That’s because you’re using it for a purpose it wasn’t intended. I2P isn’t designed to be used to browse the regular internet, for that it’s better to use TOR. However for anonymous torrenting or accessing i2p-sites, it’s quite fast imho.

Okay, good.

Windows does have a fallback mode called safe mode and that’s exactly what’s being used to fix this utter mess.

The other fix was reboot your Windows computer at least 15 times.

• https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/crowdstrike-fixes-start-at-reboot-up-to-15-times-and-get-more-complex-from-there/

Package management isn’t going to save you from this as it didn’t save the Linux systems affected last time. It didn’t stop Arch Linux from failing to boot after a Grub update either.

Not everyone was affected though :

• https://web.archive.org/web/20240324083115/https://endeavouros.com/news/full-transparency-on-the-grub-issue/

How come not everyone was impacted?

Prior to the most recent version, grub only registered the fwsetup if detected support. If your machine detected support, you would have had the fwsetup command registered and the failure wouldn’t occur.

There’s more to it. The mono-culture is one thing, but rolling out the update to millions of computers on the same days sounds like a bad idea.

Fun fact in 2008, with nuclear submarines, the mono-culture was not that bad yet.

It’s interesting to note the UK went with a Windows XP variant and not Windows Vista, which is marketed as the more reliable OS. The USA never made the same calculations: The American Navy runs on Linux.

Big fan of Cantata here :)

It was forked this year and the new developer kept using the original name.

• https://github.com/nullobsi/cantata

• https://flathub.org/apps/dog.unix.cantata.Cantata

I guess the important thing is in the unique versus total in for example 200 fonts and 150 unique metrics found.

There’s a summary here with some Tor browser findings : https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/18097#note_2961761

Tor has noscript automatically enabled no?

There’s three security settings via NoScript in Tor browser. The default has JS enabled.

Disable javascript, trying to get around fingerprinting with javascript enabled is an exercise in futility, and is especially risky with something as heavily monitored as tor.

I like disabling JS myself for some web browsing but this can make fingerprinting easier because most people do enable JS, and I’ve read that with JS disabled certain things still can be detected through CSS files.

For web browsing i2p is still much slower for me than with Tor these days.

💯

Would using a blue-tooth keyboard make sense ?

That looks neat and useful. <nitpick mode on> It is an Android wrapper around rclone not rsync.<nitpick mode off> Thanks for sharing.

EDIT: I kinda forgot to actually mention my problem. When booting nornall, I get stuck at a lonely white blinking cursor on a black screen, so startx seems to make some problems. I enter a TTY and run startx and this is what I get when running startx:

output of startx

What was the output ? It is not visible for me here.

• Were you using startx successfully before ?
• Or are you reverting to trying startx and you did use some graphical display manager like gdm, sddm or lightdm before ?
• Could it be a disk space problem ? If you run out of space trouble can happen with various applications.
• Can you boot from a previous kernel (At the GRUB or systemd boot menu) and see what happens ?

Huge news 🎉 Thanks OP for sharing.

It feels like a relief after reading earlier Lemmy comments in other posts about btrfs vs ext4 and having read this Wikipedia page paragraph :

In 2008, the principal developer of the ext3 and ext4 file systems, Theodore Ts’o, stated that although ext4 has improved features, it is not a major advance, it uses old technology, and is a stop-gap. Ts’o believes that Btrfs is the better direction because “it offers improvements in scalability, reliability, and ease of management”.[29] Btrfs also has “a number of the same design ideas that reiser3/4 had”.[30] 😢

Oh no, wait a minute, I overlooked the next sentence last time 😀 :

However, ext4 has continued to gain new features such as file encryption and metadata checksums.

Is this a desktop computer ? Two hard disks can make things more difficult. How about taking the power cord temporarily off from the larger disk, then install, and if it’s successful then turn it off and give the 2nd disk power again, and add that 2nd disk manually to the fstab as e.g. /opt/ as mount point.

:( Website of NGI :

• https://www.ngi.eu

And they appear to have a fresh Mastodon account hosted by the EU :

• https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EC_NGI

Nice

This looks like old news to me. Years ago I’ve read that three letter agencies can access phones without getting the access code or bio-metrics from the phone owner.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayshift
• And it was in the news recently because of the Trump shooter : https://www.theverge.com/24199357/fbi-trump-rally-shooter-phone-thomas-matthew-crooks-quantico-mdtf
• https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities (2021, crazy story)

I picked the lesser evil

The choice for iOS can be a convenient choice for daily use if one is ready to deal with the restrictions (Like every other web browser is a Safari browser layer instead of a real browser and the fact that Apple is not into allowing ad-blocking easily). With Android phones the freedom for the end user is, compared to iOS, massive. And having a de-Googled Android phone with a custom ROM is no longer rocket-science or for the faint of heart these days because you can buy custom ROM Android phones pre-installed so you’re good to go.

And we’re cheering it on because X is seen as a political opponent.

I’m cheering this on among others because the shadow-banned person wrote something important about a sick EU law proposal that tried to break E2EE.