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rush

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17 year old Tech enthusiast and Cat lover from Germany.

I’m almost positive I’m autistic and/or have ADHD.

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rush ,

it lacks Wayland support.

It lacks wayland support in the sense that the UI won’t run on Wayland. It can take screenshots on Wayland.

rush ,

genuinely just a horrible take

rush ,

Should be as simple as a shader on-top of Weston or sum 🤷

rush ,

It’s pointless, but it’s customization.

Either way, XFCE already has plans for Wayland support

rush ,

Well, computers physically cannot be random, they rely on logic

rush ,

CSPRNG literally stands for “cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator”. All randomness in computers is pseudorandom. Not TRULY random

Radioactive sources for randomness aren’t really just put into your average household PC or phone either for obvious reasons.

rush ,

Note that for this attack to work, you have to be on Android 11 or below (or possibly an earlier patch) as by default accessibility services aren’t allowed to draw-over or interact with elements in the settings app unless you explicitly override it in developer options.

This extends to some other areas, like for when biometric/system lock APIs are used.

rush ,

On the startpage of the settings there’s an animation speed slider, including an option to turn them off entirely.

rush ,

On the topic of void, note that they offer a glibc version too

rush ,

There’s elementary/pantheon tweaks for titlebar editing, other than that you just click the app’s icon on the dock again.

rush ,

ScottTheWoz ain’t who I expected here, but I guess it fits the topic

rush ,

We shouldn’t judge people for past decisons when new info comes out, especially when that new info makes them change. It will take some time for people to move and find a viable alternative.

I do not intend this to be an attack of any kind, please be more considerate of the fact that changes can’t be made instantly when you have an audience to move.

rush ,

I’m really sad that they’ve confirmed they aren’t interested in open source for Obsidian either :(

rush ,

lol that sounds like an existing old-YouTube bug that ReVanced also suffered of a while ago.

You’d wanna use an up-to-date version, but that’s hard on such an old android version

I’d suggest - even tho it isn’t 1:1 the same - that you export your subscriptions from Google and import them either into LibreTube (closer to the official YT app) or NewPipe.

Because LibreTube uses the (awesome) Piped Project to load videos and info, you can also sync data using it and your favourite piped instance. (piped.video, piped.smnz.de, piped.adminforge.de are personal recommendations)

rush ,

It recommends new users to just install everything with it, instead of looking for native alternatives.

There’s actually the “Zorin-exec-guard”, which runs when you wanna use an AppImage (for integration) or windows app and tries to match the filename to a known list of either native versions of the program or native alternatives. It then prompts you if you wanna use those instead.

They’ve also released a migration tool for a future Z16 > Z17 migration and migration between Core & Pro.

Another thing, the extensions and everything needed for pro layouts is all in the repos but disabled by default. You can all enable it manually.

rush ,

I guess that’d be a separate issue from the conflict? 🤷

rush ,

Well yeah, LibAdwaita is the flagship implementation of GNOME’s design guidelines.

rush ,

newpipe does YouTube, SoundCloud, Peertube, and Bandcamp. NewPipe isn’t YouTube-Only.

rush ,

there could be a patchset made with ReVanced-CLI. It’s an easy bypass if you know a bit of Java/Kotlin, even with release APKs

rush ,

somehow, it still exists.

rush ,

I have no idea, I think its kinda merged with Duo and Meet?

rush ,

“Sorry, I didn’t listen, what was that?”

rush ,

Cool, a new way to troll AI

rush ,

piped.smnz.de and piped.adminforge.de have worked well for me so far. Relatively quick updates and bugfixes :)

rush ,

What I like to do is export my subscriptions using Google’s data export page, and then import it into a Piped instance, in my case piped.adminforge.de or piped.smnz.de

rush ,

Eh, the devs probably don’t want this either, only because it means they’ll keep their job are they doing this

I vote for making the executives’ lives hell instead

rush ,

Judging from how many SWEs are in the US, its basically this or loose your job. And that’d be a bit bad because of how many different pricing crisis there are at the moment.

rush ,

I would wager a guess and say that many joined long before they got this bad, probably because back then their visions and values were a lot more aligned

Nowadays I rarely see more than hectic startups and Big Tech, both of which have massive downsides which affect people outside of their field too.

Additionally, especially at the HQs of Google and others, many SWEs live in vans on the street because rent is too high, they cannot just work somewhere else as that won’t actually change the situation

rush ,

Make sure you really only selected YouTube subs, otherwise they’ll give you like 6 50gb ZIP Files (depending on how much they know about you 😉)

rush ,

Web

For the web, there is Piped (github.com/teampiped/piped) and Invidious (invidious.io)

NOTE: Only Piped proxies your videos, which means invidious allows connections directly to Google to load the video.

Android

On Android, there’s NewPipe and LibreTube which are well known by now.

