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by styanax 1y ago
You may have missed this, it's only been ~11 days since the post but they've got a solution now, with the first release having happened: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27068-grapheneos-security-p...
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by styanax 1y ago
> Spreadsheets are a fundamentally important tool—the original "killer app" for personal computers such as cellphones I do not agree with your supposition. Like the parent using the G1 as I did (and still have it), never used a
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by styanax 1y ago
> I agree, but why not also apply the same logic to the other two communication platforms you are using (Discord and GitHub)? Aside, this infuriates me - "here's our open source project/website, join our Discord!" (ev
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by styanax 1y ago
Sharing undocumented gotcha: nginx default config (/etc/nginx/nginx.conf) now has `server_tokens off` set with a comment that it's "common practice" (agreed). This is not in upstream's git version of the f
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by styanax 1y ago
[ eldritch noises intensify ] As an actual answer, it's not too bad on Debian; we only really use/need: systemd (system and user), -logind, -journald, -udevd. All in all, not too many tentacles but there are a few...
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by styanax 1y ago
We're partially there, under Storage is an option allowing you to set how long to keep messages and I've set mine to one year. Possible: forever (default), 1y, 6mo, 30d - and it works, my old chat messages (not the whole chat, jus
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by styanax 1y ago
> I just ran a backup, and it was 850MB. So having my phone upload something of that size every day would be a bit annoying It may be inconvenient but this can be solved by using the features in the app to review your storage and save th
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by styanax 1y ago
Been running Linux on laptops since around 97 (Dell Inspiron 4000 clone, PII-400 I couldn't afford the PIII-450, Red Hat 5.x); over many years and laptops it comes down to: use a Thinkpad T-series or a Dell Latitude/Precision (mod
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by styanax 1y ago
KeepassXC (Linux) can import Bitwarden files directly as well, as both programs support H/TOTP there's a solution here. Not what I do, but I can see the use case aligning to the GP's comment - using Bitwarden (e.g.) as the TO
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by styanax 1y ago
Very interesting question, I have no experience here. What I do instead is scan my QR codes into two apps on different devices when I make them (I do not make them very frequently so it's not a chore). Because I'm sort of pessim
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by styanax 1y ago
Replied to another comment with the same recommendation before seeing this, here's the URL for those interested: https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis
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by styanax 1y ago
I would recommend Aegis Authenticator [1] - available in the Play store or F-Droid. It's been featured on HN now and again. One thing it can do is import the data of all the other OTP apps, and create backup files (the seeds) which you
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by styanax 1y ago
That's a common thought, but it depends what you touch. I have hundreds of user.js customizations related to local browser behaviour (e.g. null out a lot of upstream URLs, I caught FF making DNS queries to services I disabled) - htt
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by styanax 1y ago
You can preload them now in your profile `user.js` - FF will ignore any settings it does not know about, it's "safe" to leave old things that got deleted and add new things coming in the next ESR without harm (that I'm a
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by styanax 1y ago
Use the EFF version, it's been around a long time: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
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by styanax 1y ago
Trivia: CIS Guidelines (security tasks applied to a server to pass an enhanced security audit to be compliant with a standard, in a soundbite) has an item requiring /var/tmp to be a bind mount to /tmp (as well as setting spec
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Work Offline with Fastmail(fastmail.com)
31 points by styanax 1y ago|11 comments
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by styanax 1y ago
> Today, we’re pleased to announce full offline support for all our customers, in our apps and even on the web. (2025-08-26)
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Ask HN: Do you use Soverin MX, is it reliable?
3 points by styanax 1y ago|0 comments
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by styanax 1y ago
> I miss GameSpy, the original application, not the service it morphed into later You drove me down nostalgia lane, looked in email and have my GameSpy receipt with unlock code. We paid $21.55 after tax in March of 1998 - my memory is re
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by styanax 1y ago
The readme clearly directs the reader to the F-Droid package, which are built on their buildservers and signed with their APK keys. This does not answer the security question directly, but it's the same model as say Debian repos. There
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by styanax 1y ago
> because you end up doing multiple searches in parallel and merging results This reminds me of the design model of SearX/SearXNG - instead of a distributed forge index, it would distribute the search endpoints of forge instances to
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by styanax 1y ago
Sadly, as soon as I open the site in a private window with access to Notifications denied, a full page error screen about "Odoo Client Error" appears asking you to report... something.... to someone...? Not a good look at all. Scr
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by styanax 1y ago
A problem I've seen emerge in the Lemmy side of ActivityPub is that it relies on a hub and spoke model. In practice this has failed when the hub goes offline, all the spokes are now left with independent copies of it's last known
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by styanax 1y ago
A tough question as everyone's needs are different; I might recommend you create an account on https://codeberg.org as it's the largest, most popular instance of Forgejo running with many FOSS projects hosted there. Co
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by styanax 1y ago
The solution works really well though - a reliable, name-brand SSD (sic) in an old $100 Dell Latitude as the workhorse. The Latitudes allow changing the charging profile in BIOS to "always plugged in" amongst the other power frien
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by styanax 1y ago
95% XEP feature coverage. https://compliance.conversations.im/server/Quicksy.im/
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by styanax 1y ago
> but I blame the "everything is an extension" model ... 100%. If you're not keen on self-hosting and want to use any one of the many, many public servers this becomes such a pain, and leads to the same "decision dead
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by styanax 1y ago
The ARGS_MAX (`getconf ARGS_MAX`) is defined at the OS level (glibc maybe? haven't looked); xargs will also be subject to it's limitation like all other processes. One can use: xargs --show-limits --no-run-if-empty <&#x2F
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by styanax 1y ago
Much appreciated, thanks.

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