lemmyreader

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lemmyreader ,
lemmyreader ,

Yup.

Buy any domain name, doesn’t matter what.

Suggested to OP and others that self-hosting email is easy and reliable is a bad idea in my opinion.

Instead I suggest the OP to let go of the "free" requirement. There are at least three email providers that provide email for 1 Euro a month including a few email aliases.
Another option is to find a web hosting company that also provides email with web hosting. For example Gandi used to do that though I read they made some changes with their hosting options.

lemmyreader ,

You can try to follow the build instructions like mentioned in another comment but be aware that you are trying to build for a platform which has as far as I can see no official support compile instructions for the software. YMMV.

lemmyreader ,

I saddens me that it feels like the multi-billion dollar data harvesting companies are winning, but I no longer know if this is a hill that I’m willing to die on.

It is a very sad thing indeed :(

What are your thoughts on what we have to give up in our lives just to stay in control of our personal information?

I guess it depends whether you want to be reachable 24/7 on mobile or not.

With Signal and with things like WhatsApp and for that matter Telegram a phone number
is only required to sign up. And you do not have to restrict yourself to one phone number.

Actually that is not correct because contacts syncing is another thing.
If you are willing to have a private life without Meta and a second life which includes Meta Zuck it is technically possible. Buy a cheap smartphone with another SIM card for signing up and for syncing contacts and then link it to desktop apps that you can check a few times a day to check in with your friends via the Meta Zuck channels. The cheap smartphone can stay off unless you need to sync contacts.

lemmyreader ,

Making people unhappy

A marketer I know has a mantra, that successful sales are all about dissatisfaction - making people aware just how their situation sucks, and then offering a way to relieve the pain.

Interesting read.

lemmyreader ,

Thanks a lot for sharing your experience.

Weird ( s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com )

It’s weird how when the Department of Transportation is using the bike lane, they give themselves an entire car lane for protection....

Group of people in high-visibility vests working on a flex post marking the bike lane with tools and equipment. There’s a cone marking the adjacent car lane as closed.
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Help required, Certain VPN does not connect and times out

Can someone help, i have been having trouble connected with my home universities vpn, for past 15-20days, it is an openvpn connection, so i have been using networkmanager-openvpn to import my config files, and they have worked previously, but for last 15-20 days i get connection timed out, all certificates used are correct, i...

lemmyreader ,

Not sure if this applies for your university VPN but with VPN providers an important part of making a successful VPN connection and use it browse the Internet, is that the DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf are correct. You can check and see any difference of the content of that file, before and after starting the VPN connection.

lemmyreader ,

I am not sure if you would be able to compare the content of that file on your phone as well ? Maybe with adb and then check the content there (not sure if Android also uses /etc/resolv.conf) ? Or maybe test connecting on a Linux live USB stick and compare ?

lemmyreader , (edited )

Your phone is fine with the new certificates but Linux on the desktop is not. Would it be possible that both Arch Linux and Linux Mint have software upgraded that is causing the connection failure ? Could it still work if you would use an older LTS Linux version as live USB stick ? Or would the new certificates actually require newer software, like OpenSSL (which is I think a build dependency for OpenVPN) on the desktop ? EDIT: I guess the latter is not the case since Arch Linux is a rolling distribution. But you could ask your IT persons at the university whether they upgraded something ?

What are the most private social media platforms?

I've been feeling uneasy about the privacy implications of using Lemmy and similar platforms. The ability for anyone to view your entire posting history feels to me like publicly sharing my browser history. In contrast, most other social media platforms allow you to limit your feed visibility to just friends or followers....

lemmyreader ,

On Mastodon (and maybe also Akkoma/Pleroma/Misskey/firefish and so on) there is an option in the settings to auto delete your posts (formerly known as toots) with fine tune options if you for instance want to delete your posts but save your favorites and boosts. Several people have their toots older than one month automatically deleted. Before this was an option in Mastodon, people already did this with help of other software.

Lemmy is not very similar as StackExchange/SuperUser/Quora but in some threads Lemmy resembles a Q&A site so it makes sense to leave the conversations as is.

Regarding the most private social media question I'd think of Friendica, Hubzilla, and Pixelfed as best.

lemmyreader ,

That is true to some extend (Though search engines would afaik correct 404 pages and delete the old fetched data), but the automatic deletion does stop part of the audience of having a lot of data to create a fingerprint.

lemmyreader ,

Sure, but what random psycho would go through all your comments collecting data like weather on a specific day, car, job, etc… just to mess with you in real life. That’s like one in a billion unless you specifically seek out those kind of people.

Scraping experiments have been done in the Fediverse several times and with the booming A.I. such an action does not seem very unlikely to me.

lemmyreader ,

Is that the same one that brought down the Linux Mint forums ?

lemmyreader ,

Not happy with Firefox ? For a more privacy friendly Firefox fork check LibreWolf : https://librewolf.net You don't have to remove Firefox, you can run both at the same time.

lemmyreader ,

Thanks for sharing!

