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Hate Systemd? A New Init System(Nitro) Debuts as a Minimalist Process Supervisor for Linux
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36342010
Nitro is a tiny process supervisor that also can be used as pid 1 on Linux.There are four main applications it is designed for:
- As init for a Linux machine for embedded, desktop or server purposes
- As init for a Linux initramfs
- As init for a Linux container (Docker/Podman/LXC/Kubernetes)
- As unprivileged supervision daemon on POSIX systems
Nitro is configured by a directory of scripts, defaulting to /etc/nitro (or the first command line argument).
Hate Systemd? A New Init System(Nitro) Debuts as a Minimalist Process Supervisor for Linux
Nitro is a tiny process supervisor that also can be used as pid 1 on Linux.There are four main applications it is designed for:
- As init for a Linux machine for embedded, desktop or server purposes
- As init for a Linux initramfs
- As init for a Linux container (Docker/Podman/LXC/Kubernetes)
- As unprivileged supervision daemon on POSIX systems
Nitro is configured by a directory of scripts, defaulting to /etc/nitro (or the first command line argument).
GitHub - leahneukirchen/nitro: tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor - leahneukirchen/nitroGitHub
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Hate Systemd? A New Init System(Nitro) Debuts as a Minimalist Process Supervisor for Linux
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36342010
Nitro is a tiny process supervisor that also can be used as pid 1 on Linux.There are four main applications it is designed for:
- As init for a Linux machine for embedded, desktop or server purposes
- As init for a Linux initramfs
- As init for a Linux container (Docker/Podman/LXC/Kubernetes)
- As unprivileged supervision daemon on POSIX systems
Nitro is configured by a directory of scripts, defaulting to /etc/nitro (or the first command line argument).
Hate Systemd? A New Init System(Nitro) Debuts as a Minimalist Process Supervisor for Linux
Nitro is a tiny process supervisor that also can be used as pid 1 on Linux.There are four main applications it is designed for:
- As init for a Linux machine for embedded, desktop or server purposes
- As init for a Linux initramfs
- As init for a Linux container (Docker/Podman/LXC/Kubernetes)
- As unprivileged supervision daemon on POSIX systems
Nitro is configured by a directory of scripts, defaulting to /etc/nitro (or the first command line argument).
GitHub - leahneukirchen/nitro: tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor - leahneukirchen/nitroGitHub
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No, but the weirdos who insist on spelling it "SystemD" always seem to hate systemd.
systemd is pretty great. I tend to start long-running processes as user services, and I've even taken to starting some apps that give an old laptop trouble with systemd-run and a slice with some memory restrictions. Easy peasy, works great, all declarative, no wibbly-wobbly shell scripts involved.
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No, but the weirdos who insist on spelling it "SystemD" always seem to hate systemd.
"SystemD"
Having given a shot to OpenRC on Alpine systems, I would say that I prefer systemd for creating and managing services.
I like its unified logging, which extends even beyond the host, integrating the logs of nspawn containers. I like its tmpfiles, which allows configuring temporary files, without writing scripts that create/cleanup them.
I have to admit, however, that I don't like all of its subsystems. For example, I don't want networkd and resolved anywhere near my configuration.
I wrote and maintained a lot of sysvinit scripts and I fucking hated them. I wrote Upstart scripts and I fucking hated them. I wrote OpenRC scripts and I fucking hated them. Any init system that relies on one of the worst languages in common use nowadays can fuck right off. Systemd units are well documented, consistent, and reliable.
From my 30 seconds of looking, I actually like nitro a bit more than OpenRC or Upstart. It does seem like it'd struggle with daemons the way sysvinit scripts used to. Like, you have to write a process supervisor to track when your daemonized process dies so that it can then die and tell nitro (which is, ofc, a process supervisor), and it looks like the logging might be trickier in that case too. I fucking hate services that background themselves, but they do exist and systemd does a great job at handling those. It also doesn't do any form of dependency management AFAICT, which is a more serious flaw.
Nitro seems like a good option for some use cases (although I cannot conceive why you'd want to run a service manager in a container when docker and k8s have robust service management built into them), but it's never touching the disk on any of the tens of thousands of boxes I help administrate. systemd is just too good.
execing the daemon, so that the daemon becomes the script, not a separate process.
It was highly contentious for a number of years - largely because it had a lot more functionality and touched more parts of the OS than the init systems it was designed to replace. It was seen as overzealous by the naysayers.
I was in the never system-d camp for a long time because I felt like my ability to choose was being removed. Even some distros that provided alternate init systems eventually went systemd-only.
But I’ve come around - it’s fine, good even - though ultimately I had no choice or say in it.
It’s very straightforward and easy to write one’s own units. It’s reasonably easy to debug and often helpful when something isn’t working as expected.
Like all things in the world of software, many folks are going to try (and eventually succeed) to make a better mousetrap.
This particular init system’s design goals seem (at least to me) to indicate a focus on small, embedded and/or more secure systems where the breadth of tools like systemd are a hindrance.
Totally fair and exactly part of my original disdain. I was happy with SysV and Upstart. But here we are and I’ve got things to do. ;)
I hated repackaging all my software for systemd. lol. We waited as long as we could before eating that pie.
It oversteps because the creators found it to be convenient.
Copacking default services for networking and time synchronization and other systems with the init make sense for a specific usecase but god bless you if you need to use a different service as you track down the various configuration options to disable functionality.
It works amazing as a service management tool but the prebaked services it provides generally cause more problems than they solve.
No, it's just something systemd proponents claim to shit on alternatives and their users.
Sure, I dislike systemd or at least some of its components and how they're designed, and I find the vocal systemd proponents (especially those that still find the need to be vocal about it in 2025) to be some of the most annoying people in the entire Linux community. But I use it on some systems and it works fine for the most part. Hate is a strong word for a software choice.
Because systemd replaced too many important components users still wanted to keep using... and politics. Not many people like Lennart (the guy who started the project).
Politics ruin everything.
For me the breaking point was systemd-journald. Corrupted journal when you desperatedly needed to know what went wrong was too much. Last time I gave systemd a try was several years ago... Something like 5 to 7 years, so things might have changed a lot.
Also I'm in the minority here. I like to custom my system components too. systemd just doesn't fit there. Also I administrate one lightweight, low power box, which uses musl libc. Last time I checked systemd needed glibc.
Enough ramblings. Here's some reading for you... note that there's most probably very biased technical writings here and there, so use common sense and verify the claims if you want the real truth. Then judge yourself, don't let anyone else judge for you.
Can't have it with any alternative init and rc in the same repo or do this and fiddle with wrappers and shims. Yees, OpenRC is the exception; because it was built as a drop-in and only does rc really.
In short, Systemd is a kraken that always grows arms. And they shit code like me after Taco Bells; it took years until we got seatd as alternative to way-too-big logind. Xorg is holy compared to their code quality.
On a modern system built around modern philosophies, its convenient. Doing stuff on systemd seems very intuitive to me and feels like a bit less work than the alternatives (atleast from my non-developer POV). If systemd hadn't become the standard maybe my opinion would be different, but most of the time it "just works".
On an older system, the alternatives are definitely lighter! If you're in the group of people who believes every megabyte counts, you care about systemd. There are also oldschool tech nerds who believe systemd is insecure (they might be right idk anything).
Two groups of people went to war over a difference of opinion.
- New! Different! Change! Bad!
- Hey, this works better than the old way. Let's use this instead.
Dude if you want to start a holy war with the Linux community over your first point, just mention Rust.
-dodges rotten fruit-
Everyone should support rust. It’s a good idea. It prevents an entire class of vulnerabilities. But the old guard says “just stop making mistakes and C is fine” which is an incredibly dumb thing to say but here we are.
Rust is encroaching on their territory and they don’t want to learn the new thing, and newbs don’t see many compelling reasons to learn the old thing, so they are fighting eachother.
You could equally mischaracterize it the other way around:
- Hey, this works worse for my workflow than before. I don't want to use it.
- New! Different! Change! Good! Put everywhere!
Fair, and representative of some opinions certainly.
But change, change is constant. Resist it and end up poorer and more bitter.
That can be true.. but it depends on the change... emptying your bank account is a change that would make you poorer, and having all those who love you die would be a change that is likely to make you bitter (or at least, sad).
Also, a lot of ancient software introduces change with relatively frequency.. the Linux kernel itself is in constant change, introducing new features, despite it having very strict rules concerning backwards compatibility.
The reason there was disagreement wasn't about whether the new thing is good/bad just because it's "New! Different!".. but about whether it was actually a good change or not.
In the same way, just because nitro is the new init system in town (a change from the current status Quo) does not mean it necessarily is better/worse, right?
Also, I remember that before systemd there was a lot of innovation when it comes to init systems... most distros had their own spin. And more diversity in components that now are part of systemd. I'd argue that ever since systemd became the de-facto standard, innovation in those areas has become niche. One could argue that there's less change now, distros are becoming more homogeneous and more change-adverse in that sense.
Two groups of people went to war over a difference of opinion.
- New! Different! Change! Bad!
'Change resistance' was the standard gaslighting. No one said 'different bad', in a time when enterprise linux had just switched from sysVinit to upStart. What they said was "this is built bad and wants to do too much, poorly. We don't like this."
And the response was "you're old, you hate change," and similar fallacies.
- Hey, this works better than the old way. Let’s use this instead.
I think you mean "I don't know how to do this in the normal way, so I'll try this other thing."
No one said ‘different bad’,
Plenty of people did. "What's the point of change?" "I'm happy with Sys-V" "I don't like Poettering", "Lennart is too powerfull" and a lot more irrelevant and personal attacks.
Please don't accuse me of gaslighting whilst gaslighting me in return. I was there, I lived through the worst of the Debian wars and saw some great people leave the project, and a side of some friends that I really didn't like. But that war is done and I have zero interest in continuing it so I'll leave this here.
Systemd is a very good chunk of code. It does the thing and it does it well. Nobody is arguing that systemd does a bad job at this point.
The problem is systemd does a LOT of things that used to be individual jobs handled by separate things. This is a potential security problem as it makes systemd a fantastic target. It’s in charge of so many things that if you pwn systemd, you can get that system to do anything you want.
