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  • Could VPNs Be 'Banned'?

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  • I imagine it'd be a jurisdiction issue for what you propose. If, say, the UK mandates that websites block VPN nodes, that will affect websites served from the UK (creating a Great Firewall of Britain). But what about websites served outside the UK? Those websites can't possibly tell if a user is from the UK and using a VPN, vs outside the UK and using a VPN, so they can't only block UK visitors—they'd have to block all VPN traffic, which is probably not worth it from a business point of view. I suppose the UK could then deem that website illegal in the UK and block them, but then that'd only block the website for non-VPN users in the UK... But if the website owner is outside the UK they can't be punished for violating that law.

    More probable (though I still think unlikely) is that a country could sniff for e.g. Wireguard packets and block those. But again that's unlikely because of businesses using VPNs to let employees access company intranets at home.

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    Need help resisting the dark side (using Windows)

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  • Do you have the relevant graphics driver installed? I get that error ("failed to connect to a wayland server") when I haven't installed the right graphics drivers. You can also check the logs for anything more useful—maybe use a live environment if the installed system isn't working.

  • Does switching motherboard require a reinstall?

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  • As others have said, no for the Linux partition; it's the same arch, socket type, etc. CachyOS's kernel probably contains everything you need.

    For the Windows partition you might have problems though. Iirc Windows connects licences to motherboards, to prevent disk cloning to circumvent buying licences, so Windows may think you've cloned your drive to pirate Windows. I've never tried secure boot but I know W11 requires TPM too so if you've got secure boot you should look into how to switch to a new motherboard on Windows.

  • The GrapheneOS developers are giving me concerns about the future of GrapheneOS

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  • In addition to this, they are working with an OEM to produce their own Graphene phones. It sounds like they've made significant progress on that front so I'm hopeful.

  • River WM switching Tags

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  • Outdated how? I use it for my daily driver and it works fine for me. It's a fairly simple program and the 0.3.x river protocol is fairly stable so I would doubt it's become outdated, but if it is, you should be able to patch it yourself given the simplicity of the program.

  • Why use a terminal pdf viewer?

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  • Also I remember seeing screenshots where PDFs looked transparent or matched the terminal colors. Is that actually a feature of some of these viewers ?

    Zathura lets you recolour and theme pdfs, yes. See zathurarc(5). You can set alpha using "rgba(r, g, b, a)" when setting a colour, e.g. set to 0.8 for 0.8 opacity.

  • River WM switching Tags

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  • Help with wayland/sway

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  • Not sure what ly is but basically I'm saying you should be using the dbus-run-session sway command to run sway instead of just sway. If dbus is installed and the daemon is running then this will allow you to e.g. open links in Discord.

  • Help with wayland/sway

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  • The commenter talking about xdg desktop portal is correct for the file picker; you need to install a portal for that.

    I can’t get links to open from discord

    Are you using dbus? Display managers normally will launch graphical sessions with dbus for you, but if you're manually launching from the tty, use dbus-run-session sway (or the name of the executable you want to run). dbus is used for applications to communicate with each other, e.g. Discord to communicate with your browser. And you need dbus installed and the daemon running, of course.

  • Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?

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  • I think that's a misunderstanding of how software works. More features != better. I'm aware that many users think that, but it's not a common view in the foss community. People in the foss community largely hate corporate enshittified bloated software and won't use a proprietary fork that some company has added an LLM to. A project doesn't need mainstream appeal; think about all the foss utilities written for Linux and BSDs where the target audience is "nerds"/enthusiasts/etc. These projects maintain themselves and their popularity just fine with a limited target audience. Besides, most foss isn't for the average computer user. There's a lot of foss that isn't user software (libraries and OS/kernelspace software), and then there's software like curl which can be for end users but is mostly used as a library, and the end users who use curl directly are a more technical crowd who most likely care about foss. The mainstream crowd that wants their iPhones and copilots are not making decisions between a foss option and a proprietary option.

  • What questions do teens (14-18yo) have about choosing a career path, or navigating school and education options?

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  • I understood what federation was just fine when I was a teenager. Again, projecting your own stupidity. Teenagers are perfectly capable of using email.

  • What questions do teens (14-18yo) have about choosing a career path, or navigating school and education options?

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  • Are you joking or not? If you're not joking, I think you may be projecting your own stupidity at that age onto everyone else. Teenagers are perfectly capable of signing up for an account on a social media website... In fact, they're kind of notorious for doing so.

  • Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?

