जान से मारने की धमकी: हिमाचल के डिप्टी सीएम और विधायक को सोशल मीडिया पर मिली धमकी, FIR दर्ज
Himachal News: हिमाचल प्रदेश के डिप्टी सीएम मुकेश अग्निहोत्री और कांग्रेस विधायक राकेश कालिया को जान से मारने की धमकी मिलने से सनसनी फैल गई। यह धमकी सोशल मीडिया के जरिए दी गई। ऊना जिले के हरोली थाने में शिकायत दर्ज होने के बाद पुलिस ने जांच शुरू कर दी। इस घटना ने स्थानीय लोगों और राजनीतिक हलकों में हड़कंप मचा दिया। दोनों नेताओं के समर्थक उनकी सुरक्षा को लेकर चिंतित हैं।
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19 जून 2025 को हरोली निवासी अरुण कुमार ने पुलिस को शिकायत दी। उनके मुताबिक, एक फेसबुक पोस्ट में गैंगस्टर अमरीश राणा की गिरफ्तारी का जिक्र था। इस पर दिलीप कुमार नाम के यूजर ने लिखा, “पब्लिक दोबारा तलवार की मांग कर रही है।” रणदीप ठाकुर नाम के यूजर ने सवाल किया, तो शार्प शूटर नबाई वाला ने जवाब दिया, “वो डिप्टी और विधायक राकेश कालिया ही जाने।” इस पोस्ट को जान से मारने की धमकी मानते हुए पुलिस ने केस दर्ज किया। जांच में यह पता लगाया जा रहा है कि धमकी देने वाले का अमरीश राणा से क्या संबंध है।
अमरीश राणा का मामला
अमरीश राणा को 25 साल जेल में बिताने के बाद हाल ही में रिहा किया गया था। लेकिन जेल से बाहर आते ही वह माइनिंग विवाद में फंस गया। दोबारा गिरफ्तारी के बाद यह जान से मारने की धमकी सामने आई। मुकेश अग्निहोत्री हरोली से पांच बार के विधायक और हिमाचल के पहले डिप्टी सीएम हैं। राकेश कालिया गगरेट से उपचुनाव जीतकर विधायक बने हैं। दोनों ऊना जिले से हैं, जिससे यह मामला और गंभीर हो गया है। हिमाचल प्रदेश पुलिस ने जांच तेज कर दी है।
पुलिस की कार्रवाई
हरोली थाना पुलिस ने अज्ञात व्यक्तियों के खिलाफ मामला दर्ज किया। सोशल मीडिया पोस्ट की जांच के लिए साइबर सेल की मदद ली जा रही है। पुलिस यह पता लगाने में जुटी है कि धमकी देने वाले का मकसद क्या था। इस जान से मारने की धमकी ने राजनीतिक माहौल को गरमा दिया है। स्थानीय लोग और समर्थक नेताओं की सुरक्षा के लिए तुरंत कदम उठाने की मांग कर रहे हैं।
l'FT-Me è dotato di una tecnologia all'avanguardia con un tetto a pannelli solari che può ricaricare la batteria principale, aggiungendo da 20 a 30 km di autonomia al giorno in contesti urbani
The biggest challenge in blocking WhatsApp and Telegram, the only Western messenging apps still allowed in Russia, is that the majority of the population uses them for day-to-day communication.
The biggest challenge in blocking WhatsApp and Telegram, the only Western messenging apps still allowed in Russia, is that the majority of the population uses them for day-to-day communication.
Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results.
The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston area—into three groups, and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s search engine, and nothing at all, respectively. Researchers used an EEG to record the writers’ brain activity across 32 regions, and found that of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.
The paper suggests that the usage of LLMs could actually harm learning, especially for younger users. The paper has not yet been peer reviewed, and its sample size is relatively small. But its paper’s main author Nataliya Kosmyna felt it was important to release the findings to elevate concerns that as society increasingly relies upon LLMs for immediate convenience, long-term brain development may be sacrificed in the process.
“What really motivated me to put it out now before waiting for a full peer review is that I am afraid in 6-8 months, there will be some policymaker who decides, ‘let’s do GPT kindergarten.’ I think that would be absolutely bad and detrimental,” she says. “Developing brains are at the highest risk.”
Stellar Data Recovery Standard yra naudojamas, kad atkurti prarastus arba ištrintus failus iš operacinės sistemos, kietojo disko, USB įrenginio arba atminties kortelės.
Pagrindinės „Stellar Data Recovery Professional“ funkcijos:
Jei vartotojai praranda duomenis dėl sugadinto arba suformatuoto disko, jie gali juos atkurti naudodami Deep Scan (Išsamus paieška) funkciją. Quick Scan (Greitoji paieška) padeda atkurti duomenis dažniausiai pasitaikančiomis situacijomis.
Su šia programa galima nuskenuoti visą kietąjį diską arba konkrečią aplanką, kad būtų atkuriama ištrinta dokumentai, nuotraukos, vaizdo įrašai ir kt.
Vartotojai gali peržiūrėti failus prieš atkurdami. Taip jie tiksliai gali pasirinkti tuos duomenis, kuriuos nori atgauti.
