Tough audience here, huh?

Have you tried checking what the bytecode does? Maybe it’s just a way to block detection by Microsoft and antivirus programs, by creating a different binary every time. Just because something isn’t written in a high level language doesn’t mean it’s malicious. But it may be.

I use linux too and used a Windows 7 VM, not because I couldn’t borrow a Windows computer, but because they don’t ship MSIE any more.

I use it and like its UI but it doesn’t properly support offline, you can just download single tracks. By proper offline support I mean something like Audinaut, which unfortunately doesn’t work in new Android versions

Thanks for the Wikipedia article. Can you quote or paraphrase the first sentence?

I like to leave ssh over tor hidden service on remote boxes. It’s pretty resilient and can serve as emergency access for when something happens to the VPN. Not a great primary access method because of the latency.

https://www.pimpmylog.com/ + rsyslogd, there are docker images

Looks like there is a simple way now, yay! https://blog.diego.dev/posts/firefox-sync-server/

If I recall correctly they used some exotic database that is made for multi tenant cloud environments and scales up really well, but does not scale down too much. I’ve seen some article where a guy managed to set it up locally but it was a long one, and the result was resource hungry. But, again, my knowledge may be outdated

Just look at the setup docs. First they tell you to setup mysql and then this nugget

The correct way to authenticate with Spanner is by generating an OAuth token and pointing your local application server to the token. In order for this to work, your Google Cloud account must have the correct permissions; contact the Ops team to ensure the correct permissions are added to your account.

Syncserver was what OP was asking for, I used it and it was great while it worked. The rust rewrite is almost impossible to self-host, at least as of a year ago there was no easy way to do it on a reasonably sized machine.

Nice idea but: ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

It seems to be some kind of AI that polishes your writing style, helps change tone of the text etc.

Anybody tried this Spotnet thing in practice? How do the results rank vs centralized indexers?

I haven’t seen these until much later

I didn’t get that far. And I only had an Amiga at that time, which made things more difficult to set up. I wonder how fluent transparency would be with AGA, haha. My next attempt was woth a PC around 2003 with KDE3 and it got me hooked.

I loved reading HOWTOs, they were a bit like scene zines, but the content wasn’t that helpful indeed

Contrary to other OSes, the information about it was mainly on the internet, no books or magazines. With only one computer at most homes, and no other internet-connected devices, that posed a problem when something didn’t work.

It took me weeks to write a working X11 config on my computer, finding all the hsync/vsync values that worked by rebooting back and forth. And the result was very underwhelming, just a terminal in an immovable window. I think I figured out how to install a window manager but lost all patience before getting to a working DE. Days and days of fiddling and learning.

Aren’t sysfs entries supposed to be created by kernel modules?

/r/dhexchange

It’s a lifestyle, not a way to save money. I pay for piracy related tech more than a netflix subscription costs.

XFCE, using it for over 10 years, not planning to change it unless the DE changes radically.