FrostyPolicy @ FrostyPolicy @suppo.fi

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I only use LibreWolf on my pc's and IronFox or Vanadium on my phone. All except Vanadium have uBlock Origin with all social media blocked. I also use Mullvad vpn with social media blocking at dns level. In addition where vpn is not configured I use Mullvad's dns with all content blocking enabled. Of course no Meta or another social media apps on my Graphene OS phone (except Mastodon and Lemmy). As a cherry on top I use a Linux based OS (OpenSuse Tumbleweed) on my computers primarily (some Windows usage for some gaming).

MicroG is somewhat hacky solution that emulates play services. When you have proper play services you do have all the functionality available. Since it's sandboxed play services don't have any privileged access to the system thus can only access data which is available to any normal app.

If you have apps that require play services you can install them to another profile in GOS. Profiles stay active if you like and you can get notifications from other profiles as well. That way you can limit data exposure for play services and apps using them. I do this on my GOS and it works very nice. Though you should use Aurora store to get play store apps (you can get it from f-droid). Many apps from play store work well with out play services.

According to wikipedia Forgejo development is run by Codeberg which is a non-profit organization so I doubt they will start charging money. GitLab is managed by a for-profit corporation so anything is possible with them.

Stop using github. Move to something else e.g. codeberg.

And Kotlin.

Clicking on that picture in the link brought me back to this post. So it seems it just directs you back to the referrer.

Good riddance. It was never about privacy anyhow. Only to enhance google's monopoly in ads.

Ran into this as well when I was testing it out (using Mullvad). It seems plausible. Or for some reason Mullvad's ip addresses end up in some black list regularly that sites like Kagi use to block bots/spammers etc.

Ran into that as well. Just use "repair vesktop" option from the right click menu on the icon when it's running. That fixes it. You'll stay logged in etc.

Check out this video.

Mullvad has content and tracking blocking at dns level builtin (enabled in settings). Having it always on you don't need to use private dns. If you use other profiles then set the private dns to one of mullvads. On my grapheneos install I use google play services only on another profiles then owner and have apps that require it only in those profiles.

The internet is what you get via your ISP. You're talking about www which is part of the internet but not the internet itself. There are plenty of things to do on the internet that aren't www e.g. email works over the internet and I'm not talking about something like gmail but the communication between email servers and between your email provider and you when you use imap or pop3.

It's a mod. Valve approved I believe. https://store.steampowered.com/app/440000/Portal_2_Community_Edition/

Have had it on my wishlist since 08-2021. Still not available.

Laughs in FreeTube.

Curious choice to write a c++ program for this instead of doing the same thing in a powershell script.

One feature it should have: delete itself after running to leave no traces of such a tool.

at least existing features and data remain free.

For now.

Quite true. Linux and all modules loaded into it are GPL licensed. The userland and tooling on the other hand can be licensed however. They are free to close source on anything except kernel code.

This is the first step in moving to fully closed source. I guess degooled versions are getting too popular thus a threat to google's business.

The file system was not unmounted cleanly so the dirty bit is 1 -> windows tells you to check the drive. This clears the dirty bit even if nothing was wrong.