hpcoke

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by hpcoke 5y ago
> We need the critical role of Open Source maintainer to professionalize. Do we? I do open source work and maintainership, and am happy that this is outside the control and influence of industry. Must even this that "makes the Inter
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by hpcoke 5y ago
Interesting. What's your setup for sharing peripherals between your PinePhone dock and your laptop/desktop?
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by hpcoke 5y ago
Yes. The state of the art is: * biktorg's firmware (now flash able via GNOME Firmware or fwupdmgr) * NetworkManager with --test-quick-resume-suspend flag. * Crust/ATF as platform firmware (e.g. Tow-Boot) * eg25-manager to manage t
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by hpcoke 5y ago
+1 https://www.pine64.org/2022/01/31/pinephone-community-poll-r... shows most PinePhone users don't use the CLI-based interface.
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by hpcoke 5y ago
Advice for anyone considering it: * There are rough edges, but the basics are there: calling/SMS/4G/WiFi/audio/browsing/suspend. * If you want to try it, put https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/ o
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by hpcoke 5y ago
+1. This is my primary source for keeping up to date, along with https://www.pine64.org/blog/
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by hpcoke 5y ago
> This hasn't been a real benefit for years. Exit nodes are running at something like 10% capacity. https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html corroborates what you say about utilitisation. Exit nodes are l
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by hpcoke 5y ago
> https://hstspreload.org/ offers the same benefits. You are guaranteed to be connected to what you expect - or not at all. TLS/HSTS is still subject to CA attacks, e.g. diginotar. CA/X.509 is a complex stack t
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by hpcoke 5y ago
No, since the redirect only works in the Tor Browser, in which case the cleartext connection is still a Tor connection.
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by hpcoke 5y ago
It's great to see cross-distro activity in removing the burden from distributions of packaging different builds of u-boot. I use Tow-Boot on my Pine64 RockPro64, with a plain NixOS aarch64 installation. Bliss! Thanks Samuel and Martijn