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Bonus when you disable software flow control: In addition to Ctrl+r to reverse search through commands, you can search forward via Ctrl+s

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Using podman-compose, I usually have a section like:

volumes:
    - ./local_folder:/container/folder

Specifically, I have to use either an absolute path or a relative path with "./" to prevent it from treating a directory as a volume name.

Yeah, I'm confused by this video (which is from nearly a year ago, btw). It looks like a gnome shell overview more than anything.

Pretty good privacy. It's an unexciting name for a public/private key encryption program.

I believe WhatsApp uses the same protocol (or at least the same crypto algorithms), though I'm not sure if they were involved in its development.

Good point on the metadata. Signal has the "sealed sender" thing, which (I think) helps with the metadata problem somewhat.

My practical answer: Nah, it's probably not going to nuke your files.

My software engineer answer: Never trust us to not make a mistake. It doesn't take much to accidentally nuke a directory.

As the other commenter mentioned, your best bet is being selective about which services you use to communicate.

Unencrypted (plain text) is the worst, since data is easy for a third party to sniff (think of it as a wiretap). For example, HTTP and SMS are unencrypted.

Encrypted is a good start, since third parties can't sniff your traffic, but the server handling your communications can usually see everything that passes through it. For example, HTTPS is an SSL-encrypted variant of HTTP, and services like Facebook messenger are encrypted, but Facebook can still see all of your messages, since it's stored on their servers.

End to End Encrypted (E2EE) is the golden standard. Only the endpoints (i.e. you and your friend) can see the content of your messages, and all traffic is encrypted in a way that even the server cannot view it. Signal is end to end encrypted, as are many other modern messaging platforms (WhatsApp is E2EE in theory, as is Google Meet, but we can't verify this ourselves).

Well, not the highest one. This was a state supreme court, fortunately.

Agreed, for me containers are really nice for playing with new software without dirtying my host install.

I'm using droidify and couldn't find signal in there either.

Well good thing I finally realized it wasn't enabled and set my environment variables to enable it.

As an aside, is digital ID a gating factor in us bring forced to digital currency? Stores are already refusing cash, so we're practically digital already.

I tend to disagree with a lot of Californian politics, but hot damn are their pro consumer laws the best. Can't wait for 2026.

I've run plain ol' openbox without a desktop environment on top of it, and it's quite nice. IIRC I also had a standalone status bar application, but I can't remember which one I used.

There are a couple utility programs (obconf and obkey?) that help to configure everything comfortably.

Based, mostly

And even then, a properly configured SSHD instance wouldn't really benefit from a firewall, unless you wanted to block all countries besides your own or something.