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People like having choice, it was never about saving space in phones.

If you look at which company (apple) and the time of removal of headphone jack (around the time their wireless buds were announced), you’ll notice they removed choice so the consumer can only buy more expensive wireless buds, or many many dongles.

The “save space” is an absolute lie. The international (EU, Asia, etc) version of the iPhone has a dedicated SIM card tray. The US model? No tray, just a freakin placeholder where the international version has the SIM tray. Yes, there is a volume of space that can fit 2 headphone jacks on the US iPhone that is just empty.

Look at this iFixit video where they call apple out on it. The placeholder is huge. at ~1:17+

The statement is very informative. The bug happens under increased read/write operations to the same file causing a race condition.

I also found interesting:

Despite the bug being present in OpenZFS for many years, this issue has not been found to impact any TrueNAS systems. The bug fix is scheduled to be included in OpenZFS 2.2.2 within the next week

I’d really want to know what’s driving them

likely ego

When I was in college, two older classmates whom I respected got into a hilarious argument of why Gnome was awesome and now eats rocks (their views, I had no views).

Their elaborate and very specific descriptions of functions and inconveniences drew up a picture of functionality and a e s t h e t i c I had never experienced on windows. So I proceeded to install a distro and take it for a ride

The letter is a post on his own blog . Hard to distill into a summary so I recommend reading it get more context. But it seems to have boiled down to:

• How It Was:

  • Strong adherence to the “don’t be evil” ethos, focusing on societal good over profits.
  • Open, transparent communication and decision-making processes.
  • High morale, with a culture of learning from successes and failures.
  • Work focused on benefitting the web and users, rather than Google’s immediate interests.
  • Collaboration and lack of internal silos, encouraging innovation and autonomy.

• How It Is Now:

  • Shift from user-centric to Google-centric, and then to individual-centric decision making.
  • Eroded transparency and increase in organizational silos.
  • Decline in morale and a culture of distrust between employees and management.
  • Focus on short-term financial gains leading to layoffs and defensive employee behavior.
  • Lack of clear vision and leadership, resulting in confused and ineffective management.
  • Overall deterioration of Google’s unique, innovative culture and values.

Brave has superior fingerprint protection, they achieve this by randomizing the browsers fingerprint. Visit EFF’s cover your tracks to test your browser.

To achieve the same functionality that brave achieves out of the box with Firefox I need many extensions and then when I profile both browsers, Firefox is more resource intensive. Brave’s blocking is native to the browser. I will give Firefox the W because I’ve read that uBlock is technically more capable. But as a long time Firefox/uBlock user who switched to brave - this has not been noticable.

As for accessibility, I can configure brave to be really aggressive at ad blocking, tracking blocking, fingerprint blocking, and restricting JS even, and all those options I can set from one place instead of in different settings/extensions. When a website breaks, I click on the button next to the URL and immediately have options to granularly dial down the “protection” or add a website to my trusted list. In Firefox I was annoyed to having go through settings for the extension.

Brave plans to continue supporting Manifest V2 after Google kills it. For Ungoogled Chromium, however, it’s still undecided, likely depending on whether UG contributors are willing to maintain it.

Brave has superior fingerprint protection, they achieve this by randomizing the browsers fingerprint. Visit EFF’s cover your tracks to test your browser.

To achieve the same functionality that brave achieves out of the box with Firefox I need many extensions and then when I profile both browsers, Firefox is more resource intensive. Brave’s blocking is native to the browser. I will give Firefox the W because I’ve read that uBlock is technically more capable. But as a long time Firefox/uBlock user who switched to brave - this has not been noticable.

As for accessibility, I can configure brave to be really aggressive at ad blocking, tracking blocking, fingerprint blocking, and restricting JS even, and all those options I can set from one place instead of in different settings/extensions. When a website breaks, I click on the button next to the URL and immediately have options to granularly dial down the “protection” or add a website to my trusted list. In Firefox I was annoyed to having go through settings for the extension.

