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  • I’m working on a music collection manager with a TUI for myself. I prefer to buy and own music instead of just streaming and I have a selhosted server with ZFS and backups where I keep the music and from which I can stream or download to my devices. There are websites which help you keep track of what you own and have wishlists, but they don’t really satisfy my needs so I decided to create my own. Its main feature is to have an easier overview of what albums I own and don’t own for the artists I’m interested in and to maintain a wishlist based on this for my next purchases. I’m doing it in Rust, because it’s a hobby project and I want to get better at Rust. However, it has paid off in other ways. The type system has allowed me to create a UI that is very safe to add features to without worrying about crashes. Sometimes I actually have to think why it didn’t crash only to find that Rust forced me to correctly handle an optional outcome before even getting to an undefined situation.








  • Most open source vpn protocols, afaik, do not obfuscate what they are, because they’re not designed to work in the presence of a hostile operator. They only encrypt the user data. That is, they will carry information in their header that they are such and such vpn protocol, but the data payload will be encrypted.

    You can open up wireshark and see for yourself. Wireshark can very easily recognize and even filter wireguard packets regardless of port number. I’ve used it to debug my firewall setups.

    In the past when I needed a VPN in such a situation, I had to resort to a paid option where the VPN provider had their own protocol which did try to obfuscate the nature of the protocol.




  • dr_robot@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.mlShould I bother learning Podman?
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    1 year ago

    That’s because podman-compose is not a goal for the project IIRC. Therefore, it will never be feature complete. They encourage using systemd or other tools to manage the pods. It seems that podman-compose is just not an enterprise use case.

    Edit: so if docker-compose is important then yea, stick to docker. I moved to using systemd instead. Podman can generate the systems files for you.


  • Well, that’s just not true. WSL indeed is not Linux, but it does have several of the advantages of Linux.

    It is not good if you want a home desktop solution, because that’s not what it’s there for. However, if you need to use Windows for something, e.g., at work to have full outlook MS office compatibility (access through the web is not great) but need Linux for dev work then WSL is great.

    In short, I’d say WSL is there if you want to do dev work on Linux, but everything else on Windows.