Diyar Ciftci 🇵🇸

Having an email address especially one that is publicly announced like mine, you should expect spam emails.

I hate cloudflare so fucking much.

I’ve added an important change so have set this as a repost.

The focus of this post is on “universal” package management systems.

The gemini protocol is an alternative communication protocol to options like HTTP or gopher.

Last Edited 2025-10-11 Steganography is the act of hiding information within something else.

Sometimes you may want to use a cloud storage provider or service operated by someone else instead of hosting them yourself but you do not want anyone other than your intended recipients to be able to read that data.

You may want to use a custom kernel because the normal version you can get from the repos aren’t very good for you.

Whonix Tor is a high security (and anonymity focused) operating system ran as a virtual machine.

Some services you use may operate a warrant canary.

Setting up a minecraft server isn’t hard but it really depends on what you want your minecraft server to be like.

Onionshare Tor is a useful program for secure and anonymous communication with other people.

Ed is a very basic line-oriented text editor.

Simply put, Metadata is data about data.

Last Edited 2025-10-11 Randomness is very useful for various things in computing.

In this post, I’ll be going over a few things to do when building your own computer.

Qubes Tor is a very unique system and very secure (depending on usage).

rEFInd is a very handy program I use.

I will be going over a simple network installation of debian from a minimal CD.

Arch installation is very easy since archinstall.

Web browsers are very useful but choosing the right one and using one safely isn’t always easy.

You usually need a media player on a system and mpv is my favourite.

Navigating the I2P network has been made very easy with addressbooks.

Last edited 2025-10-11 When I first heard about this, I didn’t think it made much sense.

Installing gentoo isn’t as hard as people describe.

I think a majority of crypto currencies are not valuable as a currency and are run with pump and dump schemes that a lot of people end up fooling for.

When I go to a URL linked to by my search engine or visit my usual websites that I have saved, it shouldn’t download over 15 MB before it starts to function or push my CPU usage to 100% when I look at htop.

This is one of the coolest types of denial of service I’ve seen and I had to make a short post on it.

If you want to securely and anonymously access a machine, this may be for you.

Data that is “deleted” on most operating systems isn’t genuinely deleted from the disk.

Setting easy to remember, hard to guess passwords isn’t as difficult as people say.

There are many reasons why it is a good idea to create your own website and I will go over some that I think are very important.

In comparison to countries such as Iran and China, internet censorship isn’t too bad here in the UK.

Last edited 2023-05-14 Thanks to notbob for the suggested edits.

I use signal because it is a simple private messenger that looks to be secure.

TempleOS isn’t really your daily use operating system of today but it is a very interesting, fun, lightweight and easy to use system.

If you want to hide what packages you are downloading, this is a nice way to do that.

Setting a simple tor service up isn’t too difficult.

The UK government are on the attack against E2EE again.

On most Linux systems, sudo is a pre-installed program.

Smart homes are becoming a bigger thing over time and I don’t really like them a whole lot.

Last edit 2025-10-11 For this, I am not going to be talking about any mobile phone OS like android or embedded systems like libreCMC.

A VPN isn’t a bad thing but the way in which they are usually advertised to people are.

Last edited 2025-10-11 Guns in the United Kingdom can be a sensitive subject.

I dislike using cell phones for many different reasons and for me, I can’t find one I can like to use.

Last edited 2025-10-11 I thought it would be good to create my own site to talk about what’s on my mind or what I am doing and make some services available to people.