Another concern are the ties to red hat. Red hat is not your friend. They are not to be trusted. Especially not right now. Remember who owns them, IBM, were quite friendly with the Nazis before and are looking like they are totally fine with being friendly with them again.
That last one is more of a tinfoil hat concern than a technical one, but at this point the tinfoil crowd have been proven right more often than wrong so it’s something to consider.
systemd does a LOT of things
... incompletely ...
that used to be individual jobs handled by separate things.
I wonder what new does this bring into the table?
I mean we already have at least these in addition to systemd:
- OpenRC + openrc-init
- s6 + s6-rc
- runit
- Epoch
- dinit
- minit
- GNU Shepherd
- finit
The state being stored in RAM seems like a nifty feature. I like it.
Very quickly glanced... I think it lacks service supervision and user services. Although user services are missing in many others too. Except it looks like users can run Nitro by themselves (autostart via cron @boot maybe?).
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
Anyway, more choices leads to more ideas being implemented. 👍
Initial commit on Oct 21, 2023
If I'd implement a new init system, the dependency system would be one of the first on my TODO list. So... That's strange. 🤔
Why do you have to have this xor that? Why can't I like both? I'm sure both have use cases where they work best.
Drop the hate already.
I'm a very mid-level Linux user. I use systemd because I'm just not familiar with how init systems actually work. I love that the choice is there, but I think systemd has it's place with users like me that get confused.
That being said, I did run Dracut on EndeavourOS because it was recommended for that distro. I never dived into it to see what the exact difference was, though I do remember running into some things I needed to do that Dracut did differently. There may come a day when I dive into inits, but for now I'm just happy if my system boots to desktop.
And I rest my case, lol. I don't even know the difference between init and initramfs. It's definitely a hole in my knowledge and I should know it going down the line, but I need the right time.
I'm here and there on what I want to learn at any moment. It's not like I can't learn, but it's all about what interests me at the time. I learn things in a scattered manner, which admittedly is a horrible way to learn but its just how my brain works.
Inits are simple. If you know gnu make, it's about as complicated as you can make an init.
SystemD is not just an init. That's the problem.
I got used typing "sudo service --status-all"
then got used to typing "sudo systemctl list-unit-files --type=service"
now a new one to learn "sudo nitroctl list"
looks simpler
That can only be a good thing for my gnarly arthritis fingers.
PoetteringD commands are too damn long
Also automatic paging can go fuck itself
sudo syc lsu-s. But yeah, on foreign systems (e.g. random VPS's) I can see your point.
Hate Systemd? A New Init System(Nitro) Debuts as a Minimalist Process Supervisor for Linux
Nitro is a tiny process supervisor that also can be used as pid 1 on Linux.There are four main applications it is designed for:
- As init for a Linux machine for embedded, desktop or server purposes
- As init for a Linux initramfs
- As init for a Linux container (Docker/Podman/LXC/Kubernetes)
- As unprivileged supervision daemon on POSIX systems
Nitro is configured by a directory of scripts, defaulting to /etc/nitro (or the first command line argument).
GitHub - leahneukirchen/nitro: tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor - leahneukirchen/nitroGitHub
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Big tech’s selective disclosure masks AI’s real climate impact
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AI Is Eliminating Jobs for Younger Workers: New research from Stanford provides the clearest available evidence that AI is reshaping the workforce—but it’s complicated.
This paper examines changes in the labor market for occupations exposed to generative
artificial intelligence using high-frequency administrative data from the largest payroll software
provider in the United States. We present six facts that characterize these shifts. We find that
since the widespread adoption of generative AI, early-career workers (ages 22-25) in the most
AI-exposed occupations have experienced a 13 percent relative decline in employment even after
controlling for firm-level shocks. In contrast, employment for workers in less exposed fields and
more experienced workers in the same occupations has remained stable or continued to grow.
We also find that adjustments occur primarily through employment rather than compensation.
Furthermore, employment declines are concentrated in occupations where AI is more likely to
automate, rather than augment, human labor. Our results are robust to alternative explanations,
such as excluding technology-related firms and excluding occupations amenable to remote work.
These six facts provide early, large-scale evidence consistent with the hypothesis that the AI
revolution is beginning to have a significant and disproportionate impact on entry-level workers
in the American labor market.
Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence — Stanford Digital Economy Lab
This paper examines changes in the labor market for occupations exposed to generative artificial intelligence using high-frequency administrative data from ADP, the largest payroll software provider in the United States.Stanford Digital Economy Lab
Scrivere a mano nell'epoca dell'algoritmo: un ritorno al passato o una proiezione al futuro?
Scrivere a mano nell’epoca dell’algoritmo: un ritorno al passato o una proiezione al futuro?
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Scrivere a mano nell’epoca dell’algoritmo: un ritorno al passato o una proiezione al futuro?
Scrivere a mano nell’epoca dell’algoritmo: un ritorno al passato o una proiezione al futuro?
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Bibliometrie: Wie sie uns alle unterstützen kann
Was ist Bibliometrie überhaupt? Das klingt erstmal nach etwas, das nur Spezialist:innen interessiert, aber das stimmt nicht. In diesem Blogbeitrag geben wir Einblick, Orientierung und Unterstützung durch die TIB zu diesem Thema und zeigen, welche Unterstützungsangebote es von der TIB gibt. Denn Bibliometrie begegnet uns in der Wissenschaft fast überall:
- Wie oft wird ein Artikel zitiert?
- Welche Journals sind besonders einflussreich?
- Wer forscht weltweit zu einem bestimmten Thema?
Bibliometrie umfasst das Forschungs- und Anwendungsfeld, das sich mit der quantitativen Analyse wissenschaftlichen Outputs und dessen Einfluss auseinandersetzt.
Bibliometrische Analysen wenden statistische Methoden auf die Ergebnisse der Forschung an. Sie ermöglichen damit nicht nur Analysen der Publikations- und Forschungsleistung (zum Beispiel Benchmarking und Rankings), sondern schaffen damit Einblicke in Forschungstrends, Netzwerke und den Einfluss des Forschungsoutputs – für Einzelne und für Institutionen.
Warum ist das Thema für alle relevant?
Für Studierende – Orientierung im Publikationsdschungel
Die wissenschaftliche Literatur wächst rasant, im Studium und auch gerade bei der ersten großen Abschlussarbeit stellt sich immer wieder die Frage: Welche Literatur ist in deinem Fachgebiet wichtig und welche Quellen sind wirklich relevant?
Bibliometrisches Wissen hilft,
- die Kernliteratur in einem Fachgebiet schnell zu finden,
- wichtige Autor:innen und Zeitschriften zu erkennen und
- eine fundierte Auswahl für Seminar-, Bachelor- oder Masterarbeiten zu treffen.
Für Forschende – strategisch forschen, vernetzen und belegen
Publizieren ist mehr als nur „fertig schreiben“. Forschende stehen vor der Aufgabe, ihre Arbeiten zielgerichtet in der wissenschaftlichen Landschaft zu platzieren. Bibliometrische Analysen helfen dabei weit über das Thema Sichtbarkeit hinaus:
- Relevanz prüfen: Erkennen, ob ein Forschungsthema im Trend liegt, wo es Lücken gibt oder welche Aspekte in der Literatur bislang unterrepräsentiert sind.
- Kooperationen aufbauen: Identifizieren von Forschenden und Institutionen, die ähnliche Fragestellungen bearbeiten – regional wie international.
- Publikationsstrategie entwickeln: Auswahl der Journals, die nicht nur Reichweite, sondern auch Passung zur Zielgruppe und zum Fachgebiet bieten.
Für Kolleg:innen in der Bibliothek – Forschung aktiv unterstützen
Bibliometrisches Know-how ist nicht nur für Beratungsgespräche zu Impact-Faktoren oder Journal-Auswahl relevant. Gerade beim Bestandsaufbau kann es zu einem wertvollen strategischen Werkzeug werden – besonders dann, wenn Budgets knapp sind und jede Erwerbungsentscheidung gut begründet sein muss.
Durch bibliometrische Analysen lassen sich:
- Forschungstendenzen frühzeitig erkennen – etwa, welche Themen an der Universität stark wachsen oder in welchen Disziplinen neue Publikationsschwerpunkte entstehen.[1]
- Kernjournals und Schlüsselpublikationen identifizieren, die für das Fachgebiet unverzichtbar sind.
- Prioritäten setzen, indem man erkennt, welche Literatur den größten Nutzen für Forschung und Lehre bringt.
So wird bibliometrisches Wissen zu einem der Tools, mit dem Bibliotheken trotz begrenzter Mittel präziser, zukunftsorientierter und bedarfsorientierter handeln können – und sich als strategische Partnerin im Wissenschaftsbetrieb positionieren.
Egal, ob Sie studieren, forschen oder in der Bibliothek arbeiten – bibliometrisches Wissen verschafft Durchblick, eröffnet neue Perspektiven und stärt die eigene wissenschaftliche Arbeit.
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Fazit: Bibliometrie ist mehr als nur Zählen
Ob bei der Publikationsstrategie, in der Forschungsunterstützung oder bei der Studienarbeit – Bibliometrie liefert Orientierung in der wachsenden Publikationsflut. Und genau dabei helfen wir euch gerne weiter.
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In der schnelllebigen Welt der wissenschaftlichen Forschung ist es entscheidend, stets über Forschungstrends informiert zu sein.Linna Lu (TIB – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek)
Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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I daily drive a Pixel 8 Pro and it's never felt underpowered to me. I have no need or desire to look at benchmarks.
It's a fair point to make to say they're expensive, but that's not really relevant to their actual quality or performance, both of which are fine. And the used market seems pretty good for these things, too.
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I see it this way.
Google wants everyone using gapps to be identified but isn't outright saying you can't use Android without certification.
"Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device"
So LOS and Graphene may get off the hook on this and be able to install whatever non-google apps they need. By default, neither have google services.
Sucks for the gapps people, but, I mean. They knew it was coming, right?
Wait, what the hell?
I can't believe this, who the hell are they to decide what I should install?
They are welcome to curate their own store, but sideloading concerns only the user.