NOTE: LibreTube uses Piped to preserve privacy and (somewhat) anonymity when watching, thus you’ll need to select some piped instance with it.

iOS

On iOS, there’s the web frontends and Yattee (github.com/yattee/yattee).

NOTE: Yattee is on the AppStore, but without any sources/instances by default. Look for “instances” in the settings and add a Piped API URL, like https://pipedapi.kavin.rocks to watch videos from YouTube with Piped+Yattee.

Desktop

On Desktop, there is all the web clients as well as FreeTube (freetubeapp.io).

NOTE: FreeTube has an option to proxy everything or just the videos through Invidious to preserve privacy. It is recommended to enable this.

rush ,

If I recall right, the settings have an option to proxy videos too.

rush , (edited )

Technically, only apt exists, as per Debian. The filesystem is ext4 but with two system partitions, so that you:

  • have one backup partition
  • can install updates to the unused partition for seemless and atomic updates
  • Be immutable whilst offering easy updates

It gets compared to NixOS because NixOS is also an immutable distribution and the package manager is equally as flexible as apx (even tho apx also allows you to use nix)

Multiple package managers outside of apt/dpkg from Debian get managed automatically using the apx tool, only if you wish to use it. Otherwise, for the desktop they promote the use of Flatpaks or AppImages.

rush ,

When you’re on A, updates go to B. When you’re on B, updates go to A.

After an update, a reboot will switch slots.

rush ,

The 40gb total are both already reserved, and a normal user isn’t supposed to modify it so it shouldn’t fill up.

For desktop apps, Vanilla will primarily stick to Flatpaks, so Firefox will also be a Flatpak.

VanillaOS already has a custom boot menu that can be used to switch slots in case an update went wrong, so that you can go back to your older, but working system.

The partitions are also not synced.

If you install something using abroot (e.g an update) it will only be installed to the unused slot. So if you run abroot --update or use the included updater, and you’re in Slot A, it’ll modify Slot B, and vice versa.

rush ,

If OSTree suits you better, that’s fine!

The A/B Partition method and OSTree are both great, but have different strengths

VanillaOS described it in their FAQ once:

Vanilla OS uses an A/B structure (ABRoot), which transacts updates atomically between two root micro partitions. The benefits of this system are the guarantee that the system is altered only when the entire transaction is successful (concept of atomicity), furthermore, the double root partition structure allows you to roll back to the previous state, directly from your boot, you will always have a home to come back to.

This structure, unlike others, is compatible with already existing distributions and does not require a complex setup and allows easy re-initialization of the system without data loss.

rush ,

Eh, obtainium doesn’t verify signatures, it quite literally just scrapes sources.

rush ,

It doesn’t sign it locally, it verifies the file you downloaded is already signed properly as it should be. This ensures the download isn’t broken but also that the app is from who they claim it is.

rush ,

because obtainium gets many apps directly from F-Droid.org too, not just github

And for those downloads, it does no verification

Not on GitHub either, where signatures are often attached together with the APK.

New anti-VPN measures at BBC

Today, for the first time, I couldn’t use iplayer. As usual, I switched country to UK, cleared browsing data, deleted everything from temp app data file before going there. Was using Firefox. Tried same procedure with Epic browser. Same result. Chatted with Nord support. They wanted screenshots of results from dnsleaktest dot...

rush ,

The “Dark Net” generally is still HTTP(s) with extra layers on-top, e.g the Tor Network or I2P

We’re more likely looking at something like Gemini

rush ,

I agree! It’s actually it’s own protocol, being built on top of the IP (internet protocol) ofc

The webpages are essentially pure text. No JS, and everything is designed to be super privacy-friendly. Gemini is like the pinnacle of the SmallWeb

rush OP ,

It works well, services not working is more about websites trying to block these tools, and I try to be understanding of the issues.

rush OP ,

It doesn’t use the APIs at all, which is also why Google can’t Cease & Desist them for not complying with API terms

rush OP ,

please read up on threat models. If you need that amount of privacy/security that’s fine, but many don’t.

rush OP , (edited )

You lose:

  • Your existing YouTube account, which can only be manually imported (subscriptions)
  • Account-Based/Algorithmic Homescreen recommendations
  • Some higher resolutions (e.g 4K) (very dependant on instance, I don’t have a list of instances with their max resolutions)
  • The UI will be somewhat different, but not necessarily hard to navigate
  • probably more random stuff idk
rush OP ,

me when I loose my downloads — locally saved downloads from YouTube — after 3 days of inactivity

rush OP ,

I use sponsorblock not for sponsors, but for things like non-music parts of MVs or interaction reminders tbh

rush OP ,

They will actually, as they’re looking for specific things to be blocked/altered using JavaScript that is easily affected by enabling certain custom lists. In case you don’t believe me, you can look on uBO’s official statement regarding this.

rush OP ,

Late reply, but piped.adminforge.de is my server of choice, with piped.smnz.de and piped.lunar.icu as alternatives

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