Thank you glimse

I Know. Lame duck.

I completely messed up my post. I got severely distracted ranting on and on.

Thats the main trouble with getting old.

Forgetting starts slowly, then all of a sudden you are rushed to hospital unable to remember your name.

I was talking about haventgotsacluetube (youtube) and not boatracecrook.

I do hope people will see through my obvious error

For me.

This is how we all give Boatracecrook the cold shoulder and leave. The more people they block the better.

Boat race, is cockney rhyming slang for face.

At the very minimum, to protect future generations and our grand children and their children from; the banal, brainless, brain dead, manipulative surveillance.

I have never used Boatracecrook.

I must admit that as a new user on Lemmy, I do take umbrage at all the links to Boatracecrook videos that people feel they need to share and promote.

I trust people to watch the video and give a short written description, not add a poxy link in the avatar image.

I have got caught out more than once clicking on an user supplied avatar and I have been taken to poxy Boatracecrook.

To be honest, I was under the impression that lemmy was different and did not engage in the anti-human practices of Boatracecrook.

I cannot understand why anyone watching a Boatracecrook video, then suddenly decides to add a link for Lemmy users.

Then manipulatively hides the link in the avatar of the post, when the link could be added to the main text body for all to see, and give people a choice if they click on it.

I can only assume this is about self promotion and not about supporting the Lemmy community.

Hey SteveTech

I dont use internal or external SSD’s.

It maybe because I am an old greybeard, but I prefer to suffer the slight loss in speed of a HDD, so I can dd/erase/wipe them and reuse them again and again.

Though I have been using “disktest” to erase SSD’s and HDD’s recently and it has been working great. Much faster than zeroing with dd /dev/zero, shred or wipe.

https://crates.io/crates/disktest

https://github.com/mbuesch/disktest

However, I digress, I had not heard of f2fs before.

Ive been having an intersting read online.

It appears that it is a default for android phones.

I do have a few SSD’s laying around from when I replace them with HDD’s. So I will test f2fs on one of those.

Thank you

Hey ScoffingLizard

Airstrip One was the name of Britain in George Orwell’s book 1984.

Airstrip One is a part of Oceania.

In 1984, Oceania formed after the United States merged with the British Empire.

Its just my way of saying that my country is heading deeper into totalitarianism and fascism.

CCTV, facial recognition, the militarism of our police, police powers to kill people without facing criminal charge, the constant monitoring of its people, the uncontrolled power of big tech, big pharma, big agro and the rich. To me anyway, seems to indicate we are on the road to totalitarianism and fascism.

My niece, same age. no problems so far

I installed linux mint xfce on an old laptop for her.

we set it up together and she loves it. Themes icons and all that jazz.

I have hidden and removed items from the start menu. Just to keep it simple.

I also set up some aliases so she just has to open a terminal and type “update”. she loves that. Thinks she’s a hacker now and impresses her friends.

I have set up an alias to call bleachbit, so she just types “cleanup” in the terminal, types her password, and she can watch bleachbit do its thing. I explained to her how important it is to keep her machine clean, like housework at home.

I must say, Kids are a nighmare for attracting viruses and malware using windows, its not the best age to suddenly be thrust into the slop of the internet.

They are young and excitable and will click on anything and everything that catches their attention without giving it a second thought.

Its a big plus not worrying about viruses and malware on linux.

To stop her having free reign and accidentally seeing porn on the internet and protect her from the worst crap, I installed Mullvads DNS on linux and in the librewolf browser.

Mullvad have a fabulous family dns filter; https://family.dns.mullvad.net/dns-query

here are the options:

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

I have set the search engine to Startpage

I have also taken advantage of Ublock origin and added loads of these is the: my filters list

just a few of many to stop access to certain websites from the search pane

This one stops amazon links appearing in the startpage search

startpage.##.g:has(a[href=“.amazon.”])

startpage.##a[href=“.amazon.”]:upward(1)

This one stops ebay links appearing in the startpage search

startpage.##.g:has(a[href=“ebay.”])

startpage.##a[href=“.ebay.”]:upward(1)

I spent more time on this than anthing else;

Hi vimmiewimmie

My friend travels to the USA fairly often. or used to.

