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[Question] Securely Passing Host VPN to KVM?

I’ve attempted to create a VM on my ubuntu host machine that is accessing the internet via a dedicated VPN app. I’m able to disconnect my host VPN and access the web within the VM, but cannot access the web when the host VPN is enabled. Ideally I’d like to enable the VPN on the host and pass through web access to the VM....

lemmyreader,

The moment your VPN app starts it will change gateway and name servers for your host. If the virtual NIC of your VM is bridged with your host I would expect it to work fine for the VM. Is this with KVM or Qemu or VirtualBox or something else ? How is networking configured ?

lemmyreader,

Try Linux Mint.

lemmyreader,

If you want to test several Linux distributions Ventoy can be useful. You can have 10 or more different Linux distributions on one USB stick depending on the size of the stick. This will also save you time “flashing” an image iso to the stick each time because with Ventoy you’d simply copy the image iso files to the stick, quick and easy.

www.ventoy.net

lemmyreader,

the two you suggested though are US based though.

Disroot is in Europe.

lemmyreader,

Proton is the only one I know of who takes mailed cash.

Proton accepts payments via postal mail you mean ? Posteo and mailbox.org do that.

lemmyreader,
  • According to this WiFi should work with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64 Bit Did you install 24.04 or 22.04 ?
  • I’d expect most USB devices to work out of the box. Did you try : sudo dhclient ?

Easiest is probably to perform an installation that comes with a GUI. If the default Ubuntu installation iso is too large, there’s for example Lubuntu.

lemmyreader,

Agree about nmtui. Nice tool.

How are companies or developers supposed to make a full time living with OSI opensourced projects? (opensource.org)

There has been a lot of talk about companies and individuals adopting licenses that aren’t OSI opensource to protect themselves from mega-corp leechers. Developers have also been condemned who put donation notices in the command-line or during package installation. Projects with opensource cores and paid extensions have also...

lemmyreader,

Three examples of open source software where at least one developer could give up their regular job and work full-time on the open source project. I’m sure there’s more (The Linux kernel maybe ?) :

In both cases possible because of people donating. The last example is quite remarkable given the personal history of the developer and the fact that it was “just” a fun project with the developer sharing videos about programming for the fun project.

lemmyreader,

www.gnu.org/software/librejs/

lemmyreader,

Long time ago Riseup, focused on activists, required two invite codes, probably to avoid abuse. They’ve relaxed it with asking for only one invite code. You should imho not be asking for invite codes on the Internet but ask your activist friends or read this : support.riseup.net/…/13-how-do-i-get-an-account

lemmyreader,

Disroot stopped using RainLoop long time ago when people became aware of a security bug in RainLoop and the fact that the RainLoop project appeared to be dormant. I think Disroot switched to SnappyMail, and then to Roundcube.

lemmyreader,

Apparently it’s (by default) everything that doesn’t explicitly specify a license (especially a FOSS one) within the javascript code of the page, which is a ridiculously huge portion of JS on the internet.

It is never to late to start something and make people aware of problems and as far as I am concerned not only about software licenses but JavaScript as a security problem.

lemmyreader,

forum.aux.computer/t/…/483

The announcement resolves one of my last fears for Aux: development on Nix itself. It is no secret that the number of people knowledgeable about the project and are willing to work on this CPP codebase is small. You have probably seen me mention multiple times by now that @sig_cli needs all of the help that we can get. Lix resolves this entirely with a trusted team of experts. This means that Aux is now able to remove Nix development from our priorities and can instead collaborate with Lix moving forward.

lemmyreader,

There used to be wicd as alternative for NM but its development is stalled. There is ConnMan though with apparently GUI and TUI options :

lemmyreader, (edited )

According to this Samba 4.16 removed the support for the old SMB1 Protocol.

Looking here : packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=samba you can see the difference between Jammy and Noble : 4.15 -> 4.19 So it looks like you’re out of luck with fast and easy solutions. Maybe downloading the older Samba package and its dependencies and downgrade and then put the package on “hold” is maybe possible. During such an attempt using aptitude instead of apt could be helpful.

lemmyreader,

Dillo browser’s original project goal was to provide a web browser for people with slow Internet connection.

Here some screenshots of Dillo browser on a phone and how the developer did that :

lemmyreader, (edited )

Stunning - EDIT: The Android and Dillo browser part I meant!

lemmyreader, (edited )

The screen shot has a document Xubuntu -> Chicago95 open which appears to be related to this :

lemmyreader,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/dc483fe8-5441-4703-a932-b2668cdacf7a.jpeg

  • Thanks for the reminder!
lemmyreader,

I prefer to use debs (apt) for most packages and just a few Flatpaks. Avoiding snaps (Among others because I find the Snap Store too messy) and I do not bother with AppImages. But if you (OP) would need certain software that is only available as AppImage then go it.

lemmyreader,

Depends on use case and the country. I use Mullvad and Riseup VPN and something private (and Tor). Sometimes when a site has Mullvad in Europe blocked, it works when I try one of their servers outside of Europe. In my experience Mullvad is awesome, and you can try it for one month. And Mullvad, the no nonsense VPN provider, has had the same prize since years! (And no discounts like Proton trying to get you sign up for a year or more trying to keep you with Proton).

lemmyreader,

No need to have an account. packages.debian.org/search?keywords=riseup

lemmyreader,

um I don’t use a vpn. Please tell me why I should use a VPN.

