Secure against whom?
If it’s from a random thief, both are about equality secure, they rely on proven cryptographic methods.
If it’s from somebody powerful enough to make an ISP bend the knee, then they are equally insecure because those cryptographic methods assume you trust the underlying infrastructure. If you do not though, then yes using a VPN will help as you are adding your own level of encryption on top.
CopyParty https://github.com/9001/copyparty + PartyUp https://f-droid.org/packages/me.ocv.partyup/ (upload only, not sync)
Could try https://f-droid.org/packages/com.phpbg.easysync/ for sync proper.
More WebDAV Android client options https://github.com/fstanis/awesome-webdav#android but anyway my suggestion is to rely on a protocol, not an app.
So far nobody provided a good answer (if I missed it, I apologized, please do share) so I’m going to assume it’s the typical “Nobody ever get fired for buying from IBM” mindset, namely rely on what is the most popular, confirm it works well while ignoring viable alternatives IMHO, e.g NitroKey.
I use Yubikey Bio and NitroKeys.
Edit : to expand a bit, for the YubiKey it’s for the convenience of just pushing my thumb on. I use it on the Web and to su locally. For NitroKeys I’ve discovered them via https://nlnet.nl/project/Nitrokey-3/ and thus appreciate the OSHW side, e.g https://certification.oshwa.org/de000007.html or https://certification.oshwa.org/de000008.html
FWIW https://gitlab.com/pdftk-java/pdftk works well. Sure it hasn’t been updates for a couple of years but maybe it’s not really needed.
Sorry I don’t know enough but here is an interesting articles about other kind of gnomes :P https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-tech-rally-apple-iphone-elon-musk-tesla-luddite-movement-2025-9
With pleasure. I discovered kdialog just recently too as until now I used notify-send but as you are using KDE this gives you a lot more options.
If you are into this kind of things check also dbus or KWin, there are a LOT of fun and powerful ways to interact with KDE.
FWIW if it users WebDAV might want to check copyparty then as it also provides that, and a WebUI, and… a lot more.
It also has kdeconnect-cli with e.g. kdeconnect-cli --share myfile.txt so don’t think you are stuck with a GUI to use KDEConnect.
1-liner would be something like watch -n 10 "pgrep konsole || kdialog --msgbox 'konsole no running'"
namely :
watch to repeat a command at interval, e.g. every minute (could also be crontab)pgrep to check if a process is runningkdialog on KDE to send a message to the current user (plenty more ways)Thanks, it’s quite interesting but again IMHO it relies on bad practices. If you’ve been compromised and you “restore” (not in an sandboxed environment dedicated to study the threat) then you are asking for trouble. I’ll read a bit more in depth but the timeline I see 1987, 1998, 2017 show me this is a very very niche strategy, to the point that it’s basically irrelevant. Again it’s good to know of it, conceptually, but in practice proper backups (namely of data) remains in my eyes the best way to mitigate most problems, attacks and just back luck (failing hardware, fire, etc) alike.
12 years ago I took “Malicious Software and its Underground Economy: Two Sides to Every Story” and it was quite interesting not so much for the technical aspect (which was still nice) but for the economical aspect that is often underappreciated. The core idea was that scammers or hackers might be doing it for fun, as you did, or learning, as I did… but the ones who keep on doing it sustainably make money out of it, consequently they are predictable. Namely they need repeatable methods that scale or that target a specific group. I really recommend taking a similar class but anyway, the big picture here is sure, maybe AV would miss such things and yet it wouldn’t really matter because nearly nobody does that and/or it wouldn’t propagate much.
That doesn’t make much sense to me, one backup data, not executables or system. Even if they were to be saved in the backup then they wouldn’t get executed back.
Anyway, that’s still conceptually interesting but it’s so very niche I’d be curious to hear where it’s being used, any reference to read on where those exist in the wild?
Nothing needs an antivirus if you backup your data properly.
It’s not just for Linux but :
It’s fundamental because instead of saying “It doesn’t work!” and get no useful help, people must think of it as an investigation (or whatever get them going) looking for clues. Until you get the right message and can provide the right context (e.g. what computer are you using, what OS version, etc) then you get generic help which is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Sure it’s not entirely impossible if you are both lucky and patient but you are doing yourself and others a huge disservice.
Before Linux maybe they were used to black boxes but here, nobody is intentionally trying to hide away anything from you!
PS: bonus, notes are basically free. Jolt down notes about anything and everything you are learning. Don’t just “use” a computer, LEARN how to use a computer.
If most of your passwords are actually for Websites, Firefox has Profile letting you manage passwords across devices.
simula on my steam deck
Ah, interesting. I did try it years ago on my desktop with my Valve Index but didn’t consider on the SteamDeck. How does it work without 6DoF and controllers?
You did. Well my point is that nobody needs this kind of equipment in the first place anyway because 99% of “useful” stuff done by an average officeworker isn’t actually LLM it’s usually STT. The rest, e.g. GenAI with videos is for shit&giggles, vibe coding doesn’t work except few super tiny narrow cases (e.g. transforming a file quickly without caring for 100% accuracy and when converters don’t already exist) and last but not least genAI on text itself is mostly used for spam, scan and cheating at school.
So… please don’t felt “left behind” if you can’t self host this kind of tools, it seems to me it’s nearly never justifiable!
Very interesting, thanks for sharing https://github.com/theaiautomators/insights-lm-local-package
Honestly though it might take 15min to configure, 1hr to let it run so that it get all images, dependencies, etc, 30min to debug GPU passthrough with the right driver version, 10min to try by getting the right endpoint… then 1min to realize that sure you can get give a PDF and “chat” with it but nothing particularly interesting or actually insightful will come out of this, especially if the paper itself if well written, namely has a proper introduction, structure, etc.
So… I’m leaving this comment here to maybe try one day, updated my list of local AI services but most likely I won’t bother anymore.
Thanks for highlighting that.
The same way IMDB has https://imdbapi.dev/ or https://www.omdbapi.com/ (which I did use for a bit) is there an equivalent, namely MyAnimeList DB or API?