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sir_reginald, 6 months ago

you’re still traceable because every phone CPU is directly associated with it’s IMEI. Although that’s probably not an issue for you since you’re planning on using banking apps anyway.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

yeah I was going to suggest something like this but now I’m not sure if other browsers aren’t just wrappers around the system WebKit (this is what happens in android with Webview) or if they ship with their own version of WebKit.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

yeah, OP made a big mistake by thinking that an old Apple device is more valuable than a paperweight.

They are infamous because once they reach EOL a perfectly capable device in terms of hardware becomes ewaste because of Apple’s proprietary ecosystem.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

yes, OP should have specified for Android.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

it depends.

you’ll definitely be loosing security, which can turn into loosing privacy if you get affected by malware.

you’ll also be loosing privacy if installing proprietary apps, since GrapheneOS has features like storage scopes and a better permission system that help minimizing privacy issues.

I think that locking your bootloader in a Pixel is possible regardless of the ROM you install.

Anyway, I think that there’s no real benefit of installing any other custom ROM in a Pixel other than GrapheneOS. You’ll be just loosing out in security and potentially privacy for no real reason.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

Although open source cars might lead to tons of safety issues…

They said open source, not DIY.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

what about single player games? how does that anticheat benefit any user?

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

I know that Resident Evil games come with Denuvo, for example.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

in the denuvo product page it is called anticheat by their creators

irdeto.com/denuvo/anti-cheat/

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

being sincere I just searched for denuvo anticheat to see if it was called like that.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

no, do not mistake yourself. they are not proprietary blobs. the whole browser is proprietary. they release a tarball with the chromium code + some changes. but the whole UI which are the main changes are proprietary (after all, like any Chromium browser, it’s mostly a re-skinned Chromium, they don’t make any changes to the engine).

It’s a proprietary browser. They just release a bunch of code for marketing purposes. Don’t believe me? Try compiling it, and tell me if what you get is Vivaldi minus some blobs.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

Vivaldi is not private. A good browser? It surely is. But it’s not private.

It’s also proprietary software, which is unacceptable. And yeah, don’t repeat to me their marketing techniques. Yes, they release some partial source code. In practice, that’s the same as releasing nothing. Just a marketing trick.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

it’s more than enough for the very few sites not working in Librewolf.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

didn’t you read my comment? That whole post is marketing excuses for not being free software.

Try compiling the “source code” they release and tell me if you get a usable version of Vivaldi.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

Not all what is proprietary soft is crap

You’re wrong. For privacy, being proprietary is one of the biggest red flags.

nor all FOSS is the panacea

That’s absolutely true tho.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

Which search engine do you use? If FOSS, which engine do it use? VPN?

There’s a relevant difference here. If the proprietary software runs on the server side and everything on the client side it’s free software, that’s very different than running a proprietary web browser on your own machine.

So as long as my search engine does not execute proprietary JavaScript and I can connect to my VPN using the OpenVPN or Wireguard client, it’s okay.

Nonetheless, it’s of course very much preferable that the server side is free software too.

I don’t care if the proprietary software comes from a mega corp or a small startup. It’s still proprietary.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

honestly, it’s not worth it. hard drives are cheap, just plug one via USB 3 and make all the write operations there. that way your little SBC doesn’t suffer the performance overhead of using docker.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

docker images have a ton of extra processes from the OS they were built in. Normally a light distro is used to build images, like Alpine Linux. but still, you’re executing a lot more processes than if you were installing things natively.

Of course the images does not contain the kernel, but still they contain a lot of extra processes that would be unnecessary if executing natively.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

This looks great. Just what I wanted. I hate i3-status resource consumption.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

after a day of messing with it I just wanted to thank you again. I love the 1 FPS mode, it’s more than enough for me and it isn’t wasting resources. I don’t need to refresh my battery percentage or disk space more than once per second.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

If you really need Brave, install the Flatpak. Not official, but neither it is the one from the package manager.

I’d also recommend to just install Ungoogled Chromium instead of Brave and be done with it.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

Write an article.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

you can keep your proprietary trash for yourself

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

I run GNU/Linux on a Corebooted laptop. That’s my main device and the one I normally use to access Lemmy.

And FYI, I don’t run any proprietary app on my phone which runs a free software build of Android. Everything is installed from F-Droid.

It’s true that it runs proprietary firmware, but there’s currently no way around it. Unlike Grayjay, which is proprietary just because their greedy creators didn’t want people forking their app.

Fortunately, Invidious, Piped, Libretube and Newpipe all exist and work flawlessly so there’s no excuse to use proprietary trash like that.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

you decide to draw the line at GrayJay just because it’s only source available?

