For those out of the loop: https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

Wow this is big news, Comaps is the fork of Organic Maps: https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

Let’s be careful to remember that there are different levels of effort and understanding required for different levels of security and privacy. GrapheneOS has taken the approach of offering harm reduction, with sane defaults and options that allow advanced users to take near-complete control over their device (within the limits of the Pixel hardware). This is obvious by their inclusion of the sandboxed Google Play Store as a major feature of the OS, as it is much better than the situation on Google’s Android. It is also not installed by default, forcing users to at least somewhat educate themselves in order to install it.

Accrescent is right in line with this philosophy, and is also not installed by default. Of course if your threat model (or desire) is to achieve the highest level of online anonymity and to have a completely FOSS system, you should not use it… of course you probably shouldn’t use FDroid either, in that case, and should build from source. However, you are clearly in a situation where your threat model does not require those lengths, and FDroid is more of a principled choice.

I think its pointlessly inflammatory to call Accrescent “dangerous” just because it allows for non-FOSS software. Now if you want to criticize whether or not it is fulfilling its stated goals, that is another story.

Device addiction… those are all low stimulation activities compared to the screen

No, he had access but clearly the router admin interface wasn’t set up to allow remote access. He then needed to access the router from a browser inside the LAN, and he did have the proxmox host configured correctly to access remotely.

https://www.jwillikers.com/automate-flatpak-updates-with-systemd

Yeah knocking them over while active would probably not be the best, you can even hear the stress on the spindle bearings if you rotate a running hard drive. However you should be free to mount them (securely) in almost any orientation given the discussion in this old post: https://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21533&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

CIA surveillance birds 😱

For accessing reddit behind a vpn there is a very reliable system of frontends. Here is the instance I use: https://redlib.freedit.eu/

https://github.com/jersou/mouse-actions

It’s recommended by the easystroke dev too: https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/wiki

🤔 shit… you right

Then why does the post say “we are looking” as if you are part of a group or team related to this?

One thing to check is whether you are receiving “Incoming” connections on other torrents (the I flag in Qbittorrent peer status). If you are, port forwarding is probably working, its just that maybe nobody in those torrents’ trackers and DHT are requesting it

https://tenor.com/view/windex-gif-9154155914717085856

The two have completely different goals, and SimpleX’s goal (anonymity) comes with difficulties such as not having typical “accounts”, which means no true simultaneous multi-device support.

GrapheneOS devs have a problem with this guy https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/20165-response-to-dishonest-attacks-on-the-grapheneos-project-by-robert-braxman

So it looks like the protocol was audited, but I don’t know about the app or servers. https://www.pindrop.com/article/audit-signal-protocol-finds-secure-trustworthy/

Yeah… I’m laughing at this guy saying the AUR is much better than installing from a random Github repo. Same level of trust haha.

Also, not everybody NEEDS to know how something works to use it. And, just getting someone onto Linux in the first place with a 90% working system seems better to me than them working hours and hours to build a minimal system in Arch … because it would take even more hours to replicate their workflow on Windows or Mac. I think this is a great example of “perfect is the enemy of good” when trying to get people to adopt something.

However, I definitely believe that if you want perfection, you go to Arch or a derivative and you do it yourself, no automation. But that should be a choice… I do plan on one day switching from Tumbleweed to Arch, but I am not ready for the time commitment. Plus, NVIDIA finally fixed their shit, so I want to enjoy playing games for a while now that the weird issues and visual artifacts caused by the old non-explicit-sync drivers are gone!

Gooby pls

It still might for many, just to a lesser degree than defederation because a conscious user can choose to unblock things. I block many things year round but when election season comes around, for example, I unblock alot. Either for perspective, or as a reminder of the importance of my voice and vote because people are nuts 😂