electro1

electro1, 23 hours ago

From your experience is it really unstable ( annoyingly buggy ), or do they just call it that and it stable really ?

Sid exclusively gets security updates through its package maintainers. The Debian Security Team only maintains security updates for the current “stable” release.

Is this a good thing ?

electro1, 23 hours ago

Exactly I find it funny too, why doesn’t he at least mirror his posts to Mastodon or just post on there, it’s just a copy/paste…or is it difficult on Qubes ?

On the other hand, normies are still on Twitter so… I don’t blame him

electro1, 13 hours ago

Exactly… “had”

Check again, it’s broken now…

I haven’t seen a single Mastodon instance available as TOR service.

Kolektiva dot social is Mastodon server for activists, and they have a Onion version, and they never track you like Twitter does…

there is more into the anonymity game than just using TOR, other networks has their own approaches, and TOR is not perfect

Edit: but that’s another subject…

electro1, 20 hours ago

About “Security theater”:

keep in mind that companies can lie on how their stuff works, also I don’t think the nature of the store matters, as much as the fact that you’re only allowed to get the open source apps from there which will also run on top of a proprietary OS, with proprietary firmware

Gaslighting their customers": I’d like to see hard proof on that

Consider that I have a low standard on what a hard proof should be,… I consider telling people that : “Privacy, that’s iPhone”, while literally developing nothing in the open, which is the best and ONLY way to guarantee transparency, instead they went with the “trust me bruh” method, plus they display ads… like…they have… a… dedicated… ad … platform…

You don’t respect my Privacy while you target me with ads

electro1, 15 hours ago

I mean they understand their encryption algorithm, they made it after all, and with the advancements of Quantum computing it could be possible to decrypt someone’s data… So what good does providing quantum computing for Imessages do… If they : understand how the algorithm works + they have enough computing power to decrypt it + it’s proprietary.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was all a theater, and it’s the best backdoor implementation to exist

electro1, 11 hours ago

No, breaking an encryption is all about knowing how it works, many cryptographers make their algorithm proprietary in hopes that an attacker will have a hard time figuring how it works, however they turn out to be weak, other encryption algorithms are developed in the open so that many people look at it and see the flaws

The key word is : weak The idea is not making a backdoor directly, the idea is making it flawed, it’s like securing a bank with steel doors with the exception of one door, that door is made out of wood and only you know where it’s located.

electro1, 3 days ago

He looks like a raccoon and should get some sleep :p

Makes me feel all warm and cozy

It makes me think why haven’t these companies got suied out of existence 😮‍💨🙄

electro1, 3 days ago

Shame it has all those built in trackers…

electro1, 1 day ago

Facebook and Google trackers.

I believe yes, disabling network access will disable the trackers ability to report to their server, a Calyx developer told me this, but do your own research

electro1, 17 days ago

I’m not sure, if you’re involved with the project, but if so: you really need to work on your communication

Looking at your username, it makes sense you say something like that

electro1, 16 days ago

Sustainable Software For Sustainable Hardware

I mean this subtitle right here gave me a pretty good idea what’s this initiative is all about already, but that’s just me I guess

Also, keep in mind that people from different countries work on KDE, and English is not their first language, I don’t know what are your expectations… on how the writing should be…

But here’s the thing, take a look at Google or MS posts about sustainably and being green, and you’ll realize, truly realize how one could say so much without saying anything… this wall of text that you’re talking about is full of insights

electro1, 18 days ago

If only everyone stops believing in their bullshit humanized deities a looot of these conflicts would just vanish… But my Gods dick is bigger than your God’s dick…

electro1, 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

what you believe is even more questionable than what they believe

this is not about me, and my beliefs are my own to judge

but something else substituted for the religion.

I agree, but when you live in country far away from that conflict zone, and you see this kind of hate towards people who have nothing to do with it… you know it’s about ideology saying it’s not about religion is the same thing as saying: it’s Ok to let a harmful teachings keep spreading… why not debunk the hell out of it ? and worry about the next issue later… you can’t deny Religion’s role … It’s one of the biggest factors … Explain to me why Abu Abaida starts his speeches by doing Basmala, or why this guy doing a protest is screaming Allahu Akbar…

