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[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That's exactly why I want OpenWrt on my router. To have that kind of control.

Anyway your answer is completely unrelated to my question.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

The modem manufacturer might send traffic data to themselves. But the modem would need router capabilities for that, wouldn't it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you!

After posting this yesterday when lying in bed trying to sleep (i posted directly before going to bed) I thought of a similar reason:

Since (as far as i understood it) a modem is just a device that converts between 2 different types of internet signals, the ISP also needs one on their end to connect me to their data center. So it would be way easier for them to spy on their end of the cable (or signal, or whatever type of modem is used) than on my end, since there isn't really much happening in between.

 

I'm planning to buy a router and modem and put OpenWrt on it for maximum control and privacy. While I could get a router with an integrated DSL modem, the previous tenants had cable internet so I'm not sure if the DSL connection even works and DSL internet is also more expensive (at least where I live). Fiber optic is not available. The problem is, there is apparently no open firmware for cable modems so I would have to buy a standalone router and a standalone cable modem. I would put OpenWrt on the router and use whatever proprietary firmware came with the modem.

So my question is:
Can a standalone modem that doesn't do routing, spy on you?
If yes a rough explanation how would be appreciated.

It seems that modem and router are used interchangeably on the internet (probably because they are mostly combined) so it is really hard to find any information on modems. Here are both Wikipedia articles for reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router_(computing)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

tbh i'm pretty happy installing everything through Lutris

it works great for gog games and pirated games

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

deezer arls and qobuz access tokens from https://rentry.org/firehawk52 to dowload with https://github.com/nathom/streamrip

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Cock and Ball DoRture

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

to make a good interactive shell

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

IFS is a special shell variable in bash, ksh and POSIX shells that lets you configure how the shell splits words

by default it splits at spaces tabs and newlines

I use fish a shell that is intentionally not POSIX compatible. While it borrows some principles from Bash and POSIX, it simplifies a lot of things and removes most footguns. Words are split at new lines in fish, which admittedly can also cause troubles, but not nearly as often as in bash and other POSIXy shells.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (4 children)
for i in path/to/dir/*
  dosomething_with_my_file $i
end

where is the problem? fish shell doesn't split arguments at spaces

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

the standard keyboard layouts (qwerty, qwertz, etc.) are mostly trash

are there any good alternative keyboard layouts for your native language (finnish if im not mistaken)?

In Germany there is the Neo Family: Neo{,2}, NeoQwert{y,z}, Bone, Mine, ... as well as offsprings of that, but I guess you need your diacritics: å ä and ö. While Neo layouts have these diacritics available, they are made for german, so only ä ö and ü are easily accessible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (9 children)

not really

You can easily escape spaces with \ and my modern shell (fish) suggests and completes filenames for me anyway, so i don't have to type more than the first word in more than 90% of cases.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (12 children)

How about "cool file name"?

All my systems use modern file systems that are case sensitive and can contain any character except / and \0.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/1774080

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GNU/Anything (lemmings.world)
 

source: https://neal.fun/infinite-craft

you can combine almost everything with GNU/Linux and like 40% of the times you get GNU/, a lot of the times you can combine that again with GNU/Linux to get GNU//Linux or even wilder combinations

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You may want to sit for this. (thejenkinscomic.wordpress.com)
 
 

I just created my account yesterday because feddit.de is so broken at this point that I can't use it anymore. At first everything worked flawlessly, but today I couldn't load my subscribed and local feed from Eternity and Voyager and now in the web version it loads really slow.

Is anyone else having this problem?

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rule (lemmings.world)
 
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