Hopefully, the EU and other jurisdictions block this.
Fucking corrupt American oligarchs.
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Hopefully, the EU and other jurisdictions block this.
This is very similar to the notarization process Apple introduced to comply with the EU requirement of allowing third-party stores, and yet the EU doesn't seem concerned (maybe because Apple did not allow third-party stores in the first place, will it be different for Google?)
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Not an Apple user, so I didn't know about this. Extremely disappointing.
It really does seem avoiding any and all American services/products (to the extent possible, with exceptions where reasonable) is the only way forward.
I am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the US is a ethical, cultural and even economic dead end. Yes even economic, only a fool would believe intense corruption and broad support of criminality and corruption among the population will not have any negative effects in the future.
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You think this wouldn't happen elsewhere?
It's not just an American thing, it's an asshoke thing, and those people are everywhere, and will always find a way.
Of course it can happen elsewhere.
Just US has a massive influence on tech platforms, and they are currently under-going an oligarch takeover (oligarch influence was already bad irrespective of whether the far right or centre right was in power).
Mind you I am not anti-American. I have largely always defended the US as a matter of pragmatism (it is the largest and most influential democracy-leaning country with a measure of respect for human right). US has done really bad things, but they have done good things as well. I can't say the same about say China or Russia.
I clarified what I meant by economic dead end. It's not going to happen tomorrow or even in ten years. But absolute corruption, rollback of democracy and a population where a large number of people support crime and corruption will have a caustic effect in the long term. It's a straw man to suggest that I was claiming an immense collapse in American economic might.
At one point the "sun never set on the British empire" and now the British empire is no more. There are also examples of economies that were once top end, but are now closer to middle income.
I don't think you understand the extent to which American "soft power" is being eroded right now. What countries have you lived in? What languages other than English do you speak? Do you have close friends in other countries?
Of course America is major economy, that doesn't mean the rest of the world doesn't exist. Just look at the state of Chinese products in the early 2000s and where they are now.
People don't like thugs and liars, especially ones who are constantly parroting polemics about "freedom for this and that" while engaging in criminality and opposing democracy.
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I just use my banking through the web UI. Why do you need an app for it? If it's for check deposits, try using an old phone as a dedicated banking device.
If you don't use apps that depend on Google services, consider deGoogling your phone.
Its 2050, you are waiting outside of the HR Office waiting for them to talk to you. You're certain that your job has just been replaced by a robot.
Fuck this shit, you thought, 90% of the people are unemployed anyways, fuck this 16 hour shift.
You pull out your hand terminal (yes a "hand terminal", as "smartphones" no longer have local storage now, almost all computing is done on cloud) and start typing in your journal app: "Down with the regime, Down with tyranny!". You tap "save".
"Action not authorized. This incident has been reported"
2 seconds later, you can hear sirens in the distance growing louder and louder.
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Google says it's no different than checking IDs at the airport
What, and Google is now the TSA? Fuck that shit. I've paid for my device, I get to do whatever the hell I want with it!
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I've paid for my device, I get to do whatever the hell I want with it!
You bought a phone but is leasing the software. It's not yours to do with as you please.
Have you considered using fully open source android versions?
No custom ROM on a recent smartphone technically gives you a fully open source Android system when they rely on vendor-provided proprietary blobs in order for basic hardware functionality to work at all. Unless you want to go without a modem, GPS, and likely more depending on your model, at which point it's functionally no longer a smartphone.
Open-source custom ROMs are at least far more open-source than the alternative in most of the ways that matter most, including the ability to change the code in order to remove app installation restrictions, to avoid Google's telemetry, etc.
Would the proprietary blobs in the baseband hardware stop the end user from installing software, which is the topic of concern?
If no, is this a irrelevant "achtually"-reply?
Okay, let’s check ids wherever you leave the house, since that’s the sane as checking them at the airport.
Papers please, right?
I can't say anything for the Reddit part of what you said but I agree with Google's unethical datamining. It's no secret what Google has been doing. I remember when the tinfoil-hat-wearers were warning people about those nifty little Google speakers people were generously inviting into their homes, telling them to watch what they were saying in the general vicinity of the speakers, that Google could be using them to listen to every conversation. The naysayers said "They wouldn't do that, that'd be illegal. The speaker only listens when I say 'Hey Google' and they wouldn't be saving what I say anyway!". Lo and behold, it finally got leaked that was wrong, that the speakers were listening 24/7 and Google was keeping everything. I could be wrong but I recall something going around that Google even admitted they were keeping the recordings. Suddenly the conversation died down, there was no lawsuit for espionage or any such thing and the naysayers suddenly converted to "I've got nothing to hide, I don't care if I'm being recorded". Ignorance remains forever blissful, it would seem.
Quick note for the pedantic: No, it's not just Google. Amazon, Apple and Microsoft are doing it too. If there's a microphone in your house, be mindful of what you're saying around it; you never know how an innocuous conversation might be used against you.
fuck google!
Who can I donate to that is working on making alternative OS accessible on android or iphones?
I know there are alternative OS already out there but they aren't as universally accessible compared to how Linux can run on any PC.
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The only way to bypass a forced bootloader lock is to find a bootrom exploit. It's basically like jailbreaking an iPhone or a console at that point.
Note, the iPhone hasn't had a working jailbreak in years. Samsung phones in the US also haven't been able to be unlocked in years.
Android would be even harder because of how fragmented the market is. There are many different phones from many different manufacturers.
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lineageos does support far more phone vendors; who knows what pixel phones will be like in the future
I'm hoping on fairphone to get graphene support 🤷
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They are actually very far removed from meeting them, compared to OEMs like Samsung.
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GrapheneOS has largely worked around this by automating creating device support themselves using "adevtool". The current Pixels' hardware supports installing third-party OSes and will continue to do so, they will support those Pixels until EOL. For future Pixels (Pixel 10 series has not yet launched, only available for pre-order), it remains to be seen whether they still fully support installing third-party OSes. If they do, GrapheneOS will also support them, but it might take much longer to implement device support because they need to make this by themselves and this is more difficult doing it from scratch than being able to use the old Android device support for it as a base, like they could do for the existing devices when Google did their rugpull.
They have not really vendor locked themselves for the future. They have hardware requirements listed in their FAQ: grapheneos.org/faq#device-supp…
Google just happened to be the only company meeting those requirements, which weren't even that strict, becuase other OEMs just didn't prioritize security.
But, there is good news. GrapheneOS is currently in active talks with a major Android OEM right now in order to help them meet the security requirements for a subset of their future devices. They are very optimistic about that.
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Google just happened to be the only company meeting those requirements
I don't know. They designed the requirements in a way that only Google met them. It didn't "happen" to meet them after the fact.
It's like demanding yellow hard hats on a construction site. Sure, they are safe and highly visible. Would it make sense to allow black hard hats as well if it means not locking into a single vendor and try pushing for high vis while having a stronger base? And also working around the issue with a vest? I don't know the answer to that but it's clear that they have made a conscious decision to move into the situation that they now find themselves in.
I didn't say they need to rip something out. I didn't say their current efforts to open up weren't valid.
I specifically said that I don't know whether it would have made sense to start with reduced requirements.
I just stated that they didn't "happen" to only support Google. I simply acknowledged how they knew exactly that the standard they were writing would only be matched by one vendor as they were writing it.
The only proper solution is to focus fully on the new Linux Mobile ecosystem and become independent from Google-maintained shit (and hardware - Graphene is based on Google Pixels, they literally exist at the mercy of Google). Otherwise they will fuck you over again and again. Not saying getting Linux Mobile on par will be easy, but it's our only true, permanent option aside from rejecting smartphones altogether.
Only because Graphene is about using a security chip.
Lineage isn't, so runs on more devices. I'd argue most people don't have risks that require the security of Graphene.
But the moment another phone manufacturer decides to use a similar security chip, Graphene will be on it.
Chinese version of YouTube (bilibili (B站)) has built in sleep timer functionality.
That beats the hell out of the adverts and autoplay rubbish YouTube subjects people not using Invidious or Piped to.
“ but android is open source! You can do whatever you want with it!”
A 20 year-old lie, and I’m glad to see the android worshipers finally realize it was always a load of shit.
You can complain about iOS all you like, but android is no better. It’s about time people started to realize that.
I just upvoted a comment which is sure to get downvoted to hell.
You’re right though, the idea that you could “do whatever you want” with android was always a fantasy.
Me right now:
Can I install an independently compiled version of iOS an an iPhone, equivalent to Lineage or Graphene?
I'm currently running a fork of Lineage called DivestOS. That's 3 more versions of OS than available for iOS.
Stop acting like they're the same, because they're not. I use iOS for my work devices, and have since 2010.1 my personal devices are Android, because iOS won't allow me to do things as simple as move files the way I need to.
Watch out, we got a badass over here!
Sounds to me like you’re not using android, and this your condescending rhetorical question does not apply. Sure, you can put forks of forks on your device, but good luck running banking or travel or healthcare apps, among many others.
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There's a world of difference between iOS and Android.
Just look at Lineage and Graphene. Both independently compiled versions of Android. Show me the equivalent in iOS.
Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device.
Any chance you can just remove their shit via adb?
Looks like I'm gonna just carry a stock phone, give it nothing but the most basic information and tether it to a laptop over a VPN. They stop tethering? I'll use VOIP and a hotspot.
Welcome back to 2011. Maybe messenger bags will come back into fashion in foss culture.
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Run Lineage on your phone of choice.
Or if you're paranoid, a Pixel with Graphene.
...What about after September 2026?
Well, there's one teensy tiny caveat.
Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device.
So, in theory... no gapps, no approval necessary?
Open devs just have to have two versions, as many already do, one signed with Google's spyware and one on github/fdroid with nothing.
Seems about right, for as long as they can.
I'd even consider the possibility of "google-free" phones showing up on kickstarter in two or three years for the tinkerer market. That market exists. Raspberrypi didn't buy itself. We are here!
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As an iPhone guy, I always thought, what apps am I missing? It was mostly emulators. Then Apple allowed them, and I ask the question again.