It is up to you to use a VPN or not. Some people use a VPN to watch regular TV series which are blocked in their own country. Some people, like myself, despise the ad- and tracking- exploitation industry, other people may want to download e-books from anna’s archive or simply do not trust their ISP. Other people live in countries where their government is very oppressive and intends to arrest and torture any critical voices.

I have nothing to hide.

Reminds me of : “Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

Recommended viewing : piped.video/results?search_query=Shoshana+Zuboff

Error when loading Ubuntu live USB (lemmy.world)

I’ve been trying to boot a Ubuntu 24.04 USB (please no discussion of distro choice) but I keep getting a very unhelpful error during the initial startup. I’ve tried using a different USB drive, a different USB port, booting from UEFI. The only thing that has made a change was booting into safe graphics mode. It got to the...

lemmyreader,

I’ve tested the Beta of Ubuntu 24.04 and during the installation it bailed out as well which I’ve never seen before.

Normally the installation disk has Try and Install mode. If you go for the Try mode and then choose install you should be able to navigate to the log files and check the contents which can give you an idea of what went wrong.

There’s other flavors of Ubuntu, like Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu. Try one of them and see whether the same error happens. After you would successfully install for example Xubuntu you can use apt to install the ubuntu-desktop package which is a meta package which will install the default GNOME of Ubuntu. Then proceed to remove the XFCE4 packages and you’re done.

lemmyreader,

Good that you mentioned that. Reminded me that I have an Arch Linux install here where I forgot that I did choose BTRFS during installation. Within maybe a month I noticed FS errors. Looked scary. Nervously searching for documentation was even more scary :

wiki.archlinux.org/title/btrfs#btrfs_check -> This article or section is out of date. (Discuss in Talk:Btrfs) Warning: Since Btrfs is under heavy development, especially the btrfs check command, it is highly recommended to create a backup and consult btrfs-check(8) before executing btrfs check with the --repair switch.

What is this? My beloved Arch Wiki is not 100% perfect!

Then found this :

WARNING: Using ‘–repair’ can further damage a filesystem instead of helping if it can’t fix your particular issue.

Warning

Do not use --repair unless you are advised to do so by a developer or an experienced user, and then only after having accepted that no fsck successfully repair all types of filesystem corruption. E.g. some other software or hardware bugs can fatally damage a volume.

I figure this explains the popularity of BTRFS snapshot configurations. Luckily I had some backups :)

lemmyreader,

Note that ext4 is damn old

Hmm ? Linux kernel is way older than ext4. And before ext4 there was ext3 and ext2. Linux users also have the choice of using XFS file system and for IT persons working for corporations XFS can have some advantages. Let’s see, XFS was born in 1993.

more modern ones like btrfs or bcachefs

Years ago I thought that bcachecfs looked interesting but last thing I read about it this year was not very promising regarding reliability. Not sure whether it was in comments on Lemmy but here I found something from Linus himself : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcachefs#Stability

lemmyreader,

Thanks.

lemmyreader,

They are not pioneers, they are Microsoft funded group (at the beginning, at least)

In the beginning in 1997 GNOME was a direct response to KDE using Qt toolkit which licensing that GNU with RMS did not like at all. Not sure why you mention Microsoft and funded ? When I search for it I see that M$ gave 10K to GNOME in 2022, more than two decades later.

American Motorcyclist Association Urges DOT to Act on Automated Driver System Regulations Following Tragic Collision (americanmotorcyclist.com)

PICKERINGTON, Ohio (April 26, 2024) — In the wake of the most recent tragedy involving a fatal collision between a Tesla vehicle in autopilot mode and a motorcyclist in Washington state, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) once again urges the Department of Transportation (DOT) to strengthen Automated Driving System...

lemmyreader,

I think the progress we’ve made on driverless vehicles is pretty amazing and I really want to live in a world where they work - but we’re not there yet and some idiots are under the impression we are.

Who is the “we” you mentioned three times ?

lemmyreader,

Indeed useful to not having to share passwords. I think sudo historically started as a way to let some users in a company for example manage printer server settings without having a root password. (And I believe it was Ubuntu in 2004 which promoted sudo and forced the default user after an installation to use sudo to perform root commands).

lemmyreader,

Actually, i thought about merging rdo and ssu, both a bit over 100 loc in C.

Found ssu here : github.com/illiliti/ssu Can’t find rdo. What is it ?

lemmyreader,

Thanks

lemmyreader,

The project is based on CSS and HTML files. I guess deploying would mean putting it in the right place (Say : /var/www/html/) and using it with your web-server software or at your hosting provider.

lemmyreader,

Well, I didn’t see the other comments till now, and wrote Upvoted as an alternative to Insightful which I was intending it to sound. I appreciated your comment because I think Google likely have their own priorities.

lemmyreader,

All fine. Your comment where you mentioned autistic suddenly made me “understand” the let-s-call-them misunderstandings in this thread. And I agree about the toxic world, but we’re all in the same boat, so I’d say we may as well be nice to each other at least a few seconds per day. Sometimes small things can make a big difference.

lemmyreader,

That reminds me : Last time I tried Garuda Linux it came with a local Whoogle instance.

lemmyreader,

It can be, but for that, I would rather recommend Aurora or Bluefin. They are almost the same, but without gaming stuff.

Both links in your comment rendered invalid. Providing the correct links for other readers, based on the README from github.com/ublue-os/bluefin :

lemmyreader,

wiki.archlinux.org/…/USB_flash_installation_mediu…

Note: archlinux-2024.05.01-x86_64.iso should be run in GRUB2 mode to work. See Ventoy issue .

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