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Topics for a Linux intro course
  • +1 for the FOSS philosophy and why that's important when it comes to privacy (ie closed source crypto implementation back doors etc) + full system control, lack of spyware etc. KVM for the VM demo - keep it Linux, right? Introduce the concept of how almost everything in Linux is a file and can be read from / written to. This is important when understanding pipes. Show pipelines - logical && ie cat x | grep y | grep z. Logical || ie grep -E 'x|y|z' Useful commands like top and ps. Explain selinux and why it's a good idea.

  • Question about gre tunnels
  • gre implies you want to run dynamic routing over the tunnel but no routing is configured? If you don't need dynamic routing (why would you on a P2P tunnel?) but do want privacy then use IPsec or SSH instead?

  • Tories face biggest walkout of MPs since 1997
  • Given the Tory demographic, most of them probably won't make it to the next election so the longer Richi holds out the better. Perhaps a care assistant could help if wasn't for the rabid right saying we don't need carers as a priority group. Imbeciles.

  • Tories face biggest walkout of MPs since 1997
  • They're the lying about student loans party.

  • Minister orders halt to Cambridgeshire council’s four-day week trial
  • Who needs science and objectivity when culture wars and dead cats are available to avoid facts? Ree Lowley knows.

  • Thomas Di Giacomo (SUSE) comment on Red Hat’s recent changes
  • Tbh that article seems like a sales pitch more than analysis of Red Hat's licensing changes.

  • Format drive if wrong decryption key is prompted?
  • You have no control over how an adversary accesses the drive, so no.

  • The admins of lemmy.ml are straight up communists
  • Over 26 million people from ex Soviet states were killed in world war 2 fighting facism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union

  • Looks like bing chat is programmed to insist that RedHat RHEL is not violating the GPL…
  • If Red Hat customers had the cahonies they should all distribute the source they are entitled to. Let's see if Red Hat is prepared to kill its business by terminating all its support contracts.

  • Lib Dems unveil plan to turn water firms into 'public benefit companies'
  • Alternative headline: "Party that lied over tuition fees jumps on latest bandwagon"