Set up a firewall and only open port 22 with your IP (you can look it up using ip.me).
I keep wondering about this part whenever I read it. Do y’all have static IP addresses so you can do this easily? If I did this, I’d probably lock myself out within a week (which is roughly the interval at which my public IPv4 will change).
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The problem is: you’re assuming they’re arguing in good faith when they say it’s about pRoTeCtInG tHe ChIlDrEn. It’s not. It’s a pretext for the data grab and mass surveillance of everyone. They will gladly take your argument, claim age verification is compatible with privacy and anonymity, and then introduce age verification systems that do implement mass surveillance. Don’t give them an inch.
Discovered and got psittsa up and running, a cool little project that combines Piper (TTS engine) with a web frontent that allows users to copy-paste text or URLs and to either stream the audio from the browser or download it as mp3. Apparently it even does clean-up of old files behind the scenes.
Wait, the Dear Leader’s member is RJ45-sized? Wow, that’s even more pathetic than I had anticipated.
Yes. Because this is not about verifying your age; that’s just the pretext. This is about identifying you and remotely being able to lock you out of the devices you longer own and control.
But then again, if you use YouTube and Steam, you’re not in control or own anything, so…
As should have become abundantly clear by now: no laws apply, at least not when they’re in the way of the fascists or their billionaire enablers.
Tbh, I very much doubt that the bottom lines of, say, Dassault, BMW, Metro, or UBS would even budge if Twitter were to self-ignite over night, and their Twitter accounts with it. They’re (still) on this dumpster fire of a platform because “everybody is” and some bellend in marketing thinks it impossible not to do what all the others are doing. I’d argue no consumer cares what the Twitter account of Tesco’s has or hasn’t been posting this week, and it has zero effect on their purchasing decisions there.
“Self-employed creators”, aka influencers, aka people shilling products while pretending to be your friend, might be affected more because they lack any non-virtual connection to their “customers” But then again, we could ask ourselves if these provide any real-world value and should exist in the first place.
If Europe banned X tomorrow, a lot of people and companies would take a non-negligible hit to their revenue.
Care to back up that claim? What exactly is Twitter’s contribution to their bottom line that they cannot live without?
If I weren’t pretty convinced of Mullvad, this coming from the company that promoted a VPN to spy on people would make me immediately suspicious. Fuck you, Mark! You’ll never be a real human.
Hey there, fella! If the findings confirm my biases, sample size is irrelevant. Science has spoken! /s
I’m pretty sure everyone’s birth date is 1/1/1970
FTFY
“Won’t anyone think of the cHiLdReN?!”
I guess that’s the point when I’ll just go offline for good and learn a solid, old-fashioned trade.
Agreed. Reading this, or trying to, I was switching back and forth between “this is missing information” and “why provide this additional explanation?” The target audience isn’t clear. Either go for the technical deep dive or provide a much higher-level explanation of what happened. Not this… mess in between.
Gentoo user: “Of course we build from source! (What are snaps?)”
Things are moving very fast right now with a lot of back end linux stuff changing rapidly to support more people and programs coming off Windows.
Please, indulge me. What exactly is it you’re talking about here?
Imo, not having access to the most recent Thunderbird or LibreOffice version doesn’t matter at all to beginners, making Debian-based systems perfectly viable.
Fedora KDE, on the other hand, may turn out to be an annoyance once they need to install proprietary drivers (as OP is due to their NVIDIA card).
Don’t worry, Arch will do that over time.
Very basically (ELI5):
You may now begin to understand why I wouldn’t recommend Bazzite to beginners: it’s a cool, but advanced concept, and you need to understand its limitations and workarounds. Otherwise, you will just be roadblocked at some point, or, like you are, hacking away on the command line without actually understanding what you’re doing. On that note, props to you for succeeding! But also, at the risk of sounding like a gatekeeper, it shouldn’t be that way, for two reasons:
As a beginner switching from Windows, you have enough things to familiarise yourself with: the file system structure is different (“Where’s my C:\ drive?”), software installation is different (“Wait? I don’t just download random binaries from the Internet like a caveman?”) and a lot of software is different (“Where is Paint? Where is Outlook? And where did the ribbon menu in Office go?”). You really shouldn’t have to tackle the command line to get basic functionality working.
If and when you start working on the command line, you must understand what you’re doing, because the command line assumes you do. It lets you do anything with and to your system, which makes it a very powerful tool. But powerful tools need to be handled with caution, and as you can see from your experience, Bazzite does not teach you that: it expects you to use the terminal right away, and since you can’t, you just resort to copy-pasting random commands off the internet. In Bazzite, this cannot hurt you much because of how the distro ist built. But it’s an absolutely terrible habit for new Linux users to get into. Once you switch distros and move to something else than Bazzite, just running random commands on the command line can absolutely wreck your system.
Sure, that’s what I do for hosting my stuff. DDNS does not help with SSH whitelisting because that is IP-based, not based on a URL.