Private? I’m pretty sure any of the existing means are private in the sense that I, a random stranger, will not know about that transaction.
Do you mean anonymous? Pseudonymous? Hidden from your government or the government where MullVad is established?
I’m not trying to be pedantic here but rather to genuinely understand so that I can try to answer.
Edit for TL;DR as this became lengthy : agreed, do NOT buy “an expensive Facebook paperweight” but also, open source VR exists today! Depending on your definition and needs, there is a lot that can be done and you can help.
Rooting isn’t open source…
Anyway Valve Index runs perfectly on Linux, that’s how I finished Half-life: Alyx. I also do already have a rooted Lynx XR1 and a Project NorthStar which is open hardware (even though not OSHW iirc).
There are also :
IMHO one of the best resource covering that and more is https://lvra.gitlab.io/
So… I’m a bit confused, maybe I misunderstood, what did you mean by being “a decade too early”? Which functionality specifically is missing today?
A device in my hands is my device.
Could you then please help root the Meta Quest 3? So far I believe nobody managed.
Linux applications can access your entire home folder
That’s the default because that’s what most people want, or at least expect.
You can perfectly start an application within a container or even a dedicated user.
Nearly nobody does this not because Linux does not permit that, it does, but rather because most people believe (rightfully or not) they do not need this level of separation.
use SMS but that can be hijacked by social engineering attacks
Can you please share an example? I’d be curious how that would work, especially if it works while understanding how it works.
Android does not have that much “hackers” as “proper” Linux has
It’s hard for Android to have hackers precisely because Google and manufacturers are trying their best to prevent that. They do not allow rooting, they blocks features on rooted devices, etc. So they do their absolute best to keep on exercising control despite collaborating on open source software.
Absolutely but even their high end model has just a RK3588S 8-core 64-bit with a Mali-G610 MP4 … and that’s not exactly a powerhouse if you check benchmark with like an i7 which would already be several years old, not even high end.
This is not a “fair” comparison and yet, in practice if you sit down with that setup and you start to use Blender and Firefox with a tutorial running in the background, it’s going to feel sluggish quickly IMHO.
Well you could plug a PinePhone on… pretty much anything with a USB-C dongle. I did plug it on a large (like… 70") screen and a mechanical keyboard and mouse mostly for testing purposes. It was cool. Still it felt under powered compared to even an entry level laptop modern laptop so… conceptually yes, in practice, meh.
we need a quality/seamless way of running Android apps on Linux
Like Waydroid? There was a thread recently on that and it seemed (even though not necessarily a representative sample) most people used it for… games, not “actual” applications. They were NOT used for banking apps also (at least I don’t remember anybody mentioning that) because I bet most people just go on their bank website for that.
I don’t have that need but if I were to do that I would
Assuming that would work I would make a (bash) script to automate all that, probably relying on rsync and find. I would then try to find ways to automate more with USB rules (namely mount the right USB stick automatically, run the script too, unmount prior to shutdown, etc).
My main point being that I’d be iterative about it, try, test, document as live script and try again because it’s quite a specific use case.
I can’t talk for others I’m personally interested in Linux phones (I have 2, PinePhone and PinePhone Pro) because I do not want to rely on Android because it’s lead, maintained and basically in practice owned by Google.
I would also much prefer to have “just” Linux because I know it better and because IMHO we reached a point, already few years ago, where “mobile” does not mean much anymore. “just” a computer with a battery is enough due to the power available.
IMHO the SteamDeck is the existence proof of that.
Linux desktop apps are not exactly secure.
Can you please clarify?
The instant any such report were to be made public anybody who cares about privacy would switch to another DNS.
I’m not saying it’s not possible, or won’t happen, but rather the barrier to switch is so low I have a hard time anybody would accept that “compromise”.
Maybe I’m missing something but the EU isn’t mandating ISPs to use this DNS.
Here it’s up to anybody, if they want to, to use this DNS instead of their ISPs, or NextDNS, or corporate Americans alternatives e.g. Google Public DNS or Cloudflare’s. I don’t think any average citizen, in EU or elsewhere, is directly hitting on ICANN’s servers.
“dns0.eu is a French non‑profit organization founded in 2022 by Romain Cointepas and Olivier Poitrey — co-founders of NextDNS.”
whereas
“Supported by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), the European Union’s DNS4EU secure-infrastructure project”
so AFAICT the 1st is by (EU) citizens with the technical expertise and selling a related product whereas the 2nd is by the public EU administration.
If you are not already aware of it you might be interested in SplinterCon.
That being said this service seems like option, an alternative to existing solutions, so in that sense I don’t believe they are splintering more.
Debian stable.
I don’t understand the “fetish” (for lack of a better word) with updates. Apologies for being provocative.
The only update one truly needs are :
… that’s it!
Everything else might “feel” nice but that’s not up to the distribution. If you want the very latest Blender because you are a 3D artist who needs a very specific feature, get the latest Blender! Get it straight from them, NOT from your distribution. If you really REALLY want the bleeding age, get right from the code repository, get the binaries for your architecture, heck even build it yourself it’s actually rarely that difficult. Maybe the first time you will need some dependencies but the 2nd time it will be way WAY easier.
Anyway… you get he idea, IMHO your system should be 99.99% boring, only necessary changes. For the few things you genuinely, actively, mindfully NEED (even if it’s just due to curiosity) go wild, get the latest!
Maybe I misunderstood but the vulnerability was unknown to them but the class of vulnerability, let’s say “bugs like that”, are well known and published by the security community, aren’t there?
My point being that if it’s previously unknown and reproducible (not just “luck”) is major, if it’s well known in other projects, even though unknown to this specific user, then it’s unsurprising.
Edit: I’m not a security researcher but I believe there are already a lot of tools doing static and dynamic analysis. IMHO It’d be helpful to know how those perform already versus LLMs used here, namely across which dimensions (reliability, speed, coverage e.g. exotic programming languages, accuracy of reporting e.g. hallucinations, computation complexity and thus energy costs, openness, etc) is each solution better or worst than the other. I’m always wary of “ex nihilo” demonstrations. Apologies if there is benchmark against existing tools and if I missed that.
Looks like another of those “Asked AI to find X. AI does find X as requested. Claims that the AI autonomously found X.”
I mean… the program literally does what has been asked and its dataset includes examples related to the request.
Shocked Pikachu face? Really?
Shit. Dark but fair.
Wouldn’t that assume you are not using all the electricity coming from your panels?