSec: + (manipulation […]

xmlrpc.php is only in use, if the user uses the wordpress app. if the app is not used, it would be wise to disable this file, because it is frequent target of brute force (trying out a billion passwords) attacks, […]

ALWAY something positive first: Elon actually cares about truth even if Elon WILL have a hard time accepting some truth X-D keep it up 😀 how Elon reacts to “inconveniant truths” will highly decide, if he will stay true or […]

“the internet”, “wifi”, all “electronic communication via air and wires” As with all new technologies, Einstein was hopeful, that this new technology will be used for good to bring peace by better understanding between nations and individuals alike. Of course […]

# run this crontab -e # run backups at 2:00 0 2 * * * /root/scripts/backup.sh # daily updates at 3:00 0 3 * * * /scripts/update.sh mkdir /root/backups vim /root/scripts/backup.sh #!/bin/bash # what to backup WEBROOT=/var/www/html # where to […]

Pro: schneller Techniker vor Ort wenn man Business Kunde ist Con: katastrophaler kompetenz & service egal ob am Telefon oder vor Ort beim ersten Anruf bei der Nicht-Business Hotline, tatsächlich schnell jemand erreicht mit dem Hinweis: Er sei der falsche, […]

here is hugo https://gohugo.io/ recommended by a user, so have to look at it installing it for GNU Linux Debian users is as easy as: (no need for snap or brew) lsb_release -d; # tested on Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 […]

What is interesting, that 33% of all website creators, decide to not use any CMS at all (static HTML/manually editing it). there is even a trend of creating cms inside wordperss, “cms inside the cms” so to speak, with plugins […]

automatic (daily, hourly?) updates of everything internet-reachable is important. of course developers need to provide timely updates for possible cybersec problems users/admins need working update methods that work with minimum downtime the wordpress “automatic core and plugin auto-updates” feature, has […]

let’s face it: the internet has become a gigantic surveillance machine, with hundreds of private companies, trying to collect as much data on the user as possible in order to “predict the market” while also using with AI to analyze […]

Open Source is about enabling users “Amazon, Microsoft, Google” and the White House, want to help make Open Source more secure… https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-150-millionen-us-dollar-sollen-open-source-absichern-2205-165382.html https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-linux-foundation-will-security-praxis-vereinheitlichen-2008-150036.html src of src: “White House OSS Mobilization Plan” 2022: https://openssf.org/blog/2022/05/11/testimony-to-the-us-house-committee-on-science-and-technology/ 2020: “The OpenSSF is a cross-industry collaboration […]

0) for security: keep all internet connected devices as up to date as possible! “Freifunk updates its router firmware and closes a critical security vulnerability that could allow attackers to install their own firmware on the devices” (src: heise.de) Also […]

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what is great about books vs blogs? (+) paper books don’t need electricity and hightech to function. energy grid and tcp networks (up to now) have worked pretty reliably, but at any given day, a massive solar flare or a […]

criminals abusing tor for malicous behavior should be blocked, right? “50% of the attacks are leveraging the Tor anonymity service to mask their true origins” https://thehackernews.com/2021/12/new-local-attack-vector-expands-attack.html this could destroy the “honest” part of the network that truly exists, because it […]

the positive vision (always start with something positive) if big data about every keystroke every step we make (the police: every step you make) algorithms determine how mankind will live and thus: technology is “neutral” until it is used for […]

update: Starlink reduced price to 80EUR! 😀 PLUS: THE HARDWARE IS FOR FREE! (the very good hardware alone is worth ~2000USD!) Thanks Elon! 😀 Support SpaceX: mankind’s only hope to ever reach Mars! order Starlink now! intro: would the user […]

update: 2021-08 from the TL-WA901ND menu: “Bridge with AP – In Bridge with AP mode, this device can be used to combine multiple local networks in distant hard-to-wire distant together to the same one via wireless connections. While bridging with […]

app only? no browser support? not exactly click here: any tag topic can be seen in browser via: https://social.librem.one/tags/librem5 so it seeeems like these service are aimed at selling and be used mostly by app with the pretty expensive Librem […]

in short: humans per default, without an education might just be “better” apes. Some parts of mankind behave very primitive and clearly show no signs of higher intelligence or education. The troubles start, when the tools become more and more […]

update: join me @ online-coworking-space.com https://play.workadventu.re/@/online/coworking/space.com first of: the online conferecing as RPG game format is really fun and innovative idea to make online events more fun! 🙂 (it is accompanied by live streams via vimeo or youtube) Corona will […]

every user want’s a fast & responsive internet. BIND and DNS – the Phonebook of the internet – Berkeley Internet Name Domain – how to benchmark dns servers (find fastest) – LibreDNS There is nothing more anoying than slow loading […]

CentOS 7 (maintained until 2024) is hailed a rock-solid GNU Linux Open Source (?) server OS, hardened by many idelaistic developers & RedHat technicians. …and indeed it performed well on it’s xfs filesystem (thanks all involved also thanks to RedHat […]

Yes! RSS (“Really Simple Syndication“) FEEDs are still a very practical thing to follow certain websites & blogs & news outlets & aggregators & stay current on those platforms. Instead of letting big media outlets shovel news indiscriminately down the […]

the story goes like this. multiple files were zipped under Windows 7 (Pro German/DE) and unzipped under GNU Linux Debian 10. The problem is: that the special chars of the filenames are all reported as “invalid encoding” (within the MATE […]

update: Starlink reduced price to 80EUR! 😀 PLUS: THE HARDWARE IS FOR FREE! (the very good hardware alone is worth ~2000USD!) Thanks Elon! 😀 Support SpaceX: mankind’s only hope to ever reach Mars! order Starlink now!     Update: Amazon […]

always say something positive first: FritzBoxes are great (DSL/LTE/…) internet routers (up to now) all FritzBoxes work with 12V DC (which is great for usage with small solar power stations (that are usually 12V based)) high quality & reliable secure […]