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Estudante de Engenharia Informática apaixonado pela área; algures em Portugal.

Administrador da instância lemmy.pt.

Computer Science student, passionate about the field; somewhere in Portugal.

lemmy.pt instance administrator.

https://tmpod.dev/

  • Reevaluating my password management

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  • Yes! Oh my, I'm silly; that was precisely my point and I managed to mess it up 🙃

    Thank you for the correction!

  • 21-Year-Old: Need Real Advice on Greys & Balding

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  • As others have also mentioned, Minoxidil can be effective at slowing or stopping balding, with daily application, though it isn't immediate (may take a couple of weeks to start showing results). It can vary a lot from person to person, so give it a shot for a couple of months before deciding whether to commit or not.

  • Should Lemmy potentially add an hourly post counter to help users avoid flooding communities?

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  • While the issue of the inter-server protocol being overly chatty is very much real, putting the burden on the users isn't a good solution.

    The focus should instead be on improving the protocol itself and its implementation with better algorithms, batching, etc. I'm not super knowledgeable about the inner workings, but I feel like there's still some relatively "low hanging fruits" in the protocol design (are activities properly batched? are they sent as linear broadcasts to all federated instances? could we use some alternative broadcast distribution, like binomial? etc) and implementation (is the data model leading to some expensive operations? are the SQL queries well written? could we speed them up some other way?).

    I say this as someone who's been running an instance for many years now, and can tell you for sure it has been a rather bumpy ride, as a small server. Running a good and fast server with lots connections is not cheap; not as much as it should, at least imo.

  • MediaDRM identifier on GrapheneOS

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  • Ah, that's a nice one!

  • Sign the petition to get proton to accept Monero for payment.

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  • Good point regarding ecommerce shops, was not aware they were sold there!

  • Reevaluating my password management

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  • This. And to add to what other commenters have said, by using Bitwarden and paying for their Premium plan (very cheap, just $10/year), even if you don't use all their features, you're supporting a good project. It's critical infrastructure, I think the price is more than fair.Either way, you should always make periodic backups from any cloud service you use, encrypted of course.

  • Sign the petition to get proton to accept Monero for payment.

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  • This would be really neat, however it's not trivial to sell those everywhere. If you're lucky to live in a country or even city where they can get those to, you're golden. If you don't, you're screwed.

    Unfortunately, as much as I love the idea and tech behind Monero, actually accepting it is not practical at all, as the coin is used a lot for criminal stuff and is thus very strictly followed by many agencies. We don't know if they can break it, but even they don't, businesses can get a rough treatment just for accepting Monero. It's perfectly understandable if they'd rather not do it.

  • Have you ever cried over a celebrity or complete strangers death, why?

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  • Not to the point of crying, but I've got really shaken by the deaths of strangers and public figures before. In general, any death moves me, it's a very natural and human reaction. Unfortunately, some farther ones or those that happen often enough to get me numb don't strike me as much.

    An example of a fairly recent death that shook me and large amount of people too, was the death of Rick May, an immensely talented actor, drama teacher and more, that voiced the character "Soldier" in Team Fortress 2. His iconic and charismatic performance for that role is just indescribable, and a significant part of what made the character, and by extension the game, so good. His loss was so big that Valve added an in-game memorial statue, so that players could pay their respects. The fan community really grieved together. He passed away due to Covid-19 complications in 2020 at 79 years of age.

  • Found some Firefox forks but can't decide which one to use

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  • Mullvad Browser isn't bullet proof, it will not prevent fingerprinting entirely, though it makes it less reliable, especially if it isn't sophisticated.

  • Oniux: Kernel-level Tor network isolation for any Linux app

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  • Finally! I had tried using the clunky torsocks not long ago and wondered why there was no namespace based solution yet. Glad to see this getting released, it will help many people. Tor ❤️

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    I made a chart to help choose a password manager. Please mind the clunkiness, I made it on mobile

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  • This is quite misleading and frankly low effort. Besides the readability issues, the chart makes a clear distinction between Proton Pass and Bitwarden when it comes to privacy, citing their privacy policy.

