Pantherina

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not sure if VPN eliminates all risks with 2G and 3G, maybe it does.

Sandboxing, javascript

Vanadium has sandboxing but its javascript blocking is useless (no granular control)

Mull has no process isolation at all, but support for UBO and Noscript. Bad situation

it's a walk in the park for it to modify any of the partitions

These cannot be written without TPM verification or stuff, ask GrapheneOS devs about that, I dont know. The firmware signing is required, the verification will not be done inside the OS, that would be totally flawed.

If they have the firmware signing keys, they can fuck you. If they dont, they can only write to the system partition, and Attestation can see that.

Reading data has nothing to do with that. They likely can, but that doesnt matter.

My 6 years old phone still receives LOS updates

This will not include firmware and likely even the kernel.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks! TLDR spamhaus (a big spamlist provider) has them on their spamlist, or maybe not, and they are using some fancy CDN.

It is VERY likely just a technical error.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean?

To my knowledge they dont ship GNOME 46 but some old "LTS" variant (GNOME doesnt do LTS variants)

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Yes I know, and I want to try DivestOS one time. But they do incomplete patches.

They cannot update the kernel themselves or even worse the firmware. The kernel needs to be built and patched for the specific hardware, GrapheneOS relies completely on Google here. And the firmware needs to be signed by the vendors, so no chance either.

And especially baseband, cellular stuff has extremely many vulnerabilities in the code.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean I already reported 2 issues, but it still works. I can use it without big problems, I use the beta Flatpak (as explained in my flatpak remotes list).

Using Wayland too, Idk about any problems but if it wouldnt work I would just disable Wayland for the Flatpak and the app automatically runs through XWayland

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dont use "stable" software people.

Gimp 3 is already very nice! Use it exclusively.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think 3a is already too old. I think 4a is a better minimum, but this is still insecure of course.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Image toolbox is awesome, damn!

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What, source?

How would you block an OS?

And btw there are some reasons why GrapheneOS may be criticised

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

Mailbox.org missing, pass

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I dont get why people would care for influencers

 

A presentation by @siosm@floss.social and @JoshStrobl@fosstodon.org about the state of the atomic desktops and especially Silverblue, Kinoite and Onyx (Fedora Budgie Atomic)

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Btw there is skim, a Rust fzf replacement that is in most repos!

 

In my Clevo Laptop with @novacustom@mastodon.online and @3mdeb@fosstodon.org Coreboot firmware I now have replaced another proprietary part!

The Intel AX200 previously installed waits for a new use case, while I swapped in the Qualcomm Atheros Y8512 pci-e Wifi card, which has #blobfree drivers and thus runs fully on Linux, not just on some #nonfree kernels (that basically break the open source philosophy by including proprietary code in the single most critical root binary on your system)

It works great, just downloaded a Firefox release. zip over wifi without a single stutter!

 

Hey, I have never built a PC myself.

random anecdotal history of my computer useI had one back then, Windows 7 and Minecraft as far as I know, pretty bad, solved through Optifine (the typical "double your Minecraft performance" trick, to this day, wtf Microsoft).

Then I got a Thinkpad T430 and did some hardware "hacking", custom EC firmware (and then a modded AX200 Wifi card and Greencell battery), custom BIOS, tried a quad core i7 CPU which was an overheating and batterydraining mess.

Then a weird "in between" Thinkpad T495 which ½ sucks (horrible firmware, very bad CPU, bad screen), ½ rocks (fprint support, best keyboard in history).

Now a friend of mine does more GPU intense stuff, mainly static Adobe design thingd, already tweaked and debloated Windows 10 but the laptop sucks extremely.

They think about getting a PC and I suppose hunting for parts could make sense? I would want to get a modern motherboard which good performance, 32GB RAM max, reasonable GPU.

And I have an AX200 (pcie) wifi card, which is the weird thing that brought me to this question: can I use that on a PC mobo, or is there a problem?

What "laptop parts" (i7 intel cpu but laptop model, GPU, LP-DDRx RAM,...) make sense in a PC?

Is a Mx mac the best option if you want Adobe stuff? I never used Apple stuff and I fear that ecosystem, but Windows is total cancer and Mac is at least kinda Unix based, so I imagine it must be way better than Windows, and the hardware is currently so much better.

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There already is an experimental image based on Silverblue with the alpha stage Cosmic Epoch Desktop.

Mainly finetuning and SELinux profiles are needed!

Join the Matrix Group! (yes, no Discord 😉)

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The BlueBuild project creates accessible tools for you to create, configure & build custom images of atomic Fedora distributions.

A custom image in this context is a customized version of an image-based Linux distribution that can be switched to by the user of such a distribution without reinstalling. So about making your own distro, maybe, but not really. When making custom images, you’re building on top of an existing distribution. You’re most likely using its package manager and repositories and just adding your own flair with package set changes and configuration files. It’s more like a more reliable version of maintaining/sharing your dotfiles, but from the perspective of the operating system.

Someone might get turned off from so-called ‘immutable’ Linux distributions due to fears of the taking away them ability to tinker and change the system as you please. The term comes from the usage of immutable root filesystems in these distributions, but in reality most ‘immutable’ Linux distributions are still pretty change-able. So while BlueBuild is a tool that helps you tinker with these sorts of distributions, it’s not giving you back some freedom that was taken away.

Here’s some terms that can be used to better describe these sorts of distributions:

Atomic: instead of new and updated packages being swapped on the running system live, they’re queued up to be used after the next boot.

Image-based: instead of each computer updating each of its system packages individually, the system updates are bundled (usually daily) as images that are pulled onto the user computers and queued up to be used after the next boot.

What’s up with the logo? It’s our mascot, a blue-billed duck with a wrench! A good pun, and cute too! The writer of this FAQ is definitely not at all biased!

The logo (along with all the other BlueBuild branding) was designed by @xynydev and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

 
 
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