boredsquirrel

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

If you want to host stuff, you probably want Termux. It is its own distribution but you may want to run a Debian proot inside Termux, which will have way more software and maybe also more reliably and fast security updates (heard that was a problem in Termux)

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

What would you expect?

The tor network has more common stuff, drugs etc.

I2p meanwhile is just really good for anonymity. I think using it for messengers is the best use. I was able to find a bunch of stuff, and yes unlike the dark web this would mostly be also there on the clearnet, mainly because there is no such business on i2p I guess

Just random people offering services for free, a few pads, pastebins, fileservers

You can find quite some cool stuff actually, but I think the main advantage is using it for messaging

And unlike i2p, i2pd also doesnt really use much battery? I could totally keep that on all day

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I didnt understand your message

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Anyone can host a site. Just keep it up for like a month without a pause so that it can be discovered.

Then go to a domain registrar and get a domain name. I2p sites have BASE32 names, kinda like onion addresses. But they can also use shorter names like postman.i2p

If you register such a name, the site will become more discoverable as those registrars likely share the sites, you might appear in some lists, people connect to you, add you to their address book and forward stuff to you.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

yes absolutely

They ditched git? Really?

 

On Android/GrapheneOS, Firefox/Mull/variants is the only browser with the needed proxy settings to use with i2p.

After a bit of searching, it works very well!

As i2p servers you can use "i2p", "i2pd" (more minimal but more efficient) or "InviziblePro" which bundles some implementation of i2p.

I am using i2pd currently, and it works well.

Installed the apps with Obtainium

  • Mull from the DivestOS F-Droid repo
  • i2pd from the purplei2p F-Droid repo
  • MullvadVPN from Github, Orbot from the guardianproject repo (as fallback if clearnet sites are used)

The browser can open .i2p and clearnet sites, using a little hack:

network.proxy.no_proxies_on to !.i2p

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Oooh crazy!

You didnt layer aurora on bazzite, you rebased.

This is very problematic and I didnt know this could happen. OCI images dont have a concept of "removing packages". Instead, they are always removed on the local system.

The firefox issue is uBlue people being weird. They remove it, preventing anyone from installing it. Instead you need to use the firefox tar archive from their website, works well too but is kinda random as you need to place it in some nonstandard folder.

Steam is interesting. Please report that. I am not sure how these things work but my theory is that the installer (anaconda) wrote the system to your PC with the default configuration (with steam).

Then you rebased to Aurora but the system was still originally Bazzite. Which is odd, ai thought there was no such state. Please report that to them!

My idea is to rebase to their main image and then back to aurora. This may remove this steam error. The main images also still have firefox and just the codecs etc added, so I can recommend them.

UBlue removed the instructions on how to do that from their website with the redesign.

Use the rebase command you used, but use ublue-os/kinoite-main:latest instead of ublue-os/aurora:latest in the rebase command.

Then rebase back to aurora after a reboot. But tbh I didnt like Aurora it is weird and kinda random. I like ujust and yafti though. I am on Fedora Kinoite with a huge set of layers. Works very fine too, still worlds faster than Windows updates LOL

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well SteamOS doesnt use the Steam Flatpak. Otherwise that would be kinda fun.

They also do their own versioning of Arch packages

 

This is great. Having access to all apps is nice, but it is also useful to know how and if flatpak apps are verified.

This mostly means they are packaged by official developers. This guarantees better security, as the chain of trust is shorter, and better support.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

No, not for browsers.

Chromium Browsers may be secure, but afaik there was no security audit of Chromium Flatpaks. Their sandbox is highly modified, so one would really make sense.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Well often the answer is just to layer stuff. It is not true that containers fix everything, and rpm-ostree is a tool that manages RPMs.

rpm-ostree install steam \
libvirt-daemon-driver-network \
libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev \
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu \
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core \
qemu-audio-spice \
qemu-char-spice \
qemu-device-display-qxl \
qemu-device-display-virtio-gpu \
qemu-device-display-virtio-vga \
qemu-device-usb-redirect \
qemu-system-x86-core

After reboot

systemctl --now enable virtnetworkd.service
systemctl --now enable virtqemud.service

Source

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I dont use Vivaldi haha, but their installation is so weird that I wanted to fix that.

I use Firefox and since bubblejail has support for firefoxes name on Fedora (bubblejail is strange) I tried it and got memory issues or something, pretty crazy.

I think vivaldi is just as fine as regular Chromium, probably slower patches. A debloated Brave will be better for privacy.

 

Easily install your favourite browsers on Fedora Atomic Desktops, Silverblue, Kinoite, uBlue, Bazzite, Aurora, Bluefin, Secureblue etc.

 

The interview is in english

TIL

  • Mark was a Debian contributor
  • His goal was to make Linux succeed like Dropbox and Netflix
  • He acknowledges how ChromeOS and Android (both newer than Ubuntu afaik) shaped the Linux Desktop
  • ChromeOS uses upstart, the init system that Canonical created
  • Canonical is smaller than SUSE
  • Mark considers Ubuntu to be more open than Fedora because they have flatpak in their repos (well, Snaps arent sandboxed outside of Apparmor, so that just makes sense I guess?)
  • Ubuntu kept in contact with GNOME while switching to Unity, so they could easily fall back
  • Microsofted lured in Linux devs with money, to make licensed software
  • The cloud department in Microsoft was pretty progressive, using Linux anyways
  • Azurelinux is a competitor against Ubuntu
 

Opensource geodata of celltowers, wifis and bluetooth beacons is crucial.

It allows apps like UnifiedNLP to give the OS the location data it needs, without relying on GPS Sattelites.

GPS can be tampered with, and A-GPS is not privacy friendly at all.

UnifiedNLP is only found included in microG, which is pretty insecure.

But GrapheneOS devs are working on a regular user app that serves network location data, using Apple, Apple (proxied) or a local BeaconDB database!

BeaconDB is a new service to replace MozillaLocationServices which has shut down unfortunately.

Apps like TowerCollector dont yet support it, but NeoStumbler does, and also has more advanced features.

Collect network info in your region, and in the future you (and everyone else using it) dont need GPS anymore!

(You can also use the screenshots in that mastodon thread as reference)

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net to c/linux@programming.dev
 

The CPU is quite old and the ports are horrendous.

But that machine has a crazy screen, pretty nice keyboard (actually my first laptop with a numpad ever) and the fan is really silent.

And the install was very easy. Now runs Fedora Kinoite!

Chromebooks, with Linux, not just ChromeOS (the batterylife difference is tiny) are really great for simple office stuff and even media consumption, while being efficient.

My main, 11