Sam Howell  

I'm after Mastodon instance recommendations in case I need to move soon. My interests are pretty obvious if you check out my profile:

Boosts appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Sam Howell  

"A planned relaxation of rules governing the use of stop-and-search without an officer needing reasonable suspicion was described by Johnson as a “loving” thing to do: “I think that giving the police the backing that they need in law to stop someone, to search them, to relieve them of a dangerous weapon, I don’t think that’s strong-arm tactics, I think that’s a kind and a loving thing to do,” he said." 🤔

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Sam Howell  

My Digital Privacy Essentials online course is available again and open to all:
samhowell.uk/courses/p01/p01-l

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Sam Howell  

Kind of old news now but I came to it a bit late after initially thinking using my with my wallet wasn't possible. This is an inspiring read: blog.trezor.io/trezor-model-t-
:monero:

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Sam Howell  

Anyone here use ? I'd be interested to know your thoughts. I have a spare laptop and feel like trying it out. I love the idea of compartmentalisation and for maximum and , just don't know yet if I'd want to use it on a daily basis, and how it compares to just spinning up multiple VMs in .

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Sam Howell  

New post: 'Run a Nym mixnode':
samhowell.uk/blog/run-a-nym-mi

I break down the steps to get you up and running with your own mixnode on the testnet.

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Sam Howell  

Been busy revisiting some writing recently. I have a post coming very soon which will guide beginners from start to finish setting up their own mixnode. I'll then be writing a guide on fundamentals for beginners.

nymtech.net

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Sam Howell  

What provider do you use and why? I use DNS Watch by default as it's preset in and my modem. I was originally drawn to for its promises of and no , but I've since noticed all the bad press. I'm interested in OpenDNS and LibreDNS but it would be good to read some kind of in-depth comparison if one is available.

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Sam Howell  

Set up a spare as a mixnode for their testnet, and a Xmrig miner. Will soon have posts written guiding others to do the same.

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Sam Howell  

What type of analytics would you be comfortable with as a visitor to a website?

17 people · Apr 13, 2021, 10:51
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Sam Howell  

"’s success, the fact that it is so good at what it does, the fact that it is crapping out a mountain of gold ingots, is terrible for us and society."
casparwre.de/blog/stop-using-g

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Sam Howell  

My various setups (primary machine, home etc.) seem to challenge me weekly, but the satisfaction of fixing issues and taking back control makes the stress worthwhile. I love , and every day is a school day. I recently repurposed an old 1TB HDD as a and want to try some kind of , but Netflix has become an expectation in the household. Share your / other self-hosting project ideas!

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Sam Howell  

Now running minimal vanilla on my 4B for . Unfortunately I tried but failed to boot with root mounted to . After the third attempt's kernel panic due to "no working init found", I gave up. I now at least have swap disabled on and Pi-hole logs disabled. Any other tips for SD longevity?

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Sam Howell  

📝 New post: 'Let's chat freelearning' -- samhowell.uk/blog/lets-chat-fr

"My vision for content was always – and largely still is – about raising awareness of, and educating people about, , , and free open source software ()..."

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Sam Howell  

I've now created a public room at freelearningfoss:matrix.org -- My intention is to use this room to bring together anyone interested in contributing to made with . I may soon start a range of courses on subjects. Join the room and share your thoughts!

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Sam Howell  

I had ~60GB going spare on my so figured I may as well make the most of it and set up for file sharing across my LAN. I'm allowing access only from mine and my partner's IPs (which are bound to our MACs) but I'm concerned the share isn't encrypted, so anyone could just walk up to the Pi and take out the SD. Any suggestions for securing shares?

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Sam Howell  

My Xmas present is all set up with . Bonus points if you can guess which domains are currently top of the blocked list...

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Sam Howell  

Anyone else using Mailfence for private and secure ? I used to use them as my primary before discovering @protonmail. I've recently paid for Mailfence account so I can set up SMTP on my site (lms.samhowell.uk). Haven't managed to get working yet, however...

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Sam Howell  

Who enjoys irony?

My new course features learning about @torproject, their mission, how can be used to protect your , circumvent censorship etc.

As soon as one of my friends tries to enter the course on her company network, it's blocked due to torproject.org being in their 'Anonymizer Category'.

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Sam Howell  

Is there any way to install add-ons/extensions like Origin or in Ungoogled ?

Or is there a decent tracker list like DDG's I can import into the JS blocking settings in some way? In want to harden Ungoogled Chromium as my backup browser.

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