https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Fingerprinting

https://amiunique.org/

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

There are plenty of resources for this already.

It will know as much data as it would for any other wireless client. MAC address mostly.

I’m not exactly sure what you’re trying to do here. Yes, if you use a phone as a hotspot, everything going through will be associated with that hotspot phone’s IMEI.

Yup, it works great. I actually did it myself when migrating from a centos to debian host. Worked first try, no issues (except one thing that was already broken but I didn’t know because I hadn’t accessed it recently). Containers are great for this.

This. Cloud-init, or autoinstall for Ubuntu, to get the install done, then use ansible for anything more.

I don’t have a specific recommendation, but you can look over the big list maintained by Reddit users: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ijfqfLrJWLUVBfJZ_YalVpstWsjw-JGzkvMd6u2jqEk/edit

You probably want one hosted in a non-cooperative country, and one that doesn’t keep logs.

Bind mounts. I’ve never bothered to figure out named volumes, since I often work with the contents outside Docker. Then I just back up the whole proxmox VM. (Yes I’m aware proxmox supports containers, no I don’t plan to convert, that’s more time and effort for no meaningful gain to me.)

You can restore that backup to a new VM. I just make sure it boots and I can access the files. Turn off networking before you boot it so that it doesn’t cause conflicts.

What are you trying to accomplish by using a VPN?

Yes, but I wouldn’t bother bringing it up to them. It’s fine if they want to provide it under multiple licenses. Since they make it available under the GPL, you can do those things under that license.

If they do change something, it will probably be to change the license away from GPL.

Being a YouTube personality is enough justification for me.

The issue is not encryption, it’s the unauthenticated API. People can interact with your server without an account.

Apparently I can’t read

Loops?

The DJ is the artist. Each set is an album with one track. What’s broken about that?

Jellyfin should be fine. Why do you say it breaks it?

Yes, in theory any program, including Windows itself, could upload data to the Internet if not blocked.

Windows can be restricted by a network firewall. Programs can be restricted by filesystem permissions and the OS firewall, and not running them as admin.

But is this happening? Unlikely, unless you have malware. You can inspect your traffic.

I’d be more surprised if countries like the US, China, and Russia weren’t trying to influence each other.

It seemed like the best source available from a ten-second Google search while taking a shit, but I can nip down to the local CIA field office and pick up some classified ops docs if you want a primary source, I’m sure they make that info available.

Yeah, only megacorps and slave labor! Because fuck people owning the means of production, am I right?

What do you mean “what psyops”? Are you unaware that both China and the US, as well as almost every other country around the world, conduct foreign influence campaigns?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-voters-targeted-by-chinese-influence-online-researchers-say-2024-09-03/

And I’m sure I don’t need to give you examples of American campaigns. Most of Hollywood contributes.