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Richard

@ ricdeh @lemmy.world

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19M from Germany

  • Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre.

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  • Space Haven

  • Gold

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  • Would it? Perhaps it wouldn't oxidise as fast, but copper is more conductive.

  • foss nerds stop being condescending to those who don't know the same things you do challenge (impossible)

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  • What I find more disrespectful is people that join the greater community, but who have no appreciation for the giant amount of philosophical and political (on-top of the technical) work that was done to enable the relatively free/libre and open environment we have with Linux-based operating systems today. I find it so sad that GNU haters have successfully established divisive memes such as the Stallman GNU/Linux copypasta. We owe so much to the GNU project and GPL license, and I think we would be in a much worse place today if Linux had not been licensed under the GPL. I am fundamentally opposed to people who try to move the distributions into a less free direction. Some may see this as elitism, but this opposition is not born out of a desire to dominate or humiliate anyone, but rather to protect the many great achievements of the FLOSS movement.

  • foss nerds stop being condescending to those who don't know the same things you do challenge (impossible)

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  • How did you get the idea that only 1 million people know of Firefox? I'd say the true figure is at least two, perhaps even three orders of magnitude greater than that. Browser user statistics don't really say much about that.

  • foss nerds stop being condescending to those who don't know the same things you do challenge (impossible)

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  • Nonsensical argument. Just because a piece of software is FLOSS and non-Google, it is not automatically a "weekend side quest". Big Tech is very happy that these false equivalencies have spread as well as they did, but they don't hold a kernel of truth, at least not anymore.

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  • Put LineageOS on it!

  • What does an ideal society look like to you personally? Economic, governmental and/or social.

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  • Classic Lemmy comment

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • So what? Doesn't refute their point. People that actually care will not have a Smart TV or other surveillance tech at home, if they can avoid it.

  • Google is requiring mandatory developer verification for all Android apps in 2026

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  • Main-line Linux phones are really not the way, at least at the moment. Android is fine, AOSP really is an amazing project and easily one of the most impressive software projects ever advanced by humanity. AOSP-derivatives like LineageOS or GrapheneOS are just as much FOSS as any traditional Linux distribution.

  • Google is requiring mandatory developer verification for all Android apps in 2026

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  • I see this take repeated again and again it is simply not true. LineageOS and other FOSS AOSP-derivatives are the best, most-supported and most-accepted FOSS mobile operating systems that we have available to us. And no, you neither have to give up on contactless payments nor on internet banking or government apps. There are many applications that don't play nice with FOSS Android, but if you make the effort to choose your service providers with intent, so that they are compatible, then it is very much possible to daily-drive a fully de-Googled phone.

  • Working outside

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  • Also doesn't really happen to LCDs. It depends on the liquid crystal alignment technology to a degree and the backlight, but realistically, an LCD will not fail without operator error.

  • Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

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  • Sorry for necroing, but why can't you fall back to SMS? There are plenty reliable FOSS SMS messaging apps.

  • Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

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  • Unfortunately, SailfishOS is not FOSS, and FOSS must be the basis of all trust, or else you have no idea to tell what kind of software (spyware) the vendor is operating on your phone. At least Jolla is starting to open-source some traditionally proprietary components.

  • Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features

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  • But how is that significantly more secure than LineageOS? I have read through countless blog posts from GrapheneOS developers and have not yet encountered an explanation that is sufficiently convincing. Outside of additional security hardening, which is definitely a big pro, GrapheneOS doesn't have many things that LineageOS doesn't. LineageOS is fully FOSS and telemetry-free. They introduced the "Trust" control panel for managing all sorts of privacy and security matters. They have PIN scramble.

    The only major, obvious security vulnerability lies in the proprietary driver blobs from the device vendors / OEMs. But AFAIK Google Pixels also have those, right? So outside of doubtlessly valuable measures like restricting malicious reprogramming / access through the USB port, in what ways is GrapheneOS actually more secure than LineageOS?

  • Your car is here.

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  • More like LFS

  • Is Home Assistant the recommended default for smart homes?

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  • There is also OpenHAB, but I think Home Assistant is the more mature one of the two.

  • Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

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  • In principle the messages themselves could be E2E encrypted, but the closed-source WhatsApp client could transmit decryption keys to Meta HQ without anyone finding out. As long as the client or the client device is unsafe and not trusted, E2EE is not really effective. Which is why one should always demand a FOSS client for E2EE.

  • Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II And III

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  • And apparently Microsoft originally wanted to buy the rights all the way back in the 80s! It only took them 40 years...

  • It's always been women in STEM.

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  • The oldest continuously operating university is in Bologna. The one that the post is about was actually a mosque and did not become a university until less than a century ago.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Richard @lemmy.world

    Is the bitwise AND of subnet masks and IP addresses redundant?

  • Linux @lemmy.world
    Richard @lemmy.world

    CVE-2024-6387 OpenSSH Server Authentication Bypass

    cve.mitre.org /cgi-bin/cvename.cgi
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Richard @lemmy.world

    Have you ever been unable to pay by direct debit through PayPal?

  • Linux @lemmy.world
    Richard @lemmy.world

    Linux on Microsoft Copilot+ PCs?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Richard @lemmy.world
    The Verge

    Apple is a $3 trillion company — again

    www.theverge.com /2023/6/30/23779783/apple-3-trillion-market-cap-iphone-mac-vision-pro
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    The Verge

    You don’t have to freak out about aspartame in your diet soda

    www.theverge.com /2023/6/30/23780115/aspartame-iarc-who-food-safety-carcinogen