They have a lemmy instance? That’s amazing I never heard of it

https://fmhy.net/storage#libgen-mirrors

It never actually was offline.

.rs .is .st

• The original domains
• Not for profit. They accept donations on an ‘as needed’ basis, and run no ads.

.fun

• New non-profit mirror created by original creator of Library Genesis who lost direct control of the project as a result of disagreements over profiteering.
• They are are currently collecting donations and do not have ads.

.li .gs .vg .pm

• Operates using AdWords and donations. They collect donations all year.
• The ads they use links you to pretty suspicious adware type software installs, but the site itself is safe.
• Has a marginally larger database then the main domains as they add their own books.

(any other domains aside from these are run by unknown people mostly for profit)

If some domains die or change in the future you can tell us at

somebody stored their tapes in the glove bkx.

Qubes has more layers to the security onion, its true.

But a VM is still a REALLY strong level of containment.

This is a perfect use case for having a VM, to handle all of your downloads before you play it.

Quite frankly in the bad old Napster days, when you downloaded random shit, if it only had a virus you were lucky, there was a tendency for MUCH worse surprises to be included.

This isn’t exactly special. People have been putting viruses into torrents forever.

You should assume anything you download from the internet has a virus!

Assume you’re incapacitated, and somebody gets access to your recovery document. What information do they need to do what you would want them to do. Make sure all of the information is there, and all the steps are written out

https://github.com/cyphar/paperback If having your secrets written out is a little too risky, you might consider a distributed secret sharing approach. So multiple people you trust would have to coordinate to recover the archive

What country are you in? China?

Go to mullvad settings and choose random ports

Try 53, 80, 443 etc

Try mullvad use different ports, use their circumvention approaches.

Use your cell phone mobile data

Talk to the hotel, tell them you cannot connect to your corporate vpn, ask if they have a workaround

I’m just trying to understand the rational. To me I downvote when the comment is against the community, or unproductive.

If I’m being a net negative I should know why! Usually I have a guess as to why, but when I don’t, I reach out so I can understand better. I do want lemmy to be a better place, so feedback is useful.

I get a lot of downvotes. I realize I say things that can be divisive. Why are people downvoting debugging steps? What’s divisive about that…

Are your phones on the same network? Same vlan? Firewall rules? VPN?

Does tcpdump on the server see the request?

https://rss.ponder.cat/post/13668

If you want a ton of fun, you can build it yourself!

Depends on your use case there are multiple factors that guide internet use cases

• Latency - how fast
• Bandwidth - how wide/much
• Loss - how much data is lost, or how much data needs to be sent again

Gaming: latency, loss

YouTube/movies: bandwidth

Video chat/voice chat: latency, bandwidth

Remote desktop/game streaming: latency, bandwidth, loss

Web browsing: bandwidth, latency

DNS latency can be a multiplier for browsing the web, a website can include artifacts from other websites, which then can include other websites, which then can include other websites. Each one of those would require another DNS lookup, and round trip time to the website itself etc. however, DNS was architected for local caching, so only the first lookup should be slow, and then afterwards you should keep that DNS information for future lookups so it’s not going to feel too bad once you’ve warmed up the cache

Rule of thumb: under 100ms feels fine, over starts to feel a little sluggish. Over 300ms and you change your behaviors, and you really feel it.

• a fork of telegram ✅
• Works with some other chat server ✅

You can now use telegram with any matrix compatible client you like

https://github.com/mautrix/telegram

standardization is amazing, one data source, and one graphing engine, now you can overlay different metrics from different systems and have very customized dashboards.

Pull a bunch of fiber well you’re running cables. Fiber is really cheap, it’s expensive to terminate, but you can have the fiber pre-ran everywhere, and if you ever do need extra speed, or resistance against electrical interference, there you go you can borrow somebody’s Terminator for a day

run your backup process every few minutes, if both machines are online, it sends the latest snapshot, if not then it exits. You could reduce your snapshots to once a day, so it only does the data transfer once per day, and any extra backups just succeed.

The downside of this approach is you will need to setup alerting if a snapshot doesn’t get backed up within a window, rather then alerting on a single backup process failing. (i.e. if the server doesn’t have a successful backup within a week create an alert)

You could also do the same thing with rclone vfs mounts with full caching, so you could write locally even when the network is offline, and when you get online it would transfer (but you need to setup your server side alerting again)

This is a exercise in network DMZ planning. Assume the NAS will be compromised, so you limit its access to the rest of the network.

put the NAS on its own VLAN in both locations, setup firewall rules so that only select protocols are allowed to/from the NAS.