I use Iceraven with ublock, privacy badger, decentraleyes and canvasblocker.

Oh right

Because it’s a decent competitor to the GitHub monopoly. It also has a few unique features when compared to it. Just guessing why OP uses it though (many people do)

DIE

Just ordered the PCBs for my second, custom layout split keyboard, the triboard. I’m also working on a service status watcher + page called swec. It will eventually be able to notify you through gotify whenever your services are down, and maybe even redirect clients to the status page. Some other features include custom downtime messages.

Seeing how unethical the company is in general, it would’n’t surprise me if the anticheat was just the worst. Even forgetting the anticheat part, I would NEVER play it.

(Unethical is actually a pretty big euphemism here)

Yeah, most anticheats are actually just rootkits (running at kernel level with unlimited privileges). This is also a big security issue, some games like genshin impact have also been used to create botnets since there is only one privilege escalation from the game itself to the kernel.

Whenever you use an anticheat, you just have to take the company’s word for what they are doing with that kernel-level access.

Wait… Its actually not bad. Apart from advertising WSL there’s some decent instructions for installing Linux in place of windows. This could be a tutorial not affiliated with Microsoft.

Use librewolf instead of Firefox to get rid of the whole spyware part of it. Librewolf only has a single request when starting, to “check for updates”. But using Firefox is the second best thing you can do both for your privacy and to fight Google’s " Web Environment Integrity" crap.

Free software tells you “do whatever you want, you’re free” but open source completely misses the point: it means you can read the code, but not necessarily recompile, modify and redistribute. Plus the term was invented for the confusion that would come from it. For example, a lot of AI models like LLM’s claim they are “open-source”, which basically means nothing: it’s far easier to say that than to claim it’s a free model, because that would imply freedoms to modify, reuse, redistribute the training data, weight etc. (no AI model allows that for now, and there will probably never be one that does).

I’m surprised this strategy was approved for a public server

The goal was to avoid getting hacked on a server that could have many vulnerable services (there are more than 20 services on there). When I set this up I was basically freaked out by the fact I hadn’t updated mastodon more than a week after the last critical vulnerability in it was found (arbitrary code execution on the server). The quantity of affected users, compared to the impact it would have if hacked, made me choose the option of auto-updates back then, even if I now agree it wasn’t clever (and I ended up shooting myself I’m the foot). These days I just do updates semi-regularly and I am subscribed to mailing lists like oss-security to know there’s a vulnerability as early as possible. Plus I am not the only person in charge anymore.

Here are a few nice ones, I can’t really pick:

“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.” - John Maynard Keynes

(You can also apply this one to proprietary software vs. Free software (don’t say open source in my presence))

“The tyrants are only great because we are on our knees.” - Étienne de La Boétie

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” - Rosa Luxemburg

Use a non-chromium browser son that web environment integrity doesn’t work. (Librewolf)

What mail client is that?

Main computer: Arch (BTW) because I am a WM user (awesomewm) and AL has no bloat to remove. Also because of the AUR.

Servers:

• main server is a gentoo beast. I chose gentoo because systems was actually causing some problems and reporting a “degraded” status. OpenRC is really nice after years of systemd :-)
• second server, used for backups: NixOS, for no particular reason. I might install Debian 12 on it one day.

I wasn’t born back then, but it would have been the fact that search results weren’t total crap like today: only reddit seems to offer decent results if you don’t want sites like wikihow to come up… I wrote a more elaborate blogpost partly about it.