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First tranche of Epstein docs released by House Oversight Committee
First tranche of Epstein docs released by House Oversight Committee
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released a first tranche of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, one that President Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from for about two months.Robert Davis (Raw Story)
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Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case
Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case
Judge Mehta’s remedies ruling on Google’s search monopoly bans exclusive deals, lets it keep Chrome, and will make it share some data with competitors.Lauren Feiner (The Verge)
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I very much dislike Google but constantly search stuff on DDG, with little to no success. Then I’ll add !g to the front, and a decent chunk of the time what I’m looking for is top 3, not including all the sponsored shit.
Are there specific ways you search for DDG to be better?
The only time I ever need to use a google bang is when im searching for something specifically local like a restaurant. DDG uses apple maps and apple maps is complete garbage.
When I cant find something on DDG and I use the !g 99% of the time I cant find it on google either.
They do a lot to help the environment. I just recently learned about them so I don't know how well they do with search results, but I like their mission.
I moved to DDG because I felt Google results were getting worse. You would search for something specific and instead just get varying degrees of the same article on different sites about it instead.
Then I felt DDG was getting worse in just not always getting what was related, so I've moved to qwant.
Other than not always getting geo-related results, the results have been the best I've seen in a while so I've stuck around for now.
Oh come on now. All of the strong options would have worked. Don't let Google buy its competition off. Don't let Google buy it's default position. Don't let Google control the browser. That's it, problem solved.
You claim people are loyal, but if that were true, the aforementioned payoffs would not exist.
Barring them from offering exclusive deals, which allows competitors to get in the mix at places like Mozilla.
I did not come up with this idea, this was one of the remedies the Judge chose. @Squiddork@lemmy.world Telling them to drop Chrome was just flashy talk.
So they have to give away search data?
Is there an antitrust on android or appstore ongoing?
But he did...bar the search giant from making exclusive deals to distribute its search or AI assistant products in ways that might cut off distribution for rivals.
Oh boy there goes Firefox
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I think they're referring to Firefox's funding, a lot of which was through search deals
An article from 5 years ago: pcmag.com/news/mozilla-signs-l…
edit: seems like that hasn't changed by this ruling either
United States District Judge Amit Mehta has ruled that Google can continue to pay other companies, including browser makers like Mozilla, to be their default search engine.
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/google…
Google Can Keep Paying for Firefox Search Deal, Judge Rules
US judge in antitrust case rules Google can keep paying Mozilla and other companies for default search placement, but bans exclusive contracts.Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
From the article you linked:
In return for Google being the default search engine in Firefox, Mozilla is expected to bank $400M+ a year.
Literally what I am talking about. I can still switch away from the default. No other search companies are being denied access to being set as the default search engine in Firefox. Google just pays a premium so they are the default out of the box, which would not be anti-competitive under this order.
bar the search giant from making exclusive deals to distribute its search or AI assistant products in ways that might cut off distribution for rivals.
This by definition does not cut off their distribution in Firefox. Google can still make this deal with Mozilla. It is not an exclusivity deal, it's a default search engine deal. Exclusivity or cutting off distribution would be making Google the only search engine option in Firefox.
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United States District Judge Amit Mehta has ruled that Google can continue to pay other companies, including browser makers like Mozilla, to be their default search engine.
I see, I'll edit my other comment. So what even changes then, were they even making exclusive deals in the past? The discussion I remember was about how being the default made it difficult for others to compete since most people don't change the defaults.
Google Can Keep Paying for Firefox Search Deal, Judge Rules
US judge in antitrust case rules Google can keep paying Mozilla and other companies for default search placement, but bans exclusive contracts.Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
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So they found Google guilty of monopolistic practices then agreed to do nothing about it.
Sounds about right.
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They need to maintain compatibility with play services to access apps on play store.
Also, starting with OnUI 8 bootloader unlocking is no longer supported. On OxugenOS 16 its only allowed with restrictions. The hardening is already started.
you said this:
They need to maintain compatibility with play services to access apps on play store.
but that does not explain why don't they already block installing 3rd party apps. they don't need to allows this to oeep access to the play store.
Samsung blocks installing apps outside Playstore if you enable their advanced blocker mode. Xiaomi also warns and shows a pop-up for 10-30s preventing it.
Pixel's advanced protection mode does the same.
Also, when i metioned that I was talking about OEMs forking android and making it harder to use per your needs. Which would mean modifying android which could mean failing some CTS tests for play services. Boot loader unlocking is already on the verge of being killed. Installing apps and other things you currently do on your android could be next if OEMs were allowed free reign.
I received quite a few responses about apps when I wanted to Highlight the bootloader unlocking, custom ROMs, root, etc. I guess my comment was not too clear.
Which would mean modifying android which could mean failing some CTS tests for play services.
they are already massively modifying android, not just on the UI but the system services too, and CTS tests pass because google approved their software.
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Austria reaffirms neutrality, rules out NATO membership
Austria reaffirms neutrality, rules out NATO membership
Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker confirms NATO membership is not on the agenda, reaffirming Austria’s neutrality amid Russian warnings and a renewed debate over the country’s security policy.Al Mayadeen English (Austria reaffirms neutrality, rules out NATO membership)
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Xi proposes Global Governance Initiative
Xi proposes Global Governance Initiative
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday proposed the Global Governance Initiative (GGI), calling on countries to work in concert for a more just and equitable global governance system.www.globaltimes.cn
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The state of Linux phones in 2025
Linux phones are still behind android and iPhone, but the gap shrank a surprising amount while I wasn’t looking. These are damn near usable day to day phones now! But there are still a few things that need done and I was wondering what everyone’s thoughts on these were:
1 - tap to pay. I don’t see how this can practically be done. Like, at all.
2 - android auto/apple CarPlay emulation. A Linux phones could theoretically emulate one of these protocols and display a separate session on the head unit of a car. But I dont see any kind of project out there that already does this in an open-source kind of way. The closest I can find are some shady dongles on amazon that give wireless CarPlay to head units that normally require USB cables. It can be done, but I don't see it being done in our community.
3 - voice assistants. wether done on device or phoning into our home servers and having requests processed there, this should be doable and integrated with convenient shortcuts. Home assistant has some things like this, and there’s good-old Mycroft blowing around out there still. Siri is used every day by plenty of people and she sucks. If that’s the benchmark I think our community can easily meet that.
I started looking at Linux phones again because I loathe what apple is doing to this UI now and android has some interesting foldables but now that google is forcing Gemini into everything and you can’t turn it off, killing third party ROMS, and getting somehow even MORE invasive, that whole ecosystem seems like it’s about to march right off a cliff so its not an option anymore for me.
Missing those things would be a feature for me.
I'm much more worried about having a usable battery life and having basic phone functions like WiFi calling and MMS work.
Tap-to-pay and car assistance are must-have in today's world. 10-15 years ago, no. Today, yes. Bank apps is the other thing that can't be done either (because bank apps want a "certified" system to run on). Here in Greece, it's required you have a bank app on your phone to go with your daily life.
Yes, we all want a simpler life, like it was in the past, so we can envision an OS system that "it's good enough". But reality is not on our side. Linux as an open source community phone OS, made by non-commercial/non-corporate entities, can't be an OS for the masses. It just won't tick any boxes for them in today's world. The current Linux phone OSes could be contenders 15 years ago, but not today.
Are they must haves? I don't use tap to pay, pretty useless feature for me.
Cars? I don't want or need android auto. Bluetooth is the only thing I care about.
Navigation on the device is good enough for me, it doesnt need to use the screen.
I have no interest in mobile banking, but that could be an issue if people are used to sending money to each other instantly via a bank app.
Tap to pay is a choice, with a viable alternative.
You could choose to NOT use tap to pay, carry a bank card, and it would have basically no impact on your ability to conduct your life.
But I agree the banking app itself is a big problem, and something that cannot be lived without.
I've never used tap to pay. I don't want any banking info on my phone. In the US, we don't need any payment apps. Cash and cards work just fine and never run out of battery power.
There's no way I would ever connect my phone to a modern car with anything other than an aux cable or a bluetooth adapter that plugs into the headphone jack. They gather up all the data they can an do who knows what with it.
"must-have" is subjective.
Yes these things are required to achieve wide spread adoption but I personally could do without them.
2. get a used phone just for that
3. use one of the open source one, anyway siri and the google one are trash abandonned in 2012
How old are you that you "need" these things.
Is not being able to use tap to pay, or having to plug in an aux cable really that big of an inconvenience?
Yeah! CarPlay has been amazing to use for navigation. I wouldn’t consider a car that didn’t have something like this.
With that being said, I could be against getting a Linux phone and just leaving an old Android or iPhone in the car for CarPlay use.
I find car play awful. So I guess there is that. Half the time it does something stupid or the screen gets strange or a bunch of other problems like forcing my nav map when I want a different one.
What I want is true screen casting with touch feedback. That's it.
By that logic, I dont need a phone on me at all times and should just go back to a landline, pay cash for everything, and damn everything convenient.
Some of us use these things and we want to switch to a system free from powerful tech bros. People like you tell us we are a problem for wanting features. That’s a ridiculous thing.
I’m not going to screw with a cell phone while driving. Using the large screen I can quickly glance at, tap what I need or use a voice command on and get my eyes back on the road makes far more sense.
Im not saying its a problem to want features, just saying its sacraficing freedom for convience, its a choice.
If you really wanted to use a Linux phone, there are options. You would have to adapt, you would have to use non-standard solutions, but in the long run you'd have more freedom because of those sacrifices in convenience.
None of the 3 things you mention was common place 10 years ago, its not that much of a setback to carry cash or a card, or to use a dedicated device for navigation. Its fine if you dont want to do that but dont act like you can't live without tap2pay or a voice assistant if you really wanted to.
That's an edge case though. That's not what we are solving for the other 99.99% of the time ...
So you sacrafice your ability to use a more free device because youd rather leave your credit card at home, but thats A choice that you made. If you wanted you could bring a card with you or cast with you or a wallet full of things. Do you not carry ID with you either?
Honestly tap2pay seems like very little advantage over a credit card for having to sacrafice privacy and the ability to control the software on my phone, but thats just me.
As cardfire said, I just have to take my debit/credit card from where it's usually stored. I have never lost or damadeged my phone since I got one in 98, that's more than an hedge case.
And I can also buy on the internet without needing physical access to my cards.
The only use case for physical cards is unfortunately gas stations. So 6 times a year in average I need them.
And what did you do five years ago or ten years ago? At what point did Tap to Pay become so convenient and so essential to your life that you're willing to give up your ability to have complete ownership and control over what's installed on your phone rather than go back to having a card on you?
It just doesnt seem like that big of a deal to me, but then i never was able to use it anyway because ive been running grapheneOS or another custom rom since before tap2pay even existed.
Tap to pay was relatively common even 10 years ago in US cities. I've been tap to pay almost exclusively for 5 years.
Mind you the US is BEHIND on tap to pay technology compared to other countries.
It was not that common 10 years ago, it was only JUST being fully rolled out in the US in 2015 when they finally made it mandatory for cards to have chips in them. I guess I'm just an old man yelling at clouds here, but i just never really felt like using cash or a card was that inconvenient.