Ši programa gali atkurti duomenis iš visų saugojimo įrenginių – tai apima USB stick, kietus diskus, atminties korteles, mini diskus, flash korteles, SD korteles ir Compact Flash korteles.
Taip pat suteikiama Save Scan & Resume Recovery (Išsaugoti skenavimą ir Tęsti atstatymą) funkcija. Ji padeda vartotojams sutaupyti laiko ir pastangų, nes nereikia kartoti disko skenavimo proceso.
I have been tossing around the idea of a little distro hopping. I'm an avid mint fan. It was my first jump from windows. I became quite familiar with mint but felt the want to branch out and went down the rabbit hole (oh my lanta). I like stability and cleanliness. Security by default. Least mental load possible long-term.
I'm currently testing out NIXos. Next will be VanillaOS, 3rd will be Fedora Silverblue. Anyone have good recommendations? Easy backups, stability, security first posture, least maintenance and memory load. I hate getting scattered in symlinks, scripts, and filesystem placing.
I've tried going full custom Linux mint. But app armour and Firejail constantly conflict or require manual updating and tweaking to keep up to date with app installs, or general life cycle updates.
The most intriguing aspect if NIXos was that basically the entire configurable system was confined to two files. Infinitely reproducable. I tend to swap laptops or hardware relatively often being on the go or getting good tech deals. Having your entire system in two files essentially is awesome.
What are some pros and cons of different distros? What do you daily drive as a power user? Give me your thoughts and recommendations! Thanks.
Fedora's Anaconda system makes UEFI secure boot easy and ships with SELinux integrated but set to permissive by default. Their built in network filtering tools are pretty easy but I still just use OpenWRT on a separate device. Silverblue was nice for a few years but I switched to Workstation for a machine with Nvidia hw.
I've heard good things about work-station. I've really been distro shopping and that's the great thing about the Linux and open source community. Having all the options! That being said I think it's a big part of the lack of cohesive expansion too. Going too wide instead of deep. So projects don't last unless their big. Like Ubuntu or Debian etc
They all have a purpose. The key is knowing and understanding their primary purposes. Fedora is like the beta of Red Hat. Red Hat is the old paid pro server version. The main sell of RHEL is the zero down time kernel updates, and lots of custom tools. Fedora is the distro to get the Linux Bible (book) and learn SysAdmin for an IT path.
Debian is where hardware support is built and has tons of custom tools to bootstrap new or undocumented hardware.
Ubuntu is built on Debian, but is primarily a smaller scale server option like RHEL. Their main objective is LTS kernels. LTS is usually poorly understood by many users. It means most packages included in the distro are outdated and frozen in time. There are updating exceptions for packages that never break backwards compatibility. The whole point here is that I can write a script in bash, Python or whatever high level language, and build a custom server that can be online and left unattended while getting security updates to remain online while the LTS remains supported.
Gentoo can build everything from source and can reconfigure or modify anything. It is like Arch Linux with tutorial information documented fully and a responsible package manager that does not do regular rsync hardening pop quizzes on the only distro you'll ever actually boot from backups regularly (Arch).
Nix is for deprecated dependency hell.
Kali or Parrot are for getting your own FBI agent.
Deepin is Chinese, but Tails is for Chinese abroad.
OpenWRT is for embedded Linux, mostly routers, but anything really.
Linux From Scratch is for base chad god bod and Hannah Montana Linux is for memes.
Are you insane? Debian is a base distro like any other and runs more hardware than any other. It has all of the bootstrapping tools to get hardware working.
Canonical is a server company and Ubuntu server is literally the product.
Arch is absolute garbage for most users unless you have a CS degree or you have entirely too much time on your hands and don't mind an OS as your life project. Arch abhors tutorial content in all documentation and therefore dumps users into a rabbit hole regularly. Pacman is the worst package manager as it will actively break a system and present the user with the dumbest of choices at random because the maintainers are ultimately sadistic and lackadaisical. Arch is nearly identical to Gentoo with Arch binaries often based on Gentoo builds, yet Gentoo provides relevant instruction and documentation with any changes that require user intervention and does so at a responsible and ethical level that shows kindness, respect, and consideration completely absent from Arch. Arch is a troll by trolls for trolls. I'm more than capable of running it now, but I would never bother with such inconsiderate behavior.
Old kernel = old drivers. Its that simple.... Things might work on a basic level sure. Drivers baked in to the kernel and when you use a damn old version of it you get old drivers and old hardware support.
Qubes is good. Not super daily driver friendly. Lots of tweaks needed. I use a laptop like a phone replacement. Banking, apps, messaging, all sorts of usual phone tasks. Also Qubes is too resource heavy on a laptop, it drains the batteries in a couple hours on basic usage. Takes 16 gigs if RAM to run and 32gb to breathe really. Plus 30 ish percent CPU idle roughly on a 12th gen Intel i7.
It's too heavy to daily, perfect for desktop, just not laptop all day material.
I like stability and cleanliness. Security by default. Least mental load possible long-term.
Excellent breakdown of your desires! FWIW, I definitely resonate with these as well.
I'm currently testing out NIXos. Next will be VanillaOS, 3rd will be Fedora Silverblue.
