Want more GNU in Linux, so Guix, btw. पूंजीपति will be sent to corrective labour camp.

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Never had issues with Dota 2 on Linux. I wasn’t using any sandbox, by the way. System’s package manager for almost all applications, with the exception of Bottles on Flatpak.


Even though the police sought information about the users who sent such emails, the cops faced a roadblock as the platform is encrypted end-to-end, which means users’ emails, files, calendar entries, and passwords had strong privacy protections.

What? I’m pretty sure encryption does not work that way, does it? Can someone explain this?


You don’t need search, all you need is watch. Watch the video, follow the directive of the techo-judgement day Jesus AI, beep-boop.


Does this cause heating issues? I’ve noticed this happening to me while using Mull.


Both yes and no. Usually, when I try to gather information, I prefer if there’s the option to access texts and videos at the same time. I did not realize how important it was, after I tried using Stract for almost two weeks. It is a minute inconvenience, and also that I don’t want to be restricted to a single platform.


DuckDuckGo now has an AI prompt available in beta, and I can already see it on my devices. Does it a
Should I be worried about this development? So far, I've tried Stract and 4get, and I'm not impressed with how limited they are - they're not accurate, and no image and video search is what turns me away from them. Metasearch engines like SearXNG aren't that impressive, their results have too many filler results. My experience with manually tweaking their search also did not go well. Any alternatives with good defaults?
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Looks like CVE-2024-29944 affects my IceCat version. Kinda frustrating that I know about this, and yet I’m still using it, as I have no other choice.



Since builds on Guix are transitive, most of the libraries have been downloaded already when I installed IceCat and Firefox. The biggest headache is trying to build NSS, followed by LibreWolf.


I know that AppImages can run on NixOS after configuring them, but I am not sure if it is a thing in Guix. So far, I haven’t found anything about it.


I am on Guix System. Right now, I have access to IceCat from guix and Firefox from nonguix, of which I have GC’ed Firefox, and modified IceCat, sticking to sane privacy defaults (uBlock Origin + LibRedirect + Dark Reader).

Because I have 120GB of storage, and use Nix side-by-side for personal project, there is barely any space for another third-party package manager, as well as the stuff it will download. I use Guix Home, so having another package manager would also be counterproductive to my effort of creating a reproducibile home user configuration.


How long does it take to build LibreWolf?
My main laptop is dead, so I'm on a potato laptop with a 6th gen Intel i3 processor and 4GB of RAM. I have IceCat installed, but I really don't like the defaults it provides. Maybe I am in the wrong here, but from the Arkenfox page, I've read that having way too many extension is bad - there's an unbelievable amount of these plugins. IceCat being on the older ESR version is a big no when it comes to security. Last but not the least, I want to create a separate, non-secure profile to use normal pages, but IceCat has hard-coded blocks on several websites. And that is exactly why I'm looking to move to LibreWolf. But the issue is that there is no pre-built binaries available for my distro. I've waited the entire day for this browser, and I'm tired of having to come back to a frozen desktop, or build fails while waking from sleep. I'm trying the build once again, and I just wanted to know how long it takes to build, so that I can leave it uninterrupted.
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Understandable. However, wouldn’t it be better to use a status-like feature to let others know that you’re looking for a job? That way, the need for feeds would be eliminated right?


So, minus the feeds, you think LinkedIn would have been a good platform?


I’m not really confident about starting out on Upwork. For someone who is a fresher, do you think it is apt to work as a freelancer?


It’s all over Codeberg. And within a few hours or days, I guess it will reach NotABug too.


Nintendo screwed big time. Now there’s going to be multiple forks of Yuzu all over the internet. And on every self-hosted Git forge.


Assuming that the username is not shared between different services. Let’s say my username is the same as my Steam or Twitter username. In this case, I’ll be busted within minutes. All of my information will be available on the web.


Shows gun “Can I please borrow your money?”

