programmer interested in privacy/security. Mostly Go and Python

VoidNet.tech

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  • Its best to have some defence in depth. Ideally you would have a firewall on your network AND your local machine. If you are running a laptop definitely have a local firewall on that as you cannot trust random networks you connect to when out and about in the world.

    firewalld is sufficient, i suggest learning its CLI as it is not super complicated. ufw is ok if you are allergic to command line.




  • gibson@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.mlHow to write a 'tar' command
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think tar is actually hard, we are just in the time where we externalize more information into resources such as Google. Its the same reason why younger people don’t remember routes by name or cardinal direction as much anymore.

    side note: $ tldr is much better than man for just getting common stuff done.




  • They’re decent for text completion purposes, e.g. generating some corpspeak for an email, or generating some “wikipedia”-like text. You have to know how to write good prompts, don’t try to treat it like ChatGPT.

    For example if i want to know about the history of Puerto Rico I would put:

    “The history of puerto rico starts in about 480BC when”