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Background In the man page for OpenSSH server configuration (man sshd_config), there is a line under LogLevel that says: Logging with a DEBUG level violates the privacy of users and is not ...
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I'm using KDE Plasma with Dolphin on Debian 12 Bookworm, and I want to completely disable all tracking and history features related to: Recent Files Recent Folders Clipboard History Search History ...
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I am trying to configure a NetworkManager connection for IPv6 privacy. My goal is to assign a temporary IPv6 address with limited lifetime to my device. I manually crafted a xxx.nmconnection ...
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My host is Arch Linux and I'm using virt-manager to run VMs. I noticed it had access to my microphone when Cortana started listening to me after a Windows guest install. I've looked through all the ...
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If one installs the Github Copilot software for the Vim editor, it enables the co-pilot by default, which could be seen as a privacy issue. I want to disable the co-pilot by default and only enable it ...
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I am connecting with web browser (Chromium, Firefox) using socks5 proxy via local port opened by ssh -D <port> <host> (currently openssh 9.8). Sometimes, I experience problems from the ...
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I am considering including a copy of my /usr/share/dict/words file in a public GitHub repository for a project that requires dictionaries. Is this a bad idea, and if so, why? I'm particularly ...
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Why are these things enabled by default on Debian12 with KDE (Plasma 5.27)? Maybe it could be useful for a few users if it was installed but not enabled and not running by default and just an option ...
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I'd like to set up an instance of Thunderbird on a Fedora VM (with a VPN). I want it to use ONLY an alias I have set up with the email providers. But I will still have to use my real credentials to ...
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I just wanted to raise an issue (ie. report a bug) in some software package hosted on gitlab. I have a github account, but not a gitlab one. Whenever I log in from a new device (github), I need to &...
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When using SSH key authentication, all available keys are tried against the server. Is there a possibility to set some SSH keys in a way, so that they are only disclosed to a given remote server list, ...
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I am providing photos related to a legal matter to a lawyer and she is going to give them to law enforcement without giving them my name (under attorney client privilege). I am not sure if she is tech ...
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TL;DR If I am connected to one network and then connect to VPN it works fine, but if I then connect to a different network then the VPN disconnects and tries to reconnect over the new network. I need ...
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Tor Browser conceals the user's operating system by spoofing user agents. Currently it is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0. I decided to test whether the function ...
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I am no fan of the "recent files / recent apps / recent places" features throughout modern operating systems. In particular, I do not want/need jump lists, that show recent files opened ...
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