I never experienced such a thing on GNU/Linux after connecting a DualSense controller. However I had to update the firmware of the controller using a Windows PC (as I don't own a PS5 myself), I am pretty sure your could easily install the firmware-updater app using Bottles (wine).
End-to-end encryption have been designed so that a "middleman" such as Signal can't read your conversation. Signal goes even further by encrypting metadata protecting other information such as who you're talking too and at what time (some technical and targeted attack could however determined these).
In asymetrical cryptography we tend to assume that what we call middleman is a third-party placed between the two peers during the public key exchanges (such as handshake). Signal is indeed a middleman on the infrastructure level but the software has been designed to protect you from middlemen having access to the raw, unencrypted data.
That say if you don't verify your peer's public key it's not impossible that someone has done a man-in-the-middle attack and that you're sending message to him and he's rerouting them to your peer, etc...
However this is unrealistic for the average person.
So even if it's not a p2p infrastructure but some centralized servers we can assume that there is no middleman thanks to e2ee.
Did you heard and read what the banksters said about the digital euro named cash+ ?
Did you see how it this authoritarian technology have been abused by the countries that have already implemented it ?
CBDC have nothing to do with cash, it will be closed and opaque, surveilled and controlled, frozable and perishable. Of course it won't be on day one, they ususally wait to be necessary in people lives to change stuff just like private companies does. Don't be fool by the banksters, especially the ones from central banks and cantillonaires... They wan't to remove cash to have better control over our money.
I can see a future where big YouTube conten creators taking some independance and start monetizing a peertube instance with a real infrastructure and not just a cheap VPS. Maybe I am utopist.
People prefer to trust stupid bots instead of trained human... These apps are great but you shouldn't rely on a bot for analyzing mushroom that you wanna eat.
Edit : Read the article in a hurry and didn't get the full story my bad
Well I agree with you that Lightning isn't a magical piece of innovation that will scale Bitcoin to the masses. However you can use it p2p. There is no lie here. Is it easy to setup ? Is it easy to maintain ? Not really it's not hard but it's a entry barrier for sure.
I agree with you.
My dream is that every public school should use and contribute to FOSS and FOSH, but I'm an utopiste. Honestly I wish Serif would at least free some of its codebase but that's very unlikely. I would like to have these proprietary software as I still rely on them for my workflow on a GNU/Linux machine rather than macOS and that sounds more reasonnable for a private company building private code and selling licences. Today it's some of the few software that I can't run on GNU/Linux to ditch a proprietary OS for work.
I have finally ditched Windows years ago after living my whole childhood in that proprietary crappy spyware environment and did tried many FOSS tools for professionnal work and I do use some (PenPot, blender, OBS, Thunderbird, VSCodium (and Zed a bit), LibreOffice, Nextcloud, UltimakerCura and Signal to name a few).
Unfortunately I still do rely on proprietary software (and these rely on proprietary OS) and yeah there is a reason for that : I need to get the work done. They have the money proprietary licence advantage over FOSS tools of course but hey a small part of the money I make thanks to these proprietary tools are sent to foss projects I want to support. It's not as big as I wish and I don't have enough time nor skills to contribute as much as I want to the Free World in general but I do my part and it has grown over the years.
I would prefer relying on proprietary solution on a free OS than relying on proprietary software that rely on proprietary OS. That's why I signed this (probably useless) petition.
Yes that would be awesome, probably 1% would still be big.
I have been donating to FOSS project that I rely on (or sometimes project I find important) using free and open source payment method like Bitcoin (even sometime using the Lightning Network) or Monero for two years now. I wish more people that could afford it would do the same. Obviously I don't donate as much as if I was paying for the full Adobe Creative Suite (which was included in my scholar fees) but I donated a few hundreds USD in total to various projects since 2023 and I won't stop until I am cut from my income.
The closest Free(dom) alternative that I really see to make a change is PenPot but their Adobe counterpart (Xd) is discontinued. Still a great FOSS tool that I love to use despite some performance issue on big projects.
If you wan't to use FOSS I get it, I want to. But when it comes to professionnal workflow you sometimes have to put your ego on the side. When I tried to ditch the Adobe Suite, the Free(dom) alternatives didn't worked for me or the proprietary alternatives were simply better.
Inkscape is great but Affinity Designer is superior in many regards and even it is inferior to Adobe Illustrator.
GIMP and Krita are awesome tools, honestly GIMP3 makes me want to play more with it and Krita is an awesome digital painting software, one of the best out there. But for photo editing Affinity Photo is still better for my workflow even if I still prefer to use Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.
The new redesign of Scribus in unstable is exciting but I don't see myself using it for professionnal work. Affinity Publisher is just better and yes again Adobe InDesign is still superior.
I've almost fully ditched Adobe (with the exception of Photoshop), I often try Free and Open Source alternatives and while some are good enough none can compare to Adobe who is leading the industry by the way, that's the sad truth as of today.
I never experienced such a thing on GNU/Linux after connecting a DualSense controller. However I had to update the firmware of the controller using a Windows PC (as I don't own a PS5 myself), I am pretty sure your could easily install the firmware-updater app using Bottles (wine).
Hope this will help.