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interdimensionalmeme , in what is the best privacy distro?

Tails in proxmox in tails running on pure ramdrive system with no longterm storage, cpu, bios, mac serials overwritten with FFFFFFF, TPM chip desoldered or lasered off CPU, connected to TOR viato mullvad paid with crypto, through VPN running left behind sanitized device hidden in a library, through second sanitized vpn device connected to private insecure wifi in poor residential area with no cameras, after abolishing the state

lengsel ,

The's a good one! 😊 It's funny

T0RB1T ,
@T0RB1T@lemmy.ca avatar

Truly a person of refined taste.

coderade ,

Only two layers of sanitizers? Gosh might as well just put your social security number out there

interdimensionalmeme ,

Read my instructions to the end, always abolish the state before you start. This makes social security numbers powerless, look, 663 342 934. Nothing happened.

swodig , in Your best terminal aliases
@swodig@mander.xyz avatar

alias ta=“tmux attach -t”

MoriGM OP ,
@MoriGM@feddit.de avatar

I'm always thinking of using tmux for tilling.

deliriousn0mad , in Yet another FOSS music Player for Linux

I like the design and it looks perfect for me since I store everything locally and tag manually. My only issue is it only “sees” around 600 songs out of the 30 ˙000 I have, leaving some albums with only 1 song and ignoring a lot of artists. Is there a way to force it to notice the rest? Everything is in the same folder

MMarco94 OP ,

Ah that’s strange, they should be picked up as long as they are in the music folder. Do you mind sharing the format of one of the songs that isn’t recognized?

If you have time, could you open the app from the terminal (flatpak run io.github.mmarco94.tambourine) and see if any interesting log pops up?

deliriousn0mad ,

Ooh I see now! I should have thought of it, most of my songs are in opus format, and tambourine is only picking up the flacs:

023-07-04 11:00:57.342 | ERROR | io.github.mmarco94.tambourine.data.Library | Error while parsing music file: No Reader associated with this extension:opus

My bad, many music apps don’t support opus. I have everything in flac on a separate drive, but there’s no room on my laptop so I convert them. Opus is open source and compresses files in a much more optimised way than mp3, so you can get smaller files with way better sound quality.

I have no idea how much work adding support for it would entail, but I would definitely use tambourine if you decided to do it. Right now I’m using Elisa on KDE, which is nice but very slow to recreate its database every time I add or change something.

MMarco94 OP ,

Ack, never heard of it.

I’ve opened the issue github.com/MMarco94/tambourine-music-player/…/4, I’ll take a look when I’m back from Holidays

Aman9das , in what is the best privacy distro?
@Aman9das@rammy.site avatar

Anything that’s not made in china

Ubuntu Mint Fedora are all good to go

CjkOvPDwQW ,

Anything thats not made in America.

What kind of point is that ? Are there any problem with chinese distro ?

Shareni ,

Chinese distros have backdoors for the Chinese government, intel and amd processors have backdoors for the US government

0therbit5 ,

Really? About Intel and AMD, how? I’m just curious about that.

Shareni ,

Read up on the intel management engine. It’s an extra chip that was included in pretty much every intel CPU since 2008. It’s got pretty scary potential, but no alphabet agency has yet declassified their info on it (think CIA denying any involvement in shipping and selling heroin, but then declassifying documents that proved they shipped heroin in coffins and bodies of dead soldiers).

mojo ,

You’re pretty deep in the tinfoil hat zone now. CPU proprietary black box does not mean the NSA are trying to infiltrate your broken arch setup so they can let their FBI lizard agents steal ur hentai.

Shareni ,

Oh for sure, but I’d be really surprised if the super secret black box that can’t be completely expunged from your machine doesn’t have anything to do with some alphabet agency.

After all, we know that NSA approached Linus to put in a backdoor (Linus’s father, Linus), and that NSA linked groups have used Linux backdoor malware in the past.

That might be proof against IME being a backdoor, but it could also be a smoke screen and insurance.

CjkOvPDwQW ,

Are there any proof of that ? (Chinese distros having backdoors).

Shareni ,

I don’t know of any specific proof, but just look at Deepin’s EULA. You need to accept that pretty much all data that could be gathered will be gathered, even data like daily log in times. Stuff like that makes me believe stories that the CCP is forcing companies to add backdoors. Especially when you consider that Chinese hackers are analyzing and publishing findings on NSA Linux backdoors, and releasing new backdoor malware every few months.

CjkOvPDwQW ,

So just a conspiracy theory then

Shareni ,

Sure buddy. In the meanwhile i think i answered your question:

What kind of point is that ? Are there any problem with chinese distro ?

