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Phanpy - A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client.
  • l freaking love that this thing exists, the summary feature is some next level genius

  • Which is your favorite app icon for Voyager?
  • Progress pride, Holiday spirit, and the monochrome icon which i'm using now

  • Telegram To Disclose Phones, IP Addresses At Authorities' Requests.
  • France wanted a backdoor.. they got it, and Telegram was never trustworthy..

  • Oracle, Microsoft, BlackRock Building Dystopian AI Future (Video, CW: Lunduke)
  • AFAIK he's reliable when it comes to facts

    he does have some facts, he only shares the ones that suites his narrative, what kind of journalism is that?! journalism is about following the truth no matter where it goes.. but he doesn't do that, he just misquotes people and say : "see, they said that, what awful people"

    for example, in a recent video he made about the EFF he said that they support kids looking at porn, but off course they never said that, they said they're against ID'ing people who watch porn, because that's a serious threat to online anonymity..

    Also in a recent video about the EFF he literally made statements they never made, it was so obvious that one of his loyal conservative fans called him out on it

    surprised he didn't shadowban this comment, quot

    ............. My default position is that any software-based organization is going to be run by libtards, but your accusations simply don't line up with the articles. "If you have the wrong politics, you should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, that's their repeated stance they've stated over and over". Links please "If you're a Republican ... and happened to be standing outdoors on that day, you should be in jail. That's the EFF's stance." Again, links please"

    to Lunduke as long as he's getting push back from the left leaning individuals in these groups, then he must be on the right path, that's how bias works not truth

  • Oracle, Microsoft, BlackRock Building Dystopian AI Future (Video, CW: Lunduke)
  • for the new people to the linux communtiy, the reason behind the CW tag, is because Lunduke is not a trustworthy source, he's not in it for the love of journalism but for the love of pushing agenda.. and he speads propaganda, cherry picks his facts, and straight out lies about what people said or could have meant

    you know how to know you're listening to false narratives .... well.. most of the time it makes you feel triggered or angry...

  • What is the best FOSS Matrix client?
  • Cinny as a PWA, or Schildichat ( FOSS version )

  • New week, new improvements: 140% faster encryption speed on macOS
  • Thank you, it worked on Fedora.. and it works way better than the app, the app used to disconnect every now and then, but this method doesn't, interesting

  • New week, new improvements: 140% faster encryption speed on macOS
  • I use ProtonVPN on both Linux and Windows and the difference is night and day.. well... more accurately only on Windows because it doesn't even launch on Linux.. this what made me not invest much time on other Proton products ( because I know they're going to suck on Linux )

  • Mary Oliver, "Moments".
  • hehe, reminded me of this sketch

  • after 4 years of Linux I'm still lost..
  • fair point, but like Edward Snowden once said: "perhaps the fundamental rule of technological progress: if something can be done, it probably will be done, and possibly already has been." he was talking about surveillance tech and programs.

  • after 4 years of Linux I'm still lost..
  • What it archives though and afaik is intended for is the possibility of easily and quickly "erasing" the disk by just overwriting that encryption key a couple times, I don’t remember if that used a special tool or something but if that is useful to you it probably wouldn’t be hard to find more info on this.

    first of, apologies for the late reply.. this reminds me of when I ( not so long ago ), used to overwrite random data into HDDs using Eraser, before selling my laptops or switching a company laptop, I hear SSDs are designed to last longer, so that practice ( of writing random data so it'll erase the sensitive data ), is "kind of" a time waste now.. but I guess it'll make it hard to retrieve that data, unless the attacker has some specialized software and hardware

    Samsung is a reasonably trustworthy company, not from US/UK, not Chinese, so if they say they have a clean implementation of this I’d trust them

    I wouldn't trust any company based only on their claims, they need to document ( explain how it works ), develop things in the open ( publish the firmware ), the schematics, even the CAD drawings.. like what the folks at System76 and Framework are doing..

    That said, it sure sounds cool to have that level of protection, if only Samsung wasn't a shitty company already ( in my book )

    Would be kinda a national security issue for them if it wasn’t seeing how Samsung is everywhere in gov an private sector in Korea.

    I'm speculating here, but it wouldn't be far fetched if they designed a secure encrypted clean hardware for the government with military grade encryption as they like to call it, while the end users receives only enough encryption power to protect against normie threat actors like a spouse...etc companies have these policies where they provide a premium/quality products for businesses and governments but cheap or in many cases poorly made products to end users .. like Windows Home

  • Telegram Sparks Outrage Over FAQ Changes Even as Key Language on Private Chats Remains.
  • Telegram adds option to let users report content on app two weeks after CEO Pavel Durov's arrest After almost 2 weeks of CEO Pavel Durov's arrest, Telegram will start moderating private chats as well.

    https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/telegram-halts-end-to-end-encryption-for-personal-chats-two-weeks-after-ceo-pavel-durov-was-arrested-2594919-2024-09-06

    this all seem confusing, there's no such thing as "private" chats on Telegram, only secret chats which are E2EE, well even their encrypting is questionable

  • Hi again!
  • you're so beautiful 💕🏳️‍⚧️

  • Source: The Android 15 update for Pixel phones won't roll out next month
  • I'm so excited about the "private space" feature

  • after 4 years of Linux I'm still lost..
  • I heard from people who have tried both Void and Alpine, that Void is much more easier to use as a desktop OS while Alpine is more suited as a server OS..

  • after 4 years of Linux I'm still lost..
  • Thank you, this answer covers it all :D

  • after 4 years of Linux I'm still lost..
  • but if they want to get at the data they'll just pull the HD and run code-breaking software on it on and entirely different super-computer. TPM won't help you at all in that case.

    You make it sound so easy and doable, but the reality is that without meeting certain conditions such as the existence of the original TPM chip, a brute force attack will render the data irretrievable.. And even if I'm wrong in the last part, that would still be a pain in the butt for the attacker... and it'll buy me time... like you said ... belts-and-suspenders

    This doesn't sound to me as if you're concerned about espionage

    Because i don't have second chances, which is why I wish there's way to erase everything by entering a key combination.. somehow.. Idk.. like Android has that..

  • after 4 years of Linux I'm still lost..

    I used PopOS, but once they announced they'll start focusing on their Cosmic desktop, I switched to Fedora KDE it worked to some degree until it crashed and I lost some data, now I'm on Ultramarine GNOME and it doesn't seem to like my hardware ( fans are spinning fast )

    my threat model involves someone trying to physically unlock my device, so I always enable disk encryption, but I wonder why Linux doesn't support secure boot and TPM based encryption ( I know that Ubuntu has plans for the later that's why I'm considering it rn )

    I need something that keeps things updated and adobts newer standards fast ( that's why I picked Fedora KDE in the first place ), I also use lots of graphical tools and video editing software, so I need the proprietary Nvidia drivers

    Idk what to choose ಥ_ಥ ? the only one that seem to care about using hardware based encryption is Ubuntu, while other distros doesn't support that.. the problem with Ubuntu is there push for snaps ( but that can be avoided by the user )

    security heads say: if you care about security, you shouldn't be using systemd, use something like Gentoo or Alpine.. yeah but do you expect me to compile my software after ? hell no

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    What features and/or technologies would u like to see in a web browser ?

    And what features and/or technologies you'd rather not see in a web browser

    Lets make this interesting: you can imagine features ( there's no wrong answers ) , its not just about features that you already saw in other browsers

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    Foss TTS solutions

    Is there a Foss TTS ( it's ok if it relies on local Ai ), I'm using RHvoice but it's really robotic ... It's painful.. 😅

    Is there's something that could compete with Google TTS which is preinstalled on stock Android ?

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