Elyra

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by Elyra 4y ago
Unfortunately without sandboxing, these sorts of tools just add an extra layer of maintenance to your system for a false sense of security [1, 2]. This can actually be harmful for less experienced Linux users who may trust something like th
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by Elyra 4y ago
In order to argue that, you have to list your goals, what you want to do with your phone, and the goals of an attacker. On Android, other than a few minor inconveniences, I can still achieve everything I want to with my phone, where an atta
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by Elyra 4y ago
Which app and Android version is it? I've never had that issue where it prompts me every time without letting me save the permission, although if I recall requesting one time access is different than requesting permanent access for som
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by Elyra 4y ago
> restricted file access so much that a third-party app can't move files between directories without the OS prompting you to allow the "delete" What use case do you have where you have an app that you want to be able to mo
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by Elyra 4y ago
I completely agree with that comment you linked, Purism is either deliberately selling snake oil or are completely clueless. Here's another example of this with them bashing Android/iOS security: > One of the problems with the
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by Elyra 4y ago
Exactly, and their "good" dice roll sequence, 3 1 5 6 2 6 3 4 4 1 contained the full set which should only happen ~1/4 of the time for 10 rolls. It also contained no number more than twice, which should happen < 7% of the
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by Elyra 4y ago
Or when they "accidentally" make a wrong turn, or purposefully take a "shortcut" just to take you a longer/slower route to drive up the meter, almost making you late.
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by Elyra 4y ago
> Instead of trying to jmcut out time sinks, just make them more deliberate. I agree with this 100%. I was so much more productive and relaxed when I was on my own. My parents, and now my girlfriend, always berate me for playing too many
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by Elyra 5y ago
I want to revise my claim of "nothing inherently wrong with a having lists like that". This is not just a simple list of software with summaries, and after looking at it more it's worse than I thought. And you're right a
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by Elyra 5y ago
There's nothing inherently wrong with a having lists like that to serve as a starting point to see what exists for your own research, the bigger issue is that it claims to be curated when it's more like a wiki. It feels as if thei
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by Elyra 5y ago
Yep, and also just want to add that the engineers making ~400k are paying around ~150k in taxes, probably have a PhD so they didn't even earn much of anything and lived off of instant ramen packs until they were 30, with over 100k in d