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https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/112401461102514792 May 07, 2024, 19:29

The name/address of the terrorism suspect was actually given to police by Apple, not Proton. The terror suspect added their real-life Apple email as an optional recovery address in Proton Mail. Proton can't decrypt data, but in terror cases Swiss courts can obtain recovery email.

https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/

Agree about nmtui. Nice tool.

• According to this WiFi should work with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64 Bit Did you install 24.04 or 22.04 ?
• I'd expect most USB devices to work out of the box. Did you try : sudo dhclient ?

Easiest is probably to perform an installation that comes with a GUI. If the default Ubuntu installation iso is too large, there's for example Lubuntu.

Three examples of open source software where at least one developer could give up their regular job and work full-time on the open source project. I'm sure there's more (The Linux kernel maybe ?) :

• Mastodon
• Lichess
• SerenityOS

In both cases possible because of people donating. The last example is quite remarkable given the personal history of the developer and the fact that it was "just" a fun project with the developer sharing videos about programming for the fun project.

I'd welcome polls implementation on Lemmy but maybe this is difficult with federation ? I wouldn't mind instance only polls.

https://forum.aux.computer/t/the-future-of-nixcpp-lix/483

The announcement resolves one of my last fears for Aux: development on Nix itself. It is no secret that the number of people knowledgeable about the project and are willing to work on this CPP codebase is small. You have probably seen me mention multiple times by now that @sig_cli needs all of the help that we can get. Lix resolves this entirely with a trusted team of experts. This means that Aux is now able to remove Nix development from our priorities and can instead collaborate with Lix moving forward.

• Thanks for the reminder!

Mastodon is about micro-blogging, with text, images and videos. PixelFed is only about images which can have a short or longer description. There's Loops, a work in progress, which will enable short videos for PixelFed. If you would follow others on PixelFed from your PixelFed account you'd only see images.

Guess only North-Americans will worry about PixelFeds names :-)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_flash_installation_medium#Using_ventoy

Note: archlinux-2024.05.01-x86_64.iso should be run in GRUB2 mode to work. See Ventoy issue #2825.

The screen shot has a document Xubuntu -> Chicago95 open which appears to be related to this :

• https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

There used to be wicd as alternative for NM but its development is stalled. There is ConnMan though with apparently GUI and TUI options :

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ConnMan

According to this Samba 4.16 removed the support for the old SMB1 Protocol.

Looking here : https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=samba you can see the difference between Jammy and Noble : 4.15 -> 4.19 So it looks like you're out of luck with fast and easy solutions. Maybe downloading the older Samba package and its dependencies and downgrade and then put the package on "hold" is maybe possible. During such an attempt using aptitude instead of apt could be helpful.

um I don’t use a vpn. Please tell me why I should use a VPN.

It is up to you to use a VPN or not. Some people use a VPN to watch regular TV series which are blocked in their own country. Some people, like myself, despise the ad- and tracking- exploitation industry, other people may want to download e-books from anna's archive or simply do not trust their ISP. Other people live in countries where their government is very oppressive and intends to arrest and torture any critical voices.

I have nothing to hide.

Reminds me of : "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

Recommended viewing : https://piped.video/results?search_query=Shoshana+Zuboff

Well, if you read some more of jwz's blog posts about the horrible security bugs that others have added while creating derivatives of Xscreensaver you might think twice before doing so. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition For me a screensaver is no longer about trying to prevent dead pixels (or something like that) but being able to safely lock the screen when being away from it for a while.

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#upgrade

It can be, but for that, I would rather recommend Aurora or Bluefin. They are almost the same, but without gaming stuff.

Both links in your comment rendered invalid. Providing the correct links for other readers, based on the README from https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin :

• https://getaurora.dev
• https://projectbluefin.io

Stunning - EDIT: The Android and Dillo browser part I meant!

Dillo browser's original project goal was to provide a web browser for people with slow Internet connection.

Here some screenshots of Dillo browser on a phone and how the developer did that :

• https://fosstodon.org/@dillo/112327798958777998
• https://fosstodon.org/@dillo/112366883435691490