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ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One (Feds could be in your group chat) ( www.kenklippenstein.com )

The new program, called “masked engagement,” allows homeland security officers to assume false identities and interact with users—friending them, joining closed groups, and gaining access to otherwise private postings, photographs, friend lists and more. ...

glitching ,

compartmentalize. if your group chat can't meet IRL at a physical table, it's too large, divide it into smaller operative units.

glitching OP ,

thanks. this looks good, I can swear I searched the wiki and missed it somehow

glitching ,

honestly with their whole military! fuck yeah!1!! spiel, they can get fucked. along with all other corpos with their gaping assholes to cram evermore cash into them, and that includes element the corp; they got the other fetish - cops.

glitching ,

supporting 400+ laptops from previously tech-illiterate users in the field. we tried everything for remote patching and fixing things and nothing worked universally. that includes stuff shipped with them (ssh, Gnome and Plasma RDP, VNC, etc) and 3rd party FOSS things. wireguard-ing all them laptops for remote access introduces buncha complications at this scale.

only thing that works: bring it to the "shop", ansible script to exfil home subvolume, install fresh ubuntu (working on replacing that with debian), patch snap and bunch of other annoyances, restore /home.

seeing as how you only got grams and co. to take care of, wireguard + ssh is the only low-overhead, works-most-of-the-time solution.

glitching ,

just gave it a cursory look, will look further, thank you. couldn't find the details on client load/traffic; we can't burden these people with excessive network traffic just because it might be needed one day.

While some countries worry about falling birth rates, Switzerland may go in the opposite direction. They're having a referendum to cap their population at 10 million.

Economic "growth" seems to be doing less and less for most people. Its financial benefits mainly accrue at the very top of society; most people just get squeezed. Less housing, depressed wages, ever more crowded and less available services, the list of consequences of constant growth goes on. ...

glitching ,

once we have a reliable way of "hey what should we do about this?" and people instantly giving direct feedback, the intermediaries - congress, senat, whateverthefuck - aren't needed no more

glitching ,

old joke, might be related... the space agency sends three pigs and a bro to space. they travel along their route and after a while control radios in:

control: pig 1, enable telemetry

pig 1: oink

control: pig 2, check perimeter

pig 2: oink

control: pig 3, reverse thrusters 10%

pig 3: oink

control: bro!

bro: sup

control: feed the pigs, don't touch nothin'

glitching ,

honestly, you should give less info. what's your hardware? what PSU? drivers? X11, wayland? what's that "running again" business, what was the issue before?

What's your current situation with Google?

I use GrapheneOS with multiple profiles. My main profile contains only FOSS apps, along with two proprietary apps that have no network access. One secondary profile is for my personal Google account (just Gmail) for work and bills, while another is for a disposable Google account for apps like Google Maps when I need GPS. ...

glitching ,

leave it dormant, don't cost you nothing; check it every month or so.

glitching ,

took one look, said needs an external video/voice provider (e.g. zoom, jitsi,...), said bye.

Russia is restricting access to Telegram, one of its most popular social media apps. ( edition.cnn.com )

Russian authorities have begun restricting access to Telegram, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, as the government continues to push everyday Russians toward its own tightly controlled alternatives to foreign tech platforms. ...

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because it has the best (not one of the best, the best) UX of any of its brethren and normal people are super forgiving about them non-important things once they get used to the fluidity and glitz of weirdov's app.

I have first hand experience with forcing (apt term) normies to use XMPP and Matrix clients in a corpo setting and am witness to the abject horror they experience when they clash with the dogshit apps these lunatics claim are production ready.

glitching ,

dual booting is an advanced scenario especially with a hostile OS like Windows and it doesn't soundlike you got the expertise to fix shit. if your livelihood/education/etc depends on it, you should steer clear of such an adventure, unless you're in abject poverty.

get a $50 decade-old laptop and use it to run either of the OS, exclusively. it will give you a fallback solution if something breaks and you can figure out how to run that cancer on linux without endangering the primary rig.

A new Jellyfin desktop client?

so, was installing the usual jellyfin-media-player flatpak on a new install as I did so many times, mistyped and was presented with a list of jellyfin related apps. there's a new Jellyfin Desktop app in there that def wasn't there before, has the official sounding org.jellyfin.JellyfinDesktop id. ...

glitching OP ,

please reread what I am asking, mpv-shim is a totally different thing and not mentioned in the question.

glitching ,

a) I mean, ok, that can potentially happen in the future, but does that make it fit in futurology? and b) chill with the champaigne poppings, you can bet your ass whatever comes up ain't gonna be to your advantage and finally c) "we gonna" instead of actually doing the thing is a negotiating tactic.

glitching ,

your premise is flawed. using AI to do this shit is like using a twin-engine F-14 Tomcat's afterburner to clear the snow from your driveway. and to get you started to ditch your shovels and shit and help your muscles atrophy, Northrop-Grumman is subsidising the insanely humongous fuel bill and maintenance for the first year.

it's not sustainable. it's not ethical. it's fucking disastrous to the environment, local and at large. and it tends to blow up the house you've built, for no fucking reason.