One simply can't ignore the fact that these are so-called atomic distros. Which makes a ton of sense considering what you set out for. FWIW, my personal takes on the individual projects are as follows: - NixOS is pretty excellent. If the epitome of cleanliness is reached with becoming stateless, then there's simply no other viable alternative. - For VanillaOS, I feel it has yet to fully realize its promise. Or, at least, hasn't fulfilled whatever's required to break into the (relative) 'mainstream' for one reason or another. - Fedora Silverblue has been my daily-driver in some shape or form over the last three years 😅. As such, I'm clearly biased. However, I'd reckon secureblue, i.e. a derivative that goes all-in on security, is actually more interesting for you.
Anyone have good recommendations? Easy backups, stability, security first posture, least maintenance and memory load. I hate getting scattered in symlinks, scripts, and filesystem placing.
Honestly, with Fedora Atomic and Nixos, you're already considering the very best at the job. Though, for completeness' sake, consider looking into openSUSE Aeon as well. While I'd argue the other two are currently more interesting, I wouldn't want to dismiss it altogether.
Beyond these, we find some other distros that miss something crucial for them to be considered a legit candidate/alternative: - Guix System can put up a decent fight against NixOS and may even sway you over if you're into lisp. Unfortunately, though, it has yet to receive what flakes brought to the table for NixOS. Don't get me wrong; Guix' implementation of channels is vastly superior over Nix' and therefore Guix System doesn't gain as much from its (to be) flake counterpart. However, with flakes, NixOS becomes pretty smooth sailing. Like, you can just trust it to work reliably. With Guix, however, it can get ugly sometimes. Which can even lead the biggest Guix proponents back to NixOS... - Kicksecure is another hardened-by-default distro worth mentioning. Sadly, unlike secureblue, it does nothing with atomicity.
What are some pros and cons of different distros?
This is too broad of a question 😅. If possible, narrow it down to some face-offs you're particularly interested in. After which I will try to help out if I can. Btw, I 'found'this comment that attempts to assign tiers to distros in terms of how they fare security-wise.
What do you daily drive as a power user?
Without going over what a power user is and/or if I would even qualify as such, I've been daily-driving secureblue for over a year now.
Give me your thoughts and recommendations! Thanks.
At this point, I think both NixOS and secureblue pose as the most interesting candidates for ya. The former peaks in cleanliness, while the latter peaks in security.
Honestly id argue Debian stable is the most secure as long as the apps your using are getting security hotfixes backported. Since you get all the security fixes and none of the new features that tend to be where new security holes pop up. Combine that with good opsec in general, and your basically good to go.
One thing tho. Some people use them interchangably but is your focus security or privacy? Security being harder for bad actors to exploit something on your system, and privacy being strict control over your data.
Privacy is generally good opsec. This is just for daily use for all things laptop. If focus on security and privacy. But if your secure then nobody can get to your private files ect.
As others have suggested, QubesOS is a good one to have on your list. I'd probably use if it weren't for its crippling effects on battery life.
Immutable distros are much friendlier to laptops and, as I understand, update in a way not unlike an Android device would. But I insist on some system-level customizations and I haven't been motivated to learn how such customizations can be made to survive updates and the like.
I've also been eyeing NixOS, but with everything up and running on Debian smoothly for a few years, I haven't found the excuse to switch yet. Along with customizing it to be a comfortable daily driver, I've also been trying to see how secure I can make my system as a fun exercise. While it's not immutable, Debian is a good base considering the team behind it and how much is riding on its security, including internet-facing servers.
What I've done to harden Debian, if anyone's interested: - Apply Madaidan's hardening guide judiciously. Roughly 2/3 of the measures made sense for my use case and it's almost unnoticeable in my daily workflow. - Have as few closed-source components as possible. In my case, intel-microcode is the only non-free package on my system. - Install the hardening-runtime package, but remove its included slub_debug=FPZ kernel argument, which in recent kernels forces less secure unhashed pointers. - XFCE is still not fully ported to Wayland, so I use slock, the X11 screen locker with fewest lines of code. - Install the ufw firewall and default to deny - Enable unattended-upgrades - Everything including the /boot partition is encrypted. I have built coreboot with just the GRUB2 payload, which I configured to immediately bring up the LUKS password prompt. All other options are behind a password.
I also put together and maintain a ~16 GB clean system image of Debian set up exactly to my taste, which I clone to my machines as needed. This probably wouldn't have been a thing if I knew about NixOS earlier, and it certainly hasn't helped me switch over either.
You have some decent hardening, just note x11 is turning legacy, wayland seems to be picking up for many reasons. I'm only slightly familiar with Debian as a whole. I'd look into firejail, app armour, firetools GUI for Firejail, flatseal, and good backup plans.
I discovered NIXos a few days ago and while it was a steep learning curve to set up! And I mean a learning curve and steep in all senses. It's quite possibly the smoothest, simplest distro I've ever used once you make it run. Instant rollbacks in grub. It boots in grub in order. Boot 23 works you tried tweaking boot 24 failed, you made it work boot 25. Got mad. Select boot 23 in grub and your back to square one. 10 seconds.
