PiraHxCx

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[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

If I could get a single person to use Signal instead of Whatsapp... or even the nerds I know to use matrix instead of Discord...

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago

update: Lumo sucks.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If you use something like simplewall or Portmaster you can block every OS communication with the mothership and make it look like you are offline for them :)
Probably soon they are making it that you can't use Windows offline though lol

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

But up until recently you could download packages and utilities directly from their site, now you are forced to do it through Microsoft Store. I just started this new Win11 laptop and right after debloating the shit out of it I noticed the updates didn't install HEIC and AV1 codecs and there was no way for me to install them without getting Microsoft Store back, so I restored it and downloaded them and then removed Microsoft Store... guess what? Removing it removed the downloads as well lol

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

maybe the guy is just brown and afraid of the ICE?
being brown is a dangerous activity nowadays.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My point is that what we fear bible‑thumpers can do, qur’an‑thumpers are already doing in several parts of the world, so they must be treated as an equal threat.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I love Handmaid's Tale, I suggest you reading Persepolis as well, this is one is a true history though.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I never claimed to have Muslim friends though, just arab friends :P
About religions, I'm a "phobe" of them all.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Word (about being practically useless). I have been using it to automate some stuff, like when I'm creating a json I just paste a bunch of data there and ask it to format for me, but I have to do in small batches and constantly correct the way it's doing... Chat GPT was way better, but I don't want to use it anymore
Sometimes I use AI to grammar check me (I'm not a native speaker) if I'm unsure of what I'm writing or I absolutely want to write stuff correctly, I did it a few times in Lumo, but I didn't use it enough to compare with duck.ai, so I can't say if it's better or worse - but I always add "don't rewrite, just point errors, ignore slurs, ignore slang, ignore informal language, ignore internet lingo" etc etc, and they go and rewrite my sentence changing everything hehe (again, Chat GPT was way better)

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I've read this on GrapheneOS page

"Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet." https://grapheneos.org/usage

And all I use is Gecko-based hehe (although on desktop), I'm currently using Brave just to have some old/disposable accs logged, but I'm looking for Chromium alternatives... and I just looked at ungoogled git and it seems like I have to download a bunch of stuff to compile it myself, argh, I hate that :P

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I'm also in no way qualified to check code, so I just trust that if something has a lot of forks it means a lot of people are looking at it.

 

Let's imagine we live in a world the American government is not the American government so you can trust what American companies say when they talk about protecting your privacy and so on...

 

When I see people talking about LibreWolf, it’s always loved or hated.

People who hate it complain that it either requires too much configuration to be usable (because of the strict default settings) or that you should just use Mullvad (whether for real reasons or just better marketing about privacy).

People who love it (including me) see it as what Firefox should be: community‑driven and user‑first. However, I believe people using LibreWolf as their main browser (like me) does so only because they’ve tweaked the settings - allowing browsing‑history, password saving, manually adding cookie exceptions for sites they want to stay logged into, etc.

Out of the box, LibreWolf seems to be trying to compete with Mullvad and Tor as a hardcore privacy‑first browser (although letterboxing isn’t default). But can it really do that?
I’m not saying it can’t on a technical level (which I’m in no way qualified to judge), but Mullvad is a huge company and Tor is a very mature project. I’ve read a bunch of guides and watched people talking about privacy browsers, and I never saw anyone recommending LibreWolf over Mullvad or Tor when you want to browse sensitive content or use an online identity you don’t want easily linked to your main one.

Aren’t LibreWolf fans using it as their main daily‑use browser? From what I see (and I don’t know how aligned this is with the project itself or the rest of the user base), LibreWolf is an alternative to Chrome, Firefox, and especially Brave. It’s a truly community‑driven project focused on privacy, prioritizing the user, and not involved in shady business like Brave.

So, when I recommend LibreWolf to people, I suggest it as a substitute for Brave. Out of the box, though, it feels like it’s trying to be an alternative to Mullvad/Tor instead.

 

I just installed Brave to have some different accs logged, and then I saw that addon... I'm running it right now but... did I just set a Tor relay? Really? It wasn't that easy before :S

 

Sometimes they work, and sometimes I have to close one or the other, or every connection gets blocked. I haven't blocked anything from Proton VPN on Portmaster - just some Windows services and domains that don't break the internet when Proton VPN is off.
Do you have any idea what may be happening or how I can discover what's going on?

  • both on the free plan.

Edit: I might have figured it out. It seems like they are fighting over DNS resolving. When I removed the DNS settings from Portmaster (it's already set in the browser anyway), it started working again :)

 

Looking for an open-source alternative for image viewing so I can get rid of the AI‑embedded Windows Photos. I did some research and I'm trying IrfanView, but it needs separate plugins for AVIF, WebP, etc. Nomacs' last update was 2020. I'm going to try ImageGlass and XnView, but I wonder if there is some software that's more widely recommended - like VLC, but for images.

 

There is no CORS going on, the very same script use canvas on two other sections, so I guess that's not the problem... it works on FireFox but breaks on LibreWolf:

https://privatebin.net/?401a54f23eea492d#6hEX1c73DVFHv7MJQaT5j6Nm4C9a29unnd4xzeeURpqU

Any idea what part LibreWolf doesn't like? I'd like to fix it to work.

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