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smileyhead , (edited ) to lemmyshitpost in Lemmy has taught me that Firefox is the way

You cannot put custom firmware. If spyware is hidden in drivers, bootloader or even firmware of the modem there is nothing we can do about it. Custom ROMs are just replacing things above the kernel and below apps.

Still of course things average non CIA person should not worry about. Google apps with high privileges are removed with custom ROMs.

smileyhead , to technology in ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything

Nothing wrong with paying for content? Enshittification is about something different than just being expensive or bad.

smileyhead , to technology in Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair

If parts pairing is nessesary, then just publish the tool used for pairing?

smileyhead , to selfhosted in A question on hosting a Matrix server on a cheap VPS

Do not enter very large rooms (especially Matrix HQ!) and you’ll be fine.

I know it sounds extreme, but you may want to ban Matrix HQ from the start and just infrom anyone wanting to join your instance if they are ok with that. This room alone is a spam anyway and it took >100GB of space on my database, cleaning wasn’t simple.

Write me a message if you want any help 😊.

smileyhead , to technology in Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public

It’s the mindset. Standard bodies already have plenty of protocols established, with ActivityPub being the latest trend implemented in dozens of different federated apps. XMPP for real time data flow or (not yet standardized) Matrix for shared graph databases. Bluesky is another XKCD 927.

I won’t expect anything great from a social service from the start hosted on Amazon AWS, with domain bought from Google Domains, developed on Microsoft GitHub, announcing app first on Apple AppStore and not supporting basic decentralization-friendly things like IPv6.

smileyhead , (edited ) to technology in Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public

That going into corporate, VC funded, centralization focused and privately controlled social network is not good long-term idea.

Myself I have nothing against profit itself, but the relationship of how single entity can manage network.

smileyhead , to technology in Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public

As if they didn’t learned their lessor with Twitter.

smileyhead , to technology in Google’s use of student data could effectively ban Chromebooks from Denmark schools

Then please, buy them a normal computer, even used, to play with at least 🙏.

smileyhead , to technology in Whatsapp is going to run terribly...

By choosing the lesser evil it is only getting bigger.

smileyhead , to technology in $300 Vision Pro developer strap is just an expensive USB2 device

USB 2, 3 and 4 are not direct new versions depracating previous ones. Those are tiers, versions are reprecented after the point, like 3.1 is directly better than 3.0 .

USB 2 is not something that shouldn’t be used because USB 3 exists. It is just simpler, just four pins, two for power and two for data, meanwhile USB 4 requires much more complex stuff. Just like new Intel i7 processor does not invalidate new Intel i3.

Still on a high-end phone 2.0 is bad, like putting i3 on high-end laptop.

smileyhead , to technology in Telegram Is a 'Scammer's Paradise' Thanks to Cheap Phishing Tools

Freedom of speech does not mean the medium would allow you to say whatever you like. It means you can choose whatever medium you like.

smileyhead , to selfhosted in Plex for books?

Why not just use files?

smileyhead , to technology in WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps

I recommend seeing talks from Matrix protocol that explain potencial and doable solutions.

smileyhead , to technology in WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps

It’s like with SMS, needs communication of the OS to the modem to the carrier’s server. And just like with anything carrier related the progress is very slow, no mobile phone even supports it (for now only Android with Google’s own app that connects to proxy to bypass the modem) and… is my opinion unnessesary.

smileyhead , to technology in BitLocker encryption broken in less than 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico — key can be sniffed when using an external TPM

Solution: Just encrypt it with a password.

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