WSJ Report further notes that Huawei’s slow but constant progress in the chipset field is ‘both a security concern for the U.S. and a commercial challenge for Apple’.

Same thing, Apple is so big their success is part of US national security.

If the tech companies fall, the US is fucked.

Source: the Pentagon

https://www.salon.com/2022/01/11/the-us-drops-an-average-of-46-bombs-a-day-why-should-the-world-see-us-as-a-force-for-peace/

Why wouldn’t it? Lots of languages do. In C++ you have __LINE__.

Getting the mozilla build fixed the issue, thanks.

How weird. A little unfortunate too since the snap version has apparmor confinement.

We’re entering a new world where local AI scans your photos and tells on you. It’s only a matter of time before it’s used for copyright enforcement.

Wow thank you kind stranger, I only believe things approved by the unaccountable billionaire donor class, not by a dirty government.

What’s the use case for using anything other than red hat’s freeotp?

Why are you even bothering dude? Just back up your data and install it fresh. You’ll be done in 30 minutes.

Well, no. Firefox deletes entries older than 6 months from history and there’s no way to change this or to export the data.

Why do people on the internet think you don’t have to shave if you have a beard? You’re just shaving less area.

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Cover Your Ass. i.e. avoiding trouble from the Washington regime

You can just write an HTML/markdown page with your bookmarks and host it on some web server (your own or eg github). Works on any browser, from anywhere, no syncing required. You can use git or whatever. You can share it with others, organize it in any way that makes sense you to, etc.

Yes, services on i2p, tor and freenet

No, the government is huge, and most parts of it really don’t care about your data. They’re busy buildings roads, sewers and doing fundamental research. It’s really people vs the national security state.

What a joke. The Guardian was captured by the establishment after Snowden and now just reprints security state PR notices.

Man just when audio in Linux got decently stable and functional, now we have to switch to some new shit. I run Ubuntu 23.10 that has pipewire and mostly it works but then sometimes it starts crackling, audio turns on and off, skipping, or random muting.

I’m getting so fucking fed up with these stupid Linux desktop pre-alpha software that take a decade to stabilize and by then we’re off to the brand new thing that barely functions.

What the fuck are you smoking dude, X11 is used all over the place

and we should minimize the amount of damage shitty clients can do.

Can’t have global shortcuts or share my screen but at least my system is secure from these non-existent threats snort

Why don’t I just smash my computer with a sledgehammer for the ultimate protection from flatpak malware.

Do you think every single app should have permissions to screen record without you knowing, to keylog without you knowing?

Can you point me to a single notable breach that happened because of this?

Classical security thinking is that if you have a compromised app running, it’s all over anyway, and it’s time to wipe and reinstall. Luckily, this isn’t a problem on Linux because packages are vetted by distributions maintainers… unless…

Unless the new plan is to transition from that to flatpak proprietary stores packaged by unknown developers, giving us trashware app stores like on Android and Windows.

Sure, if you expect to run proprietary malware on Linux then some protection might be useful. But then you’re just running a shitty version of Windows, and not getting the historical cultural benefits of Linux anyway. Might as well run Windows.

Probably never. X11 just works better. Wayland has bad design and bad implementations.