I suppose for you tap2pay is as essential as being able to run custom software on my devices is to me, I have been using custom roms since 2009 and I wouldn't be willing to sacrifice my ability to use GrapheneOS just so i can carry one less card that i can literally fit in my phone case, but hey, different strokes ig.
Built in gps is a bit shit now and my current car actually doesn't have one unless i buy an overpriced encrypted sd card with the map data that if i want to update the maps for, have to buy again.
Phones and their map apps allow me to have up to date mapping that also show where there's roadworks and closures so i can be rerouted elsewhere which is a godsend when you're in a town or city you're not familiar with.
Edit: built in now may not be shitter than it was but it is shitter than the new alternatives via android auto (i also don't use Google maps by the way)
Cars still have built in GPS.
The updates are pretty terrible in my experience.
Seeing where desktop Linux was just less than 10 years ago and where it is now gives me optimism for mobile Linux. But I suspect the overlap between developers and users of those 3 features is pretty small, so they might be a ways out.
I was about to suggest getting a head unit that isn't tied down to CarPlay or Android Auto, but then I realized I drive a really old car from the days you'd easily take out the faceplate or the whole unit to deter theft.
1 - tap to pay
I still don't see why phone-based tap-to-pay is even a good thing. What, I should hand over all my financial credentials to Google or Apple or Microsoft in addition to my bank? I think not. I'll just keep using a physical card, thank you. (Which, by the way, can often still use tap-to-pay as most modern cards have RFID chips embedded. No different than with your phone, except it's not tied to one of the big oligarchs, even less so if you use a credit union as opposed to a bank.)
2 - android auto/apple CarPlay emulation
Bog-standard bluetooth is more than enough for me.
3 - voice assistants
Why would I need a voice assistant? I can find out information almost as easily just using a search engine. And if I'm driving, I'm not so busy as to be unable to pull over to the side of the road if I absolutely need to check something. Or, you know, get everything ready before I go. At the further risk of yelling at clouds despite my relatively young age (I'm in my early 30s), I think voice assistants and IoT things are largely just fluff that over-complicate things in a world that is already over-complicated.
2 - Bluetooth doesn’t give me maps or a UI to access my music, podcasts, etc.
3 - feature parity wins people over. You aren’t going to bring people in to the ecosystem by selling on having less. You can sell on mandating less, but opening with “here are the things a Linux phones CANT do” will never get this off the ground.
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Bluetooth works fine (or should work fine) with music, podcasts etc. I do it now with a phone, it's a standard I don't see why a mobile device running Linux would be any different.
As for maps, the voice goes over Bluetooth so I don't see an issue there either.
Tap to pay with the phone is also much smoother because it emits the NFC signal vs the card which is just inlayed in the card via the chip.
Much smoother process.
Ive heard hood things about the FLX1 but I havent tried it myself.
Im very tempted.
Home - FuriPhone FLX1 Linux Phone
The FLX1 Linux smartphone is the best Linux Mobile! Privacy, security and a fast UI. Use Android and Linux apps the way you want.Furi Labs: Planned Permanence
Ha, if that's your first association, I think that might say more about you than about the phone 😛
(Which is not a bad thing.)
Likewise, I think I'm just about to buy one for myself. I've never used tap-to-pay with my phone, nor a voice assistant, and I don't really want to. My phone is a web browser that can send text messages, make phone calls, and take pictures. My phone carrier is VoLTE-only for calls, and the FLX1 says that it has VoLTE now. I also need to use one specific Android app for work, but the FLX1 has some type of Android emulation which hopefully will make that usable.
The FLX1 is also the only one that claims to have a working camera. I'm not sure how good the pictures look, but every other Linux phone always just says "partial support" for the camera on the PostmarketOS wiki. The FLX1, with the stock OS, should take adequate pictures from what I understand.
I think problem number 1 might be solvable if GNU Taler succeeds in europe as the digital euro backend. taler.net/
Of course this would only apply to people in the EU, but who knows, others might follow.
Switzerland has GNU Taler. They launched it there a few months ago, lucky for you. Check its website: taler-ops.ch/de/
You just kind of need to wait for merchants to use it. Could become mainstream somewhere around 2028.
From wikipedia, here's the description:
GNU Taler is a free software-based microtransaction and electronic payment system. Unlike most other decentralized payment systems, GNU Taler does not use a blockchain. A blind signature is used to protect the privacy of users as it prevents the exchange from knowing which coin it signed for which customer.
It's like PayPal, but not quite.
The wallet is like cryptocurrency wallets in that when you lose it (lose your cryptographic keys or phone), you lose all the money inside of it. So you must keep it safe like your own physical wallet. It works with NFC, so it can replace Google Pay or Apple Pay or whatever.
It also works offline, which is awesome.
Though you do need to be online every few months to refresh your digital money or they expire and become unspendable. The expiry is set by the GNU Taler operator.
You can learn how it works by reading their docs: taler.net/de/docs.html
tap to pay. I don’t see how this can practically be done. Like, at all.
The same way it was done with Google, Samsung and Apple. Just has to become more popular until banks and credit card companies will have to work with developers to make it happen.
android auto/apple CarPlay emulation.
Again, it will have to require the compliance of OEMs. However I see the entirety of these systems disappearing soon as more OEMs want to lock users into paid subscriptions for such features.
voice assistants
I'm not convinced this will ever be useful. Several of the largest tech companies on the planet have tried and all have failed miserably to produce anything useful for decades at this point.
Awwww man, why would you rebuke my argument before I even make it?
Are the echos in the chamber that predictable?
It's an interesting discussion to witness in these posts: convenience vs privacy and control.
The convenience and integration you get with commercial products like IOS or Android comes at a price. Everything that matters to you on a daily basis bundled together in one convenient package means that all things which define you as a person are conveniently interconnected for corporations to sell out your data for everyone who wants it.
GPS: your current whereabouts at any moment in time and a complete history of where you have been in the past
Payment functions: what you are buying and where you have bought it
Communication (Messengers, Phone): Who you communicate with and what you are talking about
Photos and Videos:
Real life evidence from all the stuff mentioned above.
Web Browsing: Interests and Needs which will be used against you in a totalitarian surveillance state, at a glance
If you in 2025 still think this convenience is there to please you as a consumer I have bad news for you.
Convenience and interconnection of services look nice and useful but at the same time they're a privacy nightmare that makes Orwell's 1984 look like a bedtime story for children.
What this all comes down to: Strictly airgapping the boundaries between the different services is the only way to have a modicum of privacy. Photos do not belong in a cloud controlled by someone you don't know and should be taken from a separate device. Navigation belongs on a separate device with no internet connection, payment should not be done with a personal identifier at all (if avoidable) etc.
Living your life this way might seem terribly inconvenient, but as someone who was alive at a time where all this convenience didn't exist I can tell you it has its advantages too. You'll rediscover what really matters.
- battery life. My Pixel 3a lasts over a day on Android, likely much less on pmOS
- UnifiedPush for notifications. I only see a Matrix client listed as WIP. Every other app (Fediverse, Signal) I would have to keep running in the background
- Notifications while in sleep mode. Looks like we don't have "Doze Mode" from Android, so only calls & SMS work while asleep
- Fingerprint sensor. More of a QoL but I kept my phone model specifically for the ergonomics of the sensor on the back, and being able to scroll with it. Communication with the sensor is not yet figured out
huh? which linux phone got useful since you'd stop looking? I run pmOS edge on competent hardware with lotsa RAM and fast storage and that thing isn't even close to being usable in everyday life.
just basic stuff, like turn it on and it works. the keyboard works. an intuitive UI that you use while walking and dodging other pedestrians. a rock-solid base that doesn't freeze and stutter with the menial-est of tasks.
the three things you mention couldn't be farther from my mind if I wanted to.
62 comments and not a-one mentioned Sailfish OS yet?
Yes, it's not 100% open source, yes, it used to do business with Russia but not anymore since 2022, yes, it only supports a few Sony phones (available cheaply on the used market) but it is a 100% Linux operating system!
It has been my daily driver for 5 years now.
Also, Finland bonus.
I don't use any of the "needs" you mention (phone payments, carplay, voice anything) and can't see any of them as necessary. I can see thinking of them as cool, but that is different. I don't particularly think they're cool, but that's just me.
That said, Linux is mostly a desktop system with a CLI and some GUI tools. Phones as we know them have considerably different requirements. Linux could be underneath it all, like it is in Android, but at the end there is a lot more besides LInux and its apps.
I did use Meego/Maemo for a while (Nokia N900 and N9) and they had nice aspects, but the phones were way too small and slow.
Crypto mixing / Tumbler
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I’m wondering if anyone me here uses a Crypto tumbler or mixer service without KYC . Looking for recommendations
Crazy how many think privacy stops at money.
Cash will never be as safe or private as cryptocurrency.
Truth nuke, the biggest scam ever made is the $
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Classic tech disinformation and my battle-tested counterattack cheat sheet (work in progress)
Privacy is multiplayer. So, we must spread it.
To do well, we must fight efficiently.
We cannot waste our lives writing a custom essay against every troll, disinformer and psyop agent.
Short, simple and focused response is vital.
Here is what works for me:
- > I do not care about privacy
- Agreed. We do not control X, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
- Agreed. X is not libre software, we do not control it, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
- Agreed. X fails to include a libre software license text file, we do not control it, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
- > Open source ...
- 'Open source' misses the point of libre software, by design.
- 'Open source' is a deliberately ambiguous phrase, engineered to derail libre software.
- > Developers [owners] [of anti-libre software] need [to make money] to eat.
- You are not entitled to infect our devices and hijack control over our computing.
- Selling libre software is good.
- > You must read all its source code to guarantee it is safe.
- Blatant lie, classic disinformation, who told you to read it alone? lmao
- When it bans us from forking it, we do not control it, guaranteed. lmao
- > Crypto [currency] ...
- Truth nuke, the biggest scam ever made is the $
- Cash will never be more safe or private than 12 words in my head.
Classic cars will still need a smog test in California after lawmakers reject Jay Leno bill
Jay Leno’s star power wasn’t enough to persuade a California legislative committee to pass a measure to allow owners of classic cars like him to be exempted from the state’s rigorous smog-check requirements.
Imagine being rich and famous and this is your political cause. What an effing creep.
Classic cars will still need a smog test in California after lawmakers reject Jay Leno bill
The Assembly Appropriations Committee killed “Leno’s Law” that aimed to give classic car owners a pass from smog requirements.CalMatters (LAist)
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I had a car caught up in this in Colorado and had to get rid of it. Specifically, I had to remove a bunch of obsolete air pump equipment and update the fueling system with a much more modern electronically controlled system. The car was measurably better than it's original standards but failed the visual check because it was missing the old, polluting, inefficient and unavailable parts.
If the car still meets the emissions of it's day, put a mileage limit on it and let it go. If there are too many on the road then implement a nontransferrable lottery system to get classic plates for them. The amount of pollution these few tens of thousands of vehicles put out being used a couple of times a month is a drop in the bucket compared to everything else that continues to get a pass.
Why not start banning camp fires? What about old boats? Stationary power units? These all seem to get a pass and probably dwarf the emissions of classic cars being used occasionally.
Storing cars is also devastating for the environment and society. We have as much land and resources devoted to housing cars as we do to housing people. I've seen so many houses that have garages as big as their house + a paved driveway + each city needs 3 publicly funded parking spots per car.