I draw the line at the firmware level, yes, because sadly it’s insanely difficult to get a device that can be 100% free software. But from the OS level and up, everything that runs in my devices is free software. That of course includes apps. And Grayjay is no exception to that.

Source available or proprietary is the same to me, it restricts my freedoms as a computer user to not be able to freely modify and distribute my programs as I please.

Actually, I’d prefer for the Grayjay devs just to make it fully proprietary instead of falsely claiming it to be “open source” and using it as marketing. I have no problem with people using proprietary or source available programs. What bothers me are the misleading claims of the creator calling Grayjay open source, when clearly it is not.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

for OP. But there are multiple comments saying they are working normally.

I don’t use Piped a lot, but I can verify that Invidious and Newpipe are working as normal.

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

yeah, that makes it look like a bot posted it

sir_reginald, 6 months ago

And even beyond that, because any distro that ships Wayland by default does so because it has XWayland as a backup, which is essentially running an X server inside Wayland.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

Google’s implementation of RCS is proprietary and that’s what most providers use. Relevant discussion here:

forum.f-droid.org/t/…/13423

sir_reginald, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

in that case, you’d be better by not using Google Messages. According to the discussion I linked there seem to be a few other proprietary RCS clients in the Play Store, other than Google’s and Samsung. Not sure of this myself, but it’s worth looking into it.

If you don’t want to install Google Play services, your best bet is trying your luck with any RCS client other than Google’s. Even Samsung’s (if it even works outside of Samsung phones) has a bigger chance of working without Google Services installed.

Once you find one that works on a degoogled Android, just follow the usual recommendations: install it in a separated profile, give it as little permissions as possible, maybe a VPN if you don’t want them to get your IP (although given that your RCS provider will probably be your ISP this might prove pointless), etc.

And remember to assume that it is not private at all and they are harvesting all your metadata. The encryption is proprietary too, so there’s that.

Edit: I just remembered that encryption is probably exclusive to Google Messages. So you’re screwed, I highly doubt Google Messages will work without Google Services.

I’m guessing that in the near future when Apple launches RCS, we will have more options in Android too. So just keep up with the RCS news.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

if you’re a developer, there’s a very easy and practical way of testing this without trusting anyone’s (not even Google’s) word:

compile the most basic of flutter apps or some demo and see if the app makes any kind of request to the internet.

edit: a single web search reveals that Flutter has indeed Google telemetry enabled by default. developing your web searching skills is a good habit for developers.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

that’s very plausible, I didn’t stop to look into it further than a quick read.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

How can I intercept this traffic quickly?

Assuming an Android app, this is the app that I use: www.f-droid.org/…/com.emanuelef.remote_capture/

If you’re building a program for desktop, Wireshark works great.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

I have a Windows 10 partition on a second machine. I have disabled automatic updates in the options and I never click “Update at restart” or anything. Yet, whenever I need to boot into Windows it decides to automatically start updating itself.

I guess that I use it infrequently so there are always updates available, but it shouldn’t force them on me when I’ve specifically disabled them.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

try I2P

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

It seems like NetBSD is working to support Itanium. wiki.netbsd.org/ports/ia64/

sir_reginald, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

FreeBSD’s Wayland support is through a Linux compatibility library. The major Wayland implementations are Linux only and there’s no way around it other than implementing Linux libraries like FreeBSD did.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

just curious, I get that anti trans posts suck and should be removed, but what’s wrong with anti Wayland posts? it’s just tech talk, not harming anyone.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

I2P and various XMPP devs.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

This thing is scam. Period.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

it could be me, but I think your link is broken.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

and it was lol. Git was designed to work using email and plain text patches. No nonsense, no closed platforms. You can still use git that way.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

There are tons of them

Edit: fmhy.net is one I recommend.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

This applies only to their hosted solutions, doesn’t it?

Shouldn’t be relevant for self-hosters.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

no

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

for starters, it’s Cloudflared.

They admit to be sending your IP to Bing with every search too.

“For example, when you do a search on Ecosia we forward the following information to our partner, Bing: IP address, user agent string, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting”

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

apparently in some cases uTorrent, BitSpirit, and libTorrent simply write your IP address directly into the information they send to the tracker and/or to other peers

These are just bad practices by shady bittorrent programs. Choose a good client and you’ll avoid those issues.

The reason why is that Tor doesn’t support UDP and it’s just harmful for the network to do bittorrent over it.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

and only Firefox. Because if Chrome stops supporting the API, so does Chromium. So Opera, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Samsung browser and a long etc will also stop supporting the older APIs too.