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It's actually fairly straightforward with a simple tool called tshark.

Under Linux, some USB devices are flakier than we'd like to admit — especially in a Raspberry Pi.

Albeit this tip is only for X11 users — not necessarily Wayland users — it's nonetheless surprisingly easy.

A practical solution to share folders between Qubes OS qubes.

It's very easy to split your DVDs title by title (e.g. one video file per episode) on Linux.

Some smb.conf parameters cause default POSIX ACL masks to be incorrectly calculated.

Sometimes you need a specific qube to start up, or start one of its applications up, with a specific environment variable set to a specific value. This guide helps you accomplish that.

The problem may be in your browser. Here's the fix.

Matrix goes to great lengths to keep your conversations private. Here is a primer on how that works.

Here is a summary of what knowledgeable people do in order to browse the Web while minimizing data leakage and cross-site correlation / tracking.

The answer will highly depend on your use case.

This is a known Matrix bug, and there is a workaround for it.

A quick primer into how to get the testing environment of most common Plone add-ons going.

This question stems from a misguided model of how your phone works.

Stop wishing for childish solutions. There is no out-of-the-box solution to your problems of information security and digital sovereignity.

It's a pain to manually switch sound profiles when watching movies or listening to music. Let's fix that.

A summary of the applications I install on my phone right after imaging GrapheneOS on it.

A straightforward and simple VCL recipe.

What should I use, and what are the advantages / disadvantages of each, to sandbox untrustworthy apps in GrapheneOS?

Run many proprietary Android applications in a strong sandbox on your phone. Control when they run — giving you maximum privacy while making minimal sacrifices.

Plone can do this job for you too. Here is a quick guide to understand how it's done.

You should use it more!

Qubes shared folders is officially in testing.

The instructions currently available on the Web for enabling Colemak keyboard layouts in DOSBox are unfortunately not current anymore. This article guides you through the process of making that happen on Linux.

Raspberry Pis are notoriously unreliable compared to regular PCs.

A super easy guide to running your Urbit.

How to transfer your already-running planet's master ticket without having to breach or deleting your pier.

An easy way to inspect the internals of your Urbit ship.

These instructions will ensure you get direct network connectivity instead of indirect connections, leading to faster Urbit.

For those times when you want to know "am I fully up to date?"