16 years of CVE-2008-0166 - Debian OpenSSL Bug ( 16years.secvuln.info )

Today, 16 years ago, Debian published a security advisory announcing CVE-2008-0166, a severe bug in their OpenSSL package that effectively broke the random number generator and limited the key space to a few ten thousand keys. The vulnerability affected Debian+Ubuntu between 2006 and 2008. In 2007, an email signature system...

lemmyreader ,

You want to try something interesting but want to dual-boot. That last bit could be difficult or "impossible" but using a VM or running from USB stick are options.

  • https://www.haiku-os.org I've run it from USB stick on some older laptop.
  • https://chimera-linux.org FreeBSD user-land with a Linux kernel.
  • https://nomadbsd.org FreeBSD which can be run from USB stick with persistent storage. Has a version with ZFS support.
  • https://nixos.org Very interesting concept.
  • https://www.gobolinux.org GoboLinux is an alternative Linux distribution which
    redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy. Doesn't seem up to date but quite interesting. If I remember well you can have different versions of software installed at the same time. Let's say (making this up) Bash 1.1, 3.1 and 5.2
  • https://bedrocklinux.org Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to mix-and-match components from other, typically incompatible distributions.
lemmyreader ,

Yes. Haiku is quite light weight, small and snappy. One drawback is that it has not yet multi user implemented (everything still runs as root! But so do old DOS flavors :-) ) but imho it is fun to play with and check which software packages it has (it has several emulators packaged).

lemmyreader ,

Did you install LibreWolf system wide or user ?

lemmyreader ,

Tested here with LibreWolf installed with Flatpak system wide. Up to date Arch Linux, installed xfce4 and xfce4-goodies packages, logged in to the xfce-session, started LibreWolf from the menu, downloaded something to ~/Downloads. No issues.

lemmyreader ,

Maybe it is just your LibreWolf profile (in ~/.var/app/io.gitlab.librewolf-community/) that is giving troubles.
You can create a new one with :

/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/io.gitlab.librewolf-community -P and see how it fares.

lemmyreader ,

Glad to hear this. I get very sad about the increasing popularity of GitHub for new projects and the huge "importance" of GitHub stars :( It's like YouTube videos with "Hi! First : Don't forget to like and subscribe!" and now "Hi! We're on GitHub! Stars will motivate us to spend more time coding". Yeah right, how about a no nonsense approach ? And on the way there boycott big tech surveillance capitalism like Micros~t.sft [8.3]

lemmyreader ,

Yes, Waydroid uses lxc containers.

lemmyreader ,

I like rdiff-backup (like someone already mentioned in a comment) for some things but if you want a GUI :

Tested them both. First one can scheduled backups and iirc it will ask you to insert the USB disk you used when the time is there.

The exchange. ( files.mastodon.online )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15484563...

Person 1: How's it going? Person 2: Well, so far today I lost my good pen and then I spilled coffee on my left shoe. [Person 1 looks visibly upset.] Person 2: What? Person 1: You're supposed to just say "Good, how are you?." and I say “Good.” and we go on with our days. Person 2: But what if I'm not good? Person 1: I don't need to know about it! Person 2: Then maybe don't ask!
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The exchange. ( files.mastodon.online )

https://mastodon.social/@Chrishallbeck

Person 1: How's it going? Person 2: Well, so far today I lost my good pen and then I spilled coffee on my left shoe. [Person 1 looks visibly upset.] Person 2: What? Person 1: You're supposed to just say "Good, how are you?." and I say “Good.” and we go on with our days. Person 2: But what if I'm not good? Person 1: I don't need to know about it! Person 2: Then maybe don't ask!
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lemmyreader ,

/e/OS is based on LineageOS with microG. They did make a choice for Magic Earth as maps app which is not open source. For "normies" /e/OS seems a fine choice to me to De-Google.

lemmyreader ,

Have other comments made you dislike /e/OS ? microG, which /e/OS uses is not using Google but a replacement for the Google Play framework if you would for example need location feature for some of your apps.

lemmyreader ,

Yes.

lemmyreader OP ,

Did you check what the connections are about ? Maybe it is only checking for new updates ?

lemmyreader ,

Did you do a sha256sum or md5sum checksum after downloading the iso file and after copying it to the Ventoy pendrive ? (Linux uses caching for copying. Taking the pendrive out before your system has done a "safe remove" can cause problems)

lemmyreader ,

😀

lemmyreader ,

Indeed. GoboLinux is neat last time I tried it. Although it's not clear to me how active its development is.

lemmyreader ,

https://github.com/KDE/latte-dock

How are companies or developers supposed to make a full time living with OSI opensourced projects? ( opensource.org )

There has been a lot of talk about companies and individuals adopting licenses that aren't OSI opensource to protect themselves from mega-corp leechers. Developers have also been condemned who put donation notices in the command-line or during package installation. Projects with opensource cores and paid extensions have also...

lemmyreader ,

Okay. Got a source for that ? I had the impression from the SerenityOS developer that the donations came because of the videos that Andreas is making but I could be wrong.

lemmyreader ,

Well, people in the USA probably do know one German name related to NASA :

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