Ideology is the core of tribalism, I didn’t say it’s the only factor

electro1, 18 days ago

I agree, but

to hate each other over easily. Skin, language, clothing

what’s the one thing that directly tells people that they should do all this, and it’s justifiable and they blindly follow it

electro1, 17 days ago

I mean both of their religions teach their followers to invade other regions, it’s easy to predict Jews and Muslims actions, just read their scriptures it’s their written agenda… Religion is cancer … Next question

electro1, 19 days ago

the funny thing is he himself makes clickbaity videos… like all the time

Don’t trust any content “creator” especially if they have a YT channel… YouTubers wants you to click and companies wants you to buy

electro1, 20 days ago

Congratulations on leaving Google, personally I still have an account but I never log in, it’s for those rare occasions when I need it… I would say though the tricky part isn’t leaving, it’s staying outside forever, I have convinced some people of leaving FB and even Instagram but they couldn’t resist the temptation and went back, they told me they felt bored because they had so much free time… 😐…

electro1, 23 days ago

why don’t they just build their own indexer and AI crawler… Brave is newer yet surpassed both of them

electro1, 27 days ago

You need to imprort a keyboard dictionary first… Bruhhh

electro1, 26 days ago

😄…Ok… I think you meant Lobotomite

electro1, 1 month ago

That would be great

electro1, 1 month ago

we understand that any data collection may spark some questions

Nah, not “any”… it’s Ok to ask for telemetry, it depends on the time you do so… and it’s the wrong time now

electro1, 1 month ago

So… does it block Ads ?

electro1, 1 month ago

tbh, you can’t ask or expect that from users, people aren’t wired to be careful all the time… they need something ( or someone ) to babysit them…

the best solution is to build a system that defends itself, and it’s really hard to break into by an attacker

electro1, 1 month ago

It gets worse when you watch his interview with Tucker Carlson … guy said if a government forces us to censor a group it’ll only censored from the app you get from big tech play stores… That’s horseshit… If you censor a group from your platform, it’ll be removed from all people’s feeds regardless of their clients or from where they got the app…

electro1, 1 month ago

I’ve seen it firsthand how some channels are not available on telegram downloaded from app store vs direct apk download

the right word is “visible”… discoverability on Telegram has always being broken, as in you search for a channel, good luck finding it!.. like you said it’s because of your phone number region… Etc… that has been fixed when they introduced similar channels feature, since then I never used that broken search functionality… But once you find and join a channel, if Telegram mods decided to censor some posts or remove the entire channel, it’ll be removed from all clients… unless there is some client out there who saves snapshots of all channels or posts ( somehow )

electro1, 1 month ago

So have been testing over the past few weeks and made accounts on: a) Hubzilla b) Friendica c) Mastodon d) Kbin e) Lemmy f) Iceshrimp g) Bonfire h) Peertube i) Funkwhale j) Pixelfed

I’m only interested in moving my friends away from Facebook, and have the same fun we used to have as a group, for now nothing seem to match FB functionality unfortunately…

1. Have your own profile
2. Public and Private Groups
3. 1 to 1 chats

And of course no one would consider joining a platform without a ( feature complete ) mobile app, Firefish is amazing but it has no mobile clients that look as a good as the website, and people say Friendica is the ethical Facebook, but it’s ugly…😅 i don’t know what to recommend ?

electro1, 30 days ago

Sorry, should have expressed myself better, sometimes you’re not exactly speaking what you thinking … I was referring to the mobile apps, Friendica main app looks horrible last time I checked

electro1, 29 days ago

This one called Friendiqa, it’s on top of other apps so I’m assuming it’s their flagship app

however, you want a dedicated mobile app, then check out Relatica.

Oh this one looks way nicer, judging from the screenshots…

Friendica also supports the Mastodon API, so you can also log in with pretty much any Mastodon app.

Idk, on their website they list a few compatible clients, maybe other clients won’t work well…

electro1, 1 month ago

Yeah, he needs to fix his broken secret chat feature first… I think it’s broken on purpose…

After seeing his interview with Tucker Carlson, I’m 100% the guy has some really dark agenda…

electro1, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

It stops working after a while ( days or weeks ), your receipents will stop receiving your messages, and you’ll not receive theirs, or you’ll receive them with a big delay, it happens more frequently with iOS users

most people have to go out of their way to start a secret chat, the user journey to activate it is too long, it’s safe to consider it hidden…

electro1, 1 month ago

What makes you think it’s dead?

used to use Instander to browse Instagram privately

That’s far from true, if you installed it on your phone, it’ll collect all the data that the official Instagram app collects… Does it give you the option to use an anonymous account ?