We need less cars. There simply isn't a future were we beat climate change without getting the majority of people to take trains, buses, and bikes
Labor plans to make it harder to access government information
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Tom Crowley (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Given how crucial to exposing government misconduct FOI requests are in the UK, I imagine this is a path you very much don't want to go down.
I first thought this was talking about the UK government, as I wouldn't put it past them to try and push something like this through. I'm both sad and relieved it's our Australian cousins going through it instead.
The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft – Krebs on Security
The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft
The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interaction into Salesforce leads, has left many companies racing to invalidate the stolen credentials b…krebsonsecurity.com
Posted by the hackers:
Dear Google, please please pretty please continue to attack them.
I so wanna see the fuck getting destroyed out of you
So a US Green Card is half way to the moon?
Martina Dimoska
✨ On the right: Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, standing next to the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the Moon. [1969] ✨ On the left: Martina Dimoska,...www.facebook.com
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Hello.
I recognize that you're probably being sarcastic or joking, but just in case you were curious, Margaret Hamilton is recorded as 5 foot 4 inches tall. I could not find a height for Martina Dimoska, but if we assume the black binder in her stack is a two inch binder (a guess based on seeing many two inch binders in my profession), we can estimate that she is just over 5 ft tall.
Cheers!
US Green Card
The image clearly says Extraordinary Ability Green Card (EB1-A). This is not a standard green card.
Getting into Linux Development?
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I recently saw a post from one of the PostmarketOS devs asking for someone to start maintaining the sdm845 out-of-tree fork of the kernel.
Post was on mastodon, but I can't find it right now.
But you could ask in the PostmarketOS support/dev chats on what they need help with.
I think the easiest is to get the thing onto some device. Pick something that annoys you and make it work better. There are so many parts to this it's hard to recommend one. You have low level device drivers, the user interface in the form of DEs, or the apps themselves, either making the desktop apps work better or creating mobile ones.
You can also pick one of these things, find the related bugtracker and try to fix some easy looking bugs.
Have you done OS dev before? Do you know a systems programming language? Learn an appropriate language if you don't already know one, then look up OS dev books/guides online for that language. Someone's probably made a minimal kernel in that language you can refer to.
You mentioned postmarketOS so you could have a look here and here.
Great to hear that you're looking to get into PostmarketOS development! I recommend taking a phone that's already supported, using it and then figure out how improve support the device.
Porting/Mainlining a new device is also possible but that can be demotivating if it doesn't work and it's generally harder to get started with.
If you have any questions or need help you can dm me and I can help.
ChimeraOS dev announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS aimed at recreating a classic console experience
ChimeraOS dev announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS aimed at recreating a classic console experience
The developer of ChimeraOS has announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS that aims to provide more of a classic gaming console like experience.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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I was kicking around the idea of building an arcade machine at home and this might just be the one....
Now the real question - can you play old school platformers on it with split second precision that doesnt get interrupted by random shit on the OS? Even Nintendo's SNES Classic was horseshit for games like Megaman. Or maybe I just suck now.
Those really low capacity cards have DIRE read speeds though. I wouldn't want to cheap out too much on them.
We have one SD card at work that seemingly works fine, but has read speeds of like single digit Mbps. It's plenty for the arcade machine it runs with no more than 10mb roms at the max. But oof is it bad.
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If I remember right, flash memory is basically based on static electricity and those cheap SD cards might self-wipe after a couple years being unplugged
but maybe not lol
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Mostly just a small-ish info dump in the event it helps anyone. All flash and nand media can self-wipe if not used for a couple of years (though nand can last longer but may start to slow down to SATA and slower). Even if in an active PC, the parts that are only read but not written this can happen. Learned that from some episodes of "Security Now" podcast and personally saw it happen with a PC I was trying to fix for someone. On the show one of the hosts has a commercal program called "SpinRite" that was made to help with HDDs that have non-moter/actuator issues revive sectors.
Some testers using it found that it also helps with nand that has drastically slowed down from reading spots that never really get writes come back to normal speeds. In my case, I tried it on the PC I was working on and it really did help (the OS was already borked so it wasn't going to hurt trying it out) with it loading much faster. Obviously the cheaper the flash/nand the faster issues will happen.
I have seen some random motherboards offer basically a pre-erase on SSDs that are acting slow before you re-install the OS to make sure a more complete flipping of cells happens and not just a basic formatting that just zeros the first parts of data and leaves the other cells alone. In that case the data/OS isn't the focus and wouldn't need a special paid software (I am only aware of SpinRite just because of the podcast and bought it to support the host that makes it). I am not sure of any free/FOSS software that does the same full drive cell flips, but I imagine there are some (or will be as flash/nand is used more and more).
Main take away is that it is important to make sure to not just let flash drives/SD/nand drives sit without at least hooking up to a PC every now and then. My PS Vita fell victim to just sitting around dead for a few years along with the Vita card I had in it. Fortunately the ROM with the OS is still working and I was able to at least set it up again.
Someone a while back put a set of very cheap SSDs through a torture test, and after exhausting many of the write cycles, left them alone for months. When powered back on for reads, the drives were slow as the error correction hardware was working overtime to compensate for the loss of trapped charge over time, but mostly recovered their performance after a while.
That said, I have a similar anecdote where one of my very worn test bench SSDs kept complaining about the same bad sectors despite OS reinstalls until I just overwrote it with zeros using dd. Was fine for many months thereafter.
I've no idea either if SpinRite has some secret sauce that FOSS utilities have yet to replicate, but it sounds like a non-destructive read-write test with badblocks ought to do the same.
Also, my CF cards, SD cards, or USB drives from the early 2000s and early 2010s almost never give me trouble despite spending years unplugged. More recent flash memory is a different story though and I suspect the shrinking gate sizes and advent of TLC/QLC/PLC haven't helped. I'll usually splurge a little these days to get the industrial or high endurance MLC flavors and hopefully avoid the issue.
Serious question: Do I have to be a jew in order to use it?
(Because KZs and im German and stuff)
Once upon a time I owned a GameCube memory card, specifically so that I could have my own save progression when visiting my friend's house (who actually owned the GameCube and games). That may not really apply anymore?
On another note though, making the sd card read only means it will last significantly longer. Flash storage (like SD cards) have limited write cycles, so this preserves the games themselves while leaving the much smaller save files to be written somewhere else where they're easier to back up.
Are we decentralized yet?
I found this neat comparison site arewedecentralizedyet.online contrasting fediverse and atmosphere. Related discussion on HN:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Are We Decentralized Yet?
A site with statistics regarding the decentralization status of various web servicesarewedecentralizedyet.online
indeed, we are decentralized(complimentary) but also decentralized (derogatory) and most of all decentralized (frustrating)
EDIT: and also decentralized (confusing).
On #SocialHub my guess is nobody will see the edits! SECOND EDIT: the joke's on me, people DO see the edit there!
On other platforms, people seeing my post may or may not be able to see yours, and almost certainly won't be able to see most of the rest of the thread!
I know, I know, "just like email" ... but not in a good way.
I would just note, as an aside, that if folks want SocialHub to be a fully decentalised platform, i.e. accepting incoming as equally as it publishes outgoing, please share that here and I can prioritise that in the work I do on this Discourse AP plugin and this site in the next wee while.
socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…
Perhaps this is a community that should be inherently decentralised, given its role in the ActivityPub ecosystem. Horses for courses as they say.
Share what you want SocialHub to be
Share what you want SocialHub to be Hey guys, Pavilion recently took over some administrative aspects of this forum. I (Angus McLeod) want to use this opportunity to ask everyone what they want this forum to be, to see if we need to tweak anything.SocialHub
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Perhaps this is a community that should be inherently decentralised, given its role in the ActivityPub ecosystem.
Apparently from this discussion and others before, when the SocialHub was actually not federated, the Fedizens are expecting this to be fully decentralized in the sense you and @devnull described.
how:
Fedizens are expecting this to be fully decentralized in the sense you and @devnull described.
trwnh:
it would be nice to be able to maintain an explicit community context / boundary / etc
This boils down again to "What does it mean to be federated?" and then either take the ad-hoc, app-centric approach, connect to the flow and tap into the fediverse juice and make the best of that over time via whack-a-mole driven development. The other approach, aligning to what @trwnh mentions, is a more designed one, where well-defined use cases drive the development efforts. Contrast the approaches as:
- Connect Discourse software to the fediverse
- Community on the fediverse
With 1) it is entirely unknown what you eventually get, and as becomes clear, until now we got a messy fragmented situation. The Need of the Fedizen audience was implicitly "full decentralization" and explicitly for SocialHub to "be part of the fediverse" and not needing a separate account to be created to participate in the discussions.
But that is but one single Need. What is the full list of Needs? And what other stakeholder types are there beside Fedizen role? Now we are getting towards 2) and what it means for SocialHub to be considered a "community on the fediverse". And here too should Discourse - product slogan "The online home for your community" - and Pavilion be most interested, as this relates directly to product development.
Here too is big opportunity for the ActivityPub dev community, as it is the path to overcome the Achilles Heel that is the triad of Big ball of mud architecture, Golden (microblog) hammer, and Whack-a-mole driven protocol decay development.
Against fragmentation: unifying dev discussions with forum federation
On a recent episode of the Dot Social podcast, John O’Nolan of Ghost said; “For the size of the group [working on federating long form articles], which as you say is not large, man, we are spread across Mastodon DMs sometimes, an email thread other …SocialHub
Gunboats follow sanctions in US strategy on Venezuela
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6004700
The US naval buildup off Venezuela's coast is not about drug interdiction, but imperial pressure. Caracas's response, grounded in asymmetric defense and bolstered by key Eurasian alliances, has transformed a lopsided showdown into a contest of global powers.The US has entered a new phase in its long war on Venezuela. Having exhausted economic and diplomatic tools, it has now turned to the military lever, dispatching warships to the Caribbean in a naked display of force.
This escalation caps years of imperial targeting of the Bolivarian government in Caracas – beginning with sweeping sanctions under former US President Barack Obama, tightened to unprecedented levels under President Donald Trump, and sustained through bipartisan consensus.
Officially, Washington frames this as part of a broad “counter narcotics” campaign targeting so-called terrorist organizations. But that story collapses under scrutiny. What the US really seeks is regime change and regional control, thinly veiled behind drug war rhetoric.
Gunboats follow sanctions in US strategy on Venezuela
The US naval buildup off Venezuela's coast is not about drug interdiction, but imperial pressure. Caracas's response, grounded in asymmetric defense and bolstered by key Eurasian alliances, has transformed a lopsided showdown into a contest of global…thecradle.co
Adding $30.64 on the bet and pretending it's fair is bold.
Shoot whoever makes this app, by the way. I am sure this will become real in our lifetime.
👉 !nonpolitical_memes@lemmy.ml
c/memes has been like this since Lemmy was born.
lemmy.ml was the first Lemmy instance, and c/memes was the 14th community created here:
$ curl -s https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/community?name=memes \
| jq -r '.community_view.community.id'
14
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Lemmy - ProleWiki
Lemmy is a self-hosted, federated, free and open source social link aggregation and discussion platform. It was named after the lead singer from Motörhead, the old...ProleWiki
What is lemmy.ml?
