linuxandrew

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by linuxandrew 2y ago
Many people can't upgrade. Running an unsupported and insecure OS on the internet is untenable. Windows 10 may be a 10 year old OS but Windows 11 has only been around for 2.5 years. Last I checked, Windows was also an end-user product
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Google has been using fingerprinting (aka Detection Bits as mentioned in the settlement agreement) to identify individuals for a long but they don't implement RFP (Resist Fingerprinting) in Incognito Mode. Thankfully there were some sm
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Nomad isn't FOSS anymore, for one
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
My previous workplace used Guacamole, it was pretty good. We used it for both SSH (Linux) and RDP (Windows). My biggest annoyance was trying to break my habit of using ^W to backspace words in bash because it would close the tab in Firefox.
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Fans and light clothes, mostly. A lot more people live out in cheaply built homes with small, barren yards and dark roofs that are literally designed for air conditioning. Older homes often have better airflow. An example of a newer suburb
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Ever since Proton and Wine, Linux has been objectively the best desktop os. You get the advantage of having all the software that doesn't work under windows, while having a windows dev environment that works very well even with Cuda fo
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
> Between 2010 and 2016, Engel Systems sold a range of devices that provided illegal access to pirated TV content. The business initially sold TV decoders reliant on card-sharing systems delivered over the internet, before progressing to
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
That's a cost of doing business, much like paying tax. It's entirely on Facebook for censoring users in Australia. They could choose... not to do business in Australia, shut down their office and stop taking ad dollars from Austra
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Last time Facebook decided to censor the news in Australia they ended up censoring links a bunch of government pages like links to emergency services[1]. Fortunately I've since deleted my account but the whole posturing around ownershi
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
https://www.manyver.se/ is one of the leading implementations of Scuttlebutt. They're currently working on a protocol replacement called PPPPP which addresses some of the shortcomings they identified, the leading one b
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
> I mean, Element and Matrix are 2 separate entities Separate but they work closely from what I gather. New Vector develops Element/ElementX and has seats on the Matrix.org board. Element is the Matrix.org flagship client. I do appr
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Mnemonikey: Deterministic PGP Keys(github.com)
2 points by linuxandrew 3y ago|0 comments
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
This happened with MSN Music back in 2008: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/04/drm-s... My family was impacted, hundreds of dollars of legitimately purchased music files were mostly useless
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Does Mozilla even need a CEO and its weird company+foundation structure? They should run it more like KDE or TDF and use that $6M to pay a few dozen engineers.
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
I wonder how much DNS blocking would contribute to a unique browser fingerprint? Like a tracker could use a range of domains, some of which are known to be blocked by certain end-user software, to build a fingerprint. I currently use a vani
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Dark patterns should be illegal. They make us all unsafe by making our computers behave less predictably, like malware, for anti-competitive or anti-privacy reasons.
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Are there any reasons why Kiwix doesn't use WARC/WACZ directly?
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Then just host it elsewhere. Spotify isn't an American company and not everyone who uses Spotify lives in America.
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
yggdrasil can use WiFi on Android, I haven't tried it yet - https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/ . yggdrasil gives you the ability to use TCP/IP applications over its mesh network but doesn't offer any end-use
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
You could say the same about memory protection and isolation, and yet, here we are. I do somewhat sympathise with the sentiment that running untrusted apps is bad and FLOSS ecosystems are good. But even then, building a security framework a
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
I do agree that 99% of users don't want to run infrastructure. I think there's a difference between Fediverse-style federation/decentralisation and true P2P/BitTorrent-esque dectralisation. BitTorrent, in its current ite
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Exactly. The protest against Reddit's ban on third party clients needs to be more widespread. We want FOSS clients for all IM, discussion and social media platforms.
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Unshackle yourself from Google/Apple and use F-Droid/LineageOS or something similarly FOSS minded.
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
Something like https://www.manyver.se/ ? It is available on Google Play, Apple App Store and F-Droid. It seems they have had some issues with Google Play and the App Store with their weird catch-all policies, requiring inte
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
MS Teams doesn't support Firefox: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/unsupported... Or the VMware console: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1769175 There's prob
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
> government offers schooling. if you wish to seek additional, that is offered in other ways. when i went to school, YT didn't exist. yet, i still sought out additional resources that were available outside of school. this argument
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
> What critical service does YT provide that it should even be considered for being considered a critical anything? Government announcements, instructional videos by governments (e.g. for voting), educational content for children, etc. G
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
> Users don't have a right to use YT. They have to privilege to use the website in the terms YT offers it. Users should have a right to use a client that doesn't serve up ads. A monopoly like Google/YouTube should't b
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
And users have a right to demand rights, reform and otherwise organise to work around such abhorrent practices.
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by linuxandrew 3y ago
> YouTube server's not running on your computer. The client is, my browser is, and the ads that I suppose they want me to watch would be displayed through my computer.

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