https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/gui-instructions-installing-wireguard-on-silverblue/74713

liamdev: I need graphical user interace (GUI) instructions for installing Wireguard on Silverblue - Fedora 34. I'm visiting family at the moment and evidently they have Avast - which I do not want to use and I don't want the VPN that they have set up with the router to interfere with mine.

I've read the 1981 internet protocol that was published by DoD. I'm so immeasurably frustrated that something like an encrypted tunnel from end point to end point is such a complicated issue.

The articles on Fedora Magazine are not sufficient for a beginner and only show command line instructions and the only video on YouTube that's worth watching is chaotic with a guy typing a millions commands plus he's using Ubuntu anyways. GUI instrucitons please.

computersavvy: If they are already using a vpn why add another layer. Since you are just visiting you can temporarily disable your own vpn, use the one they already have configured at router level and go with it.

liamdev: With all due respect, I was looking for GUI instructions on how to set up the Wireguard VPN on Fedora Silverblue, not advice on what I should be doing with a presumption that I had one set up before.

liamdev: I haven't come across anyone that has sucessfully set up a VPN on a YouTube tutorial or anything else via GUI. VPN's should be simple, point and click free solutions to protect your identity and information from being transmitted widely over the internet. There's literally no point in moving forward with any future releases of any distribution if a GUI VPN hasn't been developed.

Regarding a server - i don't have a personal VPN server - that's what WireGuard is supposed to be ? WireGuard is supposed to be both the VPN Server and the VPN Client for someone that has neither right now.

computersavvy: I think you are misinterpreting what a vpn is & does.

It securely connects you via a tunnel from one point to another, the remote being a vpn server and may be free, paid, or company owned.

liamdev: Thanks for the info. My use case is this - I want to be able to install a VPN so that anything I search for on the internet is encrypted. I want an encrypted tunnel between my computer and the internet browser.

The reality is, there are (from what I see) 1.5 million man pages that have 10,000 functions. In other words, there's 150 ways to do the same thing. The system is so broken that I'm shocked the DoD has even let it carry on the way that it has.

From what I understand, Gnome Box VM's don't even hide your physical IP address or MAC address or anything really? So if someone wanted to use the hacking cowtools that are in Linux - well there wouldn't be much stopping them from getting literally all of my passwords and information…

So if someone wanted to use the hacking cowtools that are in Linux - well there wouldn't be much stopping them from getting literally all of my passwords and information…

augenauf: interesting, I would be curious to learn how to do that, just for research purposes. could you share any insights?

liamdev: Gothca - thanks, Sure thing, I'll map them out. Here's how you:

Get Kali Linux -

Fingerprint Web Apps & Servers for Better Recon [Tutorial]

Clear the Logs & History on Linux Systems to Delete All Traces You Were There [Tutorial]

Haunt a Computer Using SSH [Tutorial]

How Hackers Can Find Hidden Wi-Fi Networks & Their Names

Generate Crackable Handshakes with the ESP8266 [Tutorial]

Watch Hackers Craft Malicious Office Macros (ft. Kilian from SecurityFWD)

I mean just follow that channel in general. Then look at:

How to HACK a password // password cracking with Kali Linux and HashCat - how to HACK a password // password cracking with Kali Linux and HashCat

You get the point.

So, regarding the VPN and just general freedom to have privacy haha… I'll check out the blog post again. I don't understand how it's so easy to find out how to track and airplane from a video tutorial but something as basic as a VPN seems to have so many different components to the workload that could break at any moment.

liamdev: With all due respect, it's none of your business why I don't just turn it off at the Router level. I genuinely mean that as well - I don't mean to disrespect you, but posting in a public forum why I don't do that shouldn't even be a consideration as a response.

I'm gathering that no one has developed a GUI to use this Wireguard VPN. I clicked through the link that you sent, and the link that was in there and the link in that one too. Thanks for the effort but it didn't provide an actual GUI answer.

