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Folks who moved from Google to Proton: What do you wish you'd known at the start? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure sure if you know about this but they reason they don't allow it in other clients is the encrypted portion. However, they built a bridge recently that allows you to use it within other clients on Linux (not sure what other OS but looks like windows too) and I've been running it on the Evolution client since.

Proton Mail Bridge

First Mastodon, now Lemmy in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Got me this morning

"A calculator app? Anyone could make that." in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I had tried to build one one time and got the ui down. As I started building the more complex arithmatic (chaining calculations) i realized how insanely complex it actually is. It made me realize how complex the most simple looking apps actually are.

Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Not sure if you use that feature but does it work like an indexer and allow direct downloads of "Linux isos"?

Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think when I tried them out a while back they also had a usenet search? Can anyone clarify on this?

Software alternatives in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I'm not exactly thrilled on chrome either but at a certain point I think it comes down to "who's fucking me the least". Which I totally understand it's probably still chrome but I think just like with privacy, there is no sweet spot with browsers. It's all subjective on each person's threshold and what they want/need.

Call me crazy, but an example I've been thinking about is this:

Firefox is great. But with their recent TOS addition a lot of people want to jump ship of which ive seen a lot reference forks of Firefox. If, hypothetically, mozilla followed suit and became the next google, wouldnt a lot of those forks just be getting their updates from upstream (depending on the type)? And either way, they would be gecko which is developed by mozilla. So if 10 years from now mozilla goes the data route then we could be back in the same predicament.

Of course, those forks might not add crypto or screw over creators by affiliate link highjacking so I get there's more to it then that.

But either way, I kinda look at these things like the Signal messenger argument. Is it a perfect solution? No, some people say go further because it's centralized but it does offer a great mix of security and eas of access. And I think those trade offs apply to browsers as well.

Anyways, thanks again and have a good one as well! I appreciate the discussion!

Software alternatives in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Thanks for actually answering my question. It was a genuine question based on my opinion for what I knew.

Based on those articles, the crypto stuff doesn't necessarily worry me as much as the affiliate highjacking that they were caught doing. I wasn't aware. Honey recently got caught up In a scandle just as bad if not worse (by scale of users).

And yeah, I heard Opera was pretty terrible. I wanna say I heard the developers of themselves opera left and created Vivaldi and Opera is Chinese owned I think? I could be wrong on that.

Either way, thanks.

Software alternatives in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Could you clarify some of these issues? I'm a long time brave user and have really enjoyed using it and haven't noticed any issues besides some if their Web 3.0 integrations that you can turn off.

Always happy to find Better options though.

Which is best at mitigating browser fingerprinting? Firefox (with or without arkenfox)? Librewolf? Mullvad browser? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Not sure about the whitelisting part, but I think this is what Brave already does. Randomizing fingerprinted data as opposed to blending in. Makes it hard to build a profile on.

Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I used to use Plex as well but similar to your remarks, they started doing a lot more updates that added a "corporate" feel to it such as adding their own movies/tv. Nothing inherently wrong with that but in my opinion, when a platform has the option to add features such as that, that costs money. And they're gonna want to get that money back somehow. Yeah they offer subscriptions but to me this all was a redflag that I could see them taking further in the future. Where as Jellyfin is completely free at the cost of a little extra work to setup.

Rather than add a backdoor, Apple decides to kill iCloud E2EE for UK peeps in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

For your first question, my guess would be its the largest fish. Proton probably has some users that harbor useful information but think about apples market dominace. It's massive. And as far as I know, proton doesn't have a business presence directly under UK jurisdiction; Apple has an enormous presence and billions in previous investments for employees and infrastructure there. Making it much easier to enforce those laws on them.

In other words, it's like living in the country versus living in another country. My home country will have a much easier time forcing laws on me than a country I'm not even living in.

I'm unable to answer your second question though. I don't know enough about legality.

VPN Providers Consider Exiting France Over ‘Dangerous’ Blocking Demands in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not 100 percent sure but I imagine that they could still operate but just with more liability on the user.

For example: I always use a VPN. It's legal where I'm from and my ISP doesn't give a shit that I use it. Therefore if I did anything illegal with it, it's not really on me directly as they would have to find out who I was through the VPN provider first.

In other scenarios where VPNs don't comply, I imagine then your ISP/Visited Sites could see that you're using a VPN from a provider that didn't comply and is therefore "illegal". Now regardless of what you're doing, you're still using an illegal VPN and they could try to come after you regardless.

This is an extreme scenario and I don't mean to fear mongre as I don't understand the entire situation of the proposed law in France.

But there are "stealth" protocols with some VPNs that allow the user to look like a real user as opposed to a popular/known VPN server. Not sure how applicable this is to that but just a thought.

