“Logosyntheia” – from Greek logos (word) and syntheia (companionship or friendship).
Literally “companionship formed through words,” it stands to convey the idea of a friendship / relationship / friend or foe distinction that is based on verbal impressions rather than deeper insights.
The term captures the nuanced behavior of forming alliances or judgments based on verbal expression alone.
If you’ve read Filippo Valsorda’s guide to using mosh+tmux in a smart way, you’ve probably also noticed that, with mosh, specifying an ssh keyfile is no longer a relatively simple matter of typing:
ssh -i ~/.ssh/keyfilename [...]but it’s now this mess:
mosh --ssh="ssh -i ~/.ssh/keyfilename" [...]and that is rather cumbersome, especially considering there’s a better way anyway to manage ssh keyfiles.
If you’re like me, you might have dozens of private key files stored in your local ~/.ssh/ directory, perhaps one for every organization, provider, and datacenter / location combination.
You might have also noticed that sometimes, even without specifying a keyfile, connections go through anyway, and that’s because your local client is cycling through each locally stored key and using it to authenticate against the server. Except that after a certain number of attempts the server will terminate the connection and return:
Received disconnect from [server-address] port 22:2: Too many authentication failures
Connection to [server] closed by remote host.
Connection to [server] closed.So if you have fewer keys than the maximum number of attempts the server allows, or if the client happens to try them in the right order, you’re good, but any other time you will get kicked off, and you’ll have to manually specify the keyfile as shown above.
There’s an easy fix however. Simply log into all of your servers and:
# nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
### Increase the number of max attempts to a number higher than your keyfiles
MaxAuthTries 16
### save and exit with control-x and press y when promptedNow restart the ssh daemon:
# service ssh restartDo not exit the current session yet, open a new terminal window, and log in [via ssh or mosh, doesn’t matter] to the server without specifying a keyfile, and it should let you in no questions asked!
If everything worked correctly, you can exit the original session, otherwise keep it open, by all means, and double-check your work, and don’t leave it until you are sure you can open a new connection to the server, or else you will be locked out as soon as you close the original session.
This of course will work best in conjunction with global host settings on your client, which you can do by simply doing – on your client:
# nano ~/.ssh/config
### Add the following lines:
Host *
Port 42022
User root
### if, for instance, most of your servers have a custom SSH port [like 42022 in my case] and you log in directly as root
### save and exitThis will apply global settings for all of your ssh connections, and you can specify pattern-specific settings for specific servers as well.
In the end, thanks to these simple tips, you’ll reach ninja-admin status and the holy grail of turning:
mosh --ssh="ssh -i ~/.ssh/keyfilename -p42022" root@server-hostname-or-ipto
mosh server-hostname-or-ipAlso, if you are into servers and security, check out our first-boot hardening script for Debian/Ubuntu machines, called inception. Among several things, it automatically configures everything that is described in this article on you server with no extra effort.
If you take a rapid look at my presentation about openspace’s aenigma state-of-the-art XMPP server automation project, you’ll find out why I encourage everyone to get the fuck out of Telegram right away.
Here is a fun and fast way to set up an autoreply message that gets returned to anyone who contacts you on Telegram on a normal, non-E2EE, direct chat [at least those are still remotely acceptable].
This is based upon this cool article and tested to be working on Ubuntu 18.
sudo apt install python3-pip
pip3 install telethon
nano telegram_autoreply.pyAnd paste the following content inside:
import time
from telethon import TelegramClient, events
# sample API_ID from https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/f98fdeab3fb2ba6f55daf8481595f879729d1b84/Telegram/SourceFiles/config.h#L220
# or use your own
api_id = 000000
api_hash = '2435afd0987efa001824712490cde800'
# fill in your own details here
phone = '+15555555555'
username = 'username'
password = 'two_step_password' # if you have two-step verification enabled
# content of the automatic reply
message = "Autoreply: \n\n[EN] I'm no longer reachable via non-E2EE channels and especially on centralized services like this one. \n\nTo get in touch with me either start a secret chat here if it's urgent or wake up and move on with your life onto a libre communication protocol. You can find me on XMPP from any modern client that supports OMEMO at <your_JID> or even better on Riot.IM [you can use 'https://mt.os.vu' as custom homeserver to register using openspace's instance] at <your_Riot_ID> and get the fuck out of here once and for all. \n\n[IT] Non sono più raggiungibile attraverso canali non E2EE e specialmente su servizi centralizzati come questo. \n\nPer raggiungermi avvia una chat segreta qui se è urgente o svegliati e vai avanti con la tua vita verso protocolli di comunicazione libre. Trovami su XMPP con un qualsiasi client moderno che supporti OMEMO a <your_JID> o ancora meglio su Riot.IM [puoi registrarti usando il homeserver 'https://mt.os.vu' per usare l'istanza di openspace] a <your_Riot_ID> e scappa da qui fintanto che sei ancora in tempo."
