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chimbosonic | 2 years ago | on: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship

I also spent most of my internship long ago researching secure operating systems for the analysts of the company I worked for and Tails was the best fit with Qubes being second due to how power hungry it is. Another was subgraph but at the time it wasn’t properly developed. Overall if you need a OS that guarantees that all your traffic is anonymised via Tor and that it is ephemeral Tails is superb.

chimbosonic | 2 years ago | on: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship

Tails is one of those tools I always keep on me physically. Added it to my key ring 6 years ago , and I get use out of it at least twice a month. Also started using it as a recovery ISO. But my main use case is when I have to use a computer but don’t have mine around . Just pop the USB in and voila all the access I need and my data stored in the persistent partition.

chimbosonic | 4 years ago | on: Zas Editor

Nice product just a FYI your website doesn't render well on UltraWide screens.

chimbosonic | 4 years ago | on: Linux on Chromebooks just might get me through a masters in computer science

I graduated in 2017 in Computer Science using a Thinkpad x210 that cost me £50 (~70$). And never had a issue. I haven't used a chromebook in a while but back then they where less powerful than a x210. Nowadays, if I have to recommend a laptop for coding or CS course I would recommend whichever Thinkpad X-series you can afford.

chimbosonic | 5 years ago | on: Internet Archive Infrastructure

Does the IA have Data sites that are not in SF? When he shows the map of sites they all seem very close to each other and a natural disaster could wipe out alot of the archive.

chimbosonic | 5 years ago | on: An Introduction to ZFS

I've used ZFS for 4 years and really enjoyed it. It was simple to setup and send/recv was very useful for making backups of the data on a separate machine on the network. I now have been using btrfs as I switched to OpenSuse and frankly it also just works and its been easier to setup as I didn't need to do module installs etc. However I've had to switch to rsync for my backups but that wasn't hard. The other good thing I've used is the fact I can grow the raid and can rebalance the disks this isn't possible on ZFS.

chimbosonic | 8 years ago | on: ProtonVPN

If you download the ovpn config file you can see what crypto they employ. According to the ovpn config file for Android it's AES-256-CBC and auth is done with SHA512 hope this helps.
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