Worth listening to Jake Appelbaum's 'digital anti repression workshop' [1]. In this he explains why he takes the hard-drive out of his laptop and just uses a TailsOS thumb-drive for his computing. It would be actually hilarious when staff ask to peruse the contents of your computer for contraband, only to discover the laptop doesn't have a hard-drive.
And for those who think Protonmail are the only service with a custom address, think again, because Facebook has one too: https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/
I do yoga for my back and ensure there's good lumbar support on any chair I sit on. They say sitting is the 'new cancer' and prevention is often the way to go. Here's an interesting article on some yoga exercises you can try for back pain: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/yoga-exercises-for-back-pain....
Yeah there's a few VPNs that look shady because of their pricing. One that springs to mind is LeafVPN[1]. For $5.00 you get to send all your traffic to Mallory. And it even has `LEA` as the first three letters, so you're safe! This is not an endorsement of this service BTW.
Brilliant list. I always wondered how many commercial VPN providers use code from these. I suspect setting up the VPN is easy enough, but coding the billing backend might be trickier.
Unless it affects them directly, just like how tobacco smokers don't see any immediate bad effects from smoking. But they know somewhere down the line something awful will happen.
I prefer to blackhole everything in a Zoho account with the catchall[1] feature turned on, so I can just type random crap as the username when signing up like:
I like to intercept iOS apps' traffic with Burp Suite[1] or Fiddler[2]. The trick is to have two adapters running on the same OS, one for the public Internet, and the other acting as an ad-hoc hotspot. It's simply a case of letting Burp suite sniff the traffic on the ad-hoc network and seeing what 'goodies' you find, like API keys.
Best giving them all a whirl and making up your own mind. A good starting point is The Live CD List[1] website. If you're switching from Windows to Linux for the first time, Linux Mint will certainly smooth the transition for you. Also for newbies, Ubuntu is a great first option.
I usually test distros in a VM instead of installing them on bare metal. So far I have not found a distro specifically tailored to development though, and the question really should be what tools are best for development?
In that case, Emacs/Vim[2] would be a good start, and being able to develop without an Internet connection helps harden your coding ability too as you're not so reliant on the solutions of others. Go for one day of coding without Stack Overflow/Google and see how you fare.
It will eventually end up on Archive.org. Self hosting is not an antidote to this I think, and sometimes the free services like Wordpress/Blogger last longer.
In the end, there is no escape from bit rot, yet things like IPFS[1] are trying to solve this.
I use them all, because I have a 1TB Samsung SSD with the Xen hypervisor running on it, which means I can dedicate whole operating systems to specific browsers. Each browser has its own 'unique selling point' and I use each browser according to my needs.
-Firefox for privacy
-Tor Browser Bundle for enhanced privacy
-Brave for micropayments
-Vivaldi for customization/tweaks and reading the news
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