if __name__ == '__main__':
# Create the client and connect
# use sequential_updates=True to respond to messages one at a time
client = TelegramClient(username, api_id, api_hash, sequential_updates=True)
@client.on(events.NewMessage(incoming=True))
async def handle_new_message(event):
if event.is_private: # only auto-reply to private chats
from_ = await event.client.get_entity(event.from_id) # this lookup will be cached by telethon
if not from_.bot: # don't auto-reply to bots
print(time.asctime(), '-', event.message) # optionally log time and message
time.sleep(1) # pause for 1 second to rate-limit automatic replies
await event.respond(message)
print(time.asctime(), '-', 'Auto-replying...')
client.start(phone, password)
client.run_until_disconnected()
print(time.asctime(), '-', 'Stopped!')Now simply:
crontab -eAnd paste the following content:
@reboot sleep 16 && python3 telegram_autoreply.pyYou can run it manually the first time – before the first reboot – by running:
python3 telegram_autoreply.pyAnd have someone else write you to see if it works [messages to yourself via saved messages don’t count]. This will obviously work only in direct chats [user to user] and only on non-E2EE chats.
Press ^c to stop the manual run. After reboot run:
ps aux | grep telegram_autoreplyAnd you should get something along the lines of:
nz@mb:~$ ps aux | grep telegram_autoreply
nz 787 0.0 0.0 4628 828 ? Ss 14:20 0:00 /bin/sh -c sleep 16 && python3 telegram_autoreply.py
nz 1691 0.0 1.5 97172 32324 ? S 14:20 0:00 python3 telegram_autoreply.py
nz 4331 0.0 0.0 14428 1036 pts/0 S+ 14:46 0:00 grep --color=auto telegram_autoreplyNow it’s time to get started on XMPP and/or even better Riot.IM once and for all!
Look around you. The beautiful and perfect society we’ve built where everyone is open minded and respects others around them. They call it progress, advancement, “things changing”. It’s all an illusion, if not a downright lie we like to tell ourselves to feel better about being stupid and repetitive fuckheads. For every person who actually changes their mind and opens up to new things they hadn’t considered or didn’t agree with before, there a thousand simply dragged along, accepting change instead of embracing it, respecting diversity instead of encouraging it.
Ask people what they think of allowing nudity on streets today, then ask them again in 20 years, after millions of vocal protesters will have invaded cities all around the world to demand their right to do so, and “change leaders” will have obtained things the way they wanted them “once and for all”. And once you get completely opposit answers, what will have actually changed? Barely anything, if at all. Openness doesn’t require time. Scientific discovery does, technological advancement does, ideas don’t. Don’t get me wrong, on an individual level they absolutely do, sometimes an entire lifetime, that’s what defines a true knowledge seeker. But not on a societal level: on the large scale, if people don’t already think something today, they most lilely never truly will.
And all of the “freedom of thought and expression” we’ve so longed “fought for” is being once again shut down entirely by politically correct public and private entities, both of which are cheered and applauded by the people every day, in the name of ending harrassment, disrispect, abuse, and even terrorism. Everyone is all in for it, apparently completely oblivious that this is medieval dark ages history all over again. Individuals sometimes change, society never does.
When I say I live a truly open life, I actually fucking mean it. You see, a very good friend of mine is a real life actual nazi, with tattooes and everything, I listen to music created specifically by people in prison that form bands based on their human-killing stats rank, I purposefully seek the repressed feelings and attitudes in segregated people that society happily outcasts every day to their moral and physical death, and embrace the true nature and horizons of our species more and more thoroughly every day. Ideas are only powerful when they’re true and complete, art is an absolute essence that has no moral or ethical attachment to their creators, technology doesn’t get created to be “good or bad”, for “right or wrong” application, it exists because it is concretely possible to synthesize and produce, that’s all there is to it, everything you do with it is your fucking problem. True life is only such when you’re exposing yourself to the absolute stream of real and aetherial essence of the world around you without any artificial intervention, otherwise it’s nothing.
