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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • I actually looked this up earlier today because i didn’t understand part of it.

    An ssh key is, as i understand it, a way to encrypt the connection so only a device that has they key can unlock it.

    There are 2 parts, a private key which should never be shared and a public one which can freely be shared.

    You usually generate both keys on the device that connects to the ssh, keep the private key on there with the public key going on the server. Thats the part that confused me. (Why is the secret one not on the server i don’t want people to access)

    But the way it works is that the public key is used to encrypt/lock something.And only the private key can unlock it.

    Any other device that tries to connect just gets an encrypted connection they don’t have the key for. Because these keys are so long no current day tool can guess or crack them. So it is the absolute safest way to establish an ssh connection.

    Quantum computers might in the future be able to break them but solutions for this are being worked on.

    There are also some systems where you have 2 key pairs where the server also has a private key, to authenticate both ways.





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    I have used “#@%!!” Before like some comics do while playing a moba. I am over 3 decades old.

    I want to express some frustration but also signal to not take it too seriously. Its just a game, i am not actually mad. If a game makes you mad you should stop playing.

    Kids might also be playing the same game and while i am not afraid to “hurt” them with swears i do thing it helps create a more friendly atmosphere not to start “flaming” every time things don’t go as hoped. At the same time communicating frustration in the game is a way to cope as a team, and maybe change strategy.

    I also thinks its just way more funny and there is some creativity in making the different symbols look good as a set.

    But it does entice people to act surprised and ask “if i am too young to swear” or something. Do they prefer if i was actually mad and cursing? Do they think some actual mad child is going out their way to censor themselves in the heat of moment?


  • https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/

    Now I little after this came out they do claim they removed them (odd how that suddenly changes after it was no longer secret)

    But then much more recent as listed on wikipedia, verifying they still have some long term deals with microsoft in 2025… microsoft is not going to make a deal with a perceived competitor for nothing in return.

    By August 2025, Bing planned to cut off access to its search APIs in a push to sell more AI-related APIs, though DuckDuckGo believed that larger companies like it with long-term deals would not be affected.[62] Bing had dramatically raised rates for its search API in 2022 after ChatGPT debuted.[62]

    There is also more general proof that while duck may technically use other sources also. It really is mostly bing:

    During a Bing API outage in 2024, DuckDuckGo stopped showing results, indicating that Bing provided a substantial portion of DuckDuckGo’s results.[69][70]

    I literally do not understand how they managed to take such foothold in real privacy communities. I used to love brave till the i was repeatedly pointed to the scandals that many people are aware of and informing others about… but considering ddg i rarely see anyone pointing this out. It actually smells like a huge successful marketing adventure to sell bing to privacy enthusiasts, but for that i obvio do not have proof.

    I often imagine this meme with bing instead of google and a cute duck go as mr incognito



  • Brave nor duck duck go can be trusted.

    Brave has been known to inject their own referral links in people urls.

    Duck duck go serves bing results and has to give Microsoft special acces to do so.

    The actual alternatives are:

    Firefox based browsers (waterfox, librefox)

    Self hosted searxng for search-engine. This one will get results from all possible configurable engine and allow zero trackers.

    Notable mention: self hosting isn’t for everyone, startpage.net is to google what ddg is to bing, but it hasn’t had any scandals proving that they give special acces to google yet. Still self hosting is not that hard with docker, i do recommend a local searxng.










  • I think the general gist is as beginner self hosters we get more and more comfortable too “easily spin up a docker webserver”

    At some point we arrive at “what other services can i host” and email is a pretty obvious addition expecting it to at least not be more difficult then running nextcloud.

    It may be doable but hell is it not a comparable challenge.


  • Apparantly these are a local delicatesse in some regions…

    So we caught one with the mindset to see if we could barbecue it and when we placed it on the table it started to move and wiggle its needles.

    We originally thought it was similar to fungi, technically not plant but pretty much a plant… we quickly brought it back to the ocean.