fsflover

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1. 421.▲
   by fsflover 5mo ago

   How about I2P?
2. 422.▲
   by fsflover 5mo ago

   So we are in agreement.
3. 423.▲
   by fsflover 5mo ago

   How many laptops run exclusively free drivers with no Intel ME or AMD PSP nowadays?
4. 424.▲
   by fsflover 5mo ago

   There are not so many running mainline Linux with all free drivers.
5. 425.▲
   by fsflover 5mo ago

   AI can also provide the sources. And if you need to be certain, you should ask for that.
6. 426.▲
   by fsflover 5mo ago

   Here is a similar story of creating a smartphone that exclusively runs FLOSS on the main CPU and has WiFi and modem on M.2 cards: https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/
7. 427.▲
   by fsflover 5mo ago

   You may be interested in Librem 5 or Pinephone then.
8. 428.▲
   by fsflover 5mo ago

   It hasn't happened to Firefox. Sent from desktop Firefox running on my GNU/Linux phone announced in 2017.
9. 429.▲
   by fsflover 5mo ago

   By this measure, any information you can get whatsoever is biased and there is no reason to trust anything at all.
10. 430.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    Librem 5 already exists and is my daily driver phone though.
11. 431.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    Have you considered Pinephone with the keyboard?
12. 432.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212046 This project looks similar to Librem 5 to me. The same goal of open drivers and minimal blobs everywhere.
13. 433.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    This is far from widespread at the moment, so it'll be possible to at least use the current cutting-edge models locally in the future.
14. 434.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    But the result is the same. And it's not the first time (see: the slowdown without user consent).
15. 435.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    Why didn't the same happen with Firefox or Chrome? They still work fine on older devices.
16. 436.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45544181
17. 437.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590280
18. 438.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    I'm sorry for your experience with that community. I prefer GPL, too, but BSD certainly corresponds to free software and shouldn't be insulted for.
19. 439.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    You can sort of get that old-internet vibe today from the I2P network.
20. 440.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    There is no reason to completely rewrite the well-designed and working parts of the OS like Settings or Camera, apart from making it intentionally heavy and slow on older hardware. Or for promotion of managers, with the same end result. See
21. 441.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    Capability approach is just not practical and relies too much on security through correctness, which is unrealistic.
22. 442.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    > These phones are just old. If you replaced the processor inside an older phone Are you saying that the processor got slower with time? The same, old tasks got slower, not new ones. > There is no intentional slowing. There was prov
23. 443.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    > She calls it malware, if she was an Apple engineer, she should be able to give a hint where to look so that interested parties can disassemble the code and investigate There is a bunch of HN comments complaining that the new iOS is sig
24. 444.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    > Can we make the kernel vulns less important? How about strong virtualization? https://qubes-os.org
25. 445.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    They do not have a strict "no binary blob allowed" policy. Concerning VMs, they have a policy of minimal modifications: https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/introduction/faq.html#wha... The dom0 is b
26. 446.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    You made the wrong bet. Apple will never give its users freedom to run what they want. Free software can guarantee it though.
27. 447.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    It's not just Xen, it also relies on the hardware-assisted virtualization (VT-d), which is virtually unbreakable compared to anything else. Most Xen vulnerabilities do not even affect Qubes: https://www.qubes-os.org/sec
28. 448.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    You misunderstand the Qubes' approach to security. You isolate your workflows into separate VMs, so that security of a single VM doesn't matter. For example, my secrets are stored in a dedicated offline VM. All kernel bugs in it a
29. 449.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    If you care about security, why not consider Qubes OS? Related discussion: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/qubesos-vs-openbsd-security/790...
30. 450.▲
    by fsflover 5mo ago

    How about Librem 5 then? All its drivers are free, too.