Yeah, that’s going beyond the software and making the physical supply chain possible to validate by a sufficiently equipped and educated consumer

The trade off here is that it’s very difficult to produce verifiable circuitry that is also fast

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

I’m currently using Signal, and happy with it, but they still don’t have reproducible builds, making it impossible to confirm that the code we can read on GitHub is actually what is running on my device

So, even now, it could be doing something that isn’t able to be audited

I guess Element/Matrix or Briar are the better options from this perspective, without losing any end to end encryption

Can I ignore flatpak indefinitely?

Sure, at least until software you want to use is flatpak only, e.g. Bottles

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

I agree that there are much bigger problems, but those bigger problems have solutions that are not allowed under capitalism and USA imperialism, so labels is all we’re allowed to fix 🤷

The legal drinking age in Australia is 18 years old, and it has always struck me as odd that it’s so high in the USA

Australian sports fields are covered in alcohol logos So the entire time you are watching football with your children, they are exposed

Ban all advertising for alcohol, too, please

I know Google just donated to Trump’s inauguration, and also does all the stupid surveillance capitalism crap that Google does, but I just compared prices, and Google Workspace is a few dollars per month cheaper per user than Proton is, for my needs (family, custom domain names, etc)

We’ve been on Proton for a few years, and it’s fine, but we do also have Pixel Android phones, and not using Google services constantly feels like swimming upstream, plus all family members also still end up having to use Google services for work, anyway

It’s just not practical for me to de-Google, which is a shame, so I think I’ll be switching in a few months, unless pricing changes significantly :S

Thanks for sharing! <3

Okay, let’s go with xterm running bash, where the user ran ls, so xterm -> bash -> ls …

• ls never talks to xterm directly, it’s stdout/stderr are provided by bash
• bash effectively outputs a grid of characters to xterm, xterm doesn’t know about prompts or words or line feeds, just the grid
• every time ls outputs a line, bash adds a row of output to the grid that it sends to xterm
• if there’s not enough space for a new row, bash discards the top-most row, moves all other rows up by one row, and then inserts the row for the ls output

Now imagine a hypothetical fork of bash or some other new shell …

• the only thing different is the direction that the rows move off the edge of the screen when running out of space, that’s all

Thus, this is entirely a shell problem, with a shell solution

However, what I’ve neglected to mention so far is that terminal emulators and shells are almost certainly optimised for rows dropping off the top edge and new rows being added to the bottom edge

So, the role of a terminal emulator in this scenario could be to provide ANSI control characters or other protocol for operating just as quickly in the opposite direction, sure

There’s also https://www.waveterm.dev/ which seems to be an open-source attempt at something sort of like Warp/Jupyter

I don’t mind that it uses the web stack for rendering, but that’ll probably turn some folks off

Seems like a shell feature, and not a feature that a terminal emulator would implement

The whole thing is weird and the CEO especially so, and not weird in a good way: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

https://www.partykit.io/ sort of? maybe?

Gosh darn it I only just onboarded to Omnivore a few months ago Now I guess I need to find a new place to store bookmarks

One example I can think of is Widevine DRM, which is owned by Google and is closed source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widevine

Google currently allows Mozilla (and others) to distribute this within Firefox, allowing Netflix, Disney+, and various other video streaming services to work within Firefox without any technical work performed by the user

I don’t believe Google would ever willingly take this away from Mozilla, but it’s entirely possible that the movie and music industries pressure Google to reduce access to Widevine (the same way they pressured Netflix into adopting DRM)

For disappearing messages to work, your conversation partner has to promise they won’t take photos of their screen, and they have to promise to use an app that actually implements the feature instead of just pretending to, and the app developers have to promise to have implemented the code to delete a message when the service says it should

Is there actually a cryptographically-sound and physically-complete method for ensuring that a message is only legible for a temporary duration once it leaves your own device and is delivered to someone elses?

Hmmm, is CloudFlare known for being a bad actor in terms of privacy?

Setting that aside, no matter what you pick, you’ll be exposing your IP address, from which your ISP and/or general location may be derived

If you don’t trust CloudFlare with that information then you basically cannot trust anyone else, so maybe you’d need to run your own service and ping that instead now that you’re in a situation where you can only trust yourself 🤷

The other issue that comes to mind is that you’re only testing reachability to one address, which means you could get a false negative where that address stops working but the rest of the internet is actually fine