I’ve been doing what’s in the guide for several years but its good to see a well structured and well presented resource like this anyway.

Theyve convinced normie that his valuable resources are valueless, and absent a better role model that won’t change (he’s not the type who thinks from first principles)

Cone snails represent

Skinks are cool but they don’t beat the olm

Rule of Acquisition #3: Never spend more on an acquisition than you have to

I use the free tier of a non-M/G email provider, and keep my use of email to a minimum. I would happily pay for it in cash but I haven’t found that provider yet, and Stripe hates prepaid cards. A lot of discretionary shopping is done in cash

Credentials are local and employ entries from a custom dictionary I made with vocab that combines multiple languages with randomized and inconsistently applied letter substitutions, to which a random string is added (it’s probably no more secure than a random string alone but I enjoyed getting some sed XP, sue me)

Certain browsing habits and needs have their own browser profile. I used to attempt user agent obfuscation but further reading suggests spoof attempts are trivial to detect by even crude scripts

The one layer that never gets enough study is hardware and software compartmentalization. The demand for sync everywhere always is itself a threat vector

Media consumption is LAN only sourced from p2p networks 🏴

The DOGE is doing a better job teaching people about the value (and problems) of data custodianship than the EFF at this rate

• Always keep a live USB of your distro handy
• Don’t ignore the terminal, you’re doing yourself a major disservice if you do. Terminal is life
• The ArchWiki isn’t just for Arch users