Before she goes, she has an old laptop that she rarely uses. I wipe the drive and re-install her favourite linux distro and do a basic set up. She has a laptop with a newly installed linux going through customs with no password. nothing to see here.

She has a spare Oneplus 6, especially for the USA, with Lineage on it, with no social media or any signed in apps. It is factory reset before she goes again with no password. she also takes usb drive with a distro already on it.

When she gets settled in the USA, she connects to wifi and installs the apps she needs. VPN, messenger etc, and emails me.

Between us we set up Signal messenger / molly. She installs it on her phone, I use her phone number from home and I send her the code/details via encrypted email.

once she is set up she only uses Signal to phone her friends, no open line calls or text messages, she only uses Signal’s camera to take any photos, so they are not stored on the phone.

she has nothing to hide, she is not a criminal, its just that we value privacy and confidentiality.

anything that she needs, she messages me and I send it to her via signal.

When she leaves the USA, she resets her phone. I have taught her how to erase her drive with the USB using dd and re-install linux from there.

She has decided that she will not go to the USA after the recent nightmares for foreign travellers.

Hey pitiable_sandwich540

Thank you

I dont know why I have been so focussed and stuck on exFAT for all these years.

It must have been something I read somewhere that led me to it.

from all the decent feedback i have gotten on here, ext4 seems the best way to go.

I should have known this being a linux user for over 20 years.

Hey IanTwenty

Thank you

ext4 seems the way to go for me

Thank you Eideen

I have never used any back up programs, Maybe I should consider it.

Both Borg and Pike-backup are in the offical repos (extra).

I shall check them out

Thank you nyan

I will look into the dmask and fmask mount options.

Definitely a no! in regards to attaching my drives to any windows machine.

The last windows machine I turned on was a Windows 95 machine when they first came out.

I thank god, That I wouldnt even know how to turn on a windows 10 or 11 surveillance machine.

Thank you Hack3900

Thank you SavvyWolf

This is particularly annoying when I have to upgrade my distro and all my files have to be moved to an external drive.

Unfortunately some of my files are up to 10Gb. thats why I stayed with exFAT.

I will certainly try Ext4 on my external drives.

Thank you Eugenia

Compressisng the files sounds a great idea.

I have in fact compressed a 12Gb file that I split into 10Gb chunks that still decompresses without problems.

This is particularly annoying when I have to upgrade my distro and all my files have to be moved to an external drive.

Unfortunately some of my files are up to 10Gb. thats why I stayed with exFAT.

I will certainly try Ext4 on my external drives. I will test it this week

People in the USA do have more rights than people here on Airstip One.

Though we are both under the big black boot of government friendly fascism.

Since October 2007, we have had Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 or RIPA.

We cannot refuse to give up a password or access to an encrypted device.

Section 53 of RIPA makes it a criminal offence to not comply with a Section 49 notice, carrying a sentence of up to two years in prison, and up to five years in cases involving national security, terrorism or child indecency.

We have no Fifth Amendment covering self-incrimination laws to protect us from over zealous police and state.

Who in society is going to argue against laws that are sold to us to protect our children?

I am an old retired psychotherapist. I remember the introduction of the CRB (criminal records bureau) check, here on Airstrip one in the early 2000’s. Now called a DBS check.

The CRB scanned the Police National Computer for any criminal offences that you had committed, this also included juvenile, aged under 17 offences. Which empowered all employers to use the CRB checks to get rid of staff and refuse to employ certain people. Discrimination was rife.

You were now judged, not on your competence to do your job, but whether you had a criminal record.

I would not have minded so much if they solely searched for any offence that were linked to child abuse, terrorism or national security, but they provided your entire life criminal offences.

My enhanced CRB check showed that I had gotten fined £3 for riding my bicycle on a pavement in the mid 60’s when I was 11 years old. My mum had to pay. My dad earned about £10 per week as a lorry driver.

What a danger to society I was! An employer could refuse to employ me just because of that little bit of information.

Sold to the UK population as a means to protect our children from sexual predators. Of course no one complained.