glitching ,

what did fucko type this with, his fucking knees? dude was fuckin borderline illiterate, I've seen output from dyslexic folks and it ain't nothing like this

glitching ,

saw "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" untold number of times. love the atmosphere, colors, rhythm, everything... except "the" scene, skip it every time.

and so occasionally I wanna feel like lisbeth superhacker and I dust off an old Macbook Pro 17 running Lion; I believe she's running Tiger with a custom color scheme? you could do that back then...

now this thing is useless nowadays, everything on it is so old you're encouraged to never connect it to any network, ever. but still... it looks gorgeous. the dated skeuomorphisms, the aqua buttons, the chubby font, everything is fucking beautiful! and the responsiveness - this doesn't feel like a Core2Duo with close to no RAM, at all...

why can't we have this thing now when apple don't want it no more? like, I would adore a libre OS X. with the ancient iTunes playing just local MP3. and the messed up window manager. and the weird launchdaemons/agents.

there are some ancient themes for XFCE and Mate, but those look like shit. the negative space, kerning, etc... somehow everything looks great here, whereas those things look like ransom notes from 1976.

/rant

Is there a 100% free way to pirate as a newcomer?

Ive thought about torrents but they require a paid vpn from what i know? I dont really want to pay, which is why im thinking about piracy because im not made of money and cant afford a vpn. Im just not sure if its possible to be safe and sail the seven seas all for free? ...

glitching ,

ITT buncha folks with no reading comprehension, free != pay little.

if ISP/government are looking for folks doing the thing, get a torrent client for your laptop/phone, send links to it, and then seek out some free wifi, like a coffee shop or sumsuch. loiter about, limit download speeds so they don't ban your freeloading ass and there you go - adventure, fresh air, you don't gotta download "watch dogs", you're living the game!

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I watch it for the lightning-fast wit and banter of the original trio, whereas their guests are usually (especially in the later seasons) dull and boring... how good can the aussie replacements be?

edit: ok, it's watchable, maybe they'll grow on me...

edit 2: needs a super-talented pretentious dick as host, doesn't really work without

glitching ,

haven't used telegram in ages, but it's kinda depressing that it's still neck and shoulder above anything else UX-wise. can't someone rip them off, really don't see any meaningful consequences to that end. it's not like they invented any of the UI glitz...

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first thing I do after a fresh plasma install is open plasma search and turn off everything except apps and settings (and remap krunner to open on single meta press). appreciate there may be use cases that need comprehensive file system search, but so far I haven't needed it ever.

glitching ,

ain't that like super-flammable

Verbrannte Erde -- ARTE -- bis zum 10.03. ( www.arte.tv )

Nachdem zwölf Jahre zuvor ein Coup gescheitert ist, kehrt der Berufskriminelle Trojan nach Berlin zurück. Dort sieht er sich nach einem neuen Job um. Er erklärt sich dazu bereit, bei einem lukrativen Gemäldediebstahl mitzumachen. Akribisch geplant, läuft das Vorhaben schon bald aus dem Ruder. Für Trojan geht es in der ...

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saw "Im Schatten" like ten times, excellent direction and photography, total Melville vibes. expected more from the sequel but def way better than just okay. first time I'm hearing about a third installation. thanks for posting.

glitching ,

awesome work, much appreciated

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very cool writeup. I've tried on a couple occasions to get a grip on how fucko made all that money. and every time, including wikipedia, it was like met some folks, bear sterns, clients, consulting, insulting, yadda, yadda, he a billionaire... like holup, I'm doing some tallying here, what was the middle part...?

way easier to grasp when a) it ain't actually tres comas, let alone a multiple of that and b) it's just a series of grifts, swindles, and embezzlements of one not really that savvy confidence man.

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    glitching OP ,

    correct, saw feb 4th and went berserk. maybe take the post down?

    Painting aluminium

    so I got a bunch of old Macbooks lying around; they can be had in the $20 region locally in varied states of decay. fixing them up is cheap and easy, so it's an inexpensive hobby with potential resale upsides. so it occured to me it'd be fun if I could paint them; cheaply of course, can't outsource this to professionals. ...

    glitching OP ,

    yeah the foil thing is a usual go-to in them affairs; don't consider it as it's hella expensive and I seriously doubt I haz the skillz to pull this off - just imagine trying to cut out the keyholes and fitting them so they cover everything and it's taut and adhered everywhere...

    glitching ,

    it's known that google doesn't want you to use email, they want you to use gmail. same as how all those fucks co-opt standard protocols (XMPP, ActivityPub, etc.) and then defederate it and make it their own walled, proprietary thing.

    I ran a slew of geo-dispersed mail servers for a decade+; not really spam as it's willing recipients but essentially not that far from it, either. also fully compliant, experimenting with voodoo-adjacent tips for improving deliverability (none of them work). so glad to be out of that racket.

    anyhoo, you can utilise mailchimp/sendinblue/etc as they have a direct pipe into gmail/outlook infra and are not subject to any of those harassment tactics, which is basically payola. the prices last time I was involved with checking things weren't that much better (worse in fact, if you add the costs of running all that shit) than transferring everything to gmail and friends, which is their ultimate goal.