Due to the nature of it you can choose like any desktop type you'd like from xfce to cinnamon or names I never heard of even headless, and literally any of them gnome, KDE, you name it. I like simplicity. Low mental load. Immutable is a chef's kiss but configurable strikes my fancy.
I loathe getting scattered it symlinks, scripts, having files I forget about scattered all through my system, shit updates and breaks because I firejailed an app from 2 years ago. So much hassle. I like to boot and go. Keeping all if my configs in literally 2 nix files is fantastic, no more where did this go, or where did this write to. It will never change, update and break, it's like a master key that will forever work. Just don't lose your config and any hardware, any time, if you have your master file you can boot in like you was at your machine the time you left.
I still think about my first love, Linux mint so I installed cinnamon and now I feel I got the best of both worlds. I nearly gave up after a few days OK like 4 or 5 lol of attempting a custom install of NIX, full luks from boot to home, all my installed apps and configs, separated partitioning, containerized apps, I went all out. Idles at 1% CPU themed and applets, desklets, conky, etc. Created a couple copies of my NIX config file and I feel fairly safe. I built it all and tweaked then compiled it all finalized. Once you understand the concepts in their coding style, it'll click in your brain.
I went straight from Windows, to Mint for 2 years barely touching terminal. Now with a little internet research for commands. I can crawl through almost any issue. I've broken so much stuff. But atleast it wasn't a windows update borking/bricking my entire PC into a paperweight again. I chose to experiment. I've cussed myself so many times. But anything is better than going backwards.
It depends on what you mean by "secure". I'm going to assume that your threat model is "I want to minimize the damage caused by any generic malware". If you would like tips on some other threat model, I would be happy to assist you.
Generally, I would recommend fedora secureblue or silverblue. It works very well "out of the box", doesn't require much maintenance, and it has relatively good security defaults.
I wouldn't call NIXos inherently "secure", because it doesn't have nearly as many security benefits compared to more security-focused distros. Immutability doesn't really help much in this context because all it's doing is making your root read-only. In most cases, an attacker getting access to your home directory is just as bad as them having root access. Security aside, if NIXos suits your other needs then I encourage you to keep using it.
Qubes is probably overkill. I would only recommend using it if your threat model depends on it. It offers very good sandboxing/compartmentalization, but it can be tricky to use and is resource-intensive. Personally, I don't think it has the best "out of the box experience" and most of its benefits can be replicated (with much effort) on a distro like gentoo or arch.
Gentoo and Arch have the highest potential to become the "most secure" because they are the most customizable but they require a lot more maintenance since you essentially have to learn how to build your system from the ground up.
In the end, I don't think the distro matters too much because as long as you can tweak the distro to fit your needs (or threat model), you will eventually end up with your own perfect mix of usability and security. You can start hardening your system by: configuring the firewall (I recommend ufw), proper sandboxing (I recommend using flatpaks or writing your own bubblewrap scripts), and maybe running untrusted processes in a virtual machine (I recommend qemu/virt-manager). For more advanced security, I would highly recommend looking into Mandatory Access Control (Fedora enables SELinux by default but you can tailor the reference policy to be VERY strict).
Once again, If you have anything more specific in mind in regards to security, I'll be happy to elaborate 😁
Una parte significativa del successo economico per la confederazione di stati all’altro lato dell’Atlantico ha radici chiaramente definite da un punto di vista cronologico e organizzativo.
Only a couple. I can imagine that "the user is not the enemy" may be a difficult sentiment for some people with heavily user-facing roles. I'm curious what federated service you're interfacing with this from. I imagine that's why you didn't see the votes on your comment. I am posting this via Lemmy
A woman severely hurt in a bicycle crash with a Waymo robotaxi is suing the company, claiming one of its vehicles pulled over in a no-stopping zone next to a bike lane, and a passenger opened a door into her path — despite the car’s “Safe Exit” system touted by the Mountain View company as protection for passing cyclists.
Waymo in online marketing materials says its robotaxi Safe Exit sensor and warning systems provide departing passengers with “explicit audio and visual alerts that inform them when a cyclist or other road user is approaching as they exit the car.” The company cites San Francisco’s transit agency in noting that collisions between cyclists and vehicle doors — incidents known as “doorings” — are the city’s second most common collisions causing death or injury.
The passengers from the robotaxi whose door hit Hanke said at the scene that no alert had been given before one of them opened the door into the bike lane, Hanke said. The lawsuit alleged “a malfunction, failure to engage, or design flaw” in the alert system.
In this News Brief, we are joined by Ashley Bohrer and Ben Teller of Jewish Voice for Peace Chicago to discuss media indifference to the US and Israel-imposed starvation of Palestinians, how sectarianism is central to the ADL's strategy, and why six JVP activists have decided to hunger strike to draw more attention to the Israeli and US-made famine in Gaza.
In this News Brief, we are joined by Ashley Bohrer and Ben Teller of Jewish Voice for Peace Chicago to discuss media indifference to the US and Israel-imposed starvation of Palestinians, how sectarianism is central to the ADL's strategy, and why six …
The rich don’t even spend that much of their money. The poor must spend virtually all of it to survive, while the rich make their excess money make even more money.
