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- Comment on EU Watchdog Urged To Reject Meta 'Pay For Privacy' Scheme 8 months ago:
Does “pay for privacy” mean “pay to not be tracked on Facebook and Instagram” or “pay to not be tracked on the whole internet”? I can somewhat see a reasoning for the former, but the latter is absolutely inexcusable: Meta doesn’t own the internet, and it never should be allowed to.
- Comment on Everything about Google Partner Setup 9 months ago:
Even with XWayland?
- Comment on It seems Gen Z is just fine with parents knowing where they are all the time 1 year ago:
Install cameras in their bedroom that streams to YouTube or Twitch 24/7. See if they really have nothing to hide.
- Comment on Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine 1 year ago:
Say it louder for the people at the back: adblock is a basic cybersecurity measurs
- Comment on Let's decentralize the web together. 1 year ago:
Technically true, but in practice, it’s very vulnerable to conglomeration of power by a few. Social media, for one: it’s not exactly a matter of quality to get users to use your platform. Beyond a certain threshold of minimum quality, people use and stay on a certain platform because the people they know are on it, such that it becomes a chicken and egg problem. Other than that, Google have such a ludicrous market share of web advertising (which unfortunately remains the primary method of monetising the web) that it’s very difficult to not use Google’s advertising, giving them immense power to surveil and monitor people. Google Chrome, which remains the most popular browser for reasons that elude me, has so much sway over the internet that it had the courage to even propose the idea of WEI. The infrastructure on which the entite internet runs are controlled by just a handful of massive ISPs, yet another centralisation of power.
- Comment on Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here’s how they get away with collecting and sharing your data 1 year ago:
Even more reason for me to never get a car!
- Comment on Do any hardened Linux distributions exist? 1 year ago:
Thanks! I’ll be copypasting all of these to my notes haha
- Comment on Do any hardened Linux distributions exist? 1 year ago:
What a coincidence, I’m trying to learn SELinux too! Any tips?
- Comment on Do any hardened Linux distributions exist? 1 year ago:
Really fasttracked my Linux learning experience too. If you’re starting out Linux and are predisposed to masochism like I am, using Gentoo as your first distro really catalysed my understanding of Linux (at the cost of a week’s worth of crying and self-loathing lmao).
- Comment on Do any hardened Linux distributions exist? 1 year ago:
Gentoo lets you do basically whatever you want. The whole idea of it is that you make all the decisions in your system, as opposed to how most distros impose their developers’ choices.
- Comment on Do any hardened Linux distributions exist? 1 year ago:
To be honest, I only use it for fun. Unless you enjoy tinkering like I do, or you have really low RAM, there’s no reason to use it over glibc. I’m aware that Madaidan also mentioned that it is more secure, but I’m not too knowledgeable on that so I can’t really comment.
- Comment on Do any hardened Linux distributions exist? 1 year ago:
You can even mix and match it H/SELinux with musl (and Clang, if you’re up for some masochism and performance boost), though it does require patching sometimes. From my experience, you can find patches from Alpine’s Aports and that should fix it ~90% of the time, but sometimes you’d need to write your own. Another tip in case you’re interested in trying musl on Gentoo is that there’s a compilation flag for large file support documented in Gentoo Wiki’s musl development page which fixes compilation failures caused by calls to functions with names ending in 64 (e.g. fseek64). This is yet another massive source of compilation failure in musl. Lastly, you should mask musl versions greater than 1.2.4 if you want to have any semblance of a good time with it.