This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re going to discuss a community question on replacing all your most used online services from email to social media with more privacy focused solutions. Then we’re going to discuss a new smartwatch option that’s guaranteed to make you pentesters drool. Plus we’ve also got our famous tips, tricks and software picks. All of this and so much more this week on Destination Linux. So whether you’re brand new to Linux and open source or a guru of sudo. This is the podcast for you.
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Segment Index
- 00:00 = Welcome to DL 244
- 00:59 = Community Feedback: Raspberry Pi powered Sit Stand Desk
- 04:12 = Digital Ocean: Managed MongoDB ( https://do.co/dln-mongo )
- 06:21 = DL MegaList of Software Alternatives
- 46:34 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln )
- 48:54 = Kali Linux 2021.3 Released with support for a Smartwatch
- 54:23 = Software Spotlight: Veracrypt
- 56:06 = Tip of the Week: remotely control services on a server
- 57:57 = Outro
Tip of the Week: remotely control services on a server
Pipe commands through SSH
- Example: Placing your SSH key on another host.
cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh me@remotebox “cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys”
- Example: Dump all the processes running on another computer into a local file
ssh me@remotebox “ps auxf” | cat > ~/ProccessesForRemoteBox
- Example: Playing Local Audio Remotely (Both will hear)
cat /dev/dsp | ssh me@remotebox “cat > /dev/dsp”
MegaList of Software Alternatives
| Application | Category | URL | Discussion Notes |
| Fediverse | Social Media | https://fediverse.party/ | Complete list of social media sites |
| Mastodon | Social Media | https://mastodon.social/ | Alternative to Twitter |
| Pleroma | Social Media: Microblogging | https://pleroma.social/ | Alternative to Twitter |
| Misskey | Social Media: Microblogging | https://join.misskey.page/ | Alternative to Twitter |
| Diaspora | Social Media | https://diasp.org/ | Alternative to Facebook |
| Pixelfed | Social Media | https://pixelfed.org/ | Alternative to Instagram |
| Matrix | Messaging | https://matrix.org/ | Communication facility that allows you to link your other messaging platforms (Discord, Facebook, etc) into it and manage it all in one plaform |
| Element | Messaging | https://element.io/ | Alternative to Slack / Discord |
| Odyssey | Content/Video Platform | https://odysee.com/ | Alternative to YouTube and Twitch |
| Internet Archive | Content/Video Platform | https://www.archive.org/ | Alternative to YouTube |
| Twitch | Live Streaming | https://twitch.tv/ | Alternative to YouTube |
| DLive | Live Streaming | https://dlive.tv/ | Alternative to Twitch |
| Protonmail | Email/Calendar | https://protonmail.com/ | Alternative to Yahoo/Gmail |
| Tutanota | Email/Calendar | https://tutanota.com/ | Alternative to Yahoo/Gmail |
| iRedMail | Self-hosted Email | https://www.iredmail.org/ | |
| Mail-in-a-Box | Self-hosted Email | https://mailinabox.email/ | |
| Mail Fence | Email/Calendar | https://mailfence.com/ | Alternative to Yahoo/Gmail |
| Thunderbird | Email/Calendar | https://www.thunderbird.net/ | Brings all email accounts in one place |
| Quad9 | DNS Services | https://www.quad9.net/ | |
| Cloud Flare | DNS Services | https://www.cloudflare.com/ | |
| PiHole | DNS Services | https://pi-hole.net/ | Network-wide Ad Blocking |
| Firefox (native DNS) | DNS Services | https://www.mozilla.org/ | built-in |
| Open DNS | DNS Services | https://www.opendns.com/ | |
| Proton VPN | VPN | https://protonvpn.com/ | |
| Mullvad | VPN | https://mullvad.net/en/ | |
| Signal | SMS | https://signal.org/en/ | |
| Element | SMS | https://element.io/ | |
| Matrix | SMS | https://matrix.org/ | |
| Session | SMS | https://getsession.org/ | |
| Wire | SMS | https://wire.com/en/ | |
| Dittochat | Communications/Messaging | https://www.dittochat.org/ | |
| NextCloud | Cloud Drives | https://nextcloud.com/ | |
| Mega | Cloud Drives | https://mega.nz | |
| Piwigo | File hosting: Photos | https://piwigo.org/ | Alternative to Google Photos |
| Lychee | File hosting: Photos | https://lychee.electerious.com/ | Alternative to Google Photos |
| Joplin | Notes/Documents | https://joplinapp.org/ | |
| Etherpad | Notes/Documents | https://etherpad.org/ | |
| Hedgedoc | Notes/Documents | https://hedgedoc.org/ | |
| HackMD | Notes/Documents | https://hackmd.io/ | |
| Mail Fence Documents | Notes/Documents | https://mailfence.com/ | |
| Standard Notes | Notes/Documents | https://standardnotes.com/ | |
| Duck Duck Go | Search Engine | https://duckduckgo.com/ | |
| Searx | Search Engine | https://searx.me/ | |
| Bitwarden | Password Manager | https://bitwarden.com/dln |
On the subject of Odysee/LBRY as a YouTube alternative - I have to respectfully disagree. There are very few apps that work well with Odysee and the content on it (at least in my experience) tends to lean toward extreme fringe political and tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists. In my short time exploring the platform it looked like there were basically three things on there - Linux videos, antivax videos, and alt right content. Not the kind of place I want to associate with, personally.
I use it mainly to watch the shows I follow that are cross posted from YouTube without the adverts.
As far as I know you can find all this stuff also on Youtube but nobody will come to the conclusion that you should not be associated with Google, that tracks you across devices and even other platforms owned by it.
I personally do not search for alt right content nor do I see it on Odyssee because it is not my thing. I am not saying that is does not exist. But then I guess my feed is just too full of Linux content.
Not to the extent that you do on Odysee, you can’t. For better or worse YouTube is a lot less permissive of alt right content and hate speech. Odysee is much more free speech respecting, in theory at least, but that does leave it open for toxic content.
Bryan Lunduke pointed out some of this in his statement explaining why he left the platform last month.
Back to my point on a lack of good apps - I tend to consume videos on my Roku through apps, and the only ones that work for Odysee have no way to log in as far as I remember - so you get a list of what all is trending regardless of your preferences. I didn’t have to search for alt right content to see it in the trending lists. It’s there on the front page.
I respect his decision but also find it a bit childish because of some dumb video, and it really was a dumb video but I only found that video because he ranted about it and it had nothing to with the alt right as far as I know.
Btw Lunduke is pretty much conservative in his political views.
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