Oh yeah, we have Delta, why doesn't Android have anything like that? So, in a nutshell, I can uninstall Delta right now. App gone, games gone, saves gone, it's all gone. No longer have any trace of it on my iPhone. Go to the App Store and download it. Empty library. Got to start over, right? Wrong. Go into Settings, connect Google Drive. It's now downloading my games, my saves, my settings. Everything back where I was. Would be so cool if it were on all the platforms, so a game started on one could be picked up and played on another. Not necessarily Android <==> iOS, but more like phone <==> computer/tablet.
Yeah, so anyway, what can't I get in the Play Store or the App Store that I actually want?
I get it's a slippery slope and future implications. I get that. I'm just not seeing the issue now.
Also, it seems like Google has taken away all the things that would convince you not to get an iPhone. They took your headphone jack (though an Android was the first to do so). They took your microSD card slot. The tech always sucked, no one tried to make it better; past 16 or maybe 32GB the write speeds were too low to be usable. Now they're coming for your sideloading? Honestly what is the argument for staying?
what can't I get in the Play Store or the App Store that I actually want?
For me, it's an independence from Google thing and a privacy thing. I am logged in to the Play Store on my phone, but I try to get whatever I can from F-Droid. On other devices like my TV, tablet and e-reader, I'm not even logged in and use F-Droid and the Aurora Store instead. Not having to rely on Google is great.
Honestly what is the argument for staying?
There are still Android phones with headphone jacks
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it's an independence from Google thing and a privacy thing. I am logged in to the Play Store on my phone
Uh.
I can try it though
Yes, my Android phone (Galaxy S10) has a headphone jack and a microSD card reader and a fingerprint reader. And it's a flaghship. But it's a 2019 flagship. (Still does things better than my iPhone 16 Pro Max, which is Apple's flagship from last year, and still their current flagship model. Most notably, the Android keyboard is better.)
Do any new flagship Android phones have headphone jacks? Not that I need one. I'm 100% on board with AirPods. Love them. I own headphones but it's a lesser experience. I have some decent (not great) over the ear Sennheisers (they were around $50, so not audiophile range, probably the brand's entry model) and they're good enough, but the AirPods are a better experience in many ways. But anyway, mid-range Android phones have headphone jacks, but they're underpowered compared to flagships, and Android flagships are underpowered next to iPhones of the same year. So while granted, a mid-range 2025 Android likely outperforms my S10 across the board, I have no reason to upgrade what is essentially my backup phone.
Do any new flagship Android phones have headphone jacks?
Less and less. Sony still does and Asus still does on their ROG Phones, but dropped it for the Zenfone 12 so not sure how long they'll last with it still (I love my Zenfone 9, so a bit sad about it).
But anyway, mid-range Android phones have headphone jack
Shockingly little nowadays. If I search between 300-500 euro, I can only find Sony, Poco and two Samsungs (A25 and Xcover 7).
Not actually true, there are still some scam apps on the App Store. As long as they have recurring subscriptions, Apple doesn't care too much. It's the free apps that are just as good, they will bury, even if they have users.
As far as music, I agree. I use Apple Music because it's the best streaming service for my needs and they pay artists better than the other big one. But on iOS you also have Marvis Pro and MusicHarbor. I couldn't get that experience on Android. The actual Apple Music app is great on Android, and it has gotten better, but on iOS I still prefer Marvis, which is a frontend to Music.app.
Yeah, so anyway, what can't I get in the Play Store or the App Store that I actually want?
When I upgraded my Samsung to a OnePlus13, Samsung's app that manages the tag device flat out had an error message telling me that it could only work on Samsung phones. 5 minutes later I found an open source app allowed me to use the Galaxy tag that I paid for on my new phone. Samsung has some of the best engineers in the world so they were 100% lying or intentionally trying to brick my tag device to either force me to buy their overpriced phones...
And that is just one example. I use tons of open source apps. For almost any useful app you can think of, there is a free open source version. Premium-YouTube? Newpipe is ad-free with all the premium features for free.
what can't I get in the Play Store or the App Store that I actually want?
On the Android world, there are various Firefox forks with privacy enhancements. Such an example is IronFox. These apps are not listed on Play Store, and are, instead, distributed through F-Droid.
Besides this, there is a big difference between the policies of Play Store and F-Droid. Play Store takes your compiled blob, runs some security tests, signs it and publishes it. F-Droid, on the other hand, requires that all the source code is public and compiles the app.
This allows the users to be sure that the apps cannot be tampered by their developers. While, on Play Store, devs can easily submit applications that aren't built based on the published source code.
what can't I get in the Play store that I actually want
Well, for starters, versions of apps without Google play store tracking. Or without GMS/Firebase so the apps aren't constantly being awakened whenever someone else decides.
Or old apps that Google has decided you don't need anymore because they "won't run" on current versions of Android, yet work fine.
Or, any app category that Google doesn't permit you to publish to play, like my system wide ad blockers.
Or apps that aren't malware, since Play store is the single greatest source of malware.
AdAway isn't in the Play Store? That was my ad blocker back in the day... on, like, Jellybean and KitKat.
Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if Google has since banned ad blockers. They threaten their business model after all.
So I guess my next phone will be a Chinese phone. Even if it spies on me, I'll have the freedom to install whatever I want from anywhere.
The Chinese have a golden window of opportunity. Let's hope they don't mess this up.
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LOL. Chinese phones are way worse, they simply block installations of "unsanctioned" apps with no workaround.
My wife is Chinese and I used to live there for 7 years, it's an absolute privacy nightmare.
Oppo = OnePlus
Huawei bootlaoders can't be unlocked, so absolutely no custom ROM there.
Honor bootlaoders can't be unlocked, so absolutely no custom ROM there.
Poco seems possible for now, never used one of their phones, but well good that there's something possible.
So I bought it from giztop, they take the Chinese version of the phone, get the Google play store on there and get it set to English, plus a couple other things, so that it's easier for you to get started with. I bought this because I had thought they'd make a global version and I could flash that rom when that happened, and only deal with some Chinese sections of the phone for a short while, but for some reason they didn't with this specific phone, they did for the 14 ultra.
I busted the phone out again to see the popup I was talking about, but actually one of the (semi) recent updates made it so the buttons are english. I am allowed to just install things with a few pop-up warnings and the phone does some kind of check. I wonder if it's because it's an "unlocked" phone (I don't know if it's the same in China where a carrier locks the phone to their network and has their own shit installed if you buy it from them) or what.
Either way, interesting.
As someone who uses a Xiaomi phone, that's not true.
It was a faff getting it to install any random apk I found of off the Internet, but it was possible. Did involve holding down a graphic for 10 seconds as part of the unlock procedure.
But for now at least, you can still install any unsigned apk without going through a store.
I guess if GrapheneOS finally gets spoken to by a manufacturer interested in filling this market gap, that would be awesome too.
Hell, maybe it could be a chinese manufacturer.
I believe disabling play protect turns this off
Edit: no it doesn't. This is play integrity API which can't be disabled and will be in the APK itself.... hopefully it can be patched out
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For the benefit of those reacting based on the headline and one-sentence summary, yes it's a pain, I agree with the mob that it should be the user's choice what they install, BUT, the headline is badly written, in that it implies that the app itself has to be verified, and also many commenters seem to have also inferred that it means an Apple walled-garden style Play Store lock-in which also isn't the case. (a better headline might have been "sideloading of Android apps from unverified publishers")
You can still publish and run apps from outside of the Play Store, but publishers will need to get a verified key from Google to sign them with. Google don't have any visibility of what the app actually is, they just issue you a key and you do whatever you want with it.
(EDIT: fuck me, don't shoot the messenger, just because you don't like what Google is doing. I even opened by saying I agreed that the user should be able to choose, knowing full well that the sort of person who doesn't read past the headline also would interpret correcting it as a defense of Google... guess I'd have been better off just quietly leaving y'all to get angry over things that didn't actually happen)
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All Google would have to do is check what key an app is using on a user's device and they can invalidate it. Someone made a youtube vanced 2 (not revanced)? Google can easily invalidate it for everyone using this process.
Even if I misunderstand how the key works and it's more of a signature, it would mean that if you try to download an older app then it could fail bc the signature expired and isn't maintained anymore. You also run into the same issue with not being renewed if Google chooses.
My point is it could effectively be a side loading killer, maybe not right away but the point of sideloading is the independence which this takes away
I'm making a statement about companies in general. People are just so willing to bend over and take it. In my mind people used to have more gumption, but I'm probably overestimating how much was individuals vs how the media portrayed things.
Feels like if Upton Sinclair released "the jungle" today we'd all collectively say "oh well, guess we're eating rats and formaldehyde."
I'm confused. I read an article about the new 3310 getting the ability to install apps, a long time ago. I found an article on how to do so, but it doesn't look like the 3310 screen in the screenshots but a general android OS. I thought it had a simplified OS, either their own or a stripped down android (unsure) as it has a tiny screen.
It's the Nokia 3310 4G model according to this article. But it might be a generic article in which they have the phone model automatically generated by the one you search for?
If you have a non-Google build of Android on your phone, none of this applies. However, that's a vanishingly small fraction of the Android ecosystem outside of China.
Linux-based Android build when?
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The current trends and direction of tech is making me want to become Amish...
I'm getting so fucking sick of everything turning into shit, what's even the point of fucking point anymore? This is borderline kernel level enshitification
The Amish that I grew up near were big into shunning, child marriage, sexual abuse, not talking to the cops, and lots of drugs.
I'm just saying it might be easier to switch to open source or something.
If postmarket gets the drivers under control, we can be running relatively vanilla distros on them. There's already a version of NixOS that leans on postmarkets work to run Nic right on a dozen different phones
You just need a window manager that can handle touch, small form factor, and just a couple of gigs of RAM. And there are already projects doing that.
I feel ya friend.
Those guys are getting really decent funding, then Gnome and Plasma-mobile are already serviceable. It's really just a matter of reverse engieering the cellular radio/voice/volte and the true hard part of the networks not pulling the rug on that work.
Jolla is definitely interesting, but search around, there are caveats.
One notable thing is that until pretty recently they were on a subscription model for OS updates, that turned a lot of people off. I get the need for continued funding, but definitely not something I'd want to deal with on my phone.
