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EpicFailGuy

@ EpicFailGuy @lemmy.world

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  • Why?

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  • Switch implies I only have one computer .... I have many, including several servers.

    Ever since I have memory I've been a tinkerer and linux being OS enables you to do amazing things ... along with open source software.

    I (dont) use arch BTW ... Windows on my gaming PC (because of antichieat amongst other compatibility foes) Mint on my personal tablet and Proxmox on my servers

  • Good boah

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  • Interestingly enough ... the Cuban slang for "gay" is the same word we use to describe one of these gender changing fish

    "Cherna" ... while more light heated than the English F word, it's still a derogatory term so please don't use it on your friends.

    Actually now that I think about it, this is how it's most commonly used ... Straight males sling it to their other straight male friends.

  • custom rom?

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  • Unfortunately my phone is firmware locked ... so I have to take the time to root and debloat my daily driver .... it's exhausting

  • Hegseth’s mysterious meeting with generals will focus on grooming and warrior ethos

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  • Can we skip forward to the part where orange Mussolini offs himself sad and alone in a bunker?

  • Starbucks to cut 900 jobs and close dozens of North American stores as sales struggle

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  • Someone likes sugar ....

    Forgive me ... for I am an engineer and we tend to be obnoxiously objective ... but coffee is coffee ... I tend to just make my own, and on a pinch. I prefer gas station's for the convenience

  • where to move for cheap VPS?

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  • This is bad news .... I also host my Pangolin ingress node on Ionos .... Can you let me know what you pick?

  • Alternatives to GrapheneOS

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  • American muscle community for muscle fans on Lemmy

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  • Heads up friend, if you want to actually make an impact you should vote with your wallet and only support countries and companies that are committed to change since they are the ones doing most of the polluting.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/since-2016-80-percent-of-global-co2-emissions-come-from-just-57-companies-report-shows-180984118/

    Personal choices are important, yes ... but a single person choosing to enjoy a muscle car is such a small difference in pollution compared with Chinese factories and the military industrial complex that is several thousand times smaller than the margin of error for these kind of metrics.

    To add on to that, lots of motorsports are actually turning pretty progressive when it comes to climate change, for example Formula1, NASCAR and the WEC use renewable fuels and are making good progress to being carbon neutral.

    Anyways, attacking someone's hobbies while may make you feel superior makes you look preachy and dickish to everyone else.

  • How does encryption work on OS Level?

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  • Cybersecurity engineer here, these are all great answers I just wanted to add a couple tidbits.

    • Where are the keys stored: In enterprise level security, you never want to store your key in the same system you are securing, so you normally use a "Key manager" or an "HSM" (Hardware security module) These are hardened appliances dedicated to generate keys and store them, then other devices that then use protocols such as KMIP or API calls to retrieve them remotely. The key is encrypted in transfer and never stored permanently in the client that is being encrypted. There's also a key encryption mechanism ... but let's not goo too far into it. I'll just mention that there's usually a data encryption key (DEK) and a Key Encryption Key (KEK) and the DEK is never exposed. HSMs themselves are basically physical key managers that have a tamper proof crypto module built in. Think of them as TPM2 on steroids. If you want to read more about these guys check out the FIPS specification that they're built to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140-3
    • How does the OS know which key to use: It doesn't There is usually overlay software than handles this part, typically called an "encryption agent" that runs in the kernel space. Even tho most software is based on open source, encryption agents are usually very complex and secretive. My company's filesystem encryption agent for example embeds 4Kb of metadata on every file with the name of the key that was used to encrypt it to prevent double encryption and help in file restoration. When a file request comes into the OS, we are loaded into the kernel and use a "filter driver" to decide if the file is encrypted or not, and if it's encrypted, we route the file request to a virtual file system that then pipes it to our software for processing ACLs and decryption. If you want to learn more you can check out this brochure. https://cpl.thalesgroup.com/encryption/transparent-encryption

    Happy to answer any questions.

  • I replaced my truck's rusted out muffler

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  • Should have installed a cutoff valve while you're down there for when you feel the need for speed LOL

  • Hochul embraces gerrymandering in New York

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  • when both sides do it, then it becomes ilegal ... there's no point in cheating if you don't gain an advantage.

  • Cybercrooks use Raspberry Pi to steal ATM cash

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  • Watch them try to ban raspberry pi now ... like they did with the flipper

  • Former magistrate, 81, faces six months in jail for Palestine Action vigil

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  • That's fucking awesome!

  • Former magistrate, 81, faces six months in jail for Palestine Action vigil

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  • Embattled Trump nomination kneecapped again as third DOJ  whistleblower comes forward

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  • Yes, the criminals that write the laws surely will see that what they are doing is wrong and arrest themselves

  • Disgraced former Congressman George Santos to begin serving his 7-year fraud sentence

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  • we can only hope so ....

    If Obi-Wan taught us anything, is that there's always a bigger fish ... it just sucks that the bigger fish it's Rupert Murdoch and not the SCOTUS

  • Disgraced former Congressman George Santos to begin serving his 7-year fraud sentence

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  • I hope this is the beginning of a pattern resulting in all grifters ending in jail .... ending with the big one

  • Ghislaine meeting with the DOJ today for a chat

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  • because it's fake ... I'm implying the orange king boy rapist is going to offer her a pardon in exchange for lying under oath

  • Ghislaine meeting with the DOJ today for a chat

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  • I can't believe no one has commented this yet.

    She's not going to say there's no list. She's going to say she has the list and it's conveniently going to contain all of trump's enemies .... probably including Obama.

  • Help me figure out the way to scale laterally?

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  • Interesting, thanks for sharing.

    Any clue what the power draw on the disk array is? I did some basic measurement with the kill-a-watt and a spinner takes about 6-7W where as an SSD takes about 2, the price difference is too much for my use case tho, performance per watt per TB, I'm better off with 1 single disk (or a mirror pair) of 6 TB in spinning rust.

    I'm not particularly concerned about data security since I'm syncing evrything 3 ways. Whenever one of the drive fails I'll consider it a "surprise disaster recovery exercise" XD