Recently there seems to be some of misunderstanding what the lemmy.ml instance is about, especially from newer users.Lemmy.ml has always been a niche site, and it will most likely stay this way. We don't have any intentions to turn it into a mainstream instance, or set a goal of getting as many users as possible. Our goal is simple: make an instance that people like to use. I would say that we have been successful in this, but obviously it is impossible to satisfy everyone.
The reason for this is that @[url=https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines]Dessalines[/url] and I are paid to develop Lemmy, while donations from lemmy.ml users only make up a negligible part of our income. Besides, having more users would force us to spend more time moderating, and less time for development. Lemmy works quite differently from big tech sites like Reddit in this regard: while they get more money with each extra user through advertising, for us it is the opposite. So we would much rather have a smaller, non-toxic, and friendly userbase, than a large one.
Part of the problem might be that lemmy.ml is described as "flagship instance", which can certainly be interpreted to mean "mainstream" or "general purpose". I struggle to come up with a better, more accurate description. If you can think of one, please comment here.
If you dont like the way lemmy.ml works, thats okay. Federation exists exactly to solve that problem, let different groups have their own instances, with their own rules and political views. You can see the list of existing instances, and instructions for setting up a new one on join-lemmy.org.
In particular, I would like to see someone (or a group of people) create a mainstream, or liberal instance. That should help to avoid further drama, and avoid attempts to turn lemmy.ml into something that it is not. @[url=https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines]Dessalines[/url] and I would certainly be willing to help with any technical problems that such an instance runs into, and include it on join-lemmy.org (just like any other instance that meets the code of conduct).
I need a 32 bit dist for netbook
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This is not true.
They're dropping support for i586 and below. 32-bit systems with i686+ processors will still run fine.
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From trixie, i386 is no longer supported as a regular architecture: there is no official kernel and no Debian installer for i386 systems[...]
Users running i386 systems should not upgrade to trixie. Instead, Debian recommends either reinstalling them as amd64, where possible, or retiring the hardware.
Not all 32-bit systems are i386. For example, my 32-bit Debian thinkpad runs Trixie just fine. Because it's i686 which is still supported.
So again, Debian 13 isn't dropping 32-bit support. Just i586 support and below.
Not all 32-bit systems are i386
but the debian i386 architecture means all 32 bit x86 processors. there's no "i686" build of debian
there are no i586 or i686 kernel or iso available, you can look for them. i386 packages only exist for compatibility reasons, so you can run 32 bit applications on amd64 machines. please read the release notes
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slackware, netbsd, openbsd
edit: i forgot tinycore, you gotta try that too
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+1 for NetBSD it’s such a great OS for ressource limited platforms. Rough edges by today standards but it worth a try on OP’s PC.
Edit : would you please post something like neofetch screenshot when your eeepc is up and running ? 😀
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antiX
That said this machine will not be able to cope with the www of 2025.
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OpenSUSE has a 32-bit build.
Running modern web browsers is no fun.
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I loved my Eee PC so much.
I’ve been watching and hoping for a modern ARM equivalent, but haven’t seen anything quite right so far.
Bunsenlab Linux..
Though don't expect miracles, that cpu is too slow for the modern internet. It's not usable for web browsing on any OS.
I think it was SSE2...?
Hey Droechai
How about trying Sparklinux
They have stable, oldstable and oldoldstable images.
based on debian.
I use sparky on both my raspberry pi 3B's.
Sparky 7 still supports i686 architecture (32 bit).
ISO MinimalGUI i686 (32 bit)
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ISO MinimalGUI i686 - SparkyLinux
There is iso image of Sparky 7.0 MinimalGUI i686 available to download. As you know, Sparky 7 still supports i686 architecture (32 bit), but I created only…pavroo (SparkyLinux)
Puppy, Porteus, antiX, Q4OS, Slax run on 32-bit x86 and are supposed to be under the 256 MiB RAM mark.
Zorin Lite and Xubuntu ~512MiB.
Mint, LXDE and Bunsenlabs ~1GiB.
YMMV
Home - Porteus - Portable Linux
Learn how to install Porteus, about Porteus modules and getting porteus to work with wifi internet.www.porteus.org
FreeBSD offers a 32 bit variant still via their i386 image.
Expect a small learning curve if you've never used UNIX, but most things are similar enough that you'll be fine. If you're ok picking up the FreeBSD handbook.
Let's be honest.... GrapheneOS sucks the big one
I'm sorry but it's true. Graphene OS sucks the big one.... It's absolutely janky when it comes to its Android app support, it's UI is absolutely atrocious, and all around. It's simply a wonky operating system.
Not only that but the whole premise of of making an operating system built only for Google pixel hardware on top of Android Open source project is just silly when it comes to the idea of "privacy". That would be like trying to open up a gay nightclub in Qatar. Google could snap its fingers tomorrow and lock down the ability to unlock bootloaders.
What do you think? Am I wrong here guys?
OK, fine... I'll be honest...
I have had good experiences with it. I have not had problems with apps. Most of my apps I get via Obtaininum. As for the UI, I think it is fine.
I don't think Google will be able to lock my Pixel's bootloader, and, if they do, well it is already running the OS. So it shouldn't be a problem for a while. If at some time GrapheneOS stops being supported I will find something else. I don't need a guarantee of permanence to find it useful today.
This isn’t even a bad opinion, it’s just ignorance.
It only has a problem with some banking apps, the ui is stock android, the premise isn’t to make an operating system built only for Google Pixels it’s to make a secure OS and currently Pixels are the only hardware that meets the requirements and hypothetical futures can be imagined to make any product sound doomed.
Dogshit, braindead take. I've been on Graphene for months and had almost no issues. The issues I've had have been fixed within days because they come out with software updates damn near weekly. Tell me you've never used Graphene without telling me you've never used Graphene. You dumbass, its designed to be minimalistic and peacemeal.
This has to be ragebait.
Honestly, its not perfect, but at least I'm not having ai prompts and constant adverts shoved in my face.
The stock Graphine apps and home launcher are very basic, they didn't focus on them because there are a prethora of better options already out there.
For the basics, I recommend lawnchair, fossify gallary, fossify file manager, fossify phone, and open camera.
For messages, I've got nothing. Only thing I've found that works right with group chats and sending pictures is google messages...
Before complaining, what have you done? What does your post do?
You post like a PSYOP, like we should give up, like there is no hope, WRONG.
At least they are trying. What you are you doing to defend our software freedom?
You are absolutely right. I just saw their history. They really do post like an active psyop.
Whatever you read here, remember, think 'does this post give us power or take it away?'
Not just GrapheneOS, everything, all the time.
Now you know what to tell them.
Tell me you don't understand GrapheneOS without telling me you don't understand GrapheneOS.
This typed from a GrapheneOS phone that works just great, including the UI (breath of fresh simple air, no clutter, no crap, no AI).
And I'm happily using my phone knowing that not a single thing is spying on me or data mining and everything on my phone is there by my choice. And even happier that there's not a damn thing Google can do about it.
Yes, you are wrong.
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Since others have broadly explained that you are in fact wrong here, let's address this hot take by hot take:
It's absolutely janky when it comes to its Android app support,
These limitation are needlessly imposed by google and app developers. And you are overstating the amount of the affected apps.
it's UI is absolutely atrocious
it is bare bones stock adroid but you can install whatever you want, nobody is stopping you. they don't sell UI. they sell control.
It's simply a wonky operating system.
what does does this mean. it is the most basic bare bones system you can have, that works out of the box.
an operating system built only for Google pixel hardware
they have spec reqa for their security architecture, no other phone provides the specs.
Google could snap its fingers tomorrow and lock down the ability to unlock bootloaders.
this is a valid criticism and google has shown its face recently.
GOS team is now working on trying to find OEM to meet their specs. TBD.
Prompted me to donate, they need support. They provide a solid product for anyone who cares to control software on their devices.
GOS team is now working on trying to find OEM to meet their specs. TBD.
More like actively working with an OEM now for them to add official support to some of their devices in the near future.
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Different reasons, but I don't really get the point of it either. It only works on Pixel devices, which means you gotta pay iPhone prices and reward Google's bad behavior. If you're fine paying that, you're probably not too far against Google's behavior and thus, why are you using Graphene? If you're against Google's boorish privacy practices, get an iPhone. Apple is sort of trying to take a stand against privacy invasion (at least to Google's scaling; they aren't perfect) but the fact remains, a lot of people don't care about privacy. Pixel+Graphene is objectively better for privacy than iOS, sure, but there are tradeoffs and people who love Graphene are willing to accept them.
The biggest problem with iOS is, it's closed source and we don't know what Apple will do tomorrow. As a Mac guy I don't have a problem with Apple vis a vis my Macs. However the iPhone is kinda silly for a few reasons, but I still prefer it to the alternative because I don't want to be playing around with custom firmware. That's a younger man's game. It was my game when I was a younger man and I don't want to be in that scene anymore. My choice. I know it's a good choice for others. Android isn't really open source either, though. AOSP is — but forks of it, like the Android on Pixels, like OneUI (I still wanna call it TouchWiz), HTC Sense, and all the others, are not. Of course, if you're running Graphene, or Oxygen (again, I still wanna call it Cyanogen), or something like that (I used to be sweet on an AOKP fork called LiquidSmooth), you're playing with open source so you do have that. But you also give up a lot.
I do think it's a bit weird Graphene is only on Pixel. But I guess by keeping the device list small, they can focus on what they want to do, which isn't support every phone, it's supporting ones they know they can.
At the end of the day, Graphene is a better option for privacy than iOS, which is better than any commercial Android OS by default due to not having Google Play Services.
I'd say you have to really assess what kind of privacy you need. Maybe iOS is enough. If it's not, Graphene is a good bet. I don't need Graphene. Heck, I'd be fine with Pixel Android, but I have an iPhone so I can afford to claim the high road in privacy. Just not the highest road. I know where I stand. But I know where I need to be and I'm standing pretty close to it. If someone needs to be in another place, what works for me may not work for them.
Google could snap its fingers tomorrow and lock down the ability to unlock bootloaders.
This could prevent my next phone from being a Pixel.
But to be clear, there's nothing Google can do to my already unlocked phone running free (as in freedom) software.
I am already outside their walled garden, running a phone that will comfortably outlast all of the vendor locked ones receiving enshittification updates.
Now, I agree that the long term future of GrapheneOS, if it has one, probably isn't Google hardware. I find that Google doesn't present themselves, on the whole, as a trustworthy ally to free computing.
But for today, it kicks ass.
This could prevent my next phone from being a Pixel.
But it doesn't make sense for them to do that. They can't just sell devices promoting them as "unlocked" then brick people's phones or locking them out so they can't access their data down the road.
Now, I agree that the long term future of GrapheneOS, if it has one, probably isn’t Google hardware.
Maybe, maybe not. 10th generation Pixels can be supported, so it'll be a while still. But GrapheneOS is in talks with an OEM and it's looking likely that they'll have official support for GrapheneOS for their devices soon enough.
Google could snap its fingers tomorrow and lock down the ability to unlock bootloaders.
only valid point in the post afaict
i think they mean future devices, not previously sold.
either way the thread is 99% invalid criticism of what is afaict one of the best projects of our generation
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anything robinhood style yes but OGs like fidelity/vanguard/scwab no issue...
hmm i wonder why
That would be like trying to open up a gay nightclub in Qatar.