Brave plans to continue supporting Manifest V2 after Google kills it. For Ungoogled Chromium, however, it’s still undecided, likely depending on whether UG contributors are willing to maintain it.

getting a developer account with redhat you can have up to 10(?) instances of RedHat Linux LTS. super stable, is run on servers for many critical serves. Or just use rocky linux (bug for bug compatible with red hat) and establish a roll back procedure. There are rollback options at the filesystem level so you can snapshot before an update.

I use fedora and I don’t typically have any issues and that is considered bleeding edge.

Macs have too many guardrails that get in the way which can be as disruptive as something breaking bc you need to work around it. But I am acknowledging that it is use case dependant.

This is the best suggestion for DIY, I can even get away without a printer and just write by hand. Perfect! Wish I could pin this comment.

nothing wrong with being self taught, you could follow these basics topics before poking holes in firewall.

1. VLANS: learn how to separate your LAN into networks with different security requirements. For wireless, try to make a “main” and “IoT” network so that IoT network that can’t talk to your “main” network but “main” can reach IoT devices. For wired, try to have a Management network, and a “Dirty network” etc.
2. Firewalls and Routing: You will need to be able to route between your VLANS and set firewall rules to allow certain traffic. Best practice is block everything and allow only what you need.
3. NMAP: learn how to do NMAP scans of your network to discover hosts and their open ports/services. This is a similar approach that “hackers” and script kiddies use on the public internet to find vulnerae and open services. Being able to probe your own network is crutial in understanding how others might approach in penetrating it.
4. Wireguard VPN: Learn to access your network remotely by setting up a wireguard VPN. Wireguard is preferred because it is “stealthy” and will not respond to unsolicited attempted to probe your network. Start small by using wireguard to access between VLANs so you don’t run the risk of using the internet.
5. NGINX and Reverse Proxy: If necessary, learn to expose your services or blog or website by only exposing nginx and proxying to your services. Many guides on securing NGINX exist. Try not to expose anything, but sometimes necessary if you want others to reach your website/blog/hosting etc.

That’s a rough outline that you can use to guide yourself and achieve milestones with hands on experience. In your pursuit you’ll run into certificates and domain name hosting and stuff. But all this is on the web so let your curiosity (and paranoia) drive! Have fun!!

The table of contents hints there is only one section relevant to security, Lab Firewall Config.

Anyone have experience with this book that could vouch for other chapters that explore best practices for security?

using the settings you described ( minus the VPN ) I was not able to cloak myself over the past several days

Yes, some guy was streaming live on YouTube talking about a subject that he does not otherwise have, and he showed that before talking about the subject, there were no ads for dog toys, and after talking about dogs, there were ads about dog toys. The video isn’t really that great because he goes and clicks on an ad about a dog toy and proceeds to get more of them, so he kind of tainted his results.

I wish I didn’t waste my time watching this video

7 visits with brave, 7 times identified as the same. I’m using the default options of a fresh brave install

how did you have such success?

thanks.

The last gleam of hope I had was last year when John Oliver did an episode on data brokers. He in turn went and purchased data that would match congressmen in the D.C. area, along with their “interests.” He jokingly threatened to release it (bc congressmen tend to act on an issue if it affects them personally). I thought that would be huge, everybody would see how rampant and invasive data collection would be. I was thrilled for a breakthrough.

but so far no movement, hasn’t been released. I wonder if people wrote to John Oliver and his team if we will get an answer haha

I feel so powerless, so hopeless.

Bills aren’t being passed by lawmakers because like many of us who care about privacy, they have not heard about the abilities of data brokers and have no visibility into how rampant and disgusting and invasive their behavior is.

Friends and family I talk to don’t care. “Oh well, what are they going to do, find me personally?”

I feel if people were able to look themselves up in these databases, they would fear it as well

he was not, nobody cares about his 2 bytes

Gotcha, thanks. Well, I’ll look into it some more. I appreciate you supporting Rebble!

What is incredible about this product is that I can speak normally and fluently as I normally do.

The need to look at the output as you speak is only necessary if you expect there to be errors. FUTO, amazingly, performs extremely well in this regard and I have a high confidence in not being able to trip it up. I don’t feel that I need to look down at a live transcription.

This whole comment was written using FUTO voice input. I’m definitely going to donate to them.