I read somewhere a long time ago, that eventually the economy will cater to the ultra rich and the lower income class, will still get products, but much lower end stuff or stuff made from the leftovers from the ultra rich.
One example that was given was a game with pay to win mechanics. Most people can play the game and grind away, but the real experience of the game can only be played by people who spend $500 on extra stuff.
In October 16, 2005, Citigroup came out with a brochure for investors called “Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances” urging investors to put money into a “Plutonomy Baske…
A US complaint against oil and gas giants including BP and Shell claims they fueled the extreme heat that killed a woman in Seattle. Can the first death by 'climate disaster' claim succeed?
Tech support scammers have devised a method to inject their fake phone numbers into webpages when a target's web browser visits official sites for Apple, PayPal, Netflix, and other companies. The ruse, outlined in a post on Wednesday from security firm Malwarebytes, threatens to trick users into calling the malicious numbers even when they think they're taking measures to prevent falling for such scams. One of the more common pieces of security advice is to carefully scrutinize the address bar of a browser to ensure it's pointing to an organization's official website. The ongoing scam is able to bypass such checks.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Tech support scammers have devised a method to inject their fake phone numbers into webpages when a target's web browser visits official sites for Apple, PayPal, Netflix, and other companies.
Recently, I came across Preveil, which is a service that can provide end-to-end encryption to either your Outlook, Gmail, or Apple Mail email accounts. It’s free, but if you want more storage, obviously, you will need to pay.
It looks very interesting as this could get others to use end-to-end encryption for the emails without having to move to another provider. However, I haven’t really seen any reviews (besides this one from PC Mag) or others expressing their experience with Preveil, so I am unsure if it’s a good service to use or recommend.
Has anyone used it or is familiar with Preveil? Does anyone know if there are similar services to Preveil, preferably those that are open source?
Remember: militaries usually buy from the lowest bidder, so anything military-grade is probably low quality.
Also, email isn’t a great medium for communicating securely, since the other party has to be just as mindful about security as you; otherwise it’s basically security theater.
LMAO, Preveil fails to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software. Could their little scam be any more blatant.
The policy says that ICE field offices are not subject to a federal law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to immigration facilities that “detain or otherwise house aliens.”
In short, ICE policy is to illegally use the threat of shooting to keep elected Democrats from being able to make inspections they're legally allowed to make
Trump privately approved plans for an assault on Iran US President Donald Trump informed senior officials late on Tuesday that he had approved plans for an attack on Iran
Many people likely understand that they should verify URLs when visiting sites for banks, tech companies, and other critical services to avoid fraudulent links. While steering clear...
U.S. Vice President JD Vance decided to join Bluesky, only to be abruptly suspended, according to news reports.Vance made a big deal about his decision to get an account on what has become known as a more liberal competitor to Elon Musk's X network.
The bio in the profile says "Christian, husband, dad" first, and then "Vice President". Just like every replyguy on Twitter with a "Christian, husband, dad" bio. They always put that info first, and in that order.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance decided to join Bluesky, only to be abruptly suspended, according to news reports.Vance made a big deal about his decision to get an account on what has become known as a more liberal competitor to Elon Musk's X network.
A short hike made slightly more difficult by the remaining snow in the trail on 5/15, mile long out and back descends from where the parking lot to the falls along a steep ridgeline. Views of bridal veil falls may be seen across the valley, and later in the year a path to them may be accessible.
Panther Falls drops down while the creeksides remain partially snowbound. This fall may create a good snowcone structure in winter based on some of the snow chunks I saw laying around.
The trail passes under a fallen log amid some boulders while bridal veil falls may be seen through a gap in the trees across the valley.
Same view of the falls as the main image, but this time with me being blinded by the blazing sun in the foregound.
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This month, the Social Web Foundation is joining the UN’s 20th annual conference on the internet, the Internet Governance Forum. Held in Oslo, Norway, IGF 2025 brings together policymakers, technologists, activists, and academics to address the most press
This month, the Social Web Foundation is joining the UN’s 20th annual conference on the internet, the Internet Governance Forum. Held in Oslo, Norway, IGF 2025 brings together policymakers, technologists, activists, and academics to address the most pressing questions about digital governance. From AI regulation to connectivity in underserved regions, the agenda reflects how internet governance is now inseparable from broader social, economic, and political concerns.
Mallory Knodel, Executive Director of the Social Web Foundation and founder of this newsletter, will be moderating a workshop on “Privacy-Preserving Interoperability and the Fediverse”, a session that speaks directly to the Social Web Foundation’s mission: growing, healthy, sustainable and multi-polar Fediverse.
The session will examine a practical tension: interoperability allows people to move fluidly across platforms—whether it’s Mastodon, PeerTube, or other services in the Fediverse. Yet this fluidity exposes new privacy risks. For example, a user’s profile photo or contact list might unintentionally follow them from one service to another without explicit consent. To ensure the social web continues to grow in a responsible way, we need thoughtful policy, smart technical design, and cross-sector collaboration.
To tackle this, Mallory will be posing three concrete questions to a diverse panel featuring voices from academia, civil society, and the private sector:
User agency: How can we design cross-platform data flows so that individuals—not servers—decide what travels with them?
