I have the Gandalf rescue ISO[0] on this, among many other ISOs I use incase I need to repair/rescue or install stuff. My Ventoy setup is a veritable 'Swiss army knife' for general IT related things. The Gandalf Windows preinstalled environment has all this bundled with it, if anyone's interested:
Tools/Utilities included on this Windows PE:
AoMei Partition Assistant: Partitioning solution
WinRAR: Powerful archiver and archive manager
7-Zip: Archiver and archive manager
Defraggler: Disk Defragmenter
MS Paint and Wordpad: Microsoft’s basic image and text editors
Macrium Reflect: Backup and disk imaging solution
CCleaner: System optimization, privacy and cleaning tool
Media Player Classic: Classic Windows media player
HWiNFO: Hardware information and diagnostic tool
Snipping Tool: Screen capture application.
Windows Defender: Microsoft’s excellent antivirus app
TeamViewer: Remote control solution
Double Drive: Driver backup application
Winmerge: File comparison tool
Opera: Web Browser, Fast, simple and safe way to get around on the web
GetRight: Download manager
Ntpwedit: Change or remove passwords for local system accounts
Partition Wizard
Virtual Keyboard
Virtual Magnifying Glass
DiskCryptor: Disk encryption application similar to Bitlocker
Bitlocker: Microsoft’s disk encryption application
Powershell: Powerful automation tool is both a shell and a scripting language
UltraISO: Directly edit ISO files, make images from CD/DVD-ROM
Unlocker: Unlocker helps delete locked files with error messages
Gimagex: A graphical user interface for the ImageX tool
SuperAntiSpyWare: Free Malware Remover
Magic Jelly Bean Key Finder: A utility that retrieves your Product Keys
HiJackThis: Spot home page hijackers and startup programs
Ghost: The classic imaging tool
Skype: Provides video chat and voice calls
VNC Viewer: Remote Control Software
Sysinternal Suite Troubleshooting Utilities
VLC Media Player: Open-source cross-platform multimedia player
IrfanView Image Viewer
FastStone Image Viewer: User-friendly image browser, converter and editor
Mozilla FireFox: Another great browser
Easy BCD: Boot management tool and bcd editor
Snipping Tool: Take snapshots
Drive Snapshot: Disk imaging solution
MyLan Viewer: Network/IP Scanner
Rufus: Utility to format and create bootable USB flash drives
Wise Data Recovery: Recovery program to get back deleted photos, documents, etc.
WinToolkit: Customize Your Windows Installation
ImgBurn: CD burning tool
Treesize: Quickly Scan Directory Sizes and Find Space Hogs
Klite Codec Pack Basic
RecoverKeys: Retrieves your Product Keys
Remote Desktop: Latest version of Windows remote desktop
DismGui: Dism with a graphical interface
Klite Codec Pack Basic
Google Chrome: Great Browser
Powershell: Automation scripting
I'm most worried about rising sea levels. Climate change was a major election item here because we're getting massive floods every year.
Populist parties here promise world changing solutions - clean energy, carbon neutrality, etc. The more pragmatic ones suggest flood mitigation, mangrove forest coverage, still more sustainable energy but less aggressively.
In the stoic tradition, I don't compare myself to others, only compare to who I was yesterday, and if I didn't get better, then it's a hard fail. So my resolution is to continuously improve from the day before.
But also, I do not understand the intent behind a comment such as yours. I do not mean to single you out, you just happened to be the most recent commenter I have seen this from.
Comments such as yours do not address the question at all. Is the intent to just pat yourself on your back? Is the intent just to comment and say something (despite its relevance)?
> Comments such as yours do not address the question at all
I answered. "my resolution is to continuously improve from the day before". Sorry if it sounded vague, but I have no 'specific' resolution other than to improve. That could be anything. Working out, writing, blogging, coding, whatever.
I already have FDE setup. Then as an extra measure I store notes in EncryptPad[0]. All my badly written poetry, TODOs, and hopes and dreams are in there.
I tried Linux Lite[0] in a VM, and there was an awful bug where after setting up a disk encryption password, it wouldn't decrypt when I went to login, so I just abandoned my little experiment. I really should submit a bug report about that.
I don't understand the premise of Twitter having an .onion hidden service. They're anti-anonymity, at least from my experience, where they extorted my phone number from me so I could continue to use their service. Mixing PII with Tor defeats the purpose of anonymity. You're immediately outed by providing a phone number or even en e-mail.
This goes for every single website on clearnet though?
If not phone number, they have your IP and location, timezone, likely waking hours, private chats, search queries, who you communicate with and when etc. If not collected by the webmaster then it is automatically collected by whatever government the server sits in (+ whatever governments that government trades data with).
The times of anonymity on the internet/clearnet are long gone.
> If not collected by the webmaster then it is automatically collected by whatever government the server sits in (+ whatever governments that government trades data with).
It certainly is not, that's what we did all that HTTPS perfect forward secrecy for.
It's not too hard to get a temporary voip phone number if required to sign up for a service, but when I signed up this wasn't needed. Just don't use your phone. You can also get dummy, private, or temporary email addresses. Yeah, the scraping makes things harder, but it's perfectly doable to get these services completely anonymously. I mean hell, NYT, WP, CNN, Reuters, etc all have Signal and most have Secure drop, which is via Tor, to connect to them. Interestingly it looks like Fox is the only major platform not have any method I could find from a single search.
Nonsense. The threat model that onion routing protects against is a middle man intercepting the traffic, not from Twitter knowing who you are. It still offers value.
Just a heads-up, it looks like your account might have been shadowbanned? You last few comments were all dead, as well as this one when I first saw it. Looks like someone else may have already vouched for it though.