“H…how much?”

“Not a lot, just 5 billion”

Same vibe.


What about Veilid? Isn’t that supposed to be more safer or something?


With how there’s been multiple breaches in Azure, I’d move away from Microsoft-based products if I were you.


I just gave up and moved to custom ROM. It was a faster way for me to deal with this.


I know that this is probably a bad way to approach it, but you could use a de-bloated custom ROM?


Please tell me this isn’t real…people upload their private stuff to talk to their AI “girlfriend”?


Mini-PCs from brands like Minisforum? RAM and SSD are easily replaceable. You will get the best CPU+iGPU combo. No need to worry about PSU, as it comes in a brick form-factor. That, or Framework.


The mobile apps were garbage to begin with. So you were never going to go that deep in the first place. Even the basic copy-and-paste does not work. And it was damn slow.


read thising, stroke I had a.


Just torrent it lol. Or try playing Veloren.


But Bottles is also distributed as a non-Flatpak apps…


Much of this comment is speculation, but I’m sharing my experience. I have a MX 250, and I also noticed this after updating to Fedora 37. Most probably this must be a Vulkan issue, which fails working for drivers in a particular 535.xx patch.

Veloren did not work on my device for almost a year or two. Not just that, retro console emulators used either software rendering or integrated graphics. It was fixed recently, but I’m not aware of the particular version, as I’ve recently tried out Veloren on NixOS. Also, the game was lagging on my device, so I cannot confirm if things have improved.


I have the same issue, and that’s affecting my productivity a lot. I’ve even disabled history from my entire Google account, so that I’m not suggested videos. But that’s still not working. Fuck you Google, you’re like that enabler friend who will force his alcoholic friend to drink even if he’s suffering from gangrene.


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[This article](https://skiff.com/blog/pgp-dead-what-next) claims that PGP is dead. Is it really though? I checked [EFAIL mitigation page](https://efail.de/#mitigations), and nowhere does it support their claims about the tech being dead? And if it is so insecure as claimed by the article, then why is it still being used to sign Git commits or encrypt emails even today? Why did Skiff conveniently ignore the part to inform the reader that the standard was being updated?
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I've recently discovered freenet, and I've been playing with it for quite some time, but I could not really figure out where I could use it. Does anyone else use freenet on a daily basis? And if so, then how?
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Right now, I'm using Bitwarden's official instance, and I am bothered that I have to use Google's Authenticator app separately for TOTP. Yes, there's also Aegis and 2FAS, but I have no idea about WebDAV servers and also don't want to rely on Google Drive for backup, also because I'm moving away from Google services. I'm planning to run Vaultwarden on a free instance of [render.com](render.com), and I wanted to know if this was a good idea? Has anyone over here tried this? What would happen if Render changes their plans and I lose access to the database? Will I still have access to the last-stored cache on my browser extension and mobile phone? And since I'm running a Rust infrastructure, would it use less of the free plan bandwidth that Render assigns? Do I also need to purchase a domain? Or can I access the app with Render-affixed URL?
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I'm in the process of deleting my entire messages, both from channels and threads. I'm not brave enough to use XMPP, so I'm moving over to Matrix. I've tried removing the phone number multiple time from my Discord app, but it keeps asking for verification, after which, it asks for another phone number. So basically, there's no way out. And design-wise, I think it's pretty shit. By chance, if I were to reuse a phone number that's been used by another person before, who also happens to have abandoned their Discord account, then there's no way to sign in. If you were to try accessing the abandoned account, how does that go? Try logging in with your phone number, request for password and then what? It will still send link to the email for account recovery. What if your Discord your email was stolen/abandoned or/and your account was stolen? You're going to be stuck with a phone number that cannot be used, and the malicious actors gets a free pass to do anything. Now I just want to know if Discord will comply with the GDPR laws, even if I'm not from Europe? Because as of now, I do not want to stay a minute longer over there.
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