today's howtos

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grep expression (perl regex) to extract all ip addresses from both ip and ifconfig commands output
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Install WineHQ 4.4 Using Official Repository In Ubuntu/Linux Mint
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How to encrypt files with FinalCrypt
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Qt installation on different platforms [Tutorial]
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How to Compare Strings in Bash Shell Scripting
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How to Install OpenLDAP on Ubuntu Server 18.04
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How to Repair MySQL Replication
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Economical append-only offsite backups with restic and Wasabi on Debian 10
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Wizard Kit: How I Protect Myself from Surveillance
The popular apps that many humans use continue to track then even if they are logged out, and they also track users who never created an account in the first place (see Facebook tracks both non-users and logged out users). And Google tracks users’ locations even if they turned off location and denied permissions to apps (see Google Tracks Location Even When Users Turn Service Off). Even good apps that never intended to track users may actually be doing so because the SDKs (software development kits) with which they were built may be tracking users and sending data off to others’ servers without their knowledge. Remember the story about the low cost bathroom scale that didn’t work if location was turned off on the smartphone and there was no internet connection? It turns out that the scale was sending data to bare IP addresses that could be traced back to China.
Given the state of surveillance, indeed a surveillance state, in which we live today, most consumers are not aware and don’t know how to protect themselves. They find it impossible to wean themselves off the free drugs that have been provided by big tech—free email (Gmail), free videos (YouTube), free social media (Facebook), free maps (Google Maps) and so on. All of these services, and the privacy policies they force users to agree to, are designed to help big tech collect data from users to make money and limit their liability if anything goes wrong, as in the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal (see What Is “Surveillance Capitalism?” And How Did It Hijack the Internet?).
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