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  • Back in the Python 2.7 days, curl | grep sh was the standard practice for installing the package manager, pip. Even better, the shell script actually had a binary blob somewhere in the middle. It was shell script up top, binary blob in the middle, and back to shell script at the bottom. Until Python 3.5ish, pip wasn’t bundled with Python, so this was standard practice.



  • You can watch YouTube in DuckDuckGo to the same effect as you mentioned in the description. A boring answer is that you can install basically anything if you can get access to cmd, power shell, or terminal. You can also install almost anything to user space instead of for all users. On Mac, this is kind of a hidden feature now, but you can make a ~/Applications folder and put apps in there. Generally, if you ask IT, they can be helpful. “Hey, I need uBlock Origin so I waste less of my time at work.” isn’t going to make anyone blink twice.


  • I’ve been using a PiHole for years now. It’s super easy to set up. In practice, it’s been the most reliable thing I keep on a pi. Technically, you don’t need to host it on a raspberry pi, but you should host it on an always-on computer on your network.

    Kind of a different way of looking at security; you can’t guarantee someone’s not keeping DNS logs, but you can guarantee that your DNS logs on a hard drive in your house aren’t being shared.