Also, for me personally, my phone is partially for work too so it needs to be compatible with that or else I honestly probably don't really even need a phone. Jolla has some preliminary support there, but there's no way it could pass our requirements for MDM compliance at my company and I doubt it would for most others. There are things that are non-optional there in relation to audit requirements that a lot of very different companies all have to comply with and it's just not compatible with the idea. That's probably going to be the major sticking point for any smaller players trying to break into the mobile market.
I might consider a Jolla tablet if they gave it another shot, but we do have a lot more options in the linux non-phone portable space.
Assuming you are in US, it seems dependent on ATT backbone. That is not a complete turnoff for me. I use ATT and the covereage is almost perfect. I cannot recall the last time I lost service.
I would be willing to call the company with questions and try it for everyone, assuming the pass the qusstions. Do you send ifo to AI like fairphone? Do you have any deals with Google? Are you open source?
Well, nevermind. They have nothing in stock that has a North American modem.
Google says it's no different than checking IDs at the airport.
You're not a fucking airport, Google!
It also becomes no different than iPhone, so.. what's keeping me to android if they do this? Or hey, maybe I'll commit to de-googling. I have CoMaps, I'm planning to setup nextcloud soon... Hell, I don't even buy anything on Google play anymore since it's so shit, i have no purchases tying me to the OS. Maybe I'll buy a cheap old iPhone so I can finally use imessage with everyone that's been bitching about me and use other tech for everything else.
(I'm not going to iPhone, but the point stands)
I left iphone because of a walled garden issue, was thinking about working with my parents off of iphone so I can actually assist with them because I've been off of it for decades.
Instead may be the other direction because at least iOS has a modicum of privacy by at least telling the US government to make their own back doors instead of just licking the boot like google does. I'm not a fan of apple by any stretch of the imagination, but at this point of the falling apart world fuck it, I gotta figure out what the least evil is, even if it's only marginal.
Whilst this is true, it's also a good reason to move to self hosting if possible.
I've been slowly removing my reliance on these ad filled services, even though the apks I use have ads removed, and this news just gives me more reason to ramp this up since these same APKs may no longer work without some trickery by 2027 (if they go with this plan).
Still, this all seems like constant patchwork as any and all effort is being taken to rid ourselves of control over our devices. It's an iffy situation and I just hope people smarter than myself will continue fighting, in some manner.
How about we abandon proprietary locked-down launcher sandboxes on our phones and just run regular old Linux on them like we do on the desktop?
Isn't that what PostmarketOS is? Is there some bullshit firmware issue in the way of that? What exactly is stopping us?
No one talking about how this could completely annihilate open source .apk development? First off the lead dev has to get identity verified to get a key, which will reduce the number of devs willing to push through friction to start a project. Then when the key is issued and it is posted to the repository, what keeps anyone from grabbing it and using it for another repo? We'll they have an official app registration of some kind, ok, what about version control? Does every new version have to be registered before it can be loaded and tested? Same for forks?
This is about to be a terrible mess, Google is assassinating FOSS with this.
You distribute the code without your key and a built package that is signed. This isn't exactly rocket science.
Anyone who forks the code will have to use their own key to install a package they built.
It's just unnecessary red tape.
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It's just unnecessary red tape.
Which will reduce the number of people using foss apks, which will in turn, reduce the motivation, and then the number, of foss apk developers.
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Fdroid itself and every package they host will have to be signed.
Maybe there are still workarounds, like enabling dev mode on your phone, but still tedious.
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Google has been been cracking down on installing .apk's on your phone for years and they're getting more and more aggressive about it. It's not a question of if they'll disallow it completely, but when.
It's already extremely tedious. Back in the Android 2.3 days (oh, good old Gingerbread) you could just get an APK and install it, but those times are long gone.
Years ago they threatened the developer of Total Commander to remove his app from the PlayStore unless he patched out an APK install feature, so he was forced to do that.
Now another example: Try to install eBay on a phone that is not passing device integrity. It is not listed on the PlayStore because your device doesn't pass safety checks. You can grab an APK and install it, but the OS will check if the app has been installed through the PlayStore and if it hasn't, it will complain and close itself.
GrapheneOS has patched that bullshit out, btw.
And this behaviour happens with all apps where the developer has enabled the "App Integrity" option, which is heavily pushed as a super-great security feature. So developers might just enable that feature, not being fully aware of the implications.
As you can see, it's one method at a time, slowly but surely, until Google fully controls the ecosystem. The intention behind that is pretty clear: They don't want people to have AdAway and Revanced, they want money and user data. And they also want you to login to the PlayStore, get hooked on their stupid daily points challenges and spend your hard-earned money on virtual crap.
This is textbook enshittification, it will only get worse from here on.
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I'm probably going to spam this around a bit, since most people don't seem to know about it, but a reminder that FuriLabs has a (GNU+)Linux phone with decent spec.s and the ability to run Android app.s (from what I've heard) pretty decently: furilabs.com/
Biggest drawback is it's based on Halium. Usual growing pains of a new product/company apply but apparently the company is pretty responsive and their dev.s have worked with customers to get things like calling working with the carrier and bands of their country where it hasn't worked before so improvements move pretty quickly.
Collection of different experiences I've variously seen online over the last year or so:
* clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2025/07-20-…
* news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
* reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1f…
* reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1j…
* theregister.com/2025/02/03/fur…
I don't own one, myself, so I can't give any personal experience but I've seen it around for a few years now but most people don't seem to even know about it. Maybe there's a reason for that? But none I've ever seen anyone say.
FuriPhone FLX1: A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocket
: Fun with a FOSS-focused Phosh fondleslabLiam Proven (The Register)
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You didn't confirm anything.
From what I can tell most of the roadblock is drivers for hardware support. Basically every price of hardware has to have a reverse engineered driver to work. We need hardware mfrs on board to really gain traction in this arena.
Still, I'm pretty sure my next phone is going to be a Linux phone. I know I'll lose functionality but if I can make calls, send texts, and browse the web I'll get by. Hopefully that space keeps gaining traction and it won't be long until it is a truly viable option to replace google/apple products.
Yes, and its pretty great on devices you can install it on.
Problem is? Its not possible to install on most phones.
Postmarket OS is getting there. It only runs at all on a couple dozen older phones. And they don't currently have receive voice. But 2 months ago they didn't have 4G data or send voice so...
Oh, and battery life is not good.
My next mobile device will likely be a small tablet running Linux and a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Oh, the problem isn't the OS's. You can hardly get a phone that can have its bootloader unlocked these days.
When they stop providing security for our flagship phones, if we could just install lineage or GOS on it, they wouldn't get a new purchase out of us, and they'd also stop receiving all our data that they can sell..
for the greater good
This good is gonna be so great after we lose everything to the worst of us.
This device looks really interesting, but I don't see anything on their site about how I can write software for Light Phone, or install anything except what they provide through their app.
How is that any different from what Google plans to do to Android?
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We would have plenty of Linux phones if drivers were open sauce or even just available closed sauce.
So Android is pointless now?
No, really. If I'm gonna be dragged kicking and screaming into the walled garden, why would I go with Google's joke of an ecosystem instead of much nicer and better integrated Apple garden?
I might as well start carrying one of those weird branded ultra-tiny laptops from AliExpress and some used, older iPhone for the 2 apps I need.
Fuck it. Throw out the baby, the bathwater, the bathtub, the whole damn thing. Fuuuuck it.
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Does anyone have try puri.sm/products/librem-5/ Or c2 shop.jolla.com/
Can we still load custom roms? It's been a while since my last install of Lineage OS.
If that's not an option either, well, Linux phones I'm coming!
What will be the point of android?
you can pack them on the magisk denylist and then they might work flawlessly.
this has never failed me but i would still not recommend it.
these banks and Google have no hesitation to cut your access to your money one day. they own your way of interacting with the web now and they don't like what you're attempting here
How long did it take you to get used to glasses?
Basically title; how long did it take you to get used to them?
For bonus info for me, how old were you when you started wearing them? How bad are your eyes?
I finally had to give in and get them. My eyes aren’t that bad (I think) but I’m almost 40. I’ve had them made a few times in the past because I have had a prescription all this time (since my mid 20s) but I never wore them. It was more work than my eyes were doing…… probably. Felt that way anyway..
But I can’t avoid it now and I got an additional pink tint added to maybe help with headaches (not directly related to my eyes, I’ve had the headaches most of my life; they run in the family, yay!).. and one eye has a stronger prescription than the other and it’s insanely nauseating. It’s my dominant eye no less. And maybe I shouldn’t have done all the vision changes at once.
How long am I gunna deal with this? I can’t just stop wearing them after a few days this time, because off is worse for reading and I know it and I notice it.
Edit: this is day one of wearing these. It sucks but it’s not like this is ongoing. This is new to me in that it’s physically uncomfortable, but my eyes are legit bad and I’ve known it and I think the prescription might be a bit off but they have been telling me for years if I just wear the damned things my eyes will relax and my prescription will probably change. I do not like the visual changes. They make me sick because I have neurological problems that both cause headaches and intense motion sickness. Like I can’t swing on swings without getting violently ill. -end edit
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I started wearing glasses at 17. I technically didn’t need to wear them all the time, but I just did because it was immediately much more comfortable on my eyes. I have a bent nose from a break and I got a little irritation from it, but the relief on my eyes was easily worth it.
My eyes aren’t super bad, I can actually be okay without them for most of the day. Neither eye is super bad, but I have a high astigmatism factor or whatever they call it. That makes my depth perception really funky and I can’t read anything at a distance.
I can’t really remember what difficulty I had at first besides the my nose hurting and getting used to the frames being in view. It definitely never made me nauseous though. You should probably talk to your eye dr about that.
