I use GPG if there’s just like a single file I need to encrypt. When I have to sync an entire folder to the cloud though, I use Cryptomator. I have also used VeraCrypt before, as well as TrueCrypt back in the days.
Dust is a rewrite of du (in rust obviously) that visualizes your directory tree and what percentage each file takes up. But it only prints as many files fit in your terminal height, so you see only the largest files. It’s been a better experience that du, which isn’t always easy to navigate to find big files (or atleast...
I once did something even dumber. When I was new to Linux and the CLI, I added a recursive line to my shell config that would add it self to the shell config. So I pretty much had exponential growth of my shell config and my shell would take ~20 seconds to start up before I found the broken code snippet.
Edit: I did some research and apparently it’s a japanese mobile payment system that utilizes NFC. I found this on the GrapheneOS issue tracker, it seems to have been broken, but apparently it’s fixed now. Unfortunately I can’t try it out as I’m not from Japan. I also found this in the patch notes of a GrapheneOS version that was released in March of this year:
include PixelNfc app on all supported Pixels to enable support for FeliCa on Japanese Pixel models
I have no idea. For your privacy and your freedom it’s best not to use these corporate surveillance systems anyway. Use cash whenever you can or if necessary a credit card with contactless payment that you keep in an RFID-blocking case when you don’t use it. There might also be prepaid credit cards that support this, I don’t know as these are only common in North America and I don’t live there.
By looking at this page on their website. But I can also just tell you the answer: No, unfortunately it’s not supported. There are quite a few reasons for this. The Galaxy S7 is old and abandoned by Samsung, meaning it doesn’t receive kernel and firmware updates anymore. Even if it ran the newest release of Android, it would still lack important patches and potentially be insecure. There’s another reason why the GrapheneOS team decided to only support modern Google Pixel phones: Hardware security. Google pixel phones are equipped with what is known as a ‘secure element’ with their Titan M chips. These are tamper-resistant and can thus safely be used to store cryptographic keys and other secrets that are e.g. used for full-device encryption.
GrapheneOS is spread across many many repos. They are listed on the website: grapheneos.org/source#grapheneos. It’s impossible to put an entire operating system stack into one single repository.
Sure, but that’s more complicated and requires some device that you can always leave on. I run one myself, but NextDNS is a quick and easy solution and it works on a VPN. You can also make your Pi-Hole work behind a VPN but it’s much more work, NextDNS always works, no matter where I am and on what network.
I don’t care about what’s happening on my instance, as long as they don’t start blocking communities for dumb reasons like lemmy.world did. That’s actually the reason why I left that instance. I don’t care about foreign communities popping up on my instance though, I only care about the ones I subscribed to.
CodeWeavers too btw. They also contribute a lot of code to Wine themselves. There were some Wine releases where CodeWeavers contributed ~90% of the code. Really nice to see a company supporting and developing open source software.
I hope that shit stops requiring proprietary Google services. Security should never be locked behind a paywall or crappy, data-hungry proprietary trash.
I’m seeing a lot of reports from users of Huawei and Honor devices have reported that their phones are incorrectly identifying Google apps as Trojan malware, specifically labeled as TrojanSMS-PA. According to the alert, this “malicious software” has the ability to send SMS messages without user consent.
Oh yeah the Chinese garbage phone that has tons of spyware and will send your data to the CCP is so based because it doesn’t include Google spyware. Makes sense.
You really think that just because they don’t have Google services it’s not spyware? On a Huawei phone your data won’t be sent to Google, it will just be sent to the Chinese government instead.
This happened to me. My phone was acting strange so I restarted it. After unlocking, it said ‘Phone is Starting’ for longer than usual. Then it said ‘Factory Resetting’, and shut down....
Note, that’s before Android 14 was rolled out to GrapheneOS users on the stable update channel. If you were using GrapheneOS with regular updates, you never got that bug. GrapheneOS is just superior to any other mobile OS.