It's not just qatar. It's many many allies of the fascist USA.
The UI is just AOSP android, simple and ugly (imo) as always. It's not unique in that either, most OEMs have a skin based on AOSP in some way.
As for the app support, I have had very little issues over the past year on GrapheneOS. Aside from some apps being exclusive to the play store (ie they don't host them elsewhere and Aurora doesn't have a copy), I have a pretty seamless experience. And yes, including banking apps.
Tap to pay doesn't work (they're upfront about that) but NFC is still fully features in my experience.
Linux Tablet?
Hi Linux nerds,
I've started up classes recently, and with being a recent convert and all, was a little curious to hear if anyone had any recommendations for a tablet capable of handling the workload of a student and that runs linux. I'm a bit of a neophyte when it comes to hardware (especially tablets, I've never had one in my life), though I've got enough experience to run Fedora on my PC.
My needs are pretty simple, I just need to be able to run libreoffice and take notes on the machine during lectures. Any insights as to where I should be looking?
But yeah, now I have arch+hyprland on slot B and android 16 on slot A in a dual boot setup, and it's smooth as hell. 17 hours of screen on time with libreoffice/gnome pdf reader.
Supported Devices and Features
Linux Kernel for Surface Devices. Contribute to linux-surface/linux-surface development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Dell latitude 5285 is a very robust tablet, its old af but has an x86 intel cpu (i5 or i7 7th gen, rather slow, but fast enough for office and yt) and its easily repaireable (screws on the back) so new battery is no problem.
Refurbished they are sometimes available for ~200€ in germany
Only real issue i found was: volume buttons only work in x11 not in wayland
I've got a 12. I really like it.
Get a DIY one and put your own memory and SSD in it. You'll save £\$\€ over the framework prices for those. I paid about £750 total for my maxed out 48GB/2TB one. Then slap something like Fedora on it and you're good to go.
I got a Lenovo slim pen 2 as the framework stylus isn't out yet. Pairing required holding the buttons for ages, but works great after that.
Searching for "tablet PC" or "Windows tablet" instead of just "tablet" will probably help in your search. Most computers with x86_64 CPUs (Intel or AMD) should be able to run Linux distros fine.
But tablets don't seem to be a common form factor for PCs. It seems like the term has really been narrowed down to mean one that runs Android or iOS. Very frustrating.
If you can't find anything that doesn't have an ARM SoC, you can try postmarketOS, but it will require more work and risk than a "PC" that is a tablet. wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Dev…
Otherwise, if you plan to still mostly if not only write via keyboard, consider sticking to a normal laptop. They are often cheaper and you'll write way faster than you can with a tablet.
If you have money to spend, look for a Microsoft Surface. It’s amazing how good they work with Linux, despite being a Microsoft device designed to run Windows.
Their build quality is really good, too.
Agreed as I’m using a Surface Go 1 with typecover (keyboard) as a daily driver with Fedora.
I’d get a used one to avoid giving money to Microsoft.
How is the user experience with Linux?
I'm a Linux /Android/occasional Windows user who after 4 generations of Android tablets, finally gave up and got an iPad (first and only Apple device in decades), because it's leagues ahead in user experience.
If notetaking is going to be your primary use, you'll definitely want to focus on the keyboard experience. Touch-typing on a screen isn't a fun way to take class notes and a lot of cheap bluetooth keyboards end up being laggy or otherwise unsatisfactory.
I've heard good things about Surface tablets and their attachable keyboards. I've personally had good luck with two-in-one laptops, where the keyboards are built-in.
When/if you try for a pure tablet experience, be prepared for rough edges. Outside of KDE, Gnome and maybe Budgie, most desktop environments/WMs aren't designed to work on tablets without keyboards. Getting an on-screen keyboard to act how you want it to act isn't something that has been solved universally. Another fun wrinkle is that there's no guarantee that the tablet's accelerometer will be detected, so it may be challenging to rotate the screen orientation. If you like messing around with settings and downloading half-finished projects from github, then you'll love playing around with Linux tablets.
while it's a bit more than a tablet, I scooped up a gen 3 yoga x1 thinkpad off ebay for somewhere around $300 USD. i'm running bluefin on it and it works great for most of my general computing tasks. the screen folds back into a tablet mode and the keys recess when it does. that functionality "just works" on a fresh bluefin install for me.
the stylus that sits inside the body of the laptop doesn't function and i suspect that it is a (non-replaceable) battery issue. i bought a larger lenovo stylus for the device after some research and it works great (plus i can replace the battery). it's a CCAI21LP1520T4 model. i think it was about $35 USD.
the only downside is it's a bit heavier than a tablet and it can get kind of warm over time but i'm doing development on it and have several docker containers running for that purpose. that might be a me problem.
i like that it has a headphone jack and an sd card slot. there's also a sim card slot but i doubt that's usable with linux.
Similar expierience, got an Inspiron x360 for $150 - works great and its capable of doing so much more than a usual tablet since I have the same Debian Stable install as on my Desktop and work Laptop.
And everything worked out of the box, which kinda baffled me to be honest.
What you're looking for is PostmarketOS. On their website you can also see what tablet devices it runs on more or less perfectly and on which ones some of the features are missing.
I think their website answers all of your questions.
postmarketOS // real Linux distribution for phones
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
Proud Boys members call for Pam Bondi's resignation for seeking to dismiss their $100 million lawsuit
Proud Boys members call for Pam Bondi's resignation for seeking to dismiss their $100 million lawsuit
The far-right Proud Boys are calling for Pam Bondi's resignation, after the Justice Department filed a motion to dismiss their lawsuit.Scott MacFarlane (CBS News)
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Cheap SBC x86-64 ?
Hi,
is it exist cheap ~$60 SBC in X86-64 ??
::: spoiler No thank you for Rapsberry PI
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I used Raspberry PI SBC for a while now.
But it's really hard to found a Linux distribution that support
- RPI (arm64)
- sysVinit 💖
- And that I like
Please don't bring systemD in this discussion thanks.
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( first row is for reference )
| brand | model | Price € | GPIO pair | CPU | Lan Ports | idle watt | Surface area cm² | Storage ports | WiFi / BT | url |
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| Raspberry Pi | Pi 5 B (4GB) | 52 | 12 | Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz. | 1x 1GbE | 3 | 47 | SD | ||
| radxa1 | X4 | 90 | 12 | N100 ▼ | 1x 2.5GbE | 18W ? | 47.6 | M.22, eMMC2 | W6, BT5.2 | |
| HardKernel ? | ODROID H4 | 109 | ?? | N97 ▲ | 1x 2.5GbE | N.C -> 60W ? | 144 | eMMC, M.2*, SATA* | hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4/ |
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quick summary
Monolithic design: Systemd is a large, complex piece of software that combines many system management functions, rather than having separate, specialized tools as in the traditional Unix philosophy.rentry.co
Have you tried MX Linux? It is based on Debian, they have a distro for RPI, and they have no systemd
Yes, Nice distro, but unfortunately their RPI respin use systemD 👎 \
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So I have created a table , that I'll put in my first post.
Feel free to post update like
|brand|model|Price €|GPIO pair|CP|Lan Ports|idle watt|Surface area cm²|Storage ports| WiFi / BT|url| \
|Raspberry Pi|Pi 5 B (4GB)|52|12|Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz.|1x 1GbE|3|47|SD|||
or even without the row header
Faraday Sleeves - SLNT® - SLNT®
SLNT patented Faraday cage sleeves block ALL signals to and from your wireless device. Faraday sleeve that protects privacy, security and health.SLNT
From my tests, not fully. And neither did just aluminum foil. Wrapping the phone in aluminum foil + putting it into microwave oven (off, of course) did the trick.
I was doing this a lot to force automatic band switching into what I liked, until I got a phone where that can be done manually.
No. Originally it was a testing username for UNIX shell. I just hit the keys randomly for numbers. Well, somebody verified my account, giving it higher value and making it not temporary.
Then SDF also made a Lemmy instance, and not understanding that being a separate product, I re-used the same username.
Greta Thunberg speaks before departure of flotilla carrying aid to Gaza [video]
An estimated Twenty-seven ships to set sail for Gaza from multiple ports to break Israel’s siege on the enclave.
This will be activist Greta Thunberg’s second mission, having been taken captive by Israel earlier this year when her ship and fellow crew members were sprayed with illicit chemicals and boarded unlawfully in international waters. The Handala and her crew also suffered a similar fate earlier this summer.
Dozens of people gathered on Saturday at the port of Barcelona where a flotilla will set sail for Gaza on Sunday. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is hoping to break… the naval blockade imposed by Israel along the coast of the Gaza Strip since 2007... (AP video and production by Hernan Munoz)
Additional information:
The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza: Everything you need to know
Largest flotilla for Gaza hopes to pressure Israel to end blockade
The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza: Everything you need to know
More than 50 ships are heading to Gaza to challenge Israel’s illegal blockade and deliver urgent humanitarian aid.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
Chinese Pudu robots found open to hijacking
Researcher who found McDonald's free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots
: The controls were left wide open on Pudu's robotsIain Thomson (The Register)
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Vacuum robot security and privacy
Exactly 5 years ago we were presenting ways to hack and root vacuum robots. Since then, many things have changed. Back then we were looki...media.ccc.de
McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes rotten security
McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes nuggets of rotten security
: Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helpedIain Thomson (The Register)
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They had fun writing this article:
allow an attacker to get a corporate email account with which to conduct a little filet-o-phishingwith no server-side checking, allowing a Hamburglar to order food for free
eventually got through to a security McEngineer who said that they were "too busy" to fix the flaw
Coincidentally, I saw on linkedin last night they were hiring a Security Operations manager. They should get an Appsec person instead to fix those issues.
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I am not mad at the vibe coders, I got cheese burgers!
Now, a new car would be great... Tell the CEO how great AI is and how much money they are going to save please.
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That's a whole lot of incompetence from McD
You can pretty well guarantee there are plenty of security flaws left. If anyone wants free food, I'm sure it's still easy to do
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Yeah .. that thought occurred to me as well.
I wonder if there's a way that you can legally monetize the process, so the organisation who left a gaping hole .. or several bazillion in this case .. gets an education in corporate security and the researcher gets paid for their efforts. A corporate symbiosis if you like.
If course the non legal way is extortion .. but that tends to go towards warfare and mutually assured destruction, rather than collaboration.
Perhaps this opens the door to a white hat penetration testing department at the corporate regulator who issues fines (which pay for the work) .. but I'm not seeing any evidence of an appetite for anything even remotely resembling such a set-up anywhere on Earth.
Espionage on the other hand ..
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The Hollywood hacking depictions are equivalent to seeing syringes being used on film. To the uninitiated it looks "real", the reality is somewhat different.
Source: I've been an ICT professional for 40+ years and have had hundreds of (medical) needles poked in me over much of my life.
That makes sense. But maybe there is something else... Hollywood exaggerated what could be done too soon.
Take the classic 1995 films The Net and Hackers. (I love hackers now in a bittersweet way because of just how sincerely positive they felt towards the future and the future of the internet. Genuinely believing that it will forever be a place of a freedom and ruled by wild west cowboy hackers who will not only do things out of curiosity, but also never sell out. To be fair, they were going by The Hacker Manifesto ).