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Rotaie abbandonate ci raccontano la storia poco nota del treno francese a reazione - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Rotaie abbandonate ci raccontano la storia poco nota del treno francese a reazione - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Successivamente alla metà del secolo, l’investimento significativo di menti e risorse nel miglioramento dei jet aeronautici portò gradualmente alla scoperta di cognizioni fisiche precedentemente inesplorate.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
How ‘Human Rights’ became a Western weapon
How ‘Human Rights’ became a Western weapon
Kit Klarenberg exposes how the West weaponized “human rights” after the Helsinki Accords, turning a noble idea into a tool for regime change, sanctions, and imperial wars.Kit Klarenberg (How ‘Human Rights’ became a Western weapon)
How to follow and participate in discussions here from your Fediverse and ATmosphere accounts
The magic of decentralized social networks means that even though the Nexus of Discussions is running NodeBB software, you can follow and participate in discussions here from accounts on GoToSocial, Mastodon, Glitch, Piefed and other Fediverse platforms -- and thanks to the magic of bridging, also from Bluesky. Blacksky, and other ATmosphere apps. Hooray!
But, it's not always as straightforward as it could be, so here's a quick how-to guide.
And, no matter what platform you're participating from, please make sure you're aligned with the community guidelines!
Note: I've done my best to test out these instructions, but there may still be some mistakes or situations where they don't work. Feedback welcome, either here or at my Mastodon account at thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange or bluesky account @thenexusofprivacy.net
From the Fediverse
- If you see a post from here in your feed on GoToSocial, Mastodon, Glitch, Piefed or another Fediverse platform, you should be able to interact with it just like any other post. (At least in theory -- If you run into problems, please let me know.)
- Replies to threads here are public by default, and may wind up indexed by search engines.
- If you've opted in to Bridgy Fed, replies to threads here are generally likely be bridged to Bluesky, unless you're replying to somebody who hasn't opted in.
- If you're looking at a page on discussions.thenexus.today and want to reply, like, or boost it, the usual trick of copying the link from the address bar in the browser into your search box doesn't always work. Instead, you need to copy the link from the post's timestamp.
- on a Mac, control-click on the timestamp, and then select "Copy link to post" from the menu
- on an iPhone, press the timestamp, and then select Copy Link from the menu.
- on Linux, Windows, or Android ... hmm not sure, let me know and I'll update the post.
Here's what it looks like on a Mac
- to follow an account here, you can search for it in the usual way (jon's account for example is [jon](discussions.thenexus.today/use…)\@discussions.thenexus.today) and then follow it as you would any other account
- to follow a category here, you can either search for the "category actor" (for example \@public@discussions.thenexus.today for all public posts), or just go to the category page and copy the link from the address bar
From Bluesky and the ATmosphere
- Replies from Bluesky, Blacksy, and other ATmosphere apps are only federated here if you've opted in to Bridgy Fed, which connects Fediverse sites to Bluesky. An important caveat here is that opting in to Bridgy Fed makes all your Bluesky posts available in the Fediverse as well!
- you can follow an account here by following its bridged account. The handle is @[account name].discussions.thenexus.today.ap.brid.gy
- as far as I know, it isn't yet possible to follow a category from the ATmosphere
From Threads
- discussions.thenexus.today does not federate with Threads, so hopefully there's no way to participate in discussions from there. If you do find a way, please let me know, because that means there's a bug somewhere!
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Another way you can load discussions here into Fediverse is to copy the address bar, but add a post index to the end.
For example, /topic/123 might not load, but /topic/123/1 would, since it's a pointer to the first post.
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The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think
Fellow pirates, How to download all the liked videos/song from YT music.
I have tried using yt download but am not able to find any option for such a case.
So something like, a tool which allows YouTube login and then pull all the songs/video.
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All your liked videos are at youtube.com/playlist?list=LL, and all your liked songs are at music.youtube.com/playlist?lis… .
I would try using yt-dlp. First, download your cookies from YouTube into a file (e.g. youtubecookies.txt). I like the cookies.txt Firefox extension for downloading the cookies.
Then run:
yt-dlp --cookies youtubecookies.txt "https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=LM"There are a lot of options to yt-dlp, so you'll want to look into those.
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Seal | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Video/Audio downloader designed and themed with Material Youf-droid.org
Usually I recommend using cobalt.tools for downloading either the video or the audio file. Unfortunately, cobalt.tools isn't able to download from Youtube at the moment due to restrictions from Youtubes side.
I found a workaround, albeit it is a bit complicated, but suitable for an occasional download:
I installed FreeTube. Each video offers download options. However, if you want a better quality than 360p, it offers to download video and audio separately. Look for the highest quality. Both video and audio file can be merged using VLC player after downloading.
After selecting the desired file(s) in FreeTube, you deternine where the files are to be saved, and then the download starts. There is no visual confirmation that the file is being downloaded. Eventually it appears on your computer. The download is slow, it takes almost the duration of the video that is to be downloaded.
After downloading both the video and the audio file, open them in VLC. Follow one of the guides when searching for video audio merge vlc. You can also save the merged file.
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cobalt lets you save what you love without ads, tracking, paywalls or other nonsense. just paste the link and you're ready to rock!cobalt.tools
Liked Videos and Liked Music are private playlists, they have a generic URL and you can only access them by being logged in. I have two methods to download Liked Videos:
- Install a desktop app video downloader, most of them have the option to download an entire playlist.
- They also have an option to add a cookies file so you can download private playlists, such as Liked Videos or Watch Later
- Log in to YouTube in your browser
- Export the cookies from the browser
- Import them to the desktop app
- Download Liked Videos
That's what you're supposed to do, however i never got that to work. If it doesn't work, you can transfer all your liked videos from the private playlist to a public playlist. Here's what i do:
- Create a new playlist called Downloads, and make it public; it now has its own specific URL, unlike the generic URL of Liked VIdeos
- Install the YouTube Multiselect browser extention
- Use Multiselect to select every video in Liked Videos and add it to Downloads
- Use the desktop app to download the Downloads playlist
This is how i download my private playlists like Watch Later or Liked Videos, i assume it also works for Liked Music
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Use yt-dlp with a cookies file and your liked videos playlist like @RinseChessBacked@lemmy.ml said.
Use yt-dlp with the -U flag to make sure it’s updated. The default settings are best audio and video quality. If you wanna get just the audio, install ffmpeg according to the instructions on the yt-dlp page (download ffmpeg and unpack it somewhere, tell yt-dlp where it is with the path-tp-ffmpeg flag) and tell yt-dlp what format you want.
You do not need to use a website or gui. They are all based on yt-dlp anyway and are often old, outdated and have wrong settings. Literally just use yt-dlp all other offered solutions are incorrect.
‘Out here all alone’: Texas health officials’ pleas for help were ignored by CDC as measles cases grew, report says
Public health officials in Texas were met with little to no response from CDC officials when they first reported a measles outbreak earlier this year, according to a new report
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Burner phones, wiped socials: the extreme precautions for visitors to Trump’s America
Horror stories about detainments at the border have also soured some from visiting during Trump’s second term
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Trump Order to Kill Cashless Bail Will Exacerbate Inequality While Doing Nothing to Fight Crime, Experts Say
"Cash bail is a system that preys on poor people," Wanda Bertram, of the Prison Policy Institute, told Common Dreams.
Iran demands concrete international action to end Israel’s genocide and occupation in Palestine
Iran claims the idea of “Greater Israel”, articulated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently, was not an empty threat but a real zionist ambition backed by the US and other Western powers.
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Brazil's government says it will buy some domestic products hit by Trump's tariffs
Brazil’s government says it will buy several domestic products that have been hit by the 50% higher U.S. tariffs on the country’s exports.
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Konkursa komuniko kaŭzis konfuzon
Gazetara komuniko de UEA pri du sciencaj konkursoj kaŭzis ampleksajn diskutojn kaj kritikon. Ĉu ĵuriano kaj kunordiganto de la konkursoj premiis sin mem? Laŭ Amri Wandel tamen neniam estiĝis konflikto de interesoj.
Universala Esperanto-Asocio la 16-an de aŭgusto publikigis iom konfuzan gazetaran komunikon pri la rezultoj de du sciencaj konkursoj kaj pri la scienca programo de la ĵus […]
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Draft how-to for people in the fediverse to follow and paricipate in NodeBB discussions
Several people told me they couldn't figure out how to reply to a NodeBB conversation if they just had a link to the post, and yeah it is kind of non-obvious. So I decided to write something up on that as well as a few other quirks. Here's what I've got so far ... feedback welcome!
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Draft how-to for people in the fediverse to follow and paricipated in NodeBB discussions
Several people told me they couldn't figure out how to reply to a NodeBB conversation if they just had a link to the post, and yeah it is kind of non-obvious. So I decided to write something up on that as well as a few other quirks.SocialHub
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Jon-Pincus hey check out that topic loading from within this NodeBB ;)
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A non-NATO country openly attacks energy infrastructure of NATO members, and not a peep from NATO
Ukraine attacks pipeline that sends Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia
Hungary’s foreign minister claims missile strike on energy infrastructure is ‘another attempt to drag us into war’Deborah Cole (The Guardian)
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Editorialized headline gets a downvote.
You could just as easily say Slovakia and Hungary fund russian agression against their neighbour, who they depend on for energy, and gets mad when Ukraine attempts to stop it.
I think the point is not that it is really going to happen at that pace, but to show that it very well might happen within our lifetime.
And also the authors have adjusted the earliest possible point of a possible hard to stop runaway scenario to 2028 afaik.
Kind of like the atomic doomsday clock, which has been oscillating between a quarter to twelve and a minute before twelve during the last decades, depending on active nukes and current politics.
Helps to illustrate an abstract but nonetheless real risk with maximum possible impact (annihilation of mankind - not fond of the idea...)
Even if it looks like AI has been hitting some walls for now (which I am glad about) and is overhyped, this might not stay this way.
So although AGI seems unlikely at the moment, taking the possibility into account and perhaps slowing down and making sure we are not recklessly risking triggering our own destruction is still a good idea, which is exactly the authors' point.
Kind of like scanning the sky with telescopes and doing DART-style asteroid research missions is still a good idea, even though the probability for an extinction level meteorite event is low.
Their whole predication is based on exponential growth moving forward which is just impossible. The growth of new models already stagnated and all the new improvements are just optimizations and better interface layers. They are basically hard capped at what they can do and more powerful hardware can't solve that.
Something ground breaking might happen that changes the whole landscape in the future, but it won't be exponential growth.