Firefox/LibreWolf + uBlock Origin will make this go away. Just like alternative frontends for YouTube like Piped or Invidious. On Desktop you can also use FreeTube, on Android I recommend LibreTube and NewPipe and on iOS there is Yattee which you can set up with this guide.
Just block all Google domains in your DNS/Firewall and have a separate browser with a different DoH resolver exclusively for online banking. You can go even further and have a separate VM or physical device for online banking only.
I’ve been blocking Google in my DNS resolver for almost a year. Haven’t noticed any major issues. If a website doesn’t work, I open it in the Mullvad Browser while connected to a proxy server and the Mullvad adblocking DoH resolver. That way Google doesn’t get the IP I use for all other connections. I almost never have to use that though, most things work without connections to Google services. It’s not much effort, if you use NextDNS, just enable the ‘No Google’ filterlist. You can also import that list into your Pi-Hole or AdGuard Home, it’s available on GitHub: github.com/nickspaargaren/no-google. I use Piped to access YouTube, the only Google service I use. All connections to YouTube are proxied through the Piped server, so I don’t need to connect to it directly. Edit: If you use the Safing Portmaster, you can also use its built-in Google filterlist to block all connections.
@kuro_neko have you ever thought about making the app open source? I’ve used Connect for a little bit and I really like it, it would be really cool if the app was open source. You practically don’t have anything to loose, as you don’t sell the app or insert ads and trackers. Lemmy is an open-source plattform, and many (if...
First, thanks for participating in the discussion and writing such a detailed in-depth comment.
No code is perfect and people can get really self aware about that. I know I have had imposter syndrome in the past where I thought my code was shit, but people always complemented me on the result. Opening up the code can lead to people seeing how shit it really is and call you out on it. The code is probably fine, but it’s a legit fear.
No codebase is perfect and if someone just comments stuff like ‘yOuR cOde iS gArbAge’ you can tell them to fuck off or to refactor the code and submit a merge request. Don’t be embarrassed of your code or and be honest about it if you know that a part of your code sucks but you don’t have time to rewrite it.
Somebody contacted me to take it over, but I feel like he wasn’t serious about it. He just wanted to keep it running and be the owner, but not do any of the things needed to get it back on track.
Well, if you can’t find a good maintainer to take over your project and you need to abandon it, you can open source it and mark it as archived on GitHub. Maybe someone wants to build something similar in the future and can use your project as a reference. Also, maybe it’s not gonna be useful to anyone, but you don’t lose anything by making the code public after you already abandoned the project.
As for still active projects:
With open source people expect you to provide a way to report issues and respond to those publicly, with many people adding their 2 cents and big discussions. If you don’t see it the same as they do, or your solution isn’t what they expected or you simply aren’t fast enough, it’s a problem.
You don’t have to accept feature requests from people. You can either say that you only accept bug reports, or people can submit feature requests but you won’t implement them, and they will only be implemented if someone submits a merge request with a patch. You can also entirely turn off issues on GitHub and just do whatever you want.
We’ve all seen flame wars and stubborn developers on open source projects, the drama factor is real.
This rather only happens with big projects like Linux desktop environments or stuff like that (e.g. there has been a massive flame war between GNOME and KDE users)
Forks. Simultaneous the strongest and weakest part of modern open source software. On the one hand it’s awesome we can make multiple versions if the needs diverge or the original devs abandon the project. But on the other hand, it leaves you with very little control over the project. One case I’ve seen one dev worked on a project almost every Sunday as a hobby, the project was popular and had a tight community which grew a bit big. The amount of open issues grew and bigger tasks just didn’t fit in the original dev’s schedule. One of the community members was a good dev who just got laid off and had some extra time. So he forked the project and spent some weeks working on it fulltime, fixing a lot and expanding the project. The original dev wasn’t happy, it was his hobby and the community fragmented over people using the new version and the original version. Everybody was upset and the original dev called it quits and said talk to the new dev. The new dev however got a new job and also abandoned the project, with nobody left to pick up the pieces. The community was already fractured and people stopped using it.
