What can a beginner do to secure their system?

• systemd-service-hardening

  3 235 0.0 PHP

  Basic guide to harden systemd services

• Pi-hole

  2,357 46,812 8.0 Shell

  A black hole for Internet advertisements

  

You can use something like PiHole and add blocklists for malicious hosts. (that requires some more setup though.) Alternatively you can use your own-built setup with dnsmasq and some custom lists (which is basically what PiHole is).

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• paru

  74 5,459 8.9 Rust

  Feature packed AUR helper

Since you came over to Arch's ecosystem, if you want to grab something from the AUR (like any other Arch user does eventually), i'll recommend you to install paru as your AUR helper, it has a nice feature were it won't let you to install anything if you don't read the PKGBUILD first. Also, try to Learn some bash and about the PKGBUILD system.

• privacytools.io

  310 3,024 6.8 HTML

  Discontinued 🛡🛠 You are being watched. Protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.

  

r/privacytoolsIO is a great resource. That or you can visit https://www.privacytools.io. Lots of solid suggestions and alternatives there that are pretty low hassle.

• baph

  3 33 0.0 Shell

  baph - Basic AUR Package Helper

i like to use baph for my aur helper. very light and simple https://github.com/PandaFoss/baph

• bubblewrap

  75 3,641 6.6 C

  Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects

  

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