After I have outlined my idea in the first part >/a>, I will now move on to my favorite topic: Adjusting the system a tad more to match our interests My sysctl Config step by step I believe IPv6 is not that important for our connection to the Tor network, since we can still easily do everything with […]
Tag: linux
Building a system for strong privacy
I got a small laptop here, which is sadly only 32 bit. To be honest, a bit old-fashioned, but still an unbeatable battery time of 10 hours of normal use. In my humble opinion it’s pretty much a sin to throw that box away. Sadly the 32 bit architecture is about to die out – on the other […]
Bread time
As my server was hitting its capacity limits, it was time to rethink the whole webstack and do some improvements. And that’s exactly where I ditched gzip in favor of Brotli. Considering that it’s supported by the major browsers, I checked my Matomo analysis to see if I would run into any problems. As I had almost no […]
The story of a hacked server
It’s not a big secret that I am helping out other people when they have Linux issues – and so I did at this fellows network. In fact, we did a Gentoo server together to give him some chance to learn more about Linux and how things work together. I double-checked all except for the passwords which left […]
Fighting the Asus ROG G752VSK
I have to admit, Asus did a sweet one here, but to be honest, it can be a pain in the rear end running linux – especially sound and touchpad. But regarding sound I was able to find at least some partial solution which is loading in a pin config as follows: [codec] 0x10ec0668 0x104313f0 0 […]
etckeeper vs git push and branches
It may sound weird to save /etc in some software like git, but let’s have a look why it does make sense: git is a revision control system that tracks changes and in case is able to revert them. Basically perfect for keeping track of our configuration files. You may not want to publish them on github as […]