There’s an exhibition of retro / classic home computing machines this week (Aug 21-28 2025) at Kingston University, so I had to drop in.
It was fun to see some old favourites again, and it was nice to see some youngsters engaging with the games I used to play. Turrican, Hunchback, Mario, Puzzle Bobble, Lemmings!
The Townhouse building at Kingston University has been open for several years already and I drive, walk or bus past it regularly, but never had a reason to pop in until now! It has the university library on the upper floors, and a cafe and event space on the ground floor. For the duration of this week, the Archive of Retro Computing has taken over the event space with this display.
It is nicely put together, with some machines set aside for coding, some for gaming; information about each system displayed alongside; some meta-history on topics like the British computing scene (Acorn vs Sinclair), Commodore and Amstrad, and the US elements. The back section is dedicated to vintage home gaming systems, from the 1977 Binatone Pong game, through Atari / Nintendo / Sega, up to the Super Nintendo and Jaguar.
There are also some super “deep cuts” in the collection, including the Tatung Einstein, which I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing about before…
From my personal history, the Binatone Pong game on display is I think slightly older than the simple dial paddle controllers than we had hooked up to the TV at home when I was young. No sign of the metal-clad Commodore PET that I remember tinkering with at primary school, but a range of other Commodore machines are on show, including the classic Commodore 64 (I have one of these, from a former Twitter coworker!), and several other models I’m less familar with.
My first home computer, the Acorn Electron, is right there, running Arcadians, a Space Invaders clone I must have spent hours on back in the day. My own Electron ended as a hand-modded machine featuring switchable headphone or regular speaker output. I’m still quite proud of that relatively low-tech little hardware hack from back then.
Next along in my own line would have been the Amstrad CPC (with 3″ disk drive) that my uncle had, and pointed me towards on most visits to his house. I have memories of Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner on that one. The little info card here tells the story of how Alan Sugar did a deal on the disk drives such that Hitachi ended up having to keep making them, at a loss, even though the 3″ disk format was otherwise dead in the water.
My school had a very well-equipped computer room with (I think) about 30 BBC Master and Micro computers, so I was very much an Acorn boy and learned BBC BASIC as my first proper coding language (along with a tiny bit of 6502 assembler). Later on, the computer room was upgraded with Acorn Archimedes, and my brother had an A3000 in his bedroom… I had an Acorn Risc PC with a StrongARM processor, way faster than the x86 PCs available at the time! The BBC Master and A3000 are present and correct in the exhibition (there’s a BBC Micro as well, alongside the Electron).
We also had a Super Nintendo, which is one of the last of the home gaming consoles in the exhibition (I overheard someone say that the Playstation, our next games console as a family, was where gaming all went wrong and 3D and got boring… I can sometimes understand of that point of view!).
As an aside, I had a quick go on Wolfenstein 3D on the Jaguar in the corner there, and the controller for the Jaguar was bonkers! Chunky and not very friendly to use. The graphics seemed decent, with some kind of interpolation at distance? I don’t remember ever actually playing on a Jaguar when they were current…
Pretty much all of the machines had some kind of modification, both to output graphics to the LCD monitors in use, and/or to replace disk drives with some form of USB-floppy emulation, often with a Pi or something else doing the interfacing.
A fun trip down memory lane!
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Feed rss per X e Instagram
Buongiorno, non so se sia il posto giusto per questo topic, non ne ho trovati di più pertinenti, in caso spostatemi pure.
Mi chiedevo se esista un modo per seguire profili X e Instagram tramite lettori feed rss o altro. Spulciando su Le alternative ho scaricato Newsblur, non mi permette di seguire i profili che mi interessano, ma vedo che ce ne sono altri suggeriti che invece possono essere seguiti (solo per X).
Magari esiste un generatore specifico da applicare..
Purtroppo le fonti principali di notizie che seguo sono profili di giornalisti Instagram o X, ogni consiglio per smarcarsi da queste piattaforme (gratis) è ben accetto. Grazie in anticipo per la pazienza.
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Da li cerchi gli account che ti servono, poi in alto a destra trovi l'icona per i feed rss. Puoi generare un feed per ogni utente e poi importarlo nel tuo client rss preferito. (Consiglio di non abusare coi profili da seguire altrimenti salta tutto)
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RSS Feed Generator, Create RSS feeds from URL
The #1 Source of RSS Feeds: Generate RSS feeds from almost any source and embed news feeds to your html website using JS or iframe widgets.RSS.app
ho trovato anche questo ma non so se funziona ancora.
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Come creare feed RSS per gli account di Instagram, Twitter e YouTube - PC Professionale
Grazie ad RSSHub è possibile “generare” feed RSS dagli account social e non solo, così da poterli seguire in totale libertà nel nostro Feed Reader.Alfonso Maruccia (PC Professionale)
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ADORO, con Folo (l'app suggerita qui) Twitter si vede benissimo!!! Con Ig non ho ancora capito bene se funziona.. FB non c'è. Cmq fuori uno! 🤩
Come creare feed RSS per gli account di Instagram, Twitter e YouTube - PC Professionale
Grazie ad RSSHub è possibile “generare” feed RSS dagli account social e non solo, così da poterli seguire in totale libertà nel nostro Feed Reader.Alfonso Maruccia (PC Professionale)
ho scoperto che esiste anche un estensione per chrome che dovrebbe facilitare il lavoro.
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RSSHub Radar - Chrome Web Store
Easily find and subscribe to RSS and RSSHub.chromewebstore.google.com
Da parte mia aggiungerei Facebook.
Purtroppo tutte queste piattaforme ostacolano attivamente la possibilità di seguire profili da "fuori".
Ti capisco, e, la mia soluzione è, da un lato trovare fonti alternative e accontentarsi, dall'altro portare nel fediverso quelle notizie che trovo dalle altre fonti (che includono telegram e whatsapp nel mio caso).
Se trovi qualcosa, fammi sapere!
amazzonici pacchi per un haul di letture pazzo (Sailor Moon e poca altra roba pagati dalle vostre tasse)
L’altra sera non ho scritto niente a riguardo, ma quello che è accaduto è che ho rapinato un Amazon Locker… inserendo il codice eh, niente danneggiamenti. Ok, sto scherzando; in verità, con la mano diretta di mio padre (che ha banalmente piazzato il suo ordine) ho piuttosto rapinato lo Stato italiano, ordinando circa 100 euroni […]
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amazzonici pacchi per un haul di letture pazzo (Sailor Moon e poca altra roba pagati dalle vostre tasse)
L’altra sera non ho scritto niente a riguardo, ma quello che è accaduto è che ho rapinato un Amazon Locker… inserendo il codice eh, niente danneggiamenti. Ok, sto scherzando; in verità, con la mano diretta di mio padre (che ha banalmente piazzato il suo ordine) ho piuttosto rapinato lo Stato italiano, ordinando circa 100 euroni di libri, per consumare i punti del bonus docenti che rimanevano e a giorni sarebbero scaduti. E però ora sono state, e a breve saranno, rogne, un pochino, perché sono veramente un botto di tavolette di carta. 🤯
Ho consumato il braccio la sera per andare a ritirare questa roba, perché, e vai a capire il motivo, da un lato gli articoli sono stati divisi in due diversi pacchi, uno gigante da 1,28 kg (e maremma bilancia…) e uno più piccolo con solo 2 volumi dentro… e, giustamente, nella busta che mi sono portata per trasportare i pacchi non c’è stato verso di farli entrare tutti e due, quindi un braccio non ha portato quasi niente e l’altro si è tirato al punto da rimanermi moscio per tutta la sera (e ancora adesso lo sento strano, ma forse avrò solo dormito stort). Tutto divertente fino a qui… e in effetti le rogne vere arrivano adesso. 💥Per circa 60€ sono arrivati tutti e 12 i volumi di Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, che è oggettivamente una serie da avere in libreria per ogni ragazza magica che si rispetti; nonché da leggere, immagino, motivo per cui ho già iniziato il primo volume senza preoccuparmi troppo. Poi ho preso un tomone di Zerocalcare, perché essendo lui e i suoi fumetti gnam allora immagino che anche i suoi libri lo siano, e infine qualche altro tomino per arrivare alla cifra da spendere. Poca roba… o almeno sembra, per chi digerisce interi libri su base giornaliera… e invece io, mo’, come minchia me ne esco??? 😱
Io tutto sommato leggo anche tanto, relativamente alla media comune dei (decadutissimi) giorni odierni… però leggo comunque solo quando l’alternativa sarebbe fare puro rotting (a qualsiasi dei livelli del niente); quindi, se raramente magari finisco un intero volume di un manga in 1 o 2 giorni, più spesso un tomino di quelli mi dura di più… talmente di più che ho ancora un paio di cosini da parte comprati con il bonus cultura (il mio, quello) l’anno scorso che ancora non ho recuperato. Ma non è tutta colpa mia, perché nel frattempo sono arrivate altre robe, anche libri non-fumetti, e quindi ops. 😳
Vabbene però, dai, guardiamo il lato positivo: avere tutte queste letture arretrate è buono dal punto di vista che devo necessariamente posticipare il giorno in cui andrò per keepare myself safe… Almeno, questo perché i libri sono arrivati fortunatamente intatti, e quasi tutti perfetti ad un’occhiata veloce; tranne 1 volume della bella ragazza guerriera con la copertina leggermente piegata, ma si è sistemato impilandoci altri libri sopra. Quindi, stavolta sono calma, ma altrimenti per davvero mi incazzavo!!! 😈
P.S: un (1) bacino a tutti i cittadini i-ta-lia-ni! che, pagando le tasse, pagano alla ragazza magica quest’anno i manga, e due anni fa il server che regolarmente serve i frutti del mio lavoro di sviluppo magico per tutti… 🥰
#AmazonHaul #haul #libri #manga #pacchi
Changing web hosting provider & keeping my email - help wanted
I am looking into changing my web hosting provider, as I did not research pricing sufficiently before signing up for the one I am currently using, and I have developed a preference to avoid American companies since.
