Oh that sucks. I haven’t used it personally in quite a while, since I switched to the Grafana stack

Netdata is exactly what you’re looking for. It’s basically an all in one monitoring and and alerting suite that collects and analyzes data, and provides a gorgeous web dashboard for you to view.

You can also manually replicate this using Prometheus, Grafana and other tools, but that requires a much bigger effort to set up.

Edit: There’s a public demo instance where you can try everything out: https://frankfurt.netdata.rocks/

I remember having used Blink a few years ago. If you want a full Linux environment on the iPad, you can also check out iSH. It obviously also allows you to use SSH.

Give him the Luigi special treatment

And, FFS, make backups ;)

Here’s a good tutorial for an easy to use backup solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W30wzKVwCHo

Great job!

Wait so the “great firewall” doesn’t block Proton VPN IP addresses? That’s interesting.

Proton works in China if you set the protocol to “stealth” in the setting

With or without alternative routing?

That should work.
I started working on a rewritten version in Rust that uses the REST API instead of the CLI tool. Once it’s done, it should be a lot faster, since it can make multiple requests simultaneously. I also plan to use this for other stuff in other countries.

You can also run a full Tor relay: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/guard/

There are tutorials on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npg3cBJusnA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgxUsdxl0ak

What do you use now? Curl? wget?

EDIT: This won’t work. You can “ping” blahaj successfully, but only because it redirects to a gov page, and not an error. I’ll have to revise the script because of that.

Globalping has an HTTP method, which I use in the script:

globalping http $instance from $COUNTRY

I then use ripgrep to check if the HTTP response contains the string “Blocked URL”, as you can see in the script:

| rg 'Blocked URL'

The if condition uses the exit code from ripgrep to add $instance from the for loop to the blocked.txt file.

I tested this manually and it works as intended. The script could use some optimizations though. And if you intend on running the current version, you need to lower the limit of the globalping command from 3 to 1, otherwise you will run out of credits before all 8100 instances are checked. I will rewrite this to use a globalping auth token though.

Btw I also removed the https:// part from the instance list. Just opened it up in Vim, selected everything using V-Block mode and deleted it. I don’t know if that makes a difference, but I’m not sure if the Globalping command can take URLs, or if it only works with domains.

I quickly threw together a script to check which other Fediverse instances are blocked in Saudi Arabia by using Globalping. I know it’s horrible, but it works so far. Will share the results once it’s finished running. I’ll probably also rewrite the script later.

I got the list of instances from lemmy.world: curl -s https://lemmy.world/instances | rg -o 'href="([^"]+)"' | rg -o 'https?://[^"]+' > instances.txt

#!/usr/bin/env fish

set INSTANCES "./instances.txt"
set OUTPUT_FILE "./output.txt"
set COUNTRY "saudi arabia"

for instance in (cat $INSTANCES)
  if globalping http $instance from $COUNTRY --method GET --limit 3 | rg 'Blocked URL' 2&>1
    echo "Blocked: $instance" >> blocked.txt
  end
end

I’m running tail -f blocked.txt in another terminal to monitor the results in real time.

(Yeah I know the script sucks. Don’t judge me, I use fish and prefer its syntax over bash. I also use ripgrep, because I like it.)

I fully agree

I don’t think it is. The first comment (the one you’re referring to I suppose) just doesn’t make any sense. The commenter is throwing around random buzzwords trying to sound educated and asking incredibly stupid questions on purpose. It’s not fair criticism of the project at all. The secureblue account also replied to this, clarifying the misinformation from the first comment.

You can always get a used or refurbished device. It’s good for your wallet and for the planet.

And make sure to get a used or refurbished Pixel, because giving Google money isn’t a good idea either https://reddthat.com/post/32690381

Not a real replacement for AirDrop, since it still requires devices to be on the same network, instead of using ad-hoc Wi-Fi, but LocalSend is pretty nice.

Which features of Time Machine do you need? Just backing up, or do you also need the file history? For backups the best solution we have is probably Pika Backup (it uses Borg Backup under the hood, so it’s compatible with other tools that use the same standard). There’s a pretty good video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W30wzKVwCHo
It also lets you grab individual files from a backup, but it doesn’t look as nice as the Time Machine file history UI.

LibreELEC

I’m sorry, there’s no other way to say this, but such a major issue slipping through is just a massive sign of incompetence. I support Fairphone’s mission and philosophy, but I just can’t trust this company. This isn’t the only security issue either. I wouldn’t recommend their devices to anyone for this reason.