Sure, rare cases like these exist and it’s unfortunate, but I wouldn’t say that his happens very often. All in all, I still think that open source is the best way.
So for an average user like me, who really doesn’t have any problem with Windows…why switch?
Well, because Micro$oft can’t accept that people don’t want to use their garbage browser and desperately does everything like a crazy ex to get you back to use Micro$oft Edge. They also collect all of your data and sell it to whoever pays the most and. On a Windows system, you don’t control the computer, the computer controls you. And they don’t allow you to uninstall any of their spyware, if you uninstall Edge and perform a Windows update, guess what’s gonna be back on your computer. Microsoft Edge is like a virus, it does everything to prevent you from getting rid of it. Edge, Windows or any Microsoft product is just corporate data mining malware.
Linux is the exact opposite of that, it’s a tool meant to empower users to take back their freedom and take back the control over their computers. It allows you to do everything the way you want to, not the way a mega corporation wants you to do it. Data collection practically non-existent, just like corporate influence. You are the one in charge of your computer, you decide what it does, you decide which programs are installed and what services you choose what services you want to use. Linux gives you freedom, whereas Windows gives you ads for Candy Crush in your start menu and a browser that behaves like is malware.
Back then I tried probably 5 or 6 different Linux variants.
Linux from 15-20 years ago can’t be compared to modern Linux. Take another shot at it, try out modern distributions like Linux Mint or Fedora, I promise you, it’s much much better than in the 00s.
I really don’t give a shit about the data they might be collecting on me, since everyone else is too, and I have yet to see any horrible effects of that.
To that I can only reply with the following quote: “Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” ― Edward Snowden (the guy who literally risked his life in order to inform the public about the fucked up shit that was and still is going on at the NSA, a real hero)
What are your preferred methods of file encryption?
I usually use Age, I’d like to hear your opinions.
Thanks to dust I deleted a 70 gig file on my drive
Dust is a rewrite of du (in rust obviously) that visualizes your directory tree and what percentage each file takes up. But it only prints as many files fit in your terminal height, so you see only the largest files. It’s been a better experience that du, which isn’t always easy to navigate to find big files (or atleast...
Google is investigating Android 14’s multiple profile update bug (www.theverge.com)
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Will you react normally to the appearance of a non-english speaking community on your instance?
The Wine development release 8.19 is now available. (www.winehq.org)
Looking for Home/Flipping Shows Sites (like HGTV content)
As the title says, I’m looking for sites that have home show or flipping show type content (basically like stuff on HGTV)....
Android 14 will make it easier for apps to support passkeys soon (www.theverge.com)
Feel old yet? (startrek.website)
Google app being flagged as a virus by Huawei phones (stackdiary.com)
I’m seeing a lot of reports from users of Huawei and Honor devices have reported that their phones are incorrectly identifying Google apps as Trojan malware, specifically labeled as TrojanSMS-PA. According to the alert, this “malicious software” has the ability to send SMS messages without user consent.
Google is investigating Android 14’s multiple profile update bug - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Google has now acknowledged the issue and confirmed it’s looking into it.
Serious Android 14 bug on Pixels with multiple profiles enabled that just bricks your phone (arstechnica.com)
This happened to me. My phone was acting strange so I restarted it. After unlocking, it said ‘Phone is Starting’ for longer than usual. Then it said ‘Factory Resetting’, and shut down....
Grayjay - Revolutionizing the Way We Consume Videos (technomagnus.vercel.app)
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Open sourcing the app
@kuro_neko have you ever thought about making the app open source? I’ve used Connect for a little bit and I really like it, it would be really cool if the app was open source. You practically don’t have anything to loose, as you don’t sell the app or insert ads and trackers. Lemmy is an open-source plattform, and many (if...
It's either this or the church of the flying spaghetti monster (sh.itjust.works)
Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome (www.theverge.com)
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