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We can install deb package in Ubuntu using gdebi package manager and It is the most easiest and efficient way to install deb files manually. Gdebi also better at handling dependency packages than apt…
Whenever we continue to use our system, it creates a number of files that are useful. However, not all of them stays useful for the whole time. Days go by and the system gets more and more of them. Ultimately, there comes a stage when the system is overloaded with such useless items. What to do? Get rid of those junks…
The community support for their community
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« usbkill » is an anti-forensic kill-switch that waits for a change on your USB ports and then immediately shuts down your computer
how2 finds the simplest way to do something in a unix shell. It's like man, but you can query it in natural language:
Source: https://github.com/santinic/how2
Source: https://zealdocs.org/
Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/firstlookmedia/code/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y dangerzone
You also need a docker environment and also have to add your user the docker users group.
The best way to install Docker on Ubuntu 22.04 is to use the official Docker repository. This will ensure that you have the latest version of Docker and that it is signed from the official source. To start, update your existing list of packages:
sudo apt update
Next, install a few prerequisite packages which let apt use packages over HTTPS:
sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
Then add the GPG key for the official Docker repository to your system:
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg
Add the Docker repository to APT sources:
echo "deb [arch= $( dpkg --print-architecture ) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $( lsb_release -cs ) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
Update your existing list of packages again for the addition to be recognized:
sudo apt update
Make sure you are about to install from the Docker repo instead of the default Ubuntu repo:
apt-cache policy docker-ce
Finally, install Docker:
sudo apt install docker-ce
Docker should now be installed, the daemon started, and the process enabled to start on boot. Check that it’s running:
sudo systemctl status docker
The output should be similar to the following, showing that the service is active and running:
Output ● docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/docker.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2022-04-01 21:30:25 UTC; 22s ago TriggeredBy: ● docker.socket Docs: https://docs.docker.com Main PID: 7854 (dockerd) Tasks: 7 Memory: 38.3M CPU: 340ms CGroup: /system.slice/docker.service └─7854 /usr/bin/dockerd -H fd:// --containerd=/run/containerd/containerd.sock
Installing Docker now gives you not just the Docker service (daemon) but also the docker command line utility, or the Docker client. By following these steps, you can easily install Docker on Ubuntu 22.04.
You will probably receive a failed docker daemon reply. You have to add your user to the docker group.
Adding a user to the Docker group in Ubuntu 22.04 is a simple process, provided you have the necessary permissions and understand the potential security implications. To add a user to the docker group, the first step is to create a group called docker if it does not already exist. This can be done with the command groupadd docker. Next, add the desired user to the group by running the command usermode -aG docker <username>. For example,usermode -aG docker sammy would add the user sammy to the docker group.
To apply the new group membership, log out of the server and back in, or type the following: su - <username>. You will be prompted to enter your user’s password to continue. Confirm that your user is now added to the docker group by typing: groups. Output should look like this: sammy sudo docker.
If you need to add a user to the docker group that you’re not logged in as, declare that username explicitly using: sudo usermod -aG docker <username>, where is the username of the user you wish to add.
It is essential to be aware of the security implications of adding users to the docker group. The docker group grants root-level privileges to the user and therefore should only be done if absolutely necessary. For details on how this impacts security in your system, see Docker Daemon Attack Surface. An alternative to running with the docker group is to run the Docker daemon as a non-root user (Rootless mode).
By following the steps outlined above, you can easily and securely add a user to the docker group in Ubuntu 22.04.
Then reboot and your are done.
Citations :
Citations :
source: https://github.com/firstlookmedia/dangerzone
Their website: https://dangerzone.rocks/
https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone/wiki/Installing-Dangerzone
https://packagecloud.io/firstlookmedia/code/install#manual-deb
So first we open up our terminal. On most Linux systems you hit up this keyboard combination Ctrl + Alt + t, sometimes it's also your Windows key(i.e. Super key) + t, or you can hit this key combination Alt-F2 and then type the terminal name for example “gnome-terminal” or the equivalent in your system
sudo editorOfYourChoice /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf for example
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Or you can even use graphical ones
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf for example
sudo mouspepad -H /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf for example
Then you go at the Bottom of the file add these lines
install module_name /bin/true fo example
install bluetooth /bin/true #disables bluetooth and its subprocesses
install btusb /bin/true
install uvcvideo /bin/true #disables your camera module and its subprocesses
blacklist iwlwifi #disables WiFi
blacklist firewire-core #disables firewire
blacklist thunderbolt # disables thunderbolt
Finally type these comands
sudo update-initramfs -c -k all
sudo shutdown -r now
To undo these steps you can just delete the entry or uncoment them and reboot your system
You can uncoment stuff like this, example
#blacklist iwlwifi
#install bluetooth /bin/true
Don't forget to save your new entries!
sudo update-initramfs -c -k all
sudo shutdown -r now
And then reboot
sudo reboot
source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_module#Blacklisting
Why it can be a smart idea to disable thunderbolt:
This article will describe usage of AppArmor.
So if you have read my article about how you can start to use Linux ( Starting the Journey). Maybe you want to proceed a step further.
We live in a world which is under a dire pressure of surveillance capitalism the biggest threat of our times. If you haven't checked out this movie, I would highly recommend you this to show you the flaws and problems and where this can lead to.
The analysis of the movie is correct. But there are no solutions offered there.
But there is a solution, leave the matrix, by matrix I mean surveillance capitalism.