    As it happens, however, Proton's server code is closed, unaudited[^1] and not distributed, and the apps (web, Android and iOS) do not support setting different homeservers. This effectively means you cannot self-host your password manager and must be "locked" to Proton for what I consider to be one of the most fundamental and important pieces of technology a person can use.

    Bitwarden, however, has opened their official C# server, their internal Rust SDK and the apps themselves too. Furthermore, they have several guides on how to self-host your own personal server, and have implemented settings in their apps to change the homeserver. There's even an unofficial server, vaultwarden that is even better tailored for small, personal deployments.

    All this to say: the fact they may collect some usage data on their website is very insignificant for their offering, in my opinion. The real value is in providing a secure vault that only the user can manage. If you need better privacy and/or anonymity, you should use tools specialized for that anyway, instead of blindly trusting a third-party's Privacy Policy, no matter who they are. But then again, it's the old game of threat models.

    Ultimately, Bitwarden inspires more confidence than Proton, by giving those you can and want the ability to truly own their secrets.

    [^1]: As far as I'm aware, there's only this audit by Cure53, in which they performed a white-box pen test on the API, with only its documentation provided, no code whatsoever. These audits are important from a cybersecurity point of view, but security is not the same as privacy and should not be taken as such.

  • Tips for getting better at Linux.

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  • Very useful, even for someone who has been using Linux for many years. Sometimes you just forget or need that tool you rarely use. tldr can be much handier than parsing a man page when you're in a pinch.

    I use the tealdeer implementation, but any is fine really.

  • Is there any way to un-freeze my device when it freezes, without shutting down and losing my work?

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  • Never knew about prelockd, seems like a pretty neat and useful idea, thanks!

  • Private videoconferencing ?

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  • Adding onto what's already on the thread, you can try look at the newer Element Call, which is an implementation of Matrix's native calls.I've been using it a bit recently, since Jitsi seems to have stopped working reliably for me (to be frank, I've not put much effort into debugging it yet). It works well, but it's still early stage, lacking some features Jitsi has. If that one works for you, I recommend you stick to it.

  • Element X, Call and Server Suite are production ready

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  • I still don't think it's there, but development hss been fast, so a lot has changed and improved in the last couple of months.

  • What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without?

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  • conduwuit is a fork of the less "energic" conduit.rs software, and both are maintained by the community, not by the Element people, like Dendrite.

  • What Linux distro surprised you the most?

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  • Agree, but mad props to the Gentoo people too. Nice community and incredible wiki as well.

  • Is there such a thing as a privacy driven credit card?

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  • Yeah withdraw cash from an ATM and use it. The system sucks, but it's not trivial to change for a myriad of reasons.

  • Is there such a thing as a privacy driven credit card?

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  • There's no real way to do it. Unless you know someone who can trade you XMR<->cash and you somehow convince your employer to (break laws and) pay you in those forms, you can't avoid it. At some point, you'll have to get money on a real bank account, which requires real information to open.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    OpenSSH: race condition in sshd allows remote code execution

    stackdiary.com /openssh-race-condition-in-sshd-allows-remote-code-execution/
  • Rust Programming @lemmy.ml
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    Announcing Rust 1.79.0 | Rust Blog

    blog.rust-lang.org /2024/06/13/Rust-1.79.0.html
  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
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    Challenge someone to a game of chess on the Fediverse!

    castling.club
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    The Kennedy Assassination: Inside the Book Depository

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
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    What to know about Threads

    blog.joinmastodon.org /2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    100K Users - Revolt

    revolt.chat /posts/100K-users
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    EU votes for smartphones having user-replaceable batteries by 2027

    www.pcmag.com /news/eu-smartphones-must-have-user-replaceable-batteries-by-2027
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    YouTube legal team contacted the Invidious team

    github.com /iv-org/invidious/issues/3872
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    How to run a small social network site for your friends - pro small scale deployments article

    runyourown.social