I'm gathering that no one has developed a GUI to use this Wireguard VPN.

augenauf: It's integrated in Network Manager in Gnome, consider searching the internet.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager#VPN_support

liamdev: okay so there's no way to easily install the WireGuard VPN via a GUI. The strategy here is to loop people in w/ Lenovo, offer them "free" everything that's not really free, offer tons of documentation to the point where people either give up or - the optimal outcome - they hire a company like Red Hat - that's using non-profits as a tax write off - or someone else that's anonymous but the risk in the anonymous folks is that they could be hackers ha.

If there was a "CEO" of Fedora, who would that be? Who is in charge of operations? Who is in charge with the Lenovo relationship? Who is in charge with the financial side is probably the most important in this question. I don't want to reach out to an anonymous profile and this VPN is arguably one of the most critical elements of the research I'm doing. If this is seriously the end result - the messages on these threads and recommendations - then there is a massive problem that needs to be addressed.

augenauf: So, you tried to set up the wireguard between your Fedora Workstation and your EC2 instance?

Where are you stuck? What are the error messages? Any logs?

liamdev: No, I'm hopeful you can help me find some way to connect directly with the Fedora leadership team. What is the best route? I believe whoever would be equivalent to the CFO would be the most appropriate.

augenauf: So, I am going to close the topic if you are not interested in technical support solving your problem. You're wasting your time and our time by discussing useless stuff. Had you ever posted a link to the guide you are trying to follow, the commands you had executed, the conf files you used, and error messages or log files that were generated, we could have long solved your problem. Instead …

As for the contact to Fedora Council and its Chair, I am sure you find that in Fedora Docs or by means of a search engine.

Do you actually call Jeff Bezos if your EC2 instance doesn't install an update?

I can only second @ilikelinux comment; get a professional IT consultant. He or she will setup wordpress and a store within a couple of days, including a wireguard connection for you to mess up the installation.

https://www.mcgorray.com/obituaries/LIAM-J-BIRT?obId=27828780

!schizomaxxxers press to pay respects to our fallen king

- 35 votes

https://thedebrief.org/dead-internet-theory-looms-as-meta-unveils-plans-to-flood-facebook-and-instagram-with-ai-users/

Dead Internet Theory' could be closer to becoming a reality, as Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has unveiled new plans to stock its social media platforms with fake AI users

this is advanced autism

Why are Boeing planes falling apart?

Exhibit A: pic.twitter.com/ArDmIcit4z

— Derenic Byrd (@DerenicByrd) December 31, 2024

https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/boeing-put-flyers-at-risk-with-9-an-hour-pay-to-737-max-software-engineers-119062900267_1.html

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1hqexxn/never_forgive_them_why_everything_digital_feels/

Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the U.S. Treasury Department this month and stole documents from its workstations, according to a letter to lawmakers, opens new tab that was provided to Reuters on Monday.

The hackers compromised third-party cybersecurity service provider BeyondTrust and were able to access unclassified documents, the letter said, calling it a "major incident."

According to the letter, hackers "gained access to a key used by the vendor to secure a cloud-based service used to remotely provide technical support for Treasury Departmental Offices (DO) end users. With access to the stolen key, the threat actor was able to override the service's security, remotely access certain Treasury DO user workstations, and access certain unclassified documents maintained by those users."

>unclassified documents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42553154

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1hpxb7t/us_treasury_says_chinese_hackers_stole_documents/

Haha wow the rejection is in the job description itself. pic.twitter.com/SCgJC79xTj

— Loftwah (@loftwah) December 29, 2024

Great interview, good listen for people who are new to elixir, but also if you aren't, it provides some tidbits that will aid in your understanding.

Also, a lot more entertaining than most tech interviews online.

What does the B in 'Benoit B. Mandelbrot' stand for?

For 'Benoit B. Mandelbrot'.

— Anna Riedl (@AnnaLeptikon) December 29, 2024

!linuxchads

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/12/vpn-used-for-vr-game-cheat-sells-access-to-your-home-network/

Two months ago I posted a check-in on the LundukeOS distro. It looked like this:

In that time, Lunduke has published articles on the implosion of the FOSS world caused by wokeness. He wrote about Python pushing out a major developer over microagressions, the slow death of Linux Mint, the woke coup of NixOS, the ouster of a C++ contributor for using the word 'question' in a paper title, and the suffocatingly progressive culture of GODOT as well as GNOME. Most recently, OpenSUSE was unable to find anyone willing to join their board because the purity spiral banned every in the community.

