Linux hobbyist, Machinist and tinkerer

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  • Fyi a snowflake proxy, is when your acting as a entrypoint via tor.

    So if you lived in china and when the government restricts internet acess.

    If you tried to connect to tor there great firewall would block all public tor entrypoints.

    So a snowflake proxy is where a user, such as one who lives in china can enter the tor network via the snowflake proxy to where the 3 hops starts in the onion routing process. Which then anonimizes there traffic, also i believe in certain countrys, such as the US. If someone where to do something illegal via your tor node, you would not be liable because of safe harbor rules.

    Which in overly simplified terms. Is like facebook or snapchat, if a user posts something illegal facebook doesn’t get in trouble for hosting it, as long as they follow take down requests they dont get in trouble.

    FYI im NOT a lawer but this is what i heard



  • At times i have felt that my distro was so not worth the flak.

    But the thing that keeps me on it is i write it once and never half to dick with it again.

    NixOS is really powerful, but the learning curve will push you to the edge!

    I currently self host alot of stuff on my server which runs NixOS, theres some services that are as simple as ollama.service = true;

    And others that you spend hours cussing at. But i feel the declarative nature is what makes switching to any other distro feel so unintuitive.

    My linux journey had been,

    Manjaro > ubuntu > arch > fedora > silverblue > opensuse tumbleweed > gentoo > nixos > opensuse tumbleweed > nixos.

    I kept coming back to nix because i wrote what i wanted it to do and it did it that way every time. Its been a godsend for ZFS, although its not super bad to use ZFS on debian just mostly time consuming. The fact i dont half to worry about a update breaking DKMS and making my filesystem not work. I SWEAR SUN IF YOU COULD HAVE JUST DONE THE GPL INSTEAD OF CDL!!!

    I have recently been exploring Guix, purely because of the NixOS drama. But i think nix is my main server OS