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  • How does permissive licensing lead to corporate takeover? Companies can do proprietary forks of permissively licensed foss projects, but they can't automatically take over the upstream.

  • Why go through the trouble to use Arch?

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  • Not "everything", and I wouldn't say there's any distro that lets you "control everything". e.g. look at Alpine Linux, which uses musl, busybox, and OpenRC, whereas Arch uses glibc, GNU coreutils, and systemd. These three choices are "locked in" for Alpine and Arch—you can't change them. And it's unlikely for any distro to let you choose all these things because that creates a lot of maintenance work for the distro maintainers.

    I suppose Linux From Scratch lets you "control everything", but I wouldn't call it a distro (there's nothing distributed except a book!), and hardly anyone daily drives it.

  • Why go through the trouble to use Arch?

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  • I use Artix (fork of Arch with init freedom)—the main reason why I prefer an Arch base specifically is for the AUR. The reason why I prefer a minimalistic distro in general, is because I want to be able to choose what software I install and how I set up my system. For example I don't use a full DE so any distro that auto-installs a DE for me will install a bunch of software I won't use. You also usually get a lot more control over partitioning etc with minimalistic distros—lets me fuck around with more weird setups if I want to try something out.

    To be clear I don't think there's anything wrong with using distros that have more things "pre-packaged". It's a matter of personal preference. The category of "poweruser" makes sense—some users want more fine-grained control over their systems, whilst some users don't care and want something that roughly works with minimal setup. Or perhaps you do care about fine-grained control over your system, but it just so happens that your ideal system is the same as what comes pre-installed with some distro. Do whatever works for you.

  • Do you use a dishwasher or wash dishes by hand?

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  • By hand. I don't have a dishwasher. The place I rent didn't come with one, and I don't have the space for my own (plus no money). I think I've only ever met one person with a dishwasher, although I suppose I wouldn't know if someone has one unless I either go to their house or they bring it up. I don't see the issue with doing dishes by hand, and I pay a flat rate for water so water usage is not a concern to me.

  • Android syncthing-fork repo gone and Developer profile gone private. Update:moved to a different repo @ https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android

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  • The android development always just seemed… off, idk, I just got weird feelings about it and the fork.

    Could you elaborate at all?

  • Android syncthing-fork repo gone and Developer profile gone private. Update:moved to a different repo @ https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android

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  • That's about the upstream Syncthing Android app. This post is about a fork that was continued to be maintained after the "official" Android app stopped being developed.

  • What is the best way to eat spinach?

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  • I add it to soups. Sometimes I just have it raw as the vegetable side of a meal

  • What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?

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  • Most popular VPNs have some form of obfuscation options in their apps. But if you're using e.g. raw Wireguard you won't be able to use their obfuscation function.

    Btw technically they can't really outlaw VPNs as a whole, only commercial/"privacy" VPNs. They couldn't really tell if you're e.g. using your friend's PC as a VPN to access their LAN, since it's a residential IP. Unless they're looking for Wireguard packets, but that seems like an unlikely law since it'd piss off a lot of businesses that use VPNs to let their workers access the company intranet at home.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Proxmox or Docker?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    How feasible is privacy-respecting personalised search engine results?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Mod managers for Linux?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Have any of you ever actually done the cost comparison calculations for cooking vs buying pre-made, including cost of energy?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Do you have any work of art (writing, visual, film, video game, etc) that you think is accidentally a masterpiece? e.g. a work with a lot of unintended powerful meaning?

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    Should I be concerned that my HDD, which seems to be working fine, is 8 years old?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What are the staple foods of your diet?

  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    Duck typing

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Self-hosting a mail server with zero-access encryption for all emails, similar to Protonmail

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    How are controllers with Proton?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    FOSS document scanning app for Android?

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
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    Concept: beer that is free as in freedom, not as in gratis

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    What distro do you use for your servers?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Open source laser microphone picks up laptop keystrokes

    www.wired.com /story/infrared-laser-microphone-keystroke-surveillance/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Has Mullvad ever been given a court order to reveal personal info about a user?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    EasyEffects can change mic input live. Privacy option for people who need to use their voice in any public/insecure online setting & don't want to be easily identified.

    github.com /wwmm/easyeffects
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    Are there any google docs proxies, like how Piped is a YouTube proxy?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub

    trufflesecurity.com /blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    What do you folks do for IRL privacy in terms of CCTV, facial recognition, etc?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What bizarre misconceptions do people have about your field?