Legal alignment: What does real compliance with the GDPR look like for a decentralised network, and how might the Digital Markets Act nudge the large incumbents toward meaningful interoperability?
Technical safeguards: Which standards or privacy-enhancing tools could make federation safer by default?
By grounding the discussion in technical and legal constraints, this workshop aims to develop practical, actionable recommendations that platforms, developers, and policymakers can adopt. We’ll refine these into a summary document outlining key takeaways and next steps, which we’ll share in a future edition of this newsletter.
This conversation also comes at a critical time. The momentum behind decentralized platforms is growing, but regulatory clarity and technical safeguards lag behind. Without coordination, we risk repeating the mistakes of Web2: centralisation of power, opaque data practices, and exclusionary design.
Attending the IGF is free! Whether you’re joining us in Oslo or tuning in online, we encourage you to participate. Your questions, insights, and lived experiences help shape the conversation. We’ll be taking audience questions during the session, and they’ll feed directly into the discussion.
Had to deal with this recently. The cause is openSUSE's move to SELinux on new installs, which by default blocks the required permissions for the RPM version of Steam. You can correct this with these commands: ausearch -c 'steam' --raw | audit2allow -a -M my-steam to create the permissions file and semodule -X 300 -i my-steam.pp to apply it. Hopefully this saves someone else from the wild goose chase I went on earlier.
I am unsure. I'll give this a try soon, as it looks like it probably does the trick. Thanks for letting me know.
EDIT: Seemingly not, at least on my setup. It was installed automatically as a dependency of Steam, but I needed to use my previous commands to get Proton to work.
Is there a privacy-focused accurate handwriting-to-text option for android? Ideally it would run locally on device with no required connection to the internet.
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Yeah, that only works for people who are brainwashed to follow whatever the current regime is pushing regardless of how much it hurts them personally, but especially if it doesn't hurt them directly in the very short term.
Long story. But it was by searching on its server while on its house. The pedo tried to incriminate the father (being from Venezuela and etc police here will try to arrest you just for being from there) first before i reported the evidence to police, it went viral on TV here but the father has been accused and incriminated by fascists political groups that doesn't care if hes a pedo or not (wich he is not, the baby of him was abused by this other person) they only want to generate fake news and get some clicks on their social media.
This is just a summary im not gonna write it all is long as i said lol
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in reply to OhVenus_Baby • • •OhVenus_Baby
in reply to 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆 • • •𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆
in reply to OhVenus_Baby • • •They all have a purpose. The key is knowing and understanding their primary purposes. Fedora is like the beta of Red Hat. Red Hat is the old paid pro server version. The main sell of RHEL is the zero down time kernel updates, and lots of custom tools. Fedora is the distro to get the Linux Bible (book) and learn SysAdmin for an IT path.
Debian is where hardware support is built and has tons of custom tools to bootstrap new or undocumented hardware.
Ubuntu is built on Debian, but is primarily a smaller scale server option like RHEL. Their main objective is LTS kernels. LTS is usually poorly understood by many users. It means most packages included in the distro are outdated and frozen in time. There are updating exceptions for packages that never break backwards compatibility. The whole point here is that I can write a script in bash, Python or whatever high level language, and build a custom server that can be online and left unattended while getting security updates to remain online while the LTS remains supported.
Gentoo can build everything from source and can reconfigure or modify anything. It is like Arch Linux with tutorial information documented fully and a responsible package manager that does not do regular rsync hardening pop quizzes on the only distro you'll ever actually boot from backups regularly (Arch).
Nix is for deprecated dependency hell.
Kali or Parrot are for getting your own FBI agent.
Deepin is Chinese, but Tails is for Chinese abroad.
OpenWRT is for embedded Linux, mostly routers, but anything really.
Linux From Scratch is for base chad god bod and Hannah Montana Linux is for memes.
kylian0087
in reply to 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆 • • •Debian is so old it doesn't work on very modern hardware.... So what your talking about?
Also Ubuntu is not a "server" option. They do have a server option yes. It is the most used desktop or at least was.
Also I used arch for ca 2 years not once needed to use a backup. Even though I abused the hell out of it.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆
in reply to kylian0087 • • •Are you insane? Debian is a base distro like any other and runs more hardware than any other. It has all of the bootstrapping tools to get hardware working.
Canonical is a server company and Ubuntu server is literally the product.
Arch is absolute garbage for most users unless you have a CS degree or you have entirely too much time on your hands and don't mind an OS as your life project. Arch abhors tutorial content in all documentation and therefore dumps users into a rabbit hole regularly. Pacman is the worst package manager as it will actively break a system and present the user with the dumbest of choices at random because the maintainers are ultimately sadistic and lackadaisical. Arch is nearly identical to Gentoo with Arch binaries often based on Gentoo builds, yet Gentoo provides relevant instruction and documentation with any changes that require user intervention and does so at a responsible and ethical level that shows kindness, respect, and consideration completely absent from Arch. Arch is a troll by trolls for trolls. I'm more than capable of running it now, but I would never bother with such inconsiderate behavior.
Geodad
in reply to kylian0087 • • •Why is it running on my new MSI Katana?
kylian0087
in reply to Geodad • • •Its that simple.... Things might work on a basic level sure. Drivers baked in to the kernel and when you use a damn old version of it you get old drivers and old hardware support.