there’s another project called Honista, but I quited Instagram years ago… So idk about it’s features…

electro1, 1 month ago

I’m kinda embrassed to say that I used to think “based” meant : “a person who’s is a purist in terms of their tech tools choices… Like they use Debian or Arch, and GNU/Linux Mobile… Or ReplicantOS… like Only FSF approved software… A person who hates mass surveillance and wants to go off the grid…”

when I understood what it meant, I was disappointed 🙄

electro1, 1 month ago

Just leave your phone at home, and bring a Digital camera, and few SD Cards … Oh, wait… < insert company name here > makes Cameras that spy on you… nevermind…

maybe we should hire a fast sketching artist to draw police brutality … What.!.. your pencil can track you now… come…ooooonnn

electro1, 1 month ago

who had the audacity to downvote a guide for activists here?

they go by many names… shills, glowies… etc…they’re everywhere

electro1, 1 month ago

I’m probably going to downvoted to hell with this… But didn’t people say Proton might be a government Op, even Tuta was mentioned as a honeypot in a recent Court case, so they released a blog post titled: Tuta is not a honeypot…

Idk… my guts tell me, if something is too good to be true, then it’s not true… Proton offerings are amazing for a free plan… And their clients looks good and they sponsor YT channels… I used to be happy to see an Open source project succeed as a business, but the concept of honeypots, made me rethink my view

electro1, 1 month ago

because they have the other half.

could you please elaborate, or matter of fact, ELI5…

Isn’t the whole purpose of having power and control, is to have it all, or make it appear that you’re not in control?

electro1, 1 month ago

What a ridiculous response.

what’s so ridiculous about it?

electro1, 1 month ago

first of it’s a comment not a response… secondly, you quoted everything in wrong order to make it appealing to further ridicule, which brings me to my last but not least point, is that what you do? you find something ridiculous and get your dopamine kick by saying how ridiculous it is!

I quoted the bits that answer your question and which completely undermine the bits I didn’t quote

Not what I asked, I don’t see ridiculousness in my comment, so if you care to reply with feedback, please do, otherwise stop bothering me

electro1, 1 month ago

You thinking it’s a honeypot is a win for the government. All they need to do is spread some propaganda

Good point, but I didn’t think of it that way just because, I saw things and read stuff that made me suspect it…

to run a service that is hard to keep alive. And if they were to run a honeypot

But they did, and it worked for them before, and it’ll always work unless no one start using that service, so there’s no point in keeping servers operational… time for a rebrand. plus they’re getting paid.

having it outside 14 eyes countries would be the most stupid decision the government could make.

having it outside the US ( if we’re talking about the US ) maybe, but the 14 eyes… It’s just s story at this point, even countries outside the 14 eyes spy on their citizens and make secret deals… So…

electro1, 1 month ago

This is all kinda of weirdness

lmao, wow…

electro1, 1 month ago

LinuxFX…

electro1, 1 month ago

sans all the ads, dark patterns, and shitty business model.

To me it’s enshitification because they grabbed Linux and KDE and added all the unethical spyware on top of it, EDGE browser comes to mind…which last I checked shares you data with 927 advertising companies… Maybe it’s a higher number now…

windows is actually a halfway decent os underneath all the enshittification crud.

even that I would argue is enshitified due to all the spying stuff they put into it… Microsoft is real life E Corp

electro1, 1 month ago

Yes, Nvidia drivers broke, I had to remove and reinstall them, ( don’t forget to reboot )

Edit: oh, and also my widgets broke, even ones that are made by KDE…

Also ClearClock is broken because it doesn’t work on KDE 6

electro1, 1 month ago

Say you’re under 15yo… You’ll pass… 😉🤫

electro1, 1 month ago

knowing a phone model is not the same as seeing and ID card with all the Details, that makes a huge difference for the individual’s privacy…

most ISP operators I have seen don’t give a damn about your privacy, if you’re their friend, just ask… give them a phone number and they’ll give you all the details ( Face, Home Address… Etc )… In other countries like Iraq, you can buy that information for a very very low price…

removing the ID card from the equation provides huge privacy benefits for people from these sick fucks… If you’re worried about being found by the authorities… Avoid SIM cards alltogether

or what card you paid with etc.

Use cash…

electro1, 1 month ago

the thing that makes me go … 🤦‍♂️… Is hearing some CS graduate or “Engineer” saying you don’t have privacy online, forget it…

Big tech really tried them to behave as their spokesmen