In The Net, you have a terminally online cybersec specialist (a female cybersec specialist, and terminally online... in the mid-90s. The former is believable, the latter is not... there just wasn't THAT much to do online at the time) who gets her life torn apart when people erase her very existence using the internet. They state that 'everything is online now' meaning everything can be accessed and destroyed, thus rendering her a non-person with no records of who she because they purged all databases of her records.
In Hackers, you have somewhat the same thing play out... but it was done as a gag and clearly undone later. There is a US Secret Service agent causing the protagonists some trouble, so they make trouble for him by creating online dating profiles with his name and contacts (and putting extreme fetishes he does not have, thus having him be called by all manner of weirdos), cancelling his credit cards, and the funniest part: They have him declared legally dead somehow. All of this is undone of course, and the whole sequence played for laughs, but it greatly exaggerated what was and what wasn't online at the time.
One thing that absolutely COULD have happened that I didn't think was possible was in the 4th Die Hard movie, Live Free or Die Hard... in the movie the bad guys hack a city's traffic lights and make them all green all the time, thus causing numerous traffic accidents. I rolled my eyes when I saw and said 'nah, that can't happen'... only for me to read later that not only could such a thing happen, but it could happen in the stupidest way possible. Some hacker managed to find a clear-net website of some town that had their traffic light control on... and it was 100% unsecure. Meaning anyone with the URL could have just gone on and caused a lot of damage. The person who discovered it, thankfully, did not. But the fact that it COULD have happened was astonishing to me.
Now you have so much shit going on it isn't funny. I can't keep track of all the major hacks that just keep happening. From the Tea hack, to Las Vegas being compromised, to all sorts o shit. It is just incredible.
I have serious doubts about the traffic light thing, any even remotely well designed systems would have interlinks that don't allow green from multiple directions.
Shutting them down or changing the sequencing, sure, but not multiple greens at once.
Let's be honest, if Microsoft failed Linux Phones will fail
It's inevitable....you people are going to have your Android given the iPhone treatment and you are going to LIKE IT! 🫨
Seriously though, alternatives? Grapheneos Mastodon page is a dumpster fire at times. One minute they are as ferocious as lions claiming they will never surrender.....the next they are lamenting that Google won't feed them and they need a new hardware supplier
CalyxOS folded quicker than a wet paper bag at a simple management shift! GrapheneOS and it's days are numbered
So what's the real option going forward?
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The current US government wouldn't nationalize industry.
Doesn't that tell you something?
I assume a lot of android foss app developers are going to refuse to register and the projects are going to need to be forked.
Personally I'm getting an old feature phone and an ipad mini that only has wifi. If my choice is between apple iOS and google iOS I'd rather just not use anything to do with Google.
- There is no universal definition what a technology needs to achieve in order to be "successful" or "failing". Linux, in particular, depending on perspective, could have either "failed" literally all the time because it hasn't (yet) achieved desktop dominance, or it could have been massively successful on the other hand because it has been dominant on servers and mobile phones (in the form of Android). Now if we look at desktop Linux in particular, it has also somehow "not failed" at the same time, because it has continued to grow. It was stagnant for a very, very long time at around 1% market share but recently it's been steadily increasing up to about 5%. Again, depending on your definition or vibes, you could call this either successful or failing. Which is why these terms in isolation are kind of meaningless.
- Microsoft is a company, Windows Phone was a product by that company. If a product from a company "fails", the company will abandon that product. It's that simple. Sure, gaining foothold against established iOS and Android is super hard. Which is the reason why Microsoft's effort failed. But, they are just a company. Linux, on the other hand, is at its core a world-wide community-developed open source software project (as well as most of the software that runs on top of it) and so it doesn't really matter if it grows up to Android or iOS size. It's still being developed as long as people want to develop for it. There's no single CEO looking at some statistics and calling to cut that project because it doesn't serve his definition of success.
- In general, any project that strives to eventually rival established software products within a market has a steep uphill battle. It's the network effect. Developers develop for iOS and Android because 99% of the user base uses those two mobile OS. Only very few developers will be like "oh there's this new thing currently at 1% market share, sure, let's help it grow!". This alone prevents lots of apps you'd like to see on mainline Linux based mobile OS to ever exist for it. So you need to fall back to some workarounds like Waydroid, to run Android apps on Linux in the meantime, while Linux on mobile continues to grow and continues to attract developer attention. This can take a long time! On top of that are anti-competitive and monopolistic strategies and tactics being used by Google and Apple to ensure they remain on top of the mobile OS food chain. One such example is Google's so-called Play Integrity API, which is basically a form of DRM. Some app developers have been misled by Google's marketing to believe that they should implement it to ensure that their app is running on a "secure" device or environment. What they fail to realize is that Google uses that to basically label every non-Google-sanctioned Android distribution (like Graphene or Calyx or Lineage or many others) or Android runtime environment (like Waydroid) as "insecure" or other negative terms, which then prevents the app from being run at all. Furthermore they plan to restrict "sideloading" which means they want every app to only be distributed via Google's app repository. This means Google wants to exert a ton of control over the developers, the platform and every single app that runs on it. Developers are usually being lured into this via marketing tricks that this would much more secure than it was before or similar nonsense. What they fail to realize is that this also destroys flexibility and freedom for the users to choose what they want to install, and from where. On desktop PCs, you have had these freedoms for forever (even Windows(!) is much more open and neutral than iOS or Android are these days) - you obviously also should have these freedoms for your mobile OS because it's also just a computer with an OS on it. It's simply none of the business of the OS developer to tell the user which apps he should install and from where. OS and apps are completely different things from completely different developers. Choice is being limited significantly when Google centrally controls what apps are being distributed at all, there's 1 company telling you which apps you can and can't use. This is obviously bad and should NEVER happen, but many developers, users and other people confronted with this are easily lured into Google- and Apple-operated cages by fake security talk/marketing. That means they help establish Google's and Apple's monopoly on mobile OS. This, combined with the network effect for app developers, is why it will take lots of time and also not a commercial product (because no commercial product will have the amount of money or time to compete with Apple or Google) to rise up to these monopolies until a third viable option is on people's radars. Linux, due to its open source nature, is the only project that CAN achieve this because it can't fail. It can only grow. But we also need to ensure that at least Android remains a somewhat neutral and open platform. If Google becomes more like Apple controlling literally everything, it gets even harder for alternatives (and for Android users in general).
Linux phones are usable right now, but of course you have some limitations in practice... many apps aren't available or you have to use workarounds. If you mostly use open source applications you could be fine though. Although it's likely that you still need a secondary, small Android-based phone that you turn on just for those rare cases where you absolutely need a certain mobile app and it's only available for Android. At least while Linux mobile OS usage is still low. It's probably going to grow faster in the future, because those monopolistic companies usually enshittify their products and services at some point (Google is already well on it) and then regular Android/iOS users become so annoyed at what they're using that they also open up more for alternatives. It's basically what's happening in the desktop OS space right now - Windows continues to become more user-hostile and annoying to use, and desktop Linux passively (as well as actively) becomes more popular as a result. At some point, these companies forget what made their products popular in the first place and are only operating in the mode of milking users for data and profits, because they don't need to work hard anymore to improve the product - it's already popular enough. At that point, regular users who normally don't care about things like freedoms, privacy and ethics in the product they use will notice that things became worse and might switch simply because of inconveniences they didn't have before.
Another very good option beside Linux-based mobile OS these days is GrapheneOS. It's the best Android-based distribution you can have currently, nothing comes close (not going to elaborate here because long post is already long). But you still should be prepared for increasing hostility from Google towards unofficial Android distributions, and some apps which use the Play Integrity DRM to not work. If you encounter this, make sure to let the app developer(s) know. They need to realize that they are only serving Google's interests with this, not their own.
Define "failed"?
Microsoft is a business. If they aren't able to sell phones, they fail. Linux doesn't sell anything and yet is able to keep trucking for 30 years.
Can Linux mobile hardware OEMs fail? Can and have. But the software community presses on. Not as quickly as I would like but they press on regardless.
Happy with a phone that’s basically based on UNIX and isn’t run by a personal information broker. I can put Google apps on it if I want (and I think I have a couple) but ultimately it’s up to me what I want advertisers to be able to buy.
I dunno, just seems better, especially given the two cost the same. So all that personal information they sell doesn’t work out to a cost savings for you, plus the phone they make themselves is like 20-40% slower, newest model to newest model. So in a sense you’re kind of paying them to sell your data? Not my cup of tea.
I'm not following the GOS stuff super closely but last I saw they said they were a year away from having their own hardware, and that Pixel support would be able to continue. See this thread: grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…
No need to reinvent the wheel so pre-emptively. If GOS does go down (which it sounds like they are trying their best not to), I'll probably switch to a Linux phone or just not have a smartphone.
We've received the Pixel 10 we ordered and have confirmed it supports unlocking, flashing another verified boot key and locking again.Our Pixel 10 support will likely only be possible to complete after we finish porting to Android 16 QPR1 which is being released in September.
A phone is a surveillance device.
The networks it is able to connect to have been compromised by attackers using backdoors built into them for the use of law enforcement. The legality of collecting information transmitted across those networks has been enshrined in law. All hardware and software companies which work with phones are targeted for infiltration by multiple foreign and domestic intelligence agencies. Friendly nations exchange intelligence packages and techniques for bypassing phone security with each other as a matter of fact. Foreign intelligence services’ surveillance technology is integrated into local law enforcement.
You cannot privately or securely use a phone.
Adblocking is not privacy or security.
Playing Super Nintendo on your phone is not privacy or security.
No amount of open source software will save you from the global intelligence state who have targeted the linux kernel and various distributions.
You cannot privately or securely use a phone.
This is probably true of most devices, but people can still try to improve their security and privacy. Don't let perfection be the enemy of the good and so on...
Neural Privacy: EFF interviews Yuste and Genser of the Neurorights Foundation
"How to Fix the Internet" has an important interview with neuroscientist Rafael Yuste and human rights lawyer Jared Genser, who together established the Neurorights Foundation, focused on expanding human rights concepts to neurotechnologies —tools that can record, interpret, and even manipulate brain activity.
They have contributed to getting laws passed nearly unanimously in three states of the USA and also discuss reforms in Brazil and Chile. This is an important issue to understand, and now seems like a short-lived opportunity to get laws passed before wealthy companies become involved in these technologies and start lobbying for their own interests.
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Podcast Episode: Protecting Privacy in Your Brain
The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to decipher thoughts, and perhaps even manipulate them, isn't just around the corner – it's already here.Electronic Frontier Foundation
German cabinet passes bill for voluntary military service
The bill foresees certain annual recruitment targets for the new voluntary scheme: rising from 20,000 in 2026 to 38,000 in 2030.If these numbers are not achieved, the government could opt instead to reinstate conscription, subject to parliamentary approval, according to the latest draft of the bill.
Already the current bill contains some mandatory elements, with all young men required to fill an online questionnaire regarding their willingness and abilities for military service after turning 18, to gain a better overview of the potentially available personnel.
Yo yo! Help me choose some better private services!
Yo yo!
