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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I’m running Mint on an 8BG laptop and I’m surprised by just how much can be running at one time. Right now I’m running Firefox with 10 open tabs, Waterfox with 8 tabs, Thunderbird, Keepass, Calibre, Signal, a Whatsapp client, Syncthing, Libreoffice Writer with 2 open docs & Calc with 2 open small spreadsheets, a couple of terminals and Gedit, and didn’t even notice it until came across these comments. A friend who uses Windows 11 says 32GB is recommended now.

    Microsoft must be thrilled with age verification being required at the OS level. What a great way to lock people into their Microslop garbage.









  • There are ~50,000-60,000+ available IP ports. If you had Wireguard configured correctly and running on every single one of them a port scanner would get exactly the same result as if every port was closed. Wireguard is completely silent unless the correct key is provided.

    The “script kiddies” could scan every port for months and they’d get the same result. There is no known way to even know there’s an open port much less know that Wireguard is running on it AND have the correct key for access.

    I understand being gun shy after your experience (I would be too), but that experience has nothing to do with what happens when you open a port for Wireguard.