I’m disappointed. I thought you figured out how to have a decentralized scoring system 😃

never heard of nushell, but sounds interesting… but it’s not default anyhwhere yet. I’d go for bash, perl or maybe python? your comments on zfs make a lot of sense, and invalidate my respective thoughts :D

your first two points can be mitigated by using checksums. trivial to name the file after it’s checksum, but ugly. save checksums separately? safe checksums in file metadata (exit)? this can be a bit tricky 🤣 I believe zfs already has the checksum, so the job would be to just compare lists.

restoring is as easy, creation gets more complicated and thus prone to errors

I’m mainly on Linux for over 20 years (still have one Windows Box for VR and some games, hopefully I can migrate this to Linux with the next hardware iteration). I was on Suse, Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo, Ubuntu, QubesOS (which does not self-identify as Linux-distribution) with Fedora+Debian Qubes. I never had those installed on my main machine, but also worked a lot with kali, grml, knoppix, dsl, centos, Redhat and certainly a bunch of others.

The absolute best for me, as working in it security and with different customers, is QubesOS. Sadly my current laptop is so badly supported by QubesOS that it burns 6h battery in 25 minutes and sleep/suspent does not work at all, so I’m currently on Ubuntu (which I hate for their move to snap and being Ubuntu in general)

I was taught that Pluto is a planet. How could they have been so wrong???

and it’s wrong, too. it’s not pornography, it’s rape.

I’m not active on linked in, but 0 posts and 3500 followers rose my suspicions

I mean… like everything this comes in many levels… go on the main road with your car, cameras will catch you. sign in with your public transport card when boarding the bus… these are obvious. use a cab, pay cash. ride a bike, change cities, change states, change countreis… depends on your threat model I guess :D

if your travel with burner and normal phone for one hour, both switched on, cell tower registrations are in sync and both are easily linked. if your switch on your burner only occasionally at random locations, but your real phone is/was there at the same time they are linkable.

to use a burner:

• never switch on at home
• leave main phone at home, switched on
• travel a reasonable distance before switching the burner on
• don’t travel with people who know you and who carry a phone
• sim & phone mustn’t be bought/topped-up in a traceable way
• cover cameras at all times (there are 0click exploits available to three letter agencies)
• don’t travel in a traceable way

it’s possible, but certainly not trivial.

also: depends on the power of your adversary, as always the personal threat model is relevant. using a burner to cheat on your spouse is not the same as using one when plotting to steal the nuclear codes.

it’s rather easy to link a burner phone to you if you don’t know exactly what you are doing. no need for a phone, don’t take any risk.

I completely ditched amazon - private and for my company. there are so many other options, slightly less convenient admittedly, but also slightly cheaper. works for me!