This is why it’s important to make backups. If, by any chance you printed your disk configuration before the gpt operation, you want to copy it into a notepad NOW. You can use that to try and recreate your original partition layout after converting the disk back to MBR. Chances are nothing is wiped, except for your disk configuration. No guarantees, though…

Whatever you do, don’t format anything, as that WILL overwrite your data.

You need some ansible love in your life!

I have my moments… 😉 Feel free to pm me if you need more advice.

I would copy the existing system onto a new system:

1. Update system to the latest packages
2. Create a new base system using the same distro
3. Check which packages are not on the new system, add them to your playbook
4. Install packages on new system
5. This will take some time. Run a find of all files and pass them to md5sum or sha512sum to get a list of files with their checksum. Compare the list from the old system to the new system.
6. Update your playbook with these findings. Template is probably the way to go, Lineinfile might be good as well, use copy if nothimg else works.
7. Check firewall settings and update your playbook.

Anyhow this will take some iterations, but while you have a copy of your ‘production’ system, you can test on your ‘test’ machine until you have the same functionality.

Doesn’t “digital” imply “electricity”?

The integration part is because we would like for anyone to fit in, and not be confined to your ‘hood’

We don’t mind you not speaking the language, but English is usually not a first language, sometimes not even a second, and sometimes omitted. Especially in rural areas.

So yeah, it’s nice if we can actually have a conversation about the local soccer team, or town buffoon who thinks the government is conspiring about pricing covid shots too high…

The problem with SELinux/nftables/cgroups is that they don’t come with a centralised log aggregator, and they don’t do much blocking beyond the defaults for 99% of deployments.

You must not have heard of ®syslog.

Also, SELinux is a massive pain to set up (even compared to AppArmor), and setting it up correctly is even worse.

I beg to differ, I find SELinux easy to setup. But your mileage may vary, depending on one’s experience.

CrowdStrike does a lot of what SELinux does but it’s easier to configure, works on every operating system, and comes with tools to roll out configuration across an organisation. There’s nothing close to that in the open source world. Even if you set up something yourself, you’ll need to continuously tweak your setup not to get in the way of employees and to prevent alert fatigue from all of the false positives. Apparently, recent events show it doesn’t work on every OS… 😜

When talking about ease of use… Configuration is configuration. If you do not take the time to learn how to use your product, the product you know will always be better than the one you don’t. I’ve used Crowdstrike. I’ve battled them to get their kernel modules signing certificate to be signed by RedHat. I’ve battled them to have the possibility to have the auto update disabled. So no, I am not impressed by the quality of their product. I’ll bet any day a vanilla RHEL with the correct security related software and the latest updates outperforms and outclasses Crowdstrike.

I think a preconfigured solution like Security Onion combined with tons of group policy and Ansible can form an open source alternative, but that only monitors, whereas CrowdStrike also blocks. To block behaviour, you’ll need to write code for most platforms, and that’s just as likely to take down your org as an auto update from CrowdStrike. I can’t speak of MS products, as I have not managed them for 20 years, but all of this is not needed on a decent Linux distro.

You assume I would think you’re wrong. I do not.

Morally, assassination is despicable. But so is fascism.

I applaud you for taking the high road, while I just say Fuck ‘em all. Fascism should not be tolerated, even in a democracy.

It doesn’t require Hitler-level Evil. Just pragmatism.

What CrowdStrike is actually selling, is someone who actually looks at the system logs and who pushes a button when something pops up. Roughly.

There are better solutions on the market. Unfortunately CrowdStrike has the more aggressive sales team.

For those wondering, I’m referring to *nix based solutions like SElinux, appArmor, iptables, nftables, cgroups, … But you need to monitor your logs if you want to take appropriate action.

He did (at least) one good thing in life, and people feel the need to smear him…

Ise kde, not gnome.

Joey, is that you?

Aside from the obvious (company providing all the necessary tools) why not using libreoffice and saving it as M$ excel?

Nope

Surprise… Surprise… It’s a snap!

dnf upgrade And package-cleanup --cleandupes Should have fixed it.

You may also want to check up on regulations and laws of your country.

In Belgium, for instance, I am responsible for any and all attacks originating from my PC. If you were hacked and said hackers used your computer to stage an attack, the burden of proof is upon you. So instead of hiring very expensive people to trace the real source of an attack originating from your own PC, enabling a firewall just makes sense, besides making it harder on hackers…

PostmarketOS might be a possibility…

I honestly have no idea. But I discovered it a decade ago when I needed to process a short film. Haven’t touched it since.