It is the command line interface for libvirt/qemu/kvm on Linux. I usually just use virt-manager remotely via SSH to create and manage my VMs, but virsh can be handy as well.

If it is from Meta assume it’s compromised.

Concersations.im. It’s my backup because it supports OMEMO and OpenPGP.

Besides that, Element (Matrix). I use it for its public rooms.

It’s for the official wireless dongle. It has lower latency and longer range than bluetooth, and you can move the dongle between PCs without having to re-pair the controller.

Pocket is one service of theirs I did use from time to time. Save an article you want to read later without committing it to a bookmark.

A kid whose name is said “Akelah” phonetically, but is spelled “Akleah”.

Nah they make good steak and shrimp and they don’t bother me so Ima leave them alone. There are much bigger criminals to worry about in this country than shady local businesses.

Showerthoughts was one I tried. I don’t remember specifics but I tried a couple times to post actual thoughts I had in the shower and they got insta-banned by a bot so I just gave up.

Oh I did and even contacted moderators a few times to try to have posts reinstated after they were insta-banned by a bot. I just got tired of fighting with it every time I wanted to participate.

I tried to like Reddit but every time I tried posting something I thought was original or thoughtful it would get auto deleted by a bot for not including the right “flair” or some other stupid shit.

The hard part is finding an acceptable balance between good OPSEC but not pre-emptive compliance.

All the more reason to give him hell for doing a terrible job. If you can’t handle the heat get out of the kitchen.

There’s a whole video game series on why this is a terrible idea. (Horizon Zero Dawn)

Generate a unique key for each client or device. SSH keys identify devices, not people, so I do not recommend sharing the same key between two different devices.

I generally do a few things to protect SSH:

1. Disable password login and use keys only
2. Install and configure Fail2Ban
3. Disable root login via ssh altogether. Just change “permit root login” from “no password” to just “no”. You can still become root via sudo or su after you’re connected, but that would trigger an additional password request. I always connect as a normal user and then use sudo if/when I need it. I don’t include NOPASSWD in my sudoers to make certain sudo prompts for a password. Doesn’t do any good to force normal user login if sudo doesn’t require a password.
4. If connecting via the same network or IPs, restrict the SSH open port to only the IPs you trust.
5. I don’t have SSH internet visible. I have my own Wireguard server running on a separate raspberry pi and use that to access SSH when I’m away, but SSH itself is not open to the internet or forwarded in the router.

So far I haven’t seen any attempts to change their user agents. I’ve seen one or two other bots poking around, but nothing to write home about so I’ve left them alone.

I have heard however that changing user agents is a tactic they do indeed employ, especially Claude, so it may be that I’ll eventually have to adapt my defenses.

I’ve been fending off AI bots the last week or so; wrote about it here:

https://gerowen.substack.com/p/the-ai-data-scraping-is-getting-out

I made one the other day, though I bought the music from HDTracks instead of “acquiring” it from Limewire or Kazaa. Burned it to a CD because the bus I drive has a CD player but no SD card slot or anything.

Why did they get removed? I feel like I’m missing a whole backstory here.

I’m not sure. I’ve only noticed it on my TV and have even noticed it with content that I personally ripped from DVDs or Blurays and encoded to x265 or AV1. Since it only affects the TV apps I’m wondering if it isn’t a lack of support for some color space or something by the TV hardware because when I’m encoding I don’t usually change anything about the dimensions, color space, frame-rate, etc., just the codec and quality. If the video is 10 bit, I encode it as 10 bit. If it’s HDR, I pass that thru. I’ve checked with the mobile and desktop app and the web player on content the TVs had issues with and those same files played fine everywhere else, so it’s something specific to the LG and Roku apps for Plex.