upboundspiral

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by upboundspiral 10mo ago
I agree the flatpak defaults are not at all secure, as they often let the developer choose what to sandbox. I think this is fair, but the user has recourse: you can globally block all installed flatpaks from having access to a specific reso
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by upboundspiral 10mo ago
This argument has the unspoken premise that in large part, people's core identity is reacting to external influences. I believe that while responding to influences is part of human existence, the richness of the individual transcends s
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
One thing that shocked me is how pervasive flock is. Major US cities have hundreds if not thousands of flock cameras https://deflock.me/map . I truly believe that technology like this, implemented in the way that it is, is i
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
I feel this strongly. From a business perspective, when your competitors expand their revenue avenues through ads you have three options: copy them to catch up, do nothing and perish, or lobby the government for increased consumer protectio
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
I think what you described is basically ownCloud Infinite Scale (ocis). I haven't tested it myself but it's something I've been considering. I run normal owncloud right now over nextcloud as it avoided a few hiccups that I ha
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
Nvidia would like a word. If a hardware manufacturer releases software and creates a strong bedrock for others to build on their work then its clearly a strong asset. Granted, this is not at all easy to do, and initial investment into it ma
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
One thing I've been contemplating lately is that from a business perspective, when your competitors expand their revenue avenues (generally through ads) you have three options: copy them to catch up, do nothing and perish, and lobby th
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
Your post made me contemplate how other entities want to be able to attest themselves (in your case the government wants to be able to verify the identity of its citizens). Moral and legal arguments aside, the way they are going about it is
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
I don't think open source and not allowing people to break laws with impunity are at odds. Because there are laws governing airwaves. I think there would need to be some sort of legal entity (foundation?) that would need to steward ope
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
Even if I can unlock a hypothetical 90% of physical locks, I still need to go in person to every house that has one. On the other hand, if I crack one smart lock I now have remote access to every home that has one, and I can operate on all
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
I for one am always grateful when things are engineered thoughtfully and with redundancy as it is symbolic of respect for the people who are your customers. Especially in something as important as a car, "can be bootstrapped from a cen
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
I don't use it as much nowadays but https://github.com/ublue-os/aurora (kde desktop + automatic updates + baked in nvidia drivers) got me an as painless as possible nvidia experience (on a laptop I got my nvidia
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
For myself personally the moment I stopped tweaking linux endlessly was when I installed the universalblue images (bazzite/aurora/bluefin). They made upgrading / using software so painless by providing sane defaults that I no
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
https://youtu.be/ig3xI8dUdm0 Rossman running benchmark suite after spilling water all over his Thinkpad keyboard (about 28:00 in)
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
I absolutely love what the universalblue team has been doing. They are one of the few organizations that are truly dedicated to providing a first-class, enjoyable, batteries included linux experience on the desktop. I truly believe that upd
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
This seems like it could be a long term existential threat for AMD. AMD CPU + GPU combos are finally coming out strong, both with MI300+ series in the supercomputing space, Strix Halo in laptops, etc. They have the advantage of being able t
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
My mother is a teacher, and her school has gone through many different lawsuits from parents. In theory the staff are protected from liability, but if you think that going through a legal case is not stressful for the school from the princi
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
install via flatpak (which uses bubblewrap iirc for sandboxing) and use flatseal to remove the network permission. You can also manually edit this through .local/share/flatpak/overrides.
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
I've started self-hosting searxng (aggregeate search from duckduckgo, Google, etc), and it has been amazing. You can toggle the search engines you want to query, has additional filters for science/IT/music (instead of only ma
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
I don't have experience in the subject but recently listened to a podcast episode discussing the tension between open source and building a sustainable business by Oxide and Friends. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/p
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
I've found that OnlyOffice has much better Microsoft Office compatibility. I just install it via flatpak, remove the network permission, and go about my business perfectly. While LibreOffice -> LibreOffice works perfectly fine, when
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
I agree U-Block origin is sometimes hit or miss. What has restored some faith for me was recently discovering that when I use the element picker and select something I want blocked it gives me a list at the bottom right of things it recogni
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
Now I haven't read the book "Looking Forward." If I can get my hands on a copy it promises to be an interesting read. But I would like to follow up on the other ideas presented. ‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
I would like to note that I am probably grossly unqualified to talk about such topics, but one idea that I've had rolling around is that inevitably, if you ask people "should kids be able to watch/read/be exposed to [ins
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
For windows / linux I've found the freetube app to provide a lot of sane controls. I can block channels as needed, block shorts, hide profile pictures of commenters, and a lot of other quality of life things. You can even set a pa
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by upboundspiral 1y ago
I have been able to somewhat reasonably block youtube shorts with the following custom filter ublock origin rules (on firefox at least). Note that it might accidentally hide some legitimate stuff but from my experience it should be pretty m