Personally I don’t go with full disk encryption for backups. I use Borg that encrypts its repositories on a plain ext4 partition, and the key is saved in the config file (wrapped in passphrase of course). Obviously it just moved the problem of what to do with the passphrase… I also have Vaultwarden (with a separate backup mechanism).

Hey, hope you are recovering from this ordeal. I attribute some of the oddities in your post to panicked writing, but it would be great if you can clarify these points:

listed as .BRM for windows 6

What does that mean?

As soon as they saw me, they wiped everything from my home folder, everything that wasn’t a base part of kde was gone

What do you mean base part of KDE? Did they delete more than just the home directory?

because since they schroot, none of those processes were available to me to view

Why wouldn’t you be able to view processes running in schroot? Doesn’t it use the same pid namespace and uses the same /proc as the init process?

I went digging and found the schroot under /run/ I took a look at the properties and the env showed 128.7TB of storage

You wrote in a comment “that was the server farm rooted into me”. Why do you think that is the case?

Also, it’s not quite clear what the screenshots are meant to show. The first two are a list of files in your home directory, showing it’s not empty. So did they wipe everything or not? How are we supposed to know what those files are and what you expect should be there… And then the other screenshots are of you trying to recover files from the disk image.

I understand if you don’t, but do you actually have any evidence of an attack? Like cellphone video of the screen while you are seeing suspicious activity on Wireshark? I can definitely understand being more concerned with minimizing the damage once you realize files are being deleted than gathering evidence. But can you for example fish out that .dll file from the disk image?

I watched 28 minutes and decided I’m gonna let this show go. I feel like I gave it a shot, the first two episodes weren’t terrible. I wouldn’t even say this episode was terrible (the ½ I watched), I just got very bored.

If like Lower Decks this show turns around to be great, do let me know and I might go back and watch it.

Episode 1: with expectations at the bottom of the Mariana Trench (because I watched Discovery), I was not too disappointed by this episode. Was it good? Also no. I think the story is fine in principle, it doesn’t unfold in a believable way, but not the worst we’ve seen in Star Trek. Other than that I was irked by what the captain says at 41:55:

make eh(?) your speed maximum impolt

Really, impolt, you couldn’t do a second take on that?

Episode 2: quite a bit worse, the plot progressed for like 3 minutes in total, and there was a lot of that teen drama that wasn’t interesting or amusing.

Overall felt like these were written by people who know a lot about Star Trek at a very surface level, and have a very TV-idea of what college life is like. I’ll keep watching, for now. Out of franchise loyalty more than actual interest.

I think that’s the issue. It’s xhost + if I remember correctly.

No, secondary clipboard Ctrl+v paste is a Windowsism

I use Linux on my work computer

It’s only downhill from there for Discovery.

The exact opposite is true for Lower Decks, I hated it in the beginning, but it ended up being my favourite show in 20 years.

I don’t really need the encryption

In this case I’d say, LUKS is an overkill and just complicates your life. Try to think of a worst case scenario and what you are trying to protect against. Full disk encryption protects you against someone physically and clandestinely tampering with your server to compromise you by altering your OS, I’d say most selfhosters aren’t at risk of this (I do use LUKS on my laptop, because if I’m not available to decrypt the drive then there’s no reason for it to get decrypted). My approach to the server is to have encrypted directories as needed. For example the SFTP directory, the logic being that some of what’s there may be sensitive, so encryption at rest prevents leakage after the drive is eventually disposed of. But my Git repos (including private ones) and calendar aren’t encrypted at rest. Other services (e.g. Matrix, Borg, Vaultwarden) provide E2E so don’t really need further encryption.

“The uploader has not made this video available in your country” – fuck you Paramount, but OK, I have VPN.

I’ll give it a shot. I just pray that other than a few characters in common, it won’t have anything to do with Discovery.

I didn’t get the music analogy but I agree with you that “dumb shit” can apply to a large part of this season.

Hope so! Season 3 wasn’t the worst thing ever but not really good or memorable.

You are thinking it over way more than the writers did. This hole-ridden plot is just there to justify the action scenes. But I think it’s implied that Batel left the messages. Why were they vague and in those other languages? Just because!!

2/10

Worse sequel to the season’s so-far worst episode.

Felt like the writers were like “wouldn’t it be cool if we do this… and that… and this again…”

“science so advanced it might as well be magic”: yeah, pretty much, this was more of a D&D campaign (bad one) than a good sci-fi episode. Even the silly Prophets / Pah-wraiths arc of DS9 was preferable to this.

I watched… I have no idea what to say as I don’t have or know any pre-schoolers.

I usually dislike “back in my day” comments, but when I was a pre-schooler I watched TNG. Did I understand anything? Not at all. Did it instill a lifelong love of the franchise? Possibly.

Prodigy was an excellent show, I guess it’s also “for kids” but older ones, I thoroughly enjoyed it as an adult. Scouts, from what I can tell from those 8 bizarre minutes, is more at the level of Discovery in terms of quality of writing.

Yet the floating boulders are so scientifically accurate 😜 (these aren’t other moons, we are told there are 396 moons, to be exact)

the episode did not even need the aliens running things behind the scenes, it would have been perfectly fine to just have the spatial anomaly and a crash landing as the setup.

I think having the Metron running things behind the scenes helped a bit. I did a huge eye roll when there just happened to be a recently-occupied tent within walking distance from the crash site on a desolate moon, given the vastness of space this is so ridiculous (not that it stopped Star Trek or other sci-fi before).

That was pretty good sci-fi! A solid 7/10.

I loved it that for the first time in SNW the gorn are a bit more than just space orks. Uhura was especially annoying this episode, and got off way too easy with fudging the numbers. Seeing the Metron was fine, I don’t know if most people who watch this watched Arena or are going to, so it gives them a taste. My favourite human-gorn interaction has to be this though: https://youtu.be/4hnBp7x2QAE?t=10

About Culber:

he’s gonna come back, we just haven’t figured out how, and we don’t know how we’re doing it because it’s gonna happen in season 2.

So they didn’t know what they were doing? Shocker.

Reading this article I wonder if the actors realize how bad the writing was for that show.

Thanks for clarifying. I responded to the title only as I didn’t actually care what Michelle Yeoh thinks and just want to put this sad story into the dustbin of Trekstory. Georgiou was the only mildly interesting character in Discovery and season 2 was the only mildly not-awful one, so I had moderate hopes for that movie.