Here I have curated a big list of alternatives, there is nearly for everything an alternative you are not bound to the FANGULTAD universe
Facebook(i.e. Meta) Amazon Netflix Google(i.e. Alphabet) Uber LinkedIn Two Sigma Apple Dropbox FANGULTAD or in short FANG or FAANG
Get out of their FANG's ;)
And forget about their free services there is only one true free thing and that is open source, open hardware and decentralized/federalized/Peer-to-peer own hosted social networks like the fediverse/mastodon. And keep in mind if something is free you are the product. Here is a nice video about that.
All credit goes to the nice folks at the fediverse who helped me find these alternatives. Thank you all so much! <3
To be able to fully understand the impact of some services here is a list of privacy and open source services which rely on the FANGULTAD universe. This is no offense to the services per se. But it reflects the situation perfect:
https://codeberg.org/ReverseEagle/DeGoogle-FOSS/src/branch/master/PROJECTS_USING_GOOGLE.md
Also check out Aral Balkans stuff he is a cool dude:
Don't use Zoom check out the alternatives at https://switching.software/replace/zoom/ but if you must use due to whatever reasons you can use a VM, see this link(PDF!):
https://assets.privacytools.io/aragon-drop/zoom_tutorial.pdf
Unfortunately this link is gone for good. But the Wayback Machine has a backup. You are welcome :)
Or use Aral Balkans method:
https://ar.al/2020/06/25/how-to-use-the-zoom-malware-safely-on-linux-if-you-absolutely-have-to/
Zoom is nasty Malware like 
This should be the goal :)
https://privacytools.io/ https://privacytests.org/ https://www.privacyguides.org/ https://web0.small-web.org/ https://switching.software/ https://flossmanuals.net/ https://opensource.builders https://prism-break.org/en/ https://framasoft.org/en/ https://framalibre.org/ https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives/ https://entraide.chatons.org/en/ https://alternativeto.net/ https://tutanota.com/ A secure E-Mail Provider, better then ProtonMail https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_31d.htm https://fediverse.party/ https://e.foundation/products/ https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2021/nitrophone-most-secure-android-planet https://iode.tech/en/ https://guardianproject.info/ https://brianlovin.com/security https://ssd.eff.org/en https://www.kuketz-blog.de/ (If you speak German, an awesome blog!) This link is defunct! https://media.kuketz.de/blog/messenger-matrix/messenger-matrix-en.html (also in english) https://www.messenger-matrix.de/ https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html https://www.kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke/ An awesome place to start for German speakers/readers https://small-tech.org/ https://sitejs.org/ https://ar.al/ https://write.as/ https://tenor.com/ https://gifer.com/en/gifs/giffer https://librivox.org/ https://privnote.com/# https://riseup.net/en https://share.riseup.net/ https://2017.ind.ie/ethical-design/ Ethical design manifesto https://publicstack.net https://www.wikipedia.org/ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page https://leafletjs.com/ https://mega.io/ https://wormhole.app/ disclaimer hosted in US, patriot act! https://operationtulip.com/ https://ethical.net/resources/ https://www.zotero.org/blog/improved-pdf-retrieval-with-unpaywall-integration/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unpaywall/ https://unpaywall.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-hub if you are a poor student use this only with tor in a vm! https://gagarine.medium.com/use-sci-hub-with-zotero-as-a-fall-back-pdf-resolver-cf139eb2cea7 https://wikiless.org/ A good alternative to wikipedia https://codeberg.org/orenom/wikiless#why-i-should-use-wikiless-instead-of-wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno.org https://vimeo.com/ An alternative to youtube https://github.com/pfrazee/ctzn https://whyprivacymatters.org/ https://goodreports.com/ https://ngrok.com/ Port forwarding made easy and secure https://tosdr.org/ https://funkwhale.audio/
“…Funkwhale is an open source and self-hosted music streaming service that helps you upload, share and enjoy music.”
https://substack.com/about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_content=footer https://frame.work/about An awesome open hardware vendor https://12ft.io/ https://friendly.io/ https://www.humanetech.com/ https://www.humanetech.com/take-control https://osint.info/index.php?title=Main_Page https://challengepower.info/ https://buggedplanet.info/index.php?title=Main_Page https://repaircafe.org/en/visit/ https://seahost.de https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped Imperial Library of Trantor see below http://kx5thpx2olielkihfyo4jgjqfb7zx7wxr3sd4xzt26ochei4m6f7tayd.onion/ https://www.ifixit.com/Info/index
iFixit is a wiki-based site located in the United States that teaches people how to fix almost anything. Anyone can create a repair manual for a device, and anyone can also edit the existing set of manuals to improve them. Our site empowers individuals to share their technical knowledge with the rest of the world.
Some useful add-ons:
https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials this Add-On isn't as good as I've thought don't use it better change the default search engine in your browser. privacy badger https everywhere NoScript ublock origin #decentraleyes use this instead its better https://www.localcdn.org/ https://github.com/rickwierenga/sci-hub-injector An Add-on which lets you enjoy science papers update(20.01.22) well a few days ago this project died. The King/Link is dead, long life the King/Link :) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scihub-injector/ Thx <3 to Josias([@]josias@floss.social)
https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/better
This extension looks at your current URL, and recommends “better” product/service alternatives via an in-page pop-up. “Better” could mean ethical / privacy-conscious / secure / local / cheaper / high-quality etc. This should work for both Chromium-based (Chrome, Brave, Chromium etc) AND Firefox-based browsers.
– nileshtrivedi
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better/fhblooichgponllpehbkpihicebfgfll https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/better-alternatives/
Cheers :)