    Closed apps catfishing as FOSS via Google's AI results?

    I tried finding a FOSS app that I could use to use my phone as a mouse (all options for this seem really shady IMO) and Google's "AI overview" recommended the app "Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse". Seemingly, because it has a (mostly empty) Git repo with typical folders. I tried entering the search term into Copilot on my work ...

    glitching ,

    I mean, you do you, but if you're gonna go the FOSS way, you kinda hafta ditch google and especially its "AI" bullshit.

    otherwise, that'd be like you turning vegan and going to a steakhouse and be all like "what salads y'all got"

    glitching ,

    I mean good for them, but at that price and them specs that's an insanely expensive thing.

    seeing as how it's directed at enthusiasts i.e. people who'll fiddle with their phone, I contend that those people are equally likely to pick up an used ex-flagship of some years, flash lineageOS and have at least an equal device at like a tenth of the price.

    the repairability - cool, it's better if it's there than not. but, I stress for the intended audience, swapping out batteries and cameras and stuff is perfectly achievable on normal phones. and even if it isn't, $50 gets me an immensely powerful SDM8xx device, so dicking around with replacing parts at that price point is more of a hobby than necessity.

    this thing with those specs should cost like $200. engineering efforts should be spent at identifying soon-to-be abandoned models from existing manufacturers and taking over production, not on designing bespoke parts and fucking lanyard covers and whatnot.

    glitching ,

    how does that work, like can I post to a "linux" multicom, comprised of all the linux communities? and if so where does that post go?

    Some questions about distro-hopping

    I am thinking of switching from Fedora 43 KDE to EndeavourOS during the holidays, mostly to try out new stuff, it being Arch-based and rolling release. It would also give me an excuse to finally overwrite my dual boot Windows partition that I now never use (initially set up for playing Minecraft Bedrock with my little brother, ...

    glitching ,

    if you're on fedora, your file system is btrfs. that one has subvolumes, think partitions as folders that you don't hafta pre-size.

    so what you can do is install this endeavour thing in its own subvolume; presently you got root (fedora) and home. so you install the new os in /newroot, mount it at / and mount the existing home in its /home.

    you don't mount the old root at all, so fedora is ready and waiting when you grow tired of the new toy, and all your shit is there, no need to backup, restore, miss something etc.

    the windows partition is easily taken care of, just format it as btrfs and add it to the existing file system.

    this wipe and reinstall way isn't a thing over here, as it's rarely needed. good luck!

    glitching ,

    don't know what "slow" means in your case, but jellyfin clients have a buffer setting and increasing it should improve things for them.

    glitching ,

    if someone wants to try, a fyi: only available in USA, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Czechia, Belgium and the Netherlands

    Is there a list of apps that microG gives users access to?

    I have been thinking of getting away from the Google ecosystem (while still staying on Adroid) and microg has come onto my radar. I understand that it's a service that tricks other apps into thinking Google Play Services is installed on the phone, thus allowing the app to work on a phone that does not have Play Services. ...

    glitching ,

    it implements a subset of play store features, notably a client for GCM/FCM so push notifications work. you can see which ones are subscribed in microG settings.

    no idea how the three apps you mentioned work with that stack. maybe it's time to look for alternatives, not just for this stack's sake.

    glitching ,

    yeah of course. if you go the non-microG lineageOS way, every app has to implement its own checking for messages, that's a significant drain on battery. there are non-google push alternatives, like UnifiedPush, but the app has to be written to specifically support it - element x, conversations and clones, Molly (Signal fork), KDE Plasma, etc. have it. but if you want an app from the play store, they predominantly can't handle push on their own, you hafta open them manually and check for e.g. messages.

    also, the notifications you receive via FCM aren't readable by google, it's just a signal for your app to wake up, then the app's handler goes to its server, fetches the message and then locally forms and displays the notification.

    glitching ,

    maybe open with what this is, first time I heard of it. to anyone similarly clueless, that's a proxy for other people to use that can't get at Signal's servers because it's blocked in their country or sumsuch.

    in nginx you set up a proxy, like mysignalproxy.net:80 gets proxy_pass to your internal network's 172.16.12.34:980 and the same for 443

    the simplest config is thus:

    server {
    listen 80 http;

    server_name mysignalproxy.net;

    proxy_pass http://172.16.12.34:980/;

    proxy_pass_request_headers on;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    etc
    glitching ,

    more like 1000:1.

    you know these cats? because the site is joke; like, check out the faq. and says "we" a lot, who's that? who's moderating spam and scams and abuse and such? how are they financing the infra? the name, dios mio...

    glitching ,

    I've found it to be unwatchable bad; don't think I lasted more than an episode or two.

    take a look at zerozerozero if you haven't already

    glitching ,

    who's "desperate"? I don't wanna reboot to get new package updates. that's a stupid concept that was done with in like Windows 98 days. I don't reboot my desktop or my phone for weeks, that's hella comfortable and I'm not going back from that.

    if the crowd pushing the immutable stack would lead with that, or at very least mention it, I'd keep shtum.