In short, there's always a way... It just may take a few extra steps.

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Trouble Fixing permissions for SFTP (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Context

I'm not very used to permissions based access so please forgive some of the ignorant attempts. For context, i have a jellyfin media server running on a mini PC. My previous way of transfering media to the server was using a secondary portable SSD and just plugging it in directly and moving the files to the main SSD. Originally the SSD was formatted to VFAT.

Issue

I had the idea that maybe using SFTP would allow me to just be able to drop in the files id like to host and simplify this process. With the original context above, I set up SSH and copied the id_rsa key over to the headless machine and launched sftp. This worked great but i was unable to add more files to the directory via SFTP, only read them.

Attempted

Skipping over discovering that VFAT is not linux permission friendly except on mounting options, I reformatted the drive to Ext4. This is where i began running into issues.

I relized the drive had permissions to root:root so i started trying to change them. First i made a group called jellyfin, and tried to run the following:

sudo chown mainuser:jellyfin /media/jellyfin

to try to set ownership to the mainuser while adding the jellyfin group to it. I then edited the same sftpuser to the jellyfin group. For the final file editing, i ran the following (initially tried 765 in hopes of 7 for owner, 6 for group, and 5 for everyone else):

sudo chmod 777 /media/jellyfin

I also set the starting sftp area for sftp user to that directory as well.

Current problem

Neither SFTP or Jellyfin is now able to see that directory path. On SFTP I'm getting "FATAL: Connection reset by peer" while on jellyfin im getting playback errors for all media as well as not able to discover new media i manually added to the drive.

On the actual vm console, im able to cd and view all files under sftpuser and verified I was able to add that user to the jellyfin group. Any advise here would be great. I'm also happy to provide more context as well.Thanks!

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FYI - Graphene OS has biometrics with pin (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apologies If I can't list specific 3rd Android OS here. I know you can't on some reddit privacy subs due to some beef between devs I guess. I'll take down if needed :)

Regardless, Ive been running GOS for a while and just found out theres a feature that allows you to use biometrics while still requiring your pin on the initial lock screen. One of my concerns with biometrics is that in some jurisdictions, law enforcement can force someone to open their phone through face ID or thumb print.

I've been using this feature that allows you to use biometrics but when you are on the lock screen, it still requires your pin. I thought this was really cool because it allows me to use biometrics only to unlock my apps while still adding an extra layer of protection to the unlocking of the device itself. Obviously slightly Inconvenient depending on your worries/threat level, but I just wanted to share this in case anyone else was interested and didnt know about it! Very cool!

EDIT: I just re-read my screenshot and it looks like fingerprint unlock is not correlated to using fingerprint for app unlocking. If this is the case then I'm not quite sure what the actual benefits are here. Please feel free to clarify!

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Open Source Android Keyboard (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I saw a post on reddit asking for open source android keyboards in recent years since a lot of the posts were older. One user recommended "Futo Keyboard".

To be clear, I'm not affiliated with them but I've been trying them based on that reddit response and I just wanted to share here in case anyone else has been looking.

In short, this keyboard is about as close to awesome as you can get so far. Features I like:

Feels like GBOARD
Works fully offline
Gesture typing (about 75% as accurate as GBoard)
Built in offline speech to text (no third party engine needed to download

I've tried other options like heliboard and openboard and they are great too, but I think so far this has been the best I've tried and I wanted to recommend it on here in case anyone else is looking. Feel free to share any other setups or recommendations below!

EDIT: it was pointed out that it is source-available and not open source. Apologize for my initial assumption. The source and license can be viewed here: Futo Keyboard. It is fully open for non-commercial use. Anything commercial can have restrictions.

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Replacing router with OpenWRT on Proxmox (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not sure if this 100% goes here but I'm relatively new to the self hosting world. Please advise if this needs to be moved elsewhere and I will.

I recently picked up a beelink mini PC and have been running Proxmox for things like jellyfin, home assistant, etc.

I'm looking to set up OpenWRT and found a helper script that sets up the VM but I'm having issues being able to configure wireless. According to the official docs, wireless is off by default if there are eth ports. When I go to edit it, both in the LuCl and in the /etc/config/wireless file, I hit 2 issues:

The web client doesn't have a wireless option.
There is no wireless file In the config directory.

I tried looking for some solutions online but wasn't sure what was exactly specific for me. I wasn't sure if this was a hardware issue or a Proxmox/OpenWRT config issue. Any advice on this?

Side note: My thoughts were I could use the internal wi-fi adapter for wireless but would I need a USB adapter of some sort for this capability?

Edit: I realized later I left some context off. In case i wasn't clear enough. Sorry. Currently I use a Google nest wifi pro router and was hoping to replace it with OpenWRT for more control/customization.