One band logo tattoo. I got it when I was childishly upset at someone I soon after broke up with. One day I’ll get it covered up. It’s a good in for people to talk to me at least it seems haha

Powered by his dad spinning in the grave presumably

£30 for 500mbps down Fiber with Vodafone here in the Midlands in the UK.

No data caps, no throttling, got a discount SIM for £1 a month as well which is much nicer than £15/month I had with O2 before.

Got a contract by speaking to a real human over the phone and opted out of all data collection too. Vodafone uses a really nice router that even lets you export logs and has all sorts of neat features like public subnet, WPA3 (til that’s a thing) and custom DNS, though I still use my own switch and OpenWRT router most of the time for my homelab (Jellyfin, Bind9 local DNS and TLD with no forwarder and navidrome).

I want to probably set it up as a dumb AP because apparently the WiFi 7 or whatever is better than my old Archer C7 but I just use it for work rn on its own VLAN.

Speed hasn’t been too stable lately but not enough to make me actually complain yet. It’s the cheapest internet I could get, I frankly don’t see much point in speeds above 75mbps or so lol.

A few months ago I was paying like £50 for 50mbps with Virgin in South UK. I wasn’t even in contract and those cunts charged me an exit fee. I mailed them their router and they charged me for it anyway. Somehow even bigger cunts than BT. No issues with Vodafone yet.

PGP also has a more identifiable structure and they could ban PGP and then scan for it easily based on PGP headers. KryptKey is more censorship resistant because the outputs can’t be scanned for as easily since data can be encrypted with normal words.

That answers my question as to why KryptKey wasn’t just encrypting using PGP.

Still, I’d very much like an app similar to KryptKey that uses PGP encryption, or an app I can copy-paste plaintext into and get PGP ciphertext out of like Kleopatra, do you know of any?

A question about kryptKey - why Signal protocol instead of just letting me import a PGP key and paste plain text in and use PGP for encryption and get ciphertext oit, like Kleopatra or GPG? I use that for DNMs and it’s swell.

Damn, TIL. Downloading now.

Eh it’s not really the same thing, there’s plenty of these sorts of things like rationalwiki and prolewiki and whatnot. I meant the Wikipedia itself

We don’t have data caps which is the most important thing.

I don’t have the storage capacity required personally

I imagine we will be saying goodbye to many such things soon, in the extreme maybe yhe entire idea of a global internet and many open projects like Wikipedia, I can’t see how they can coexist with our world now without being shut down or subverted into evil, might as well go out on their own terms.

I do hope a copy exists somewhere, perhaps waiting for a brighter day. Maybe that’s naive, but maybe truth and knowledge will become a desirable thing again one day.

My life is on a bunch of HDDs dug out of failed laptops with SMART errors some of which have already failed in the past, they are duct taped together and shoved inside a drive cage they don’t fit in.

OpenVPN

My best friend is still on 15Mb/s in central London 💀

I just moved to a new place with full fiber optic and it’s the first place I lived in where that’s a thing.

Lmao

I tried to get used to it but nah I just gave up and I just answer or ignore it outright.

It is still a shock to me that some genius aliased curl to Invoke-WebRequest and that curl.exe is what you actually want.

Mixing the two philosophies of coreutils and unix bins and whatever is happening in PowerShell seems even more unholy to me than the phrase “object oriented result”, but different strokes.

I gave up on PowerShell on Windows as a plausible alternative to Bash on Linux the minute I realized there’s no real equivalent tocat, there’s type or if you hate yourself - Get-Content which is aliased as cat but doesn’t really work the same way.

If I can’t even very basically list a file irregardless of what’s in it, it’s just dead out of the gate.

On Linux, I once sent myself an MP3 from my server to my laptop with cat song.mp3 | base64 -w0 > /dev/tcp/10.10.10.2/9999 because I cba to send ssh keys.

I’ll give modern windows a few points - the new terminal emulator application is sweet, and having ssh makes it easy to login to remotely.

PowerShell is a strange programming language that makes me wish I was just writing C#.

Bash is a shell language. At its heart it’s a CLI, emphasis on the I, it’s the primary way of interacting with a computer, not a way to write programs. Even awk is arguably better suited.

That’s why it neither needs to be verbose nor readable for complete beginners, you memorize it the same way you memorize where buttons are on a keyboard or what items you can expect in a right click context menu on Windows.

Most bash scripts people write are far too complex for it and could stand a rewrite in perl or python or heck, what I think actually works amazing as a “scripting language” - C.

What about ctrl+r to reverse search?

Versus:

man $commamd

PowerShell might be okay script syntax for people with uncorrected sight issues and the elderly who’s heart might not handle bash without set -e but to be useful as a CLI shell prompt that is your primary way of interacting with the computer like it can be on Linux it needs to be so so so much shorter. I’ll be dead by the time I type out half the shit it’d be like 4 key presses total on Linux.

And that’s before you get to the issues of it being a whole object oriented and typed programming language with .NET whereas shell is nice universal text everywhere that can be piped around however you want.

There are even those absolute mad lads who unironically use PowerShell on Linux.

Learning the absolute basics of how to use tmux, vim, sed, awk and grep and pipes and redirects and the basics of handling stdin and stdout genuinely made me feel like all my life I was an NPC in the matrix and now I’m Neo just because passing around bits of text is so powerful when everything works on that basis.

And here I thought this curse was British brainrot. No, I will give you a detailed account of my day to day activities unless you can learn to say hi or hello there like a civilized person.