CjkOvPDwQW ,

Yeah, but from having an eula to having a backdoor goes a long way

Shareni ,

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence, and so on. But yeah, I agree it’s just a conspiracy theory for now

CjkOvPDwQW ,

Most sane conversation I had online in a while.

On reddit thjs conversation would have been impossible

Shareni ,

Doubt everything, know that you know nothing

the666dude ,
@the666dude@mastodon.social avatar

@CjkOvPDwQW @Shareni
I would not trust a CIA backed Linux distro either, proof or not.

lunicoDee , in what is the best privacy distro?

The best for privacy are: Tails, that runs on live-cd; Whonix, which you run in vms; Qubes, which is an os that runs all your user programs inside vms (running whonix inside qubes is the most powerful privacy setup).

mojo , in what is the best privacy distro?

Pretty much any distro that isn’t Ubuntu. Are you asking for privacy or security? Those are very different.

For security, I’d stick to more complete distros like Fedora instead of more diy distros like NixOS or Arch. They’re great to learn and tinker with, but distros like Fedora have security experts adding mitigations and security stuff in the distro by default, whereas most users of Arch or something would have to manually look up those things and keep up to date on the latest security. So basically, none of them lol.

Using more hardcore security distros like QubesOS is not very realistic as a daily driver. You’ll see Linux nerds name drop it and claim they know what they’re talking about, but none of them will actually dailt drive it because it’s a very painful experience. Just stick with flatpaks as much as you can for pretty solid security.

gobbling871 ,

What security stuff/mitigations are added on Fedora that are not on Ubuntu?

Shareni ,

I think they meant privacy. Windonical doesn’t have a good track record on that front…

I_like_cats ,

Ubuntu is bad privacy-wise because it has opt-out telemetry. The telemetry is not very invasive though and I wouldn’t really call it a privacy risk. There are other reasons to prefer other distros over Ubuntu though

gobbling871 ,

Not making a case for Ubuntu but even Fedora has opt-out telemetry.

I_like_cats ,

You’re right. This only counts users though whereas Ubuntu collects information about your system

RecursiveDescent ,

Looks like they do add quite a bit security features. Having SELinux installed and working out of the box being the biggest. fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security_Features

gobbling871 ,

My question is simple: Which of these security features are not enabled/present in Ubuntu that give Fedora an advantage?

SELinux has a functional equivalent called Apparmor that is also enabled out of the box in most distros.

mojo ,

Selinux is more secure then app armor, but more difficult to use. Ubuntu is also pretty secure, I’m just not as familiar with it. I mentioned it for the privacy but, since it used to have some Amazon bloat crapped bundled and telemetry built in.

gobbling871 ,

I have nothing against your personal preferences. But maybe compare today’s Ubuntu vs Fedora. It would be a much more fair comparison.

mojo ,

I see zero reason to use Ubuntu over Fedora

cybersandwich ,

What a fantastic internet argument.

mojo ,

why everything gotta be an argument, sometimes it’s just fun to say your opinion like you would talking to someone in person. Wonder what it is about text chat that kind of changes the dynamic

Dusty ,
@Dusty@l.dustybeer.com avatar

What’s wrong with Ubuntu?

Postis2 , in what is the best privacy distro?

Maybe this helps https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cb24d2f8-8493-4b46-b4c3-10c8fc3d49ad.png

gideonstar , in Your best terminal aliases
@gideonstar@feddit.de avatar

alias x="exit"

MoriGM OP ,
@MoriGM@feddit.de avatar

I use mostly :q for that XD

wgs ,
@wgs@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

^D my dude.

coleman ,

I do this but with xx because I’m too scared

StimulatedYorkie , in what is the best privacy distro?

Nix OS, Guix or Vanilla OS for sandboxing I guess. But basically everything but Ubuntu is pretty good for privacy, it’s a big part of free software philosophy.

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    rurban ,
    @rurban@toot.io avatar

    @PrivateOnions @StimulatedYorkie you should switch to Fedora then. No more daily random reboots

    Shareni ,

    I mean, neither Microsoft nor Apple were stupid enough to sell user data to Amazon. I’d love to see how the Linux community would’ve responded to that, because I doubt they’d have the same “oh but it’s opt in now, so it’s ok” reaction.

    indomara , in OpenRGB: Open source, cross-platform RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software

    This looks awesome, I would love if there was an android app for smart bulbs, outlets, etc. I hate having to install a new app for each brand.

    hank_and_deans ,

    I use Home Assistant for that. It ties everything together quite nicely.

