As I understand it, it’s just as they said:
Calculating primes is fairly straightforward so you calculate a few large prime numbers, and do some math to them.
Now you have a strong key that didn’t require a supercomputer to create but taking that final number and turning it back into those original primes is a much more computationally expensive proposition.
In fact, it’s one that’s not viable with current technology.
I use a DNS server on my local network, and then I also use Tailscale.
I have my private DNS server configured in tailscale so whether on or off my local network everything uses my DNS server.
This way I don’t have to change any DNS settings no matter where I am and all my domains work properly.
And my phone always has DNS adblocking even on cell data or public Wi-Fi
The other advantage is you can configure the reverse proxy of some services to only accept connections originating from your tailscale network to effectively make them only privately accessible or behave differently when accessed from specific devices
Another cool trick is using tailscale to ensure your portable devices always can access your Pihole(s) from anywhere and then setting those server’s tailscale addresses as your DNS servers in tailscale.
This way you can always use your DNS from anywhere, even on cell data or on public networks
I keep a third instance of Pihole running on a VPS and use it as the first DNS server in tailscale so it will resolve a bit faster than my local DNS servers when I’m away from home
And as many others have mentioned, it can be self-hosted as well.
Also fun side note:
As long as you are logged into a GitHub account and in a desktop browser you can press the . key on your keyboard while viewing any GitHub repo to open it in vscode web.
Yeah this is what I do.
Putting Cloudflare as my secondary would allow some requests to get through and then often the device whose requests went to Cloudflare would continue using Cloudflare for a while.
The best solution I found was to run a second Pihole and use it as the secondary.
You can use something like orbital sync to keep them syncronized
It depends what I’m backing up and where it’s backing up to.
I do local/lan backups at a much higher rate because there’s more bandwidth to spare and effectively free storage. So for those as often as every 10 mins if there are changes to back up.
For less critical things and/or cloud backups I have a less frequent schedule as losing more time on those is less critical and it costs more to store on the cloud.
I use Kopia for backups on all my servers and desktop/laptop.
I’ve been very happy with it, it’s FOSS and it saved my ass when Windows Update corrupted my bitlocker disk and I lost everything. That was also the last straw that put me on Linux full-time.
It’s not a Windows app.
You can run it on Windows with Docker, but I would suggest a Linux server and a reverse proxy for the best experience (like most self-host solutions)
Definitely Immich.
There’s a lot of these kinds of services, hosted or self-hosted that are labeled as a “Google Photos replacement”
But very few of said services have features like face matching and object recognition alongside automatic backups.
IMO it’s not a legitimate replacement for Google Photos without those features and Immich really delivers on that without compromising your privacy.
I use and love Kopia for all my backups: local, LAN, and cloud.
Kopia creates snapshots of the files and directories you designate, then encrypts these snapshots before they leave your computer, and finally uploads these encrypted snapshots to cloud/network/local storage called a repository. Snapshots are maintained as a set of historical point-in-time records based on policies that you define.
Kopia uses content-addressable storage for snapshots, which has many benefits:
Each snapshot is always incremental. This means that all data is uploaded once to the repository based on file content, and a file is only re-uploaded to the repository if the file is modified. Kopia uses file splitting based on rolling hash, which allows efficient handling of changes to very large files: any file that gets modified is efficiently snapshotted by only uploading the changed parts and not the entire file.
Multiple copies of the same file will be stored once. This is known as deduplication and saves you a lot of storage space (i.e., saves you money).
After moving or renaming even large files, Kopia can recognize that they have the same content and won’t need to upload them again.
Multiple users or computers can share the same repository: if different users have the same files, the files are uploaded only once as Kopia deduplicates content across the entire repository.
There’s a ton of other great features but that’s most relevant to what you asked.
I like that the pool is in the front and there’s still a little room in the back to shove a body
Don’t forget -no-preserve-root !
Curl!
I’m not really saying it is, I’m just unsure where that line is.
Modifying existing artwork to make something new has always been a thing.
Is there a point where Photoshop might become too easy to use and then anyone using it is no longer an artist?
One could certainly argue that creating anything of actual value with AI does require a certain level of skill. That skill may be less of an artistic one and more of a technical one, but software developers also have value, even when the tools they use make it much easier than it was in the past.
I guess what I’m getting at is while I agree with you there’s a large gap between having the skill to create art yourself with a paintbrush and coaxing an AI into doing most of the work for you, I’m not sure it’s so black and white and the line is only going to get blurrier.
And I imagine you are using some tools as well? Whether they be physical paint/brush/canvas/etc or digital ones?
Few artists are producing art out of thin air, using a tool to aid in the process is a natural part of creating art
While I’m all for using an ad-blocker, I don’t think you have to worry too much about Google Ads containing malware, particularly if you don’t click through.
AFAIK Google has pretty strict restrictions around the type and format of ads they will push and ad campaigns have to get approval before being activated.
So while I do strongly feel that everyone should be using an ad-blocker, I don’t think malicious ads are of particular concern coming from Google’s ad platform, on an android device.
Yeah it needs some love, but I still think it’s better to have than not.
It’s not less secure than a password alone.
If you are concerned, I would suggest keeping another browser/device/etc logged in when trying to enable 2FA.
Then if the 2FA activation fails, you can use that second session (which does not get logged out when you enable 2FA) to then disable it again.
As far as I can tell, no. There’s no backup codes and there’s no “verification” of the codes when you enable it.
Also, you do not get logged out of any other sessions even if they were logged in before 2FA was enabled.
So I typically leave my desktop browser logged in as a backdoor in case something goes wrong I can use that session to re-disable 2FA.
Then once I have verified it working on mobile I will sign out the desktop browser and sign it back in with the 2FA key.
But yeah, no backup codes. Apparently an admin can disable 2FA on your account if you get locked out, or so I have heard.
Yeah as far as I know this still works.
You need to use a valid address (there are sites for generating one)
You also need to use a credit card that has never previously been used in Google with another address