We had the power to save the earth, but we were so busy mining shitcoins we sorta forgot to care

Lol, yeah, then def not worth your time unless you’re very attached to it.

Not at all familiar with this phone, but maybe check the ribbon cable connecting the display to the board. Is it possible to reflash the roms?

Because it expands google’s monopoly and mass surveillance network.

I feel ya. I’ve had pretty limited success getting companies to get rid of bad software.

“Can’t you… just… umm… patch it or something???”

So glad windows isn’t my problem. But I’m sorry for your stress and loss of sleep, mate.

Thanks, I should have been more specific.

You can also layer encryption on top of xmpp like omemo and openpgp

Matrix (as a protocol) appears to be very strong end-to-end encryption and is federated/decentralized. It can do encrypted and unencrypted chats for any number of users, so it can replace discord (which is not at all private or secure) and do private 1:1 communications (which I’d say is the best use case for it). It also does not require a phone number like signal does (which is usually tied to your legal identity and can be used for geolocation).

I wouldn’t trust any electron apps, which is the framework the official Matrix client, Element, is built on. It’s fully open-source so there are other clients out there which may be better. Of course, the biggest weakness is probably going to be the OS/firmware of device you run it on.

Edit: The desktop element clients rely on electron (which is a webapp framework built on google chrome, which is spyware). If you’re on android, the app also renders in chrome (which is spyware), but that matters a bit less because android itself is a massive pile of spyware. iOS is also spyware that openly just copies all your files to a server in the US where they are “scanned for very bad things”, retained indefinitely and may be accessed by your favourite state agencies without warrant.

Signal has always looked like a honeypot operation to me. Keep in mind, too that if you run a CIAware operating system, the key can be remotely pulled off of the filesystem or extracted from memory. It’s not possible to have any secure piece of software on an unsecurable OS.

yeah, there’s a lot of shit that should never have been allowed in the kernel and rust is definitely up there. May as well add npm dependencies to the kernel next.

I’ve never had much of an opinion on micro vs monolithic. I think either can be fine, but I will say that 99% of the reason I compile my own kernels is to take stuff out lol

Both openrc and runit are great; simple, stable, secure and fast. I had some huge problems with systemd even before it was considered usable. Since then, watching it becoming a bloated CVE monster by needlessly sucking up dozens of userspace components has really made me lose a lot of faith in the direction of GNU/Linux. Linux was supposed to be a free and open version of unix for desktop users, but it’s being reshaped into a cheap tool for capital and prone to all the pitfalls of corporate / techbro thinking.

I’ve worked on Linux for decades, but I might ditch Linux altogether if FreeBSD had better hardware support. There’s only so much I can write and maintain, myself. I love OpenBSD for servers and network appliances since it’s very hardened, straightforward and very well documented.

I’m the same with booting into a tty. Starting up with easy to read shell scripts (like just being able to edit .xinitrc) is exactly how I want everything to work :)

I’d hope “linux” users might have a little better awareness of the attack surface of systemd after xz, but I’m usually disappointed. Tech bros and big tech are absolutely ruining Linux to the point that you have to go pretty far out of the circle now to get a good distro that understands unix philosophy and KISS principals. Void and Gentoo are pretty much my go-to’s, even then I blacklist a good number of packages.

Again, you really don’t know what the fuck you are talking about.

Well, it’s not your fault Windows is dogshit. I refuse to build, repair, admin or maintain any system running a non-FOSS operating system. 16 years later and it’s still the best professional decision I ever made. Remind your employer this is their fault and the inevitable outcome for using unsecurable spyware on their machines.

Better opportunity to talk about how your machines are held hostage by closed-source fascist CIAware.

Great Firewall win

There is no variation of Windows that isn’t CIAware. Complaining about extra backdoors and bloat in a unsecurable, backdoored, closed source bloatware OS is time better spent learning and using the alternatives.

Good old Operation Rubicon. Soviets saw straight through it… euros not so much.

I only rock with Beasties and sysdfree Linux. Everyone running a CIAware OS gets what they fucking deserve.

How can we write policy to make the kids hornier?

lol, yeah, that line is beyond insane.