Alpine Linux.
scratchandgame
joined 2 years ago
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Do you think installing and start using privacy-tool-of-week would improve your privacy?! Do you think proton mail is trustworthy?
You are not a victim of privacy community but your own hobbyist privacy obsession
Wasted 2023 securing the system and learned nothing. And racing on privacy tools does not gain you "practical" privacy.
a question for you: Did the privacy race actually helped you learn C? Understand Linux? Or just "You will not believe this, but Linux and Windows are almost identical today"
and you are not one bit superior to others for using BSD over Linux.
Technically agreed, but what I'm superior is: When I switch to OpenBSD, my security & privacy race ended.
WinRAR is objectively superior to 7-Zip as far as data preservation and archival capabilities go, while 7-Zip is a little bit ahead on compression ratio.
Go on arguing winrar is not open source like you did for other softwares? So it contain backdoor?
Badly licensed software can't be used legally. BKAV antivirus embedded winrar in the 2000s, but have to remove it when a guy noticed. And now it cannot decompress .rar files to scan for malware.
who cares
this is not "practical" privacy, right?
Sorry, I'm asking if WinRAR is free software.
Free software means having a source license equivalent to the BSD license.
I'm talking about what is the first, most important benefit of free software (or open source). The community claims the first and most important benefit is "to make sure there isn't malware in the software". In the post I told them why this is not the most important benefit and the most important benefit is to audit, fix bugs, harden it.
Ads are harmless. The harmful things is JavaScript.
requires them to use their software
And their software doesn't even have an option to display HTML messages as it is plain text messages.
Curious why do you put yourself in the class of privacy racers.
Anyone used BSD?
Not because of an operating system. But the success of other operating systems.
The characteristic of violent revolution is to completely resolve it.
I'm not recommending proprietary.
I'm clarifying about the benefit of free software: The most important is permission to audit, fix bugs, sandbox it with pledge(2) and unveil(2), NOT "to make sure the software doesn't carry malware".
And I'm alarming: You guys are racing on "open source" but don't actually audit the source code. Because you guys can't even code and do not intend to become experts. So the benefit that you guys think the most important become useless. Thankfully there are experts in your community to audit and fork whenever they want.
And an opensource software can quickly lose the trust of the community and get replaced
(Such small open source project shouldn't care if they want to make quick money :) ) I think they wouldn't care if they have malicious intention
Not by using privacy-focused services, but by not letting the data to reside on others' hard disk.