I’ve been working on making my life more private and need some assistance picking suitable replacement options. Please let me know what you think of my list of if there are any opportunities for improvement! Here’s where I’m at …
Apple Maps
-OSMandMaps. Seems like a good option, but it’s not ready out the box. I need to do more tweaking with it.
-Magic Earth. Haven’t tested it yet, seems good. But I’m looking for free options first before I dabble with paid stuff.
AI (ChatGPT)
-Lumo. Chat is really good. But I understand they are good because they syphon data illegally, so I’m ok “downgrading” when switching AIs. Lump seems pretty good so far. I can tell it’s not as advanced but it will do me fine for what I need. Also, i assume once I pay for lumo pro it will be more “powerful”.
-Maple AI. Seems dope, also I like the pay model, pay for what you use over “x” amount of inquiries. Does anyone know how I owledgable/powerful it is?
-local AI OR Ollama. These 2 are beyond my knowledge. I don’t understand how I run these on my own server? If you know anything about these please ELI5.
Google Docs
-OnlyOffice. Seems like it does everything I want.
-cryptpad. Just heard of this today, need to explore more. Seems dope, but it doesn’t have an app? From what I’ve seen definitely a strong contender.
Photo App (I haven’t looked into any of these yet)
-Protón Drive.
-ente photos.
-I’mmich.
Google Drive
-protón drive.
I was just looking at it. And I should preface, I do not like or trust AI chatbots. I saw "uncensored" in the headline, but when I scrolled down to the pricing, it's actually censored unless you pay. So for free you have a limited number of prompts (seems quite generous though) but there's a maturity filter implied on the free tier which is "disabled" on the $18/mo tier.
I've just been using Duck.ai (DuckDuckGo) for simple and stupid questions (e.g. who would win in a fight between X and Y, dumb shit like that) and it's been fine. You should know DDG has been linked to Bing (Microsoft) for searching. They claim their AI is private. Doesn't really concern me, I think all AI is inherently shit, so I take them at their word that it's private... because I'm not sharing anything with it that matters. Just asking it dumb questions.
Have you used that one before, and if so do you like it compared to the OGs (google maps, Apple Maps)
Apple Maps -OSMandMaps. Seems like a good option, but it’s not ready out the box. I need to do more tweaking with it. -Magic Earth. Haven’t tested it yet, seems good. But I’m looking for free options first before I dabble with paid stuff.
If you like OSM but want a more user-friendly interface (disclaimer: I'm an Android user so I have no idea what OSMandMaps looks like), check out CoMaps! It was forked from Organic Maps due to heavy transparency concerns surrounding the former and uses downloadable OSM maps as a backend! It's available for iOS too!
Google Docs -OnlyOffice. Seems like it does everything I want.
I've heard OnlyOffice is great, but if you don't need or want any AI stuff, don't mind a slightly less-modern UI, and collaboration isn't a requirement, then LibreOffice is pretty awesome too. Just giving you another option. ;)
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LibreOffice is starting to look nice! How an office suite looks shouldn't matter, but... it does. I have decades of experience with Word and Excel, and while I don't love them, they are kinda the standard against which I compare others. Before (last time I looked, a few years ago maybe) LO looked like Office 95. Trash. The program was okay, but it irked me it was an all or nothing affair, like you had the LO core and you only saved a few KB by ditching one of the apps in the bundle. These days, that is less of an issue — and LO looks more like Office XP. It's a good look, especially for Ribbon haters. (I quite like the Ribbon, but I'm also nostalgic for the time before it, so I could take or leave it.)
I'm on a Mac now and we have our own office suite (iWork) and that's free, private, and it can read/write docx/xlsx files (newer Office files) pretty well. We use Microsoft 365 at work, and I have no problems importing anything made on that to the iWork apps (Pages, Numbers), and/or exporting files from them to the Microsoft formats and using them at work.
I don't think any spreadsheet program is quite as good as Excel, though. And I really don't do number crunching with it, I use it more to make forms. What I really like in Microsoft's suite is Publisher, and Apple doesn't have an equivalent of that. Not sure if Libre does. I think the other suites want their word processor to do double duty as a publisher, but none of them are quite there IMO. But as far as Word goes? Yeah, I'll swap that out with Libre Writer or iWork Pages (or even Google Docs if I weren't concerned with privacy) in a heartbeat. Word is nothing special.
I definitely need some advice for self hosting! I literally have no idea what I’m doing. I have a raspberry pi and another user said that may be enough to get started.
Could you share some videos or links or blogs that explain how to get started?
So I googled it and if you have a Pi 5 with 8gb or 16gb of ram it is technically possible to run Ollama, but the speeds will be excruciatingly slow. My Nvidia 3060 12gb will run 14b (billion parameter) models typically around 11 tokens per second, this website shows a Pi 5 only runs an 8b model at 2 tokens per second - each query will literally take 5-10 minutes at that rate:
Pi 5 Deepseek
It also shows you can get a reasonable pace out of the 1.5b model but those are whittled down so much I don't believe they're really useful.
There are lots of lighter weight services you can host on a Pi though, I highly recommend an app called Cosmos Cloud, it's really an all-in-one solution to building your own self-hosted services - it has its own reverse proxy like Nginx or Traefik including Let's Encrypt security certificates, URL management, and incoming traffic security features; it has an excellent UI for managing docker containers and a large catalog of prepared docker compose files to spin up services with the click of a button; it has more advanced features you can grow into using like OpenID SSO manager, your own VPN, and disk management/backups.
It's still very important to read the documentation thoroughly and expect occasional troubleshooting will be necessary, but I found it far, far easier to get working than a previous Nginx/Docker/Portainer setup I used.
I Ran Deepseek R1 on Raspberry Pi 5 and No, it Wasn't 200 tokens/s
Everyone is seeking Deepseek R1 these days. Is it really as good as everyone claims? Let me share my experiments of running it on a Raspberry Pi.Abhishek Kumar (It's FOSS)
I definitely need some advice for self hosting!
Great SelfHosting resource: lemmy.world/c/selfhosted
I selfhost a lot of the services I use. It's cost effective and educational all at the same time. The RPI is a good point to deviate from. When you outgrow it, repurpose it into a Pi-Hole. Personal VPS servers are quite affordable if you know where to look. Do some poking around and be sure to ask some questions. We all were noobs at something at some point and all knowledge and wisdom starts with a single question.....so don't be afraid to ask it.
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1. Install a supported operating system You can run Pi-hole in a container, or deploy it directly to a supported operating system via our automated installer. Dpi-hole.net
Nice! Good sublemmy to follow! (Is sublemmy the right word)
Thanks for the tips! I just started playing around with ollama so I think the self hosting route is next.
(Is sublemmy the right word)
Never heard it before but it does sound appropriate.
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Heads up the android app is in rework stage, don't judge too hardshly.
The Business model is solid though.
I would advise to avoid all in one service like proton. Their email is prolly the best service they provide.
I was kinda doing it wrong. When I download the model it was very slow. But now that I’m using the model my inquires are done at an ok speed (10-30sec depending on what I ask)
Interesting that you need stronger GPU instead of CPU? Can you tell I know next to nothing about tech ….
Gotta be honest, idk what half of the words you just said mean. Core count, vram… still have some learning to do.
My plan is to run ollama on my rig kinda like a server I guess. And then Use my phone to tap into that whenever I need it. From what I researched that seems doable, but will take some set up.
Maps: CoMaps all the way. Very nice, polished map app using OpenStreetMap
AI: Just use Ollama. It's dead simple to run it on your local machine. They have docs here: github.com/ollama/ollama/tree/…
Productivity suite: LibreOffice. If you want sync use Nextcloud (needs to be hosted) or syncthing (no hosting necessary).
Photo app: Nextcloud Photos app if you want cloud sync. I take it you use iOS given that you specify Apple Maps, in which case idk what foss photos apps there are on iOS, but Fossify Gallery on Android is good.
Cloud storage: Nextcloud. By definition, cloud storage needs to be hosted, so if you don't have a server, you can use something like Proton Drive or Cryptdrive, or find a public Nextcloud instance that lets you sign up (Disroot has one).
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Get up and running with OpenAI gpt-oss, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3 and other models. - ollama/ollamaGitHub
A Demonstrator’s Guide to Operational Security
A Demonstrator’s Guide to Operational Security
How do police identify and target those who participate in demonstrations? What countermeasures can we take to hinder repression?CrimethInc.
Take all this with a big grain of salt—it’s based on the oddly naïve assumption that the police are trying to catch the actual instigators, and that they need real evidence to get convictions.
In my experience, the objective of the police is to create a particular public narrative, with the least amount of effort or risk to themselves. The narrative (which they present to the media after the fact) is that they acted with restraint, respecting the peoples’ right to assemble, until a handful of agitators turned destructive and the demonstration threatened to escalate into a major riot—at which point they swiftly intervened, caught enough of the agitators to prevent an escalation, and saved (most of) the city’s businesses from destruction.
Now, they do want to intimidate the crowd to keep things from escalating too far, but they also want to allow for some destruction to legitimize their tactics and to support the argument that the police force needs more officers. So they let the actual instigators alone, because they’re useful to their narrative (to a point) and because the police don’t want to engage with the group most prepared to fight back. (What they really want to avoid is a large crowd seeing multiple people physically resisting the police without being immediately subdued.)
Instead, they target:
* Journalists, street medics, and legal observers, to remove the demonstrators’ sense of institutional support and legitimacy;
* Anyone unable to fight back (like the disabled, elderly, and children) for pure shock value and crowd intimidation via low-risk displays of violence;
* Those whose mug shots in the papers the next day will support their narrative—the homeless, minorities, and anyone whose face is vaguely weird or scary; and
* People who dressed in black bloc fashion, but are clearly by themselves, passive, and not part of an organized group.
These last are the only ones they will try to prosecute, and often their black bloc attire plus the testimony of cops who claim they saw them engaged in destructive activity just before grabbing them will be enough to get a conviction. In this case the anonymity of their dress backfires, because the cops can pin the actions of anyone with similar clothing and body type on them by claiming they saw the act first-hand and caught the suspect immediately afterward.
Meanwhile, the real instigators are convinced that they escaped due to the brilliance of their tactics and not because the cops had no interest in catching them.
That said, all this goes out the window when dealing with Trump’s federal agents: they’re working from different narratives that don’t involve protecting businesses, maintaining local support, or respecting anyone’s rights.
If you know Flock, most of their cheap cameras go down all by themselves. Even when they’re operating as intended, their capture rates are under 70%, which is why you usually find them in pairs monitoring the same direction of traffic. That dinky solar panel can barely power them through the night so most of their cameras are dead in the early morning hours.
The only way Flock stays in business is by literally giving their cameras away by illegally installing them in municipalities and waiting for them to be ordered removed. You’d probably be doing most cities a favor by taking them down.
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when i lived in austin, i witnessed several instances of "texan progressives" call the police on protestors for preventing the self driving taxis from stealing peoples in jobs by sitting in the street to block them; while people in san francisco & oakland looked the other way when protestors threw paint destroyed the sensors on the self driving taxis.
californians have the proper mindset to affect change and i REALLY miss living there sometimes.
Nvidia driver issues...