Yet, forward just a few years and you needed a CRB check to work at:

The airport, the local supermarket, as a gardener in a school, as a handyman sweeping the car park of the local doctors practice.

you needed to have a CRB check if you came within 100M of a child or vulnerable adult.

Even University students now have to have a CRB checks if they are on a psychology, counselling or psychotherapy course, because they may come into contact with children and or vulnerable adults.

This is the slow creep of government policies expanding, with no oversight, sold to us under the guise that they are protecting children and vulnerable adults.

fear is a great driver for change. scare someone enough and they will give up their granny.

I think this is also linked to Airstrip One’s governments, continually attempting to remove all encryption from devices by using child protection as a reason

As a retired psychotherapist I can tell you, that every single person on this planet has something to hide.

Obviously, psychotherapy offers a safe, private and confidential space to speak about those things. Society does not offer this safe space. So Humans hide things.

Sometimes these hidden things are even hidden from the person.

we have all broken our own, and societies, moral codes, the things we do not share with other people.

Our own sexual preferences are the most hidden of all subjects. Even in this so called Enlightened age. Sexuality still reigns supreme as the most hidden of all subjects.

I always say to people spouting the “I have nothing to hide” argument.

If you have nothing to hide!

Why do you continue to wear clothes when you go out.

Clearly it has nothing to do with the fact that: a CCTV camera on the corner of your street, a camera in a passing car, a RING doorbell facing towards the street, school kids filming with their phones, will film you and intrude upon your private life.

It is because you have something to hide.

For instance: Examples of the things that people hide.

As we see this quite regularly with our politicians and those generally in powerful positions:

The Pro family values political evangelists who espouses that homosexuality is a sin, and then gets caught with a male prostitute.

In psychoanalysis this this called “Splitting”. Its where the politician projects all his hidden, unacceptable parts of himself, in this case his homosexual preferences, and projects them onto other people in society. Those bad bad people who are homosexuals.

Or the pro child protection evangelist politician, who gets caught with gigabytes of child abuse images on their laptop. Same thing.

Its the same with the recent rise in the Right Wing anti-everything brigade;

anti-immigrant, who most likely had a foreign girlfriend when they were young, and are now ashamed of it because their mates are anti-immigrant. Group think.

anti-abortion, probably got a girl pregnant, wasnt man enough to support her, and left her no choice to get an abortion. Misogyny

anti-homosexual, probably a repressed homosexual who fantasises about sex with same sex partners. Far too ashamed to come out.

anti-this anti-that; Oh the shame!

This always speaks more about the hidden belief systems that those people carry. It is not about the people onto whom they are trying to project there own personal stuff.

To be human is to have a private life, and to keep it secret.

Hey arsus5478

There are instructions to install with wget on the git page as you mention and you seem to have folowed that guide, but the easiest way is to use APT.

For debian I would add the PPA repo:

There are clear instruction on the git page to install from apt.

About half way down the page you will see APT.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation

APT

You can download and install yt-dlp for recent Ubuntu and other related Debian-based distributions by adding this PPA

Add ppa repo to apt

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomtomtom/yt-dlp

Update package list

sudo apt update

Install yt-dlp

sudo apt install yt-dlp

Your system’s package manager will now automatically download the correct dependencies and keep the package updated with the rest of your system whenever you update:

Done

this is a good introduction to adding an external PPA repo to apt and getting to know debian

Hey Novocirab

Thank you

I do like surprises.

I am a retired psychotherapist, so I value all person to person contact.

Anything else is just not human nor fulfilling for me.

you are correct.

here on Airstrip one, we are the most monitored country in the world, with one cctv camera for every 14 people. very scary indeed.

I am an old geezer, nearly 70, so my car is very old, no tech.

Hey Truscape

Thank you for the wonderful thoughtful reply.

I particularly liked “the informed and the uninformed”. This is true

Being a retired psychotherapist, I have known for all my professional life how easy it is to manipulate people. This is why, all practicing psychotherapists have to have, one hours supervision for every five hours of client work they do. This is to protect the clients from us, the therapist. There is no protection like that in the tech world.

My heart sinks everytime I see some shill promotimg online therapy. without ever understanding the lasting damage that they will do to the human being.

I do agree with all that you write

its called irony