That’s why I want openspace to be an absolutely free and open project to everyone, not only because my ideas and beliefs have and should never have absolutely any meaning to anyone beyonf myself, and should never even remotely touch anything even I create, but so don’t those of anyone else involved on any level in any way. Only a truly pure and pristine conceptual and physical location in the universe can accomodate an experience of life that is real and actually true once and for all.
And beyond this top-down, universe to local, formally verified idea [which is all you ever need in life], there’s also the bottom-up, empirical truth that if you don’t include everyone and let every idea actually emerge and work with eachother [one of the few things that actually drives change, thank you very much], you’ll always be the cause of the formation sub-worlds of this-time-forreal hate and violence that peaceful and normal people love to create out there in the undergrounds and not ever have to deal with. Because their ideas are so radical and convinced, that they’re afraid of facing anything different, makes sense right?
And as true as it is that it’s a delicate balance between always listening to every opinion out there and analyzing every side of an argument before building your own [which is essential and can and should often change things for the better in the individual] and not wasting time when you know something is right and you should instead spend your time spreading your ideas to others, this is not a situation where I’m not at all in doubt. I have strong feelings about things, and don’t need any extra time disserting these topics in my thoughts, but that’s also because I’ve always tried to face every side of the story from the beginning, ask questions from the absolute start, and never intentionally left any piece of the potential answer out of the picture from what I could find around me. Confirmation bias is always there ready to attack if you don’t fully adopt this approach, the only scientific and factually true one that exists.
If you want to truly be alive, look around you, explore everything you are physically able to, spend your time seeking answers to questions you can’t even yet imagine, never spend an instand inside your comfort zone, and never leave anything out. That’s the only path to an honest-to-the-universe existence. That’s the kind of life I will never fall short of seeking and obtaining, ever.
I’ve recently seen a video where Elon Musk was asked what it means to him that even the very apollo astronauts who landed on the moon think that private space exploration will never be able to perform the missions and make the discoveries that – until today – have been carried out by government space agencies.
He seemed rather emotional and hit hard deep down about the whole thing, and that reminded me of how even those like him who have had success in making the world realize that they are among the few that are actually changing things, no one is really sharing their beliefs and their visions, they’re all just sitting back and waiting for results, passively spending their days watching as the few spend sleepless nights thinking about how to make their ideas appealing to the others, hoping that, thanks to their support, they’ll one day be able to actually bring them to light.
I completely feel his condition, alone in trying to make things happen, while everyone else is only good in believing in things when someone is inspiring them to do so.
It’s an endless, lonely world out there.
If this is actually the day that the enforcement of net neutrality will be obliterated from existence, then this is exactly the day i’ve been waiting for for a long time.
And of course it’s because i don’t think that rules are the solution to things, and of course it’s because i know that extreme competition brings the best to life, and of course it’s because i believe in absolute freedom for everyone.
But it goes so much deeper than that.
It’s because it’s one additional factor that will force people to face the fact that the internet was never meant to be the centralized, hierarchical, administered environment we know today, but it is and eventually will go back to being the very distributed, everpresent, and anonymous stash of layer-1 medium that interconnects every atom of space of our visible universe.
Projects like openNET.io and LibreFibre and so many others will lead the way to decentralize every level of the internet, from the link-layer to each byte of information that flows upon it, and so on forever up to the stars.
Everything will flow in an infinite, redundant mesh comprised of every living device linked together with all of the others, and any and all potential interventions upon that very free flow of life and exploration will be dead long before it is even conceived.
Apparently there are other people that think of this like me strangely enough.
Freedom is inevitable.
https://github.com/openspace42/inception
This script automates what I’ve been doing on every new debian/ubuntu server machine since the dawn of time. It automates every step I can think of to setup and harden a newly created machine. Let me know what you think of it and please contribute on github. Thanks!
Have you ever stopped for an instant to think about the Internet itself, its true nature, what it is, and what it will become?
The amazingly pristine, elegant, and fundamental fact here is that it’s the pure and simple connection layer between the devices that are part of it. The devices that make this network exist *are* the Internet. The way it was conceived implies by its very nature the fact that every device has a direct interface with every other device, with no central nodes or relays. At a connectivity level every device must be able to speak to any other. At a logistics level, every device must host the data it owns, and share it directly with those who want to read it, and it should do the same the other way around when it is interested in another device’s data.