According to Brian Lunduke, every project in the FOSS ecoystem has been eaten by the woke purity spiral. More and more developers have been ousted. There's a huge pool of smart, dedicated FOSS contributors who can't contribute to any project except the proudly unwoke LundukeOS. Let's see how Brian has harnessed this unprecedented pool of talent:

I mean guys, if you can't even do Leetcode so called "hard", the industry probably isn't for you and you should go off and work in manufacturing or something else more suited to your mental abilities...

This is why it's really important to do brown face before any Zoom interview.

the only time I've ever had an experience like this was when I went for a job interview at Waitrose when I was like 18 and there were 12 people there it was a group interview. 6 were English, 5 white 1 black, and the other 6 were African and South East Asian and spoke poor English. after the interview they came out and told all the English people to leave lol.

I got an interview and a job this way. The director was actually somewhat unhappy to find out I wasn't actually born in India and didn't have an accent when we met in person.

Tbf as an Indian guy I find even when I do get the interview, the Indian (at least immigrant/FOB ones) interviewers are especially harsh. I once had one literally ask me why my GPA was so low in college despite me having earned honors on it because my school just didn't do much grade inflation. They're also hardly ever conversational and don't tend to respond well to clarifying questions. This experience tends to be common according to the /r/leetcode folks too

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/27/americas/mexico-cellphone-app-deportations-intl-latam/index.html

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/28/using-ai-to-talk-to-animals

I had a rockstar application for college--near perfect SAT score, perfect AP scores on 7 different tests, Eagle Scout, congressional internship, varsity athlete, etc.--but I spent my summers doing manual labor for long hours (100+ a week @VivekGRamaswamy) because, hey, that was… pic.twitter.com/WrEXG9ricN

— Josiah Lippincott (@jlippincott_) December 28, 2024

This absolute is seething that Sillicon Valley companies are hiring s in droves and passing up unmelanated supergeniuses like himself, nevermind that hes never written a line of code in his life.

This takes the cake for !mayomoment of the year.

The Meta employee relations department's investigation into Kevin Crawley has concluded. Separately, I've learned from industry sources that Kevin Crawley is no longer employed by Meta. Being a member of Kiwi Farms and engaging in racist and transphobic tirades is bad for one's career.

— Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) (@lizthegrey.com) 2024-12-27T18:02:56.656Z

kiwifarms

Noticed email about Sony year wrap out so decided to check what I played the most, clicked on that link, it opened the browser and to view the wrap out I had to login in, understandable. Entered the email address and then the 30+ long password with all the requested symbols, no biggie. They saying "looks like you trying to log in with a new device" like how did they knew that's exactly the same device I always log in to psn ? so they will send me an sms with pass code, cool. So I didn't receive any sms, no biggie I clicked to receive pass code to my email. They wrote they send me passcode to my email. So I opened my email and their was mail from Sony with no passcode, obviously but with information that someone from my location tries to enter my account and if it's not me to do something about it

Tldr: So path tracing dlsr mlrs petaflops AI decided that I am using new device so I can't now enter my account

Wow. This is an incredibly insular, and empathy devoid take. The author's binary assumption that introversion and introversion are choices are incredible. Go and do some research on neurodivergence, and then go and have a think about how harmful this advice is.

Remember, shyness, like fatness, is totally determined by your DNA, and your choices have nothing to do with it.

For me it isn't just a matter of "I'd rather be in front of a computer", going to a big social encounter is extremely stressful. And the idea of approaching and talking to someone I don't know fills me with terror.

Lots more computercel cope in the thread

Coffeezilla has been doing a mini-documentary exposing CSGO gambling epidemic...

TL;DR Valve has been accidentally contributing and enabling a mafia of gambling, and avoiding regulations and using workarounds to avoid laws and addict teens to gambling. There's a whole expose.

my wholesome halfliferino developer cannot be le malicious and evil!