#instruction

california@diaspora.permutationsofchaos.com

A #Linux #guide found on Reddit …

(If you can't see the graphic above click here: https://www.imgbly.com/ib/8EJZTHekDZ.jpg )

Overall, I find the guide too extensive and therefore too confusing for #newbies. #Mac users are downgraded, which I would not do.

As you may know, I am currently working on a guide for Linux newbies and am looking for #inspiration.

1) How do you like this guide?
2) Is an important #distribution or sector missing?
3) Which sections would you summarize or exclude?
4) What is your favorite distribution?

I look forward to your answers and help in the comments :°)


#question #software #os #help #beginner #newbie #Newcomer #noob #rookie #instruction #desktop #computer

frenchhope@diaspora-fr.org

Patrick Barrabé sur X : "Oui, ce type d'enseignant existe. Dommage qu'il faille le rappeler. Ce qui devrait être la norme est en fait l'exception en France. J'en ignore la cause, mais c'est un fait. Bravo à Emilie Hanrot 🤗 Elle a un compte Instagram et une chaîne Youtube : KifferLécole . https://t.co/ dvhLH72BNq" / X

#école #éducation #instruction

kennychaffin@diasp.org

"We can’t control our readers and some of them will hate us, and not because they misunderstand but because they understand perfectly. I dislike some perfectly good writers. I mean, who dislikes Elizabeth Bishop? Perhaps this all sounds like romanticism — perhaps it is. But when a student asks me how they should write, I have only one response: you already write how you are going to write. Stop trying to correct yourself."

https://link.lithub.com/view/602ea77d180f243d6532f731ixcml.idt/4063e192

#writing #instruction #technique #literature

wist@diasp.org

A quotation by Lec, Stanislaw

You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.

Stanislaw Lec (1909-1966) Polish aphorist, poet, satirist

Unkempt Thoughts [Myśli nieuczesane] (1957) [tr. Gałązka (1962)]

#quote #quotation #advice #expertise #instruction #opinion #perspective #presumption

More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/lec-stanislaw/51411/

anonymiss@despora.de

How to send a #password securely over an unsecured #connection

A relatively common task for me as a hacktivist is to set up secure #communication channels for technologically innocent newbies. I could of course explain to them how #GPG works, but this often fails due to the lack of will to understand and download and install the programs. Very often I use #XMPP server inside the #onion network (TOR) for #communication. The target must install the Tor #browser for this and can then use an XMPP web client. I can set all that up. The only problem is how do I send the authentication data for the XMPP access securely over an unencrypted connection?

I use #PrivateBin for this #problem: https://privatebin.info

PrivateBin is a #PastBin with encryption and burn after reading features. I post a message on PrivateBin with all the information and burn after reading. The message is encrypted and can only be decrypted with a parameter send together with the URI. The URI can look like this:

https://privatebin.net/?55ac2c8792cb12b9#3fQw1R8SAAQUUGsoa7nDdkYwq34Pzw6GQeSA56v5nusq

If the user can log in, then the authentication data has reached him without being compromised. After that, everything else can be discussed over an encrypted connection. If the user cannot log in, the data may have been intercepted. If you operate the PrivateBin server yourself, you can see which IP has accessed it. You should change the XMPP server and create new authentication in this case.

It can happen that with a weak internet connection the page cannot be loaded completely and when you press reload, of course it doesn't work because the page only works once due to the "burn after reading". Then you have to send the whole thing again with a newly generated URI. But if this does not work several times you should be very careful. Secret service agents like to play the fool in order to tempt you to use unsecured communication channels that are easier for them to wiretap.


#wisdom #knowledge #internet #instruction #security #privacy #surveillance #encryption

bastamedia@framasphere.org