This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re going to discuss a community question on replacing all your most used online services from email to social media with more privacy focused solutions. Then we’re going to discuss a new smartwatch option that’s guaranteed to make you pentesters drool. Plus we’ve also got our famous tips, tricks and software picks. All of this and so much more this week on Destination Linux. So whether you’re brand new to Linux and open source or a guru of sudo. This is the podcast for you.
Sponsored by: do.co/dln
Sponsored by: bitwarden.com/dln
Hosts of Destination Linux:
Ryan (DasGeek) = dasgeekcommunity.com
Michael Tunnell = tuxdigital.com
Jill Bryant = jilllinuxgirl.com
Segment Index
- 00:00 = Welcome to DL 244
- 00:59 = Community Feedback: Raspberry Pi powered Sit Stand Desk
- 04:12 = Digital Ocean: Managed MongoDB ( https://do.co/dln-mongo )
- 06:21 = DL MegaList of Software Alternatives
- 46:34 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln )
- 48:54 = Kali Linux 2021.3 Released with support for a Smartwatch
- 54:23 = Software Spotlight: Veracrypt
- 56:06 = Tip of the Week: remotely control services on a server
- 57:57 = Outro
Tip of the Week: remotely control services on a server
Pipe commands through SSH
- Example: Placing your SSH key on another host.
cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh me@remotebox “cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys”
- Example: Dump all the processes running on another computer into a local file
ssh me@remotebox “ps auxf” | cat > ~/ProccessesForRemoteBox
- Example: Playing Local Audio Remotely (Both will hear)
cat /dev/dsp | ssh me@remotebox “cat > /dev/dsp”
MegaList of Software Alternatives
| Application | Category | URL | Discussion Notes |
| Fediverse | Social Media | https://fediverse.party/ | Complete list of social media sites |
| Mastodon | Social Media | https://mastodon.social/ | Alternative to Twitter |
| Pleroma | Social Media: Microblogging | https://pleroma.social/ | Alternative to Twitter |
| Misskey | Social Media: Microblogging | https://join.misskey.page/ | Alternative to Twitter |
| Diaspora | Social Media | https://diasp.org/ | Alternative to Facebook |
| Pixelfed | Social Media | https://pixelfed.org/ | Alternative to Instagram |
| Matrix | Messaging | https://matrix.org/ | Communication facility that allows you to link your other messaging platforms (Discord, Facebook, etc) into it and manage it all in one plaform |
| Element | Messaging | https://element.io/ | Alternative to Slack / Discord |
| Odyssey | Content/Video Platform | https://odysee.com/ | Alternative to YouTube and Twitch |
| Internet Archive | Content/Video Platform | https://www.archive.org/ | Alternative to YouTube |
| Twitch | Live Streaming | https://twitch.tv/ | Alternative to YouTube |
| DLive | Live Streaming | https://dlive.tv/ | Alternative to Twitch |
| Protonmail | Email/Calendar | https://protonmail.com/ | Alternative to Yahoo/Gmail |
| Tutanota | Email/Calendar | https://tutanota.com/ | Alternative to Yahoo/Gmail |
| iRedMail | Self-hosted Email | https://www.iredmail.org/ | |
| Mail-in-a-Box | Self-hosted Email | https://mailinabox.email/ | |
| Mail Fence | Email/Calendar | https://mailfence.com/ | Alternative to Yahoo/Gmail |
| Thunderbird | Email/Calendar | https://www.thunderbird.net/ | Brings all email accounts in one place |
| Quad9 | DNS Services | https://www.quad9.net/ | |
| Cloud Flare | DNS Services | https://www.cloudflare.com/ | |
| PiHole | DNS Services | https://pi-hole.net/ | Network-wide Ad Blocking |
| Firefox (native DNS) | DNS Services | https://www.mozilla.org/ | built-in |
| Open DNS | DNS Services | https://www.opendns.com/ | |
| Proton VPN | VPN | https://protonvpn.com/ | |
| Mullvad | VPN | https://mullvad.net/en/ | |
| Signal | SMS | https://signal.org/en/ | |
| Element | SMS | https://element.io/ | |
| Matrix | SMS | https://matrix.org/ | |
| Session | SMS | https://getsession.org/ | |
| Wire | SMS | https://wire.com/en/ | |
| Dittochat | Communications/Messaging | https://www.dittochat.org/ | |
| NextCloud | Cloud Drives | https://nextcloud.com/ | |
| Mega | Cloud Drives | https://mega.nz | |
| Piwigo | File hosting: Photos | https://piwigo.org/ | Alternative to Google Photos |
| Lychee | File hosting: Photos | https://lychee.electerious.com/ | Alternative to Google Photos |
| Joplin | Notes/Documents | https://joplinapp.org/ | |
| Etherpad | Notes/Documents | https://etherpad.org/ | |
| Hedgedoc | Notes/Documents | https://hedgedoc.org/ | |
| HackMD | Notes/Documents | https://hackmd.io/ | |
| Mail Fence Documents | Notes/Documents | https://mailfence.com/ | |
| Standard Notes | Notes/Documents | https://standardnotes.com/ | |
| Duck Duck Go | Search Engine | https://duckduckgo.com/ | |
| Searx | Search Engine | https://searx.me/ | |
| Bitwarden | Password Manager | https://bitwarden.com/dln |