Geodad
in reply to kylian0087 • • •Everything works. Even the Nvidia drivers work.
I play Final Fantasy XIV on this laptop with no problems.
kylian0087
in reply to OhVenus_Baby • • •Most major distros are fairly secure by default without things breaking (arch is a exception there, As you got to set that up your self).
If you want to go extreme their is Qubes OS. But you can not swap that across systems like you might want do.
OhVenus_Baby
in reply to kylian0087 • • •Qubes is good. Not super daily driver friendly. Lots of tweaks needed. I use a laptop like a phone replacement. Banking, apps, messaging, all sorts of usual phone tasks. Also Qubes is too resource heavy on a laptop, it drains the batteries in a couple hours on basic usage. Takes 16 gigs if RAM to run and 32gb to breathe really. Plus 30 ish percent CPU idle roughly on a 12th gen Intel i7.
It's too heavy to daily, perfect for desktop, just not laptop all day material.
HayadSont
in reply to OhVenus_Baby • • •Excellent breakdown of your desires! FWIW, I definitely resonate with these as well.
One simply can't ignore the fact that these are so-called atomic distros. Which makes a ton of sense considering what you set out for. FWIW, my personal takes on the individual projects are as follows:
- NixOS is pretty excellent. If the epitome of cleanliness is reached with becoming stateless, then there's simply no other viable alternative.
- For VanillaOS, I feel it has yet to fully realize its promise. Or, at least, hasn't fulfilled whatever's required to break into the (relative) 'mainstream' for one reason or another.
- Fedora Silverblue has been my daily-driver in some shape or form over the last three years 😅. As such, I'm clearly biased. However, I'd reckon secureblue, i.e. a derivative that goes all-in on security, is actually more interesting for you.
Honestly, with Fedora Atomic and Nixos, you're already considering the very best at the job. Though, for completeness' sake, consider looking into openSUSE Aeon as well. While I'd argue the other two are currently more interesting, I wouldn't want to dismiss it altogether.
Beyond these, we find some other distros that miss something crucial for them to be considered a legit candidate/alternative:
- Guix System can put up a decent fight against NixOS and may even sway you over if you're into lisp. Unfortunately, though, it has yet to receive what flakes brought to the table for NixOS. Don't get me wrong; Guix' implementation of channels is vastly superior over Nix' and therefore Guix System doesn't gain as much from its (to be) flake counterpart. However, with flakes, NixOS becomes pretty smooth sailing. Like, you can just trust it to work reliably. With Guix, however, it can get ugly sometimes. Which can even lead the biggest Guix proponents back to NixOS...
- Kicksecure is another hardened-by-default distro worth mentioning. Sadly, unlike secureblue, it does nothing with atomicity.
This is too broad of a question 😅. If possible, narrow it down to some face-offs you're particularly interested in. After which I will try to help out if I can. Btw, I 'found' this comment that attempts to assign tiers to distros in terms of how they fare security-wise.
Without going over what a power user is and/or if I would even qualify as such, I've been daily-driving secureblue for over a year now.
At this point, I think both NixOS and secureblue pose as the most interesting candidates for ya. The former peaks in cleanliness, while the latter peaks in security.
secureblue: Hardened Fedora Atomic and Fedora CoreOS images
secureblueKory
in reply to OhVenus_Baby • • •secureblue: Hardened Fedora Atomic and Fedora CoreOS images
secureblueOhVenus_Baby
in reply to Kory • • •I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ
in reply to OhVenus_Baby • • •There is Parrot OS Home edition which is marketed as privacy and security friendly.
parrotsec.org/
Parrot Security
www.parrotsec.orgnon_burglar
in reply to I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ • • •lilith267
in reply to non_burglar • • •"Home Edition: Designed for daily use" - from their website
Something tells me it might be practial for daily use
swelter_spark
in reply to I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ • • •IHave69XiBucks
in reply to OhVenus_Baby • • •Honestly id argue Debian stable is the most secure as long as the apps your using are getting security hotfixes backported. Since you get all the security fixes and none of the new features that tend to be where new security holes pop up. Combine that with good opsec in general, and your basically good to go.
One thing tho. Some people use them interchangably but is your focus security or privacy? Security being harder for bad actors to exploit something on your system, and privacy being strict control over your data.
OhVenus_Baby
in reply to IHave69XiBucks • • •Leny
in reply to OhVenus_Baby • • •qubes-os.org/
mio
in reply to Leny • • •Drunk & Root
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in reply to OhVenus_Baby • • •monovergent
in reply to OhVenus_Baby • • •As others have suggested, QubesOS is a good one to have on your list. I'd probably use if it weren't for its crippling effects on battery life.
Immutable distros are much friendlier to laptops and, as I understand, update in a way not unlike an Android device would. But I insist on some system-level customizations and I haven't been motivated to learn how such customizations can be made to survive updates and the like.
I've also been eyeing NixOS, but with everything up and running on Debian smoothly for a few years, I haven't found the excuse to switch yet. Along with customizing it to be a comfortable daily driver, I've also been trying to see how secure I can make my system as a fun exercise. While it's not immutable, Debian is a good base considering the team behind it and how much is riding on its security, including internet-facing servers.