Well guys! I did it! Linux mint on my desktop! Finally! Everything seemed like it was going swimmingly save for some minor issues. But then I ran into one: I did use stability matrix to make furry porn (very bad furry porn, don't ask) but when I tried to run it, it kept telling me it had issues with python and cuda and other stuff. I wondered if the problem was just python libraries or my nvidia drivers. I did manage to get a workaround, but it simply wouldn't use my GPU... in fact, I think I am having a super hard time seeing if I am even using it properly.
Speaking of drivers I tried to install the latest one, but that caused a problem. I use multiple monitors (because of course I do). Three in fact, but only one ended up working with the other two entirely unrecognized. And I still wasn't able to use my GPU to get stability matrix (or even stability forge without that) and my games still can't run on max graphics settings. I've been looking around for some help on this and trying to work on it all day, with limited success. It is basically the only major thing going wrong with my transition from windows to linux.
Any help here?
It gave the following
Command 'nvidia-smi' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525 # version 525.147.05-0ubuntu1, or
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525-server # version 525.147.05-0ubuntu1
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470 # version 470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470-server # version 470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-535 # version 535.183.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-535-server # version 535.230.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.3
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-550 # version 550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-570-server # version 570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-565-server # version 565.57.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.3
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-550-server # version 550.144.03-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Really? No driver? That explains a lot...
My GPU is an GeForce RTX 4090. Top of the line shit, that's why I want to make sure it is put to good use.
Yeah sounds like missing drivers, pretty sure the latest nvidia driver is 580.xx but Mint might have an older version that's stable.
IIRC you should be able to install the drivers with the 'Driver manager' program
So I installed using
sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525
And then ran nvidia-smi, it told me:
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
Now I am kinda worried, because I had a very hard time installing the drivers...
I went on the default driver manager and I selected the latest one there. It was Nvidia-driver-575-open. But that gave me issues and didn't allow me to use all 3 of my monitors. The one that it says s selected now is the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.
I tried to go directly to Nvidia's site, but I ran into some issues that it did say X server was running, then I had to go on... man, I don't remember what that was one called, it asked for an admin username... and was it the one I chose at the very beginning? the password I am using didn't workout for that. It is kinda weird. I'm really needing to learn a lot to get this to work properly. It's exciting, but I'll be very happy once it is over.
Just do this: itsfoss.com/nvidia-linux-mint/
Report any errors.
Install Nvidia Drivers on Linux Mint [Beginner's Guide]
Struggling with Nvidia and Linux Mint? Here's a detailed beginner's guide that explains plenty of things around installing Nvidia drivers on Linux Mint.Ankush Das (It's FOSS)
Buddy, you are a lifesaver! I do believe that fixed my issues!
Thank you so very much!
Ok. If ever you want to try Bazzite, here's the download link: bazzite.gg/#image-picker
Then choose: Desktop > Nvidia RTX Series > KDE > Traditional Desktop.
Bazzite - The next generation of Linux gaming
Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.bazzite.gg
Install Nvidia Drivers on Linux Mint [Beginner's Guide]
Struggling with Nvidia and Linux Mint? Here's a detailed beginner's guide that explains plenty of things around installing Nvidia drivers on Linux Mint.Ankush Das (It's FOSS)
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Your Phone Already Has Social Credit. We Just Lie About It.
Your credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit systems that track you, score you, and reward you…Natalie Pang (The Nexus)
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in reply to einkorn • • •Short answer — the internal “switch” is held in the on position by a magnet. Magnets become much less effective when they get hot, and while there is still water in the cooker the maximum temperature will be 100C. Once all the water boils off the temperature quickly rises — but the magnets stop being able to attract the switch when they hit around 102 - 103C or so and release the switch, turning the machine off.
So all has is a switch connected to a magnet next to the bottom of the pot. That’s it. Physics does the rest.
NihilsineNefas
in reply to Yaztromo • • •en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_…
I doubt they're using magnets, especially considering how hot they have to get to lose their magnetism as you suggest.
Most thermostats in electronics such as kettles and cookers use a bi-metallic strip inside, where the two metal layers expand at different rates.
The contacts in the switch are physically pulled apart by the strip bending when the desired temperature is reached.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimeta…
strip used to convert a temperature change into mechanical displacement
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in reply to lime! • • •Not sure where they said they "did an entire presentation on this thing" or where they got their information from.
I'm only adding some context to what I know of how thermostats work. I would gladly admit I'm wrong if provided with some evidence.
If you want a visual demonstration of a thermostat working here's a video.
youtu.be/eRnYp8foJks
(For context I don't mean to come across as one of those "well ackshually" asshats, I just like watching people take apart electronics (was also slightly obsessed with magnets as a kid. MANY hard drives were sacrificed to my curiosity lol).)
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in reply to NihilsineNefas • • •yeah we went over that in another sub-thread.
regarding the actual info, fittingly it's a short one by his standards, but in case you're not able to watch:
rice cookers depend on the curie temperature of magnets rather than bimetallic strips because the way you want them to work is to pump full power into the pot until all water has boiled off, at which point they should instantly switch off to stop the rice from burning. a bimetallic strip bends over a range of temperatures, but the magnetic switch in the rice cooker snaps open the instant the target temperature is exceeded and doesn't automatically reset. that's the big one.
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in reply to lime! • • •Oh nice one, that's kinda cool
See I thought the curie temperature was a 'one and done' sort of deal where you have to go through the process of remagnetizing the magnet after it had gone beyond that point.
lime!
in reply to NihilsineNefas • • •NihilsineNefas
in reply to lime! • • •Ahh that makes a lot more sense
Cheers for the clarification
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in reply to MyNameIsAtticus • • •That's awesome. With what does he tinker? Some sort of screenshot technology?
I'm the youngest in my family, so I've never really had the chance to guide someone's growth until relatively recently. I take a great amount of pride in directing my kid toward things that will expand their creativity and curiosity. Hopefully you enjoy doing the same for your younger brother!
MyNameIsAtticus
in reply to toynbee • • •I try to encourage him since all my tinkering was self taught. I know I’d appreciate having a guide or even just a friend to talk to about those ideas. And he definitely comes up with some ideas that help my own tinkering.
Right now he’s really into engineering and has this box that comes monthly that I paid for him that teaches him Engineering principles. I think it’s done by Mark Rober? Not really tinkering but He also likes making models for 3D printing and he’s been trying to get into Programming, unfortunately I think that curiosity keeps distracting him though.
toynbee
in reply to MyNameIsAtticus • • •That's awesome and a great gift.
What are the ideas?
MyNameIsAtticus
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in reply to MyNameIsAtticus • • •It's awesome that he has so much creativity and motivation! My wife was in FIRST way back again and I think my SIL met her husband through it. I was homeschooled, but probably would have loved it if I had gone to public school. Hopefully it's beneficial (if expensive) to you guys as well.
Didn't its founder invent the Segway or something? Then go on to drive one off a cliff ...
MyNameIsAtticus
in reply to toynbee • • •I could have sworn I remember hearing the founder died of Covid back when I was in FIRST myself, it’s possible I’m confusing him for someone else though.
Luckily the robotics team covers all the parts for their robot so he’s getting a bit of the experience
toynbee
in reply to MyNameIsAtticus • • •Well, the owner - not inventor - of Segway apparently did die riding one off of a cliff: \
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_H…
However, I don't see a reference to FIRST in his wiki page, so I must have been mixing things up. It looks like the inventor of the Segway (and founder of FIRST) is still alive: \
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_K…
American businessman
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in reply to FenrirIII • • •I watched this. It was of interest to me because I must run two dehumidifiers in my house and they use a ton of energy. Unfortunately, this desiccant dehumidifier would use even more energy. Hoping someday someone figures out how to build a more efficient one.
In the meantime, I think manufacturers need to build all dehumidifiers with a repeat cycle timer built in. I find it far more energy efficient to run for some period like 30 minutes till the humidity drops low — like 45%, then shut off for 60-120 minutes while the humidity slowly creeps back up until the cycle repeats. Most dehumidifiers work based on a humidity threshold and will constantly click on and off as the threshold gets crossed. In my experience, this uses a lot more energy. Being in a high cost state it is completely unaffordable.
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in reply to favoredponcho • • •You should be able to pick up an old style timer plug for under 10 euro / USD in your hardware store.
They're a tiny bit fiddly to set up but given how power hungry those things are you'll be saving money in no time.
We have one around here somewhere. I'll see if I can dig you out a picture.
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in reply to khannie • • •These timers have no concept of understanding if the air is too humid.
They want a cooldown period so the unit isn't cycling constantly.
eg. turning on and off 30 times in an hour because the sensor triggers the moment it see's 46% when it's set to 45.
They want it so that it triggers on pull humidity down to 45%, wait an hour no matter what then trigger the next time it sees 46% or greater, which could be immediately... or in 5 more hours.
A pure timer wouldn't get the same effect at all.
Best answer I can think of off hand would be Home Assistant related. Get a humidity sensor and a z-wave switch/outlet. Use a dumb dehumifier that turns on as long as it has power...
On humidity sensor change check if above 45%. If it is, turn on power. wait until below 45% again... turn power off then wait 60 minutes. Make sure automation is set to not run concurrently, that way the currently running automation script must complete it's 60 minutes cooldown before it can run again
MonkderVierte
in reply to favoredponcho • • •Some material, that catches water atoms via static charge, until it drips down, making room for more, maybe? Can't think of a more efficient catch & release cycle.
NotJohnSmith
in reply to favoredponcho • • •I had the same torment when buying mine, for an office-shed that's just a swamp of English dampness.
I opted for the desiccant one as while it used more energy it does heat the space, and actually works better at cooler temperatures. Very specific to my needs as I'd imagine that's counter to most other use cases
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in reply to favoredponcho • • •If you are running an AC, you might be able modify it to reduce the humidity.
AC units naturally dehumidify (as TC points out, they are essentially the same thing as traditional dehumidifiers). However, the amount of moisture they pull out is mostly related to how long they are running, not how cold they can get. This means that if you have an overpowered AC, you get less dehumidifying effect because the AC is on less.
Some ACs let you reduce their power, which will increase their duty cycle and increase the amount of water they pull out of the air. It also helps improve their lifespan as they need to cycle less.
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in reply to RheumatoidArthritis • • •I wonder why there are no humidistats.
You know, a combined humidifier/dehumidifier that keeps a constant humidity.
twice_hatch
in reply to squaresinger • • •Maybe it's uncommon to have a climate where you need both.
My furnace has a humidistat so in the winter we can adjust how much water gets sent into the hot air stream. But it's always maxed out because it's really dry every winter here.
In the summer, the AC takes care of dehumidifying. Running a dedicated dehumidifier would be a waste of electricity, at that point just turn on the AC and any extra cold is a buffer against running the AC later on.
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in reply to squaresinger • • •Humidifiers are simple and cheap. Maybe the cost of a 2 in 1 wouldn't make commercial sense.
Also, it would probably need two water tanks, as I imagine you wouldn't want to use the drain tank as a clean water source.
Just guessing here.
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in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • • •Yeah I am in the same boat. I operate a swamp cooler inside my house, even!
But I used to live on a hill in San Francisco, the first hill the fog would hit as it rolled in from the Pacific Ocean, and I distinctly remember the feeling of getting up in the morning and reaching between the hangers in the closet to take a shirt out, and feeling how they were all damp. Super gross!