OotL: What’s the state of drama with Mr Mullenweg and WPEngine regarding this plugin? Wasn’t there a hostile takeover and change of hands during last year? I tuned out at some point.Is this hacked plugin maintained by Matt folks, WPEngine folks or actually unrelated?
Chimera Linux is very interesting. Has anyone here tried running it?
One way to go about the network security aspect:
Make a separate LAN(optionally: VLAN) for your internals of hosted services. Separate from the one you use to access internet and use with your main computer. At start this LAN will probably only have two machines (three if you bring the NAS into the picture separately from JF)
The server running Jellyfin. Not connected to your main network or internet.
A “bastion host” which has at least two network interfaces: One connected outwards and one inwards. This is not a router (no IP forwarding) and should be separate from your main router. This is the bridge. Here you can run (optional) VPN gateway, SSH server. And also an HTTP reverse proxy to expose Jellyfin to outside world. If you have things on the inside that need to reach out (like package updates) you can have an HTTP forward proxy for that.
When it’s just two machines you can connect them directly with LAN cable, when you have more you add a cheap network switch.
If you don’t have enough hardware to split machines up like this you can do similar things with VMs on one box but that’s a lot of extra complexity for beginners and you probably have enough of new things to familiarize yourself with as it is. Separating physically instead of virtually is a lot simpler to understand and also more secure.
I recommend firewalld for system firewall.
Regarding the questions on Bluetooth security, his great presentation from last month covers a lot of your questions and more.
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phone
oversimplifying a bit:
TLS (https) provides transport security that whatever is served by the mirror is really associated with the domain name for that mirror domain name. Each HTTPS response is signed live so the private key must be “hot” and loaded in memory on the mirror (or its reverse proxy).
PGP signatures provides integrity and authentication that the package files themsvelves have been signed by the repo signing key. This signing can be done once per package and the private key can be offline.
HTTPS is not a replacement for PGP sigs. They are for different things. HTTPS will provide a bit better privacy (and now that I think of it, theoretically some package manager could be vulnerable to downgrade mitm - substitute a package with a legit and signed but older vulnerable version - or other bugs).
PGP on the other hand is such a mess that even some cryptographers don’t like it.
I’ve seen plenty of critique on PGP for email encryption but that’s not relevant here.
sq (sequoia) is great alternative implementation you can use instead of GnuPG.
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Everything in there is relevant and applies to flatpaks too. Being aware of the risks is important when using alternative distribution methods. With power, responsibility.
Tricking users into using Snap without realizing it, making them unknowingly vulnerable to exploits like this, would be really really bad and unethical on Canonical’s part.
That is not what is happening at all.
Just so nobody is confused or gets afraid of their install: Getting the Firefox snap installed via Ubuntus apt package does not make users vulnerable to what is talked about here and is just as safe as the apt package version. For Firefox snaps might even be safer since you will probably get security patches earlier than with apt upgrades and get some sandboxing. In both cases you are pulling signed binaries from Canonical servers.
The post is about third-party fake snaps. If you run a snap install command from a random web site or LLM wkthout checking it, or making a typo, then you are at risk. If Ubuntu didnt have snaps, this would be malicious flatpaks. If Ubuntu didnt have flatpaks, it would be malicious PPAs. And so on. Whatever hosted resource gets widely popular and allows users to blindly run and install software from third-parties will be abused for malware, phishing, typosquatting and so on. This is not the fault of the host. You can have access to all the apps out there you may ever want or you can safely install all your apps from one trusted source. But it’s an illusion that you can never have both.
People have opinions about if snaps are a good idea or not and thats fine but there shouldnt be FUD. If you are using Canonicals official snaps and are happy with them you dont have to switch.
I do not ask you to read?
So that’s the mistake I made and the important part. Thanks for clarifying.
I still feel misled that it’s labelled as somehing it isn’t (“my reasoning”).
It is indeed with the help of llm. But reasoning is still solid and very curated.
It isn’t your reasoning and promoting it as such when asking us to read doesn’t feel honest at all.
Try answering the questions I asked for yourself and see if anything comes up!
Linux MATE desktop is pretty established and I think has a similar audience. Pretty confusing name choice… “want to install mate on linux? Try linuxmate (no relation)”
BTW are those actually your reasonings on the blog as you say? It reads very LLMy.
Digg is just a shallow VC play that acquired the name and brand I think. No actual relation to OG Digg AFAIK. At launch they had only closed Android and iOS apps, no web.
OP: What makes you interested in thes and what’s your own take? BTW please try to put a more descriptive title for future posts!
What makes you suspect the Nginx config instead of Lemmy? Do you have any failing requests (timeout or statuscode >= 400) in nginx log? What are the failing endpoints?
Both can be true.
I think such character assessment and calling names is unnecessary and off-topic here though. Better engage with substance than judging by vibes and doing ad-hominem.
Called it.
https://feddit.online/post/1372107/comment/6758185
No one listen grug til chicken come to roost
I guess they now have large enough number of users that it would be wise to shift some focus to supply-chain security from growth-hacking.
This is growing pains.
Cool! Keeping up with platform changes is a challenge for projects like this. I think to be successful beyond initial popularity you need an active community that can do this together. It’s draining for just one person - especially once you get big enough that they might actively break things just to mess with your integration. Following maintenance of alternative YouTube clients as well as searx-ng is illustrative.
Not to discourage but be prepared. Best of luck!
https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-09-01-discontinuing-bibliogram
NFS works great for media files and stuff but be careful and know what you are doing before you go put database storage on it.