My domain is registered with a separate company, and my website is completely static and home made, so I think the move should be somewhat painless. I expect that it's as easy as signing up for another service provider, and redirecting the domain to whatever information they provide. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
What I'm a little concerned about is my email at name@example.com. I'm assuming setting up a new address under the same name would be trivial under most hosting providers, but is there a good way of keeping my current emails available on the server? Alternatively, does anyone know of good options for making local backups of my inbox?
Last, if anyone has recommendations for somewhat affordable, green & European hosting providers, it would be much appreciated. I guess Hetzner is an option, but I wouldn't mind supporting a slightly smaller company if I can.
Thanks!
Sopito nella pietra, il grande Re dei crotali e l'Atlantide thailandese - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Sopito nella pietra, il grande Re dei crotali e l'Atlantide thailandese - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
L’acqua della palude ribolliva come fosse riscaldata da una fonte sotterranea, poco prima d’illuminarsi a giorno per l’effetto di molte magiche lanterne che fluttuavano nell’aria, poco prima dell’alba mattutina.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website
A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website
One of Germany's biggest ISPs changed how their DNS works, right after I exposed an organization that they’re part of.lina.sh
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In Germany, we have the Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) - literally 'Copyright Clearinghouse for the Internet', a private organization that decides what websites to block, corporate interests rewriting our free internet. No judges, no transparency, just a bunch of ISPs and major copyright holders deciding what your eyes can see.
This is worse than whatever the UK is doing IMO.
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Recently they switched to a more public court-order based approach.
But my thought on this is as well: Once their domain name servers are configured according to law, can they force us to not use other domain name services?
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In Firefox its just a flip of a button.
Private DNS.
I think it uses Cloudflare by default when activated, but there are also others like quad9 9.9.9.9
Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacyQuad9
That one at least got cleared up in court, and even the damn police was pissed to be instrumentalized by 1 Penis like that (not to mention the societal backlash). In many cases it's even legitimate to have police involved, like with wild racist deathwishes in Facebook… but they indeed went way too far in too many cases.
Surely some more Chatcontrol and big cousin Palantir will fix that, right? …right? 🫠
and even the damn police was pissed to be instrumentalized by 1 Penis like that
The funniest bit was when they repeatedly painted over a mural that cited the insult in the dark of the night.
Specifically the person got raided on a wrong address, so actually his ex partner and child got raided, the raid came after the owner of the twitter account already had identified himself to the police and admitted to the "crime".
There was absolutely no possible investigative reason for the raid. It was purely meant to intimidate someone for an insuot that is rather mild in German language
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Who is Andy... Please full name so it can get cached by search engines.
Useless regime whores should be named properly
lina.sh/blog/cuii-gives-up
Germany's private internet censorship organization gives up
A group of major corporations blocked domains in Germany without courts. That ends now.lina.sh
This blog was classified as "parked" by Palo Alto urlfiltering service.
I just reported is a personal website about computer and cybersecurity.
Wait, maybe was intentional on their side????
I just read better the blogpost.
The Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) is a private group formed by ISPs and copyright holders. They decided what websites to block, and ISPs followed, without any court ruling. No judge was involved, no legal process.The members: The four largest ISPs in Germany and a bunch of copyright holders (the Motion Picture Association, Sky, ...). If they decided that a site should be blocked, the ISPs just blocked the domains from being resolved. This ran completely outside the courts, a private system made by corporations for censorship. Blocked sites included streaming services, but also sites like Sci-Hub or game piracy sites.
In a previous blog post, I went into detail on how we trolled them:
- We leaked their secret blocklists (the list of domains was kept secret!)
- We exposed dozens of wrongful and outdated blocks.
- We made them unblock a lot of domains, including some that were blocked for years.
- ... and so much more. We just made a lot of bad press for them.
The CUII now only coordinates blocks between ISPs after a court order. That's it. No more secret votes. No more corporate censorship. The new version of their website says: "The CUII coordinates the conduct of judicial blocking proceedings and the implementation of judicial blocking orders."
...
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Why doesn't Star Trek use TrekLit for streaming shows?
Treklit has some great offerings. The Relaunch universe books in particular developed coherent serialized storylines and a group of strong authors. There is also a deep library of standalone books from across all eras of the franchise.
By contrast, serialized Star Trek is struggling onscreen. Of the current era, only Prodigy has excelled in serialized storytelling.
So, why not look to the books? Not just to lift an idea like Control or the end of the Borg, but to actually tell a coherent narrative across a season or season?
On Netflix, Prime and Apple, it’s become established that successful streaming shows are often based on novels and novel series. Those streamers have come to understand that novelists, not scriptwriters, excel in laying out long form storytelling, and resources are often better put in having the screenwriters adapt than create from the whole cloth.
Reading a recent interview with Mick Herron, author of the critically acclaimed and popular Slow Horses on Apple, with a second show based on his other books launching this fall, I was struck by the interviewer’s assertion of this truism.
I thought about several of the non franchise shows I enjoy and how many of them are more or less faithful adaptations of books.
I was also struck by the thought that both Skydance and Paramount are quite capable of producing excellent book adaptations for Netflix and Apple. Murderbot is a very current example.
So, what’s holding back Star Trek from exploiting the Vanguard series or the Starfleet Core of Engineers books?
Why insist on giving showrunners resources to keep retelling franchise stories with legacy characters and tropes?
Why not exploit that IP that Paramount already owns by adapting the best of decades of TrekLit?
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Re: Why doesn't Star Trek use TrekLit for streaming shows?
Honestly it could be something as prohibitive as not having secured film and TV rights from the authors.
I can imagine that doing it after the fact is often quite expensive.
Come creare un dominio personalizzato collegato al proprio utente su Mastodon (alias)
Mastodon funziona come una federazione di server ed usa il protocollo Webfinger per risolvere gli indirizzi degli utenti. Puoi configurare una pagina sul tuo dominio che risponda alle richieste Webfinger rimandando al tuo indirizzo Mastodon originale. Creerai perciò un alias che potrai usare e far usare su Mastodon.
In poche parole se hai l’utente @pippo ed il tuo dominio è casa.com potrai essere cercato e menzionato su Mastodon anche come @pippo@casa.com .
La teoria è semplice, piazzare un file json di configurazione dentro una cartella con sottocartella sul tuo sito nel tuo dominio.
Siccome io ho una VPS linux-debian con YunoHost e wordpress installato, spiegherò come approciarsi utilizzando questa configurazione.
Prima di tutto bisogna creare un file index.php che contenga il seguente codice:
<?php
$res = @$_GET['resource'];
if ($res != 'acct:UtenteMastodon@MioDominio.com') {
header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found');
die();
}
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode([
'subject' => 'acct:UtenteMastodon@mastodon.social',
'aliases' => [
'https://snowfan.masto.host/@UtenteMastodono',
'https://snowfan.masto.host/users/UtenteMastodon'
],
'links' => [
[
'rel' => 'http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page',
'type' => 'text/html',
'href' => 'https://snowfan.masto.host/@UtenteMastodon'
],
[
'rel' => 'self',
'type' => 'application/activity+json',
'href' => 'https://snowfan.masto.host/users/UtenteMastodon'
]
]
]);
?>Sostituire a snowfan.masto.host il server mastodon desiderato, a MioUtente il nome utente ed a MioDominio il nome del dominio.
Il file lo possiamo creare in locale e trasportarlo alla VPS con ftp, oppure collegarci con SSH e crearlo con nano.
Se siamo collegati con SSH alla VPS, digitare SU seguito dalla password di root. spostiamoci alla cartella di worpress o alla cartella root del dominio che ci interessa, nel caso di worpress dovrebbe essere “/var/www/wordpress” o nel caso di installazioni multiple potremo avere “/var/www/wordpress_2″.
In questa cartella dobbiamo creare una cartella .well-known ed una sottocartella al suo interno webfinger e dentro webfinger posizionare lo script-file index.php.
eseguire da root o tramite sudo il seguente comando:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress/.well-known
Questo comando cambia proprietario e ne permette la gestione ad apache/ngix
Digitare i seguenti comandi controllando che le cartelle siano corrette:
sudo find /var/www/wordpress/.well-known -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find /var/www/wordpress/.well-known -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Questi comandi danno i corretti permessi alle cartelle ed al file.
A questo punto non ci rimane che testare che funzioni tutto, dal nostro browser preferito immettere questo url debitamente corretto col dominio giusto:
miodominio.com/.well-known/web…
Se tutto funziona dovremmo vedere a video uno script json.
Il passaggio successivo è andare su mastodon e digitare nel box di ricerca: @UtenteMastodon@MioDominio.com se anche questo passaggio funziona abbiamo fatto tutto correttamente. Se riceviamo una pagina 404 ci potrebbe essere un problema nello script che va verificato.
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Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV
Building Ultra Cheap Energy Storage for Solar PV
Solar still needs storage cheap enough to move energy between seasons. I have been working on a startup to do this for the last two years.Austin Vernon (Austin Vernon's Substack)
MotoGP Ungheria 2025: vince sempre Marquez, la noia domina.
Il Gran Premio d’Ungheria 2025 ha visto per l’ennesima volta il dominio di Marc Marquez, che al Balaton Park ha conquistato la sua 14ª vittoria consecutiva, firmando la sesta doppietta stagionale tra Sprint e gara lunga. Sul podio, insieme al pilota della Ducati Lenovo, sono saliti Pedro Acosta con la KTM e Marco Bezzecchi con l’Aprilia, regalando tre marchi diversi nelle prime tre posizioni.
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MotoGP Ungheria 2025: i risultati e l’ordine di arrivo della gara - Quotidiano Motori
Risultati MotoGP Ungheria 2025: ecco l’ordine di arrivo della gara al Balaton Park con tempi, distacchi e sorpassi decisivi.Mario Roth (Quotidiano Motori)
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Cooking at home vs eating out vs delivery: what’s your situation?
My boyfriend (20) and I (18) have been living together for 2 years in an urban apartment. For us, it usually goes like this:
- Delivery
- Eating out
- Cooking at home
We visit our parents (and they visit us) often, and they give us lots of home-cooked food. We mostly cook at home just for fun.
I’m curious what it’s like for other people, especially in different age groups or family setups!
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