She's lovely for a cat-god-empress-of-the-world.

Not quite on the same level as my Nancy and Trudy though.

Wow, this is fantastic zapper! Takes all the manual labor out of constantly updating those adblock files. Awesome, thanks!

Nice! I live in a country with some of the world's worst privacy laws and government spying on citizens, so the ability to access a foreign server is pretty crucial. But it's good to know about the option. Thanks!

I do not know what you read either, but here we are.

And you would be 100% incorrect in that assessment. This is Hyperbola GNU/Linux 0.4 testing. Hyperbola BSD is a different beast altogether which is only in the planning stages, and which you will not see for several years.

It's the kernel which makes it Linux or BSD, you see. Not the borrowing of sound or graphics stack pieces.

There once was a distro that was savaged,
For generating its randoms with haveged,
Said head-on-a-stick,
This entropy's not thick,
But would make a fine stew if it were cabbaged.

Edit: Back at my desk, so I can try and answer your questions. Your 'ps' command did not produce any output for me, either as root or as normal user.

I do not have haveged installed. It's in the repos, but it's also in the Arch and Debian repos, so that doesn't mean much. Are you talking about the live image compression?

If you downloaded a live image, it would have been from the 0.3.1 version. Hyperbola 0.4 is a radical makeover, and I haven't seen a live image for it yet. The 0.3.1 version still includes regular xorg, dbus, polkit, normal desktops and browsers, etc. If you want to torture 0.4 (or let it torture you), I wrote some how-to threads giving my steps on installing 0.3.1 and then upgrading to 0.4:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/hyperbol … ow-manager
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/hyperbol … ng-04-beta

Write down the steps you took to do this please. I'd like to try it myself, but I don't completely follow what you are saying you did. For example, where did you find those .openvpn config files for those servers? And how did you get signed into the service? And how do you control the kill switch?

Debian wiki says "If you want to change the default behaviour of starting up services on installation of their associated packages[5] use policy-rc.d, please read /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d.gz for more information."

I think you do something like the following, but not certain:

nano /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d

file contents:

#!bin/sh 
exit 101

then:

chmod +x /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d 
dpkg-divert --local --rename --add /sbin/initctl
ln -s /bin/true /sbin/initctl

Something like that?

However, I don't know if this is a complete solution, as policy-rc.d is supposedly ignored on reboot. Possibly the intictl linking at the end will help with that. Here's a good discussion of how policy-rc.d works:
Install Debian Package without Automatically Starting Daemons, https://weicode.wordpress.com/2016/02/1 … g-daemons/

Obligatory WARNING to any random readers - DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS IF YOU DON'T KNOW ALL ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING. It WILL most definitely be able to brick your system.

Re: ublock - I'm not using it right now on ungoogled-chromium - I'm using noscript and it's blocking ads fine.

There's apparently some chromium build problem with respect to ublock and other dedicated ad blockers right now:  https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-ch … ssues/1698
Devs are apparently working on a fix.

To use the chrome web store, use the instructions on this page: https://avoidthehack.com/manually-insta … d-chromium

The current version of ungoogled-chromium (95.0.4638.69) is the exact same as the current Arch version of chromium. It was released by the chocolate factory on Sept. 29th. Repology shows that 95.0.4638.69 is considered the "newest" release.

That's vastly better than Debian, which is rolling with the 90.0.4430.212 version of chromium right now. That version was released back in April or May.

That would be the NSA, who already has backdoors into your email, your cell phone, your ISP, your DNS provider, your router, your security cameras, your car, your doorbell, your thermostat, and your refrigerator. Good luck keeping secrets from them due to your choice of web browsers. Tor over VPN is one method that might work for you, although most of the VPN's appear to be compromised as well. But if you find a good VPN that actually keeps its promises, you could probably pull it off.

However, from a purely technical perspective, Tor Browser is far and away the vastly superior privacy browsing experience in terms of being nearly impossible to track via fingerprinting. The scholarly research into that question is pretty much unanimous.

Next most private is Brave. Once again, the recent scholarly research and the testing is pretty much all in agreement. So if you want a non-Tor privacy browser, add the brave repo and install brave and set your anti-fingerprinting setting to "strict" and your anti-tracking level to "strict" in the settings.

Tor Browser is by far the most privacy respecting and is in the repos:

sudo apt install torbrowser-launcher