deadcade
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- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 day ago:
Discord is one of the greedy AI companies training on your data
- Comment on Post your homescreen 4 days ago:
FOSS only, no proprietary spyware here. Daily driver on Android 15.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up to date, selfhosters? 1 week ago:
Being able to choose the OS and kernel is also important. I would not want my hypervisor machine to load GPU kernel modules, especially not on an older LTS kernel (which often don’t support the latest hardware). Passing the GPU to a VM ensures stability of the host machine, with the flexibility to choose whatever kernel I need for specific hardware. This alongside running entirely different OSes (like *BSD, Windows :(, etc) is pretty useful for some services.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up to date, selfhosters? 1 week ago:
Same here, though more out of lack of control over the host. Libvirt works on basically any distro, and you can easily configure whatever Linux distro you like best for running it. I can’t configure my boot process the way I want on Proxmox (at least not without learning/sidestepping its “convenience” tools/setup).
- Comment on WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says 2 weeks ago:
There is no justification. The “Ends” in E2EE mean the initial sender, and intended recipient. The “transport” should have zero insight into the content. Encrypting a message to the servers is standard even for “non-private” messaging services, it’s usually done with SSL (part of HTTPS).
Lets compare it to traditional mail. If you send something, the postal company can always just open your mail and read it. With computers, we have black magic (E2EE) that physically prevents the postal company from doing that. In this hypothetical, Facebook (owner of WhatsApp) is the company that provides you with the pen and paper (the app), and is a postal company (their servers). They promise that the black magic on the paper prevents them from reading what you wrote, but then they clearly read the content of your letter to send you a summary of the conversation.
If the process for making the pen and paper (the app) was publicly known (open source), you could make your own, and be sure the black magic (E2EE) is applied properly. That way you can be certain the postal company (servers) can’t read your letter, only the recipient can.
If the postal company gives you the pen and paper without telling you how to make it, it’s nearly impossible to tell if the black magic was applied properly.
- Comment on WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says 2 weeks ago:
The concept of “End to End Encryption” (E2EE) is that one end encrypts the data, it passes through transport, and the only person who can read the decrypted data is the intended receiver.
In the case of WhatsApp, this should mean:
- Your phone (WhatsApp app) encrypts a message
- Your phone sends the encrypted (“unreadable”) message to Facebook
- Facebook sends the message to the intended receiver
- The receiver decrypts the message
The whole “Meta AI summaries” thing has to run on their servers. Large language models small enough to fit on a phone don’t produce sensible output yet, and your phones battery would drain very quickly. Since each message is (supposed to be) encrypted with different keys, no human nor computer can make sense of the encrypted data without the keys to decrypt it. For their servers to provide a “summary of your chats”, they have to be able to read the content of the messages. Thus proving that the whole “end to end encryption” in WhatsApp is either false, or made entirely useless with them sending all messages to themselves without E2EE.
The only proof that would invalidate this is evidence of the LLM running locally on device. Even then, the way some of WhatsApp’s services work (like notifications, WhatsApp Web) creates some serious doubt on the “E2EE” claim.
It is absolutely essential that any communications platform claiming “E2EE” proves this by making the client-side code (the stuff running on your device) fully open source. A proprietary app, like WhatsApp, by definition makes it harder to fully understand its inner workings, and thus fully verify the E2EE claim.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 3 weeks ago:
It’s actually not within their rights (I am NOT a lawyer)
GPL code is still owned by the person who wrote it, that includes contributors who have made a PR. Unless they all signed CLAs (Contributor License Agreements) to hand over their copyright to the repository owner, the repository owner does not hold copyright for this code, and as such can’t legally change the license. They can use and distribute it as specified in the license terms of the GPL, but that excludes changing the license.
- Comment on How we Rooted Copilot 3 weeks ago:
Surely there wasn’t an exploit on the half a year out of date kernel (Article screenshots from April 2025, uname kernel release from a CBL-Mariner released September 3rd 2024).
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 5 weeks ago:
transmitting over 125,000 gigabytes of data per second over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers).
Please include usable metrics in the title
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
XMPP is significantly less decentralized, allowing them to “”“cut corners”“” compared to Matrix protocol implementation, and scale significantly better. (In heavy quotes, as XMPP isn’t really cutting corners, but true decentralization requires more work to achieve seemingly “the same result”)
An XMPP or IRC channel with a few thousand users is no problem, wheras Matrix can have problems with that. On the other hand, any one Matrix homeserver going down does not impact users that aren’t specifically on that homeserver, whereas XMPP is centralized enough that it can take down a whole channel.
Meanwhile IRC is a 90s protocol that doesn’t make any sense in the modern world of mainly mobile devices.
XMPP also doesn’t change much, the last proper addition to the protocol (from what I can tell, on the website) was 2024-08-30 xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0004.html
- Comment on The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us 1 month ago:
Why the downvotes? Apple silicon ARM is not the same ISA as any existing ARM. There’s extra undocumented instructions and features. Unless you want to reverse engineer all that, and make your own ARM CPU, you cannot run (all of) macOS on an off the shelf ARM chip. Making it effectively “impossible”.
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates 1 month ago:
You don’t get control of the incoming port that way. For LetsEncrypt to issue a certificate primarily intended for HTTPS, they will check that the HTTP server on that IP is owned by the requesting party. That has to live on port 80, which you can’t forward on CGNAT.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 month ago:
Great, the touchpads are amazing for mouse-related stuff while handheld. I can comfortably use mouse heavy menus with them. Obviously, a lot closer to a laptop touchpad than an actual mouse, but still a lot better than a joystick as mouse.
A Steam Deck is a PC. If you dock it, you can hook up a mouse+KB and a monitor, and use “desktop mode” (KDE plasma) to use it exactly like any other Linux desktop. Docked “gaming mode” makes it feel more like a home console for PC games (and emulators). It is even possible (though not recommended) to install Windows.
- Comment on Release v0.6.14 · open-webui 2 months ago:
Reminder that the license was changed to a “custom” non-free license.
- Comment on First Look at Google’s Unfinished DeX-Like Desktop Mode for Android 3 months ago:
I own a OnePlus 6 with postmarketOS. My daily driver is a Pixel 7 with CalyxOS and microg turned off.
Despite having effectively only FOSS apps on my Android daily driver, I can’t daily drive postmarketOS. It’s making great progress, but isn’t nearly stable enough as a modern smartphone, and several other issues hold it back;
- Sleep states. Currently you get to choose between your phone going to sleep (~ a day battery life) but without notifications, incoming calls, alarms, etc. Or your phone “staying awake”, where you’ll have those features but only ~4 hours battery.
- Hardware video decoding, which “can work” but only in select apps, and they’re not great for mobile.
- Audio issues, such as no audio from the earpiece, microphone not working, or no audio at all.
If you rely on non-foss Android apps, there is Waydroid, but it’s not a perfect solution and might have issues.
It’s not a “waste of money” if you want a device to experiment or tinker with, or if you want to follow progress of Linux mobile, but it is extremely unlikely to replace your daily driver.
- Comment on Fully self-hosted password manager options 3 months ago:
Keyguard, which works on Bitwarden-compatible servers like Vaultwarden
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 5 months ago:
I have used Waydroid, mainly with FOSS apps, and although it has some rough edges, it does often work for just having one or two Android apps functionality.
Linux on mobile as a whole isn’t daily driver ready yet in my opinion. I’ve only tried pmOS on a OP6, but that seems to be a leading project on a well-supported phone (compared to the rest).
- Comment on PS5 Pro sales ‘have fallen behind PS4 Pro in the US 5 months ago:
The Steam Deck is a PC. The most console-like PC experience you can get, but still a PC.
- Comment on PS5 Pro sales ‘have fallen behind PS4 Pro in the US 5 months ago:
The Steam Deck is a PC. The most console-like PC experience you can get, but still a PC.
- Comment on I Tried CalyxOS For 3 Months (So You Don't Have To) 6 months ago:
Not only is comparing these not the point (CalyxOS has a different purpose than GrapheneOS), the chart is heavily biased towards Graphene. Take for example the whole section on privacy. They list Graphene specific features, note that Graphene has them, and make other roms look bad for “not having them”, or even provide incorrect information. “Storage Scopes” and “Contact Scopes” for example, two Graphene features, intended to make closed source apps “happy” with giving them fake permissions. Although there’s definitely a use for this feature, being much more FOSS focused, Calyx provides the option to isolate non-foss apps into a work profile. This is effectively doing something very similar, although more limited to the user. Or the “Tracking through Android Advertising ID?” column, which lists only Graphene as “Not part of the system”, and everything else as “Randomized ID”. Graphene runs the official Google play services “in a sandbox”, without modifying or patching anything significant. This also means Google’s implementation of Advertising ID is being used. This is not randomized, and worse for privacy than anything using MicroG. Calyx MicroG and Graphene Google Play Services are both opt in, yet the chart favors Graphene by claiming it doesn’t have the anti-feature.
- Comment on I Tried CalyxOS For 3 Months (So You Don't Have To) 6 months ago:
This person does not understand open source or Android whatsoever. They talk a decent bit about “default installed apps”, without properly understanding what most of them even are. They complain about some apps “being out of date” when installing CalyxOS, calling it “concerning” that they’re not on the latest version out of the box, as if they couldn’t update the apps themselves. The whole “review” feels more like an iPhone user trying to switch to Android for the first time, being confused because it’s different, and complaining about it because they don’t understand it.
The main benefits of CalyxOS lie under the hood. It’s built to be more secure out of the box, and doesn’t connect everywhere without consent like most other Android ROMs. If you’re fine with the privacy and security of using something like LineageOS, CalyxOS doesn’t have much extra to offer.
- Comment on New social experiment 7 months ago:
share/
- Comment on Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for 8 months ago:
While it might seem interesting for your usecase, please be careful which specific distro you use, especially when it comes to “windows-like” distros. Wubuntu (previously LinuxFX) has terrible security for your payment info, and the developers have made a ton of questionable decisions.
- Comment on As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction 9 months ago:
Gemini, the protocol is built on never adding new shit, so it’s only basic pages
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 9 months ago:
“But it looks bad and could be bad for the battery!”
Every other wireless mouse has it in the front, Apple has no valid reason to leave it at the bottom.
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 9 months ago:
Was yes. They have introduced an “internal sdk” into all their clients with no available source code. That’s what everyone’s complaining about. They call it a “packaging bug”, but in reality Bitwarden clients are just no longer open source.
- Comment on 10001 10 months ago:
As in, 0x11 is 17 in decimal.
- Comment on Clipped it blud 10 months ago:
No, this is Patrick!