What I've done to harden Debian, if anyone's interested:
- Apply Madaidan's hardening guide judiciously. Roughly 2/3 of the measures made sense for my use case and it's almost unnoticeable in my daily workflow.
- Have as few closed-source components as possible. In my case, intel-microcode is the only non-free package on my system.
- Install the hardening-runtime package, but remove its included
slub_debug=FPZkernel argument, which in recent kernels forces less secure unhashed pointers.- XFCE is still not fully ported to Wayland, so I use slock, the X11 screen locker with fewest lines of code.
- Install the ufw firewall and default to deny
- Enable unattended-upgrades
- Everything including the /boot partition is encrypted. I have built coreboot with just the GRUB2 payload, which I configured to immediately bring up the LUKS password prompt. All other options are behind a password.
I also put together and maintain a ~16 GB clean system image of Debian set up exactly to my taste, which I clone to my machines as needed. This probably wouldn't have been a thing if I knew about NixOS earlier, and it certainly hasn't helped me switch over either.
Linux Hardening Guide | Madaidan's Insecurities
madaidans-insecurities.github.ioOhVenus_Baby
in reply to monovergent • • •You have some decent hardening, just note x11 is turning legacy, wayland seems to be picking up for many reasons. I'm only slightly familiar with Debian as a whole. I'd look into firejail, app armour, firetools GUI for Firejail, flatseal, and good backup plans.
I discovered NIXos a few days ago and while it was a steep learning curve to set up! And I mean a learning curve and steep in all senses. It's quite possibly the smoothest, simplest distro I've ever used once you make it run. Instant rollbacks in grub. It boots in grub in order. Boot 23 works you tried tweaking boot 24 failed, you made it work boot 25. Got mad. Select boot 23 in grub and your back to square one. 10 seconds.
Due to the nature of it you can choose like any desktop type you'd like from xfce to cinnamon or names I never heard of even headless, and literally any of them gnome, KDE, you name it. I like simplicity. Low mental load. Immutable is a chef's kiss but configurable strikes my fancy.
I loathe getting scattered it symlinks, scripts, having files I forget about scattered all through my system, shit updates and breaks because I firejailed an app from 2 years ago. So much hassle. I like to boot and go. Keeping all if my configs in literally 2 nix files is fantastic, no more where did this go, or where did this write to. It will never change, update and break, it's like a master key that will forever work. Just don't lose your config and any hardware, any time, if you have your master file you can boot in like you was at your machine the time you left.
I still think about my first love, Linux mint so I installed cinnamon and now I feel I got the best of both worlds. I nearly gave up after a few days OK like 4 or 5 lol of attempting a custom install of NIX, full luks from boot to home, all my installed apps and configs, separated partitioning, containerized apps, I went all out. Idles at 1% CPU themed and applets, desklets, conky, etc. Created a couple copies of my NIX config file and I feel fairly safe. I built it all and tweaked then compiled it all finalized. Once you understand the concepts in their coding style, it'll click in your brain.
I went straight from Windows, to Mint for 2 years barely touching terminal. Now with a little internet research for commands. I can crawl through almost any issue. I've broken so much stuff. But atleast it wasn't a windows update borking/bricking my entire PC into a paperweight again. I chose to experiment. I've cussed myself so many times. But anything is better than going backwards.
Tenderizer78
in reply to OhVenus_Baby • • •fool
in reply to OhVenus_Baby • • •It depends on what you mean by "secure". I'm going to assume that your threat model is "I want to minimize the damage caused by any generic malware". If you would like tips on some other threat model, I would be happy to assist you.
Generally, I would recommend fedora secureblue or silverblue. It works very well "out of the box", doesn't require much maintenance, and it has relatively good security defaults.
I wouldn't call NIXos inherently "secure", because it doesn't have nearly as many security benefits compared to more security-focused distros. Immutability doesn't really help much in this context because all it's doing is making your root read-only. In most cases, an attacker getting access to your home directory is just as bad as them having root access. Security aside, if NIXos suits your other needs then I encourage you to keep using it.
Qubes is probably overkill. I would only recommend using it if your threat model depends on it. It offers very good sandboxing/compartmentalization, but it can be tricky to use and is resource-intensive. Personally, I don't think it has the best "out of the box experience" and most of its benefits can be replicated (with much effort) on a distro like gentoo or arch.
Gentoo and Arch have the highest potential to become the "most secure" because they are the most customizable but they require a lot more maintenance since you essentially have to learn how to build your system from the ground up.
In the end, I don't think the distro matters too much because as long as you can tweak the distro to fit your needs (or threat model), you will eventually end up with your own perfect mix of usability and security. You can start hardening your system by: configuring the firewall (I recommend ufw), proper sandboxing (I recommend using flatpaks or writing your own bubblewrap scripts), and maybe running untrusted processes in a virtual machine (I recommend qemu/virt-manager). For more advanced security, I would highly recommend looking into Mandatory Access Control (Fedora enables SELinux by default but you can tailor the reference policy to be VERY strict).
Once again, If you have anything more specific in mind in regards to security, I'll be happy to elaborate 😁