    Also, a lot of the generic devices are really Tuya devices and can be controlled using a single instance of Tuya Smart Life.

    indomara ,

    I have google home to control everything, but I still have to set them up using the original apps. I haven’t checked out Tuya, I’ll have a google thanks.

    imperator ,
    @imperator@sh.itjust.works avatar

    You can tie Google home into home assistant. It’s pretty much the best way to control your home. It’s super flexible as well. There is a learning curve. But it’s a lot easier than it was a couple years ago.

    jlh ,

    You can set up devices over zigbee with home assistant, and then control them with Google home

    www.home-assistant.io/…/google_assistant/

    Probably easier to just use the official apps, though.

    Lemmyin , in Your best terminal aliases

    Here are mine. Sorry for the mouth full, but I think people may benefit from some of these :)

    <pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">alias ll="ls -alkhF"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias l="ls -1"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># BE CAREFUL WITH THIS AND COULD RETURN COLOR KEYCODES INTO PIPES ETC...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias grep='grep --color=always' 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias db='dotnet build'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gs='git status'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gf='git fetch'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gl='git pull'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gp='git push'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gpt='git push --tags'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gP='git push --force-with-lease'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias ga='git add'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gd='git diff'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gw='git diff --word-diff'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">setopt interactive_comments
</span><span style="color:#323232;">preexec(){ _lc=$1; }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gcm='git commit -m "${_lc#gcm }" #'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># THE BELOW TO BE USED ALONG WITH THE FOLLOWING GIT ALIASES:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#[alias]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#	logo = log --pretty=tformat:'%C(auto,red)%m %C(auto,yellow)%h%C(auto,magenta) %G? %C(auto,blue)%>#(12,trunc)%ad %C(auto,green)%<(15,trunc)%aN%C(auto,reset)%s%C(auto,red) %gD %D' --date=short
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#	adog = log --all --decorate --oneline --graph
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#	dog = log --decorate --oneline --graph
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias glog='git logo'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gdog='git dog'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gadog='git adog'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gb='git branch'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gba='git branch --all'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gco='git checkout'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gm='git merge'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias gt='git tag | sort -V | tail'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias rl='source ~/.zshrc'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alias n='nvim'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># LIST PATHS OF OTHER ZSH SHELLS I HAVE OPEN
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lssh() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	ps au 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		| awk '$11 == "-zsh" || $11 == "/bin/zsh" { print $2 }' 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		| xargs pwdx 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		| awk '{ print $2 }' 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		| sed -n "|^${2}.*|p" 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		| sort -u 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		| nl
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># CD TO SHELL NUMBER RETURNED BY LSSH
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cdsh() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	cd $(lssh 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		| sed "$1!d" 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">		| cut -f 2)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># CD TO PATH OF ANOTHER SHELL, USING FZF AS SELECTOR
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cs() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	cmd1=$(lssh | fzf --select-1 --query "$1" --height=~50 | cut -f 2)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	cmd="cd $cmd1"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	print -S $cmd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	eval $cmd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># RUN THE COMMAND FROM HISTORY, USING FZF AS SELECTOR, ALTERNATIVE TO <C-R>
</span><span style="color:#323232;">hf() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	cmd=$(history 0 | sort -nr | cut -c 8- | fzf -e --select-1 --no-sort --query "$1" )
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	# push the command into the history
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	print -S $cmd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	eval $cmd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;"># REMMINA USING THE CONNECTION FILE SELECTED USING FZF
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rf() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	pushd ~/.local/share/remmina
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	cmd=$(remmina -c $(ls $PWD/* | fzf -e --select-1 --no-sort --query "$1"))
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	# push the command into the history
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	print -S $cmd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	eval $cmd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	popd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>
    Skunk , in The Current Challenges With Using Linux On Airplanes

    What ?

    I work in ATC (air traffic control) and everything runs on Linux, from radars correlation to flight data processing.

    And it’s not just us, most Air navigation service provider in the world works the same way.

    brad , in Your best terminal aliases

    Here’s my .bash_aliases file

    Good luck, I’m dogshit at maintaining the comments lol

    Dusty ,
    @Dusty@l.dustybeer.com avatar

    A couple of these are quite useful for me, thank you. I finally installed bat.

    MoriGM OP ,
    @MoriGM@feddit.de avatar

    Very nice

    conc , in Your best terminal aliases

    alias gecko=“echo”

    MoriGM OP ,
    @MoriGM@feddit.de avatar

    Oh why that?

    conc ,

    Purely for fun

    MoriGM OP ,
    @MoriGM@feddit.de avatar

    That's always the best fun

    mrthp , in Now that Red Hat is being IBM-fied, should I leave Fedora Kinoite?
    @mrthp@lemmy.world avatar

    i just installed Kinoite on my laptop and I really like this distro feels very solid and snappy. i might just do ostree-rpm to rawhide to be on the latest of it at some point.

    Raphael OP ,
    @Raphael@lemmy.world avatar

    No need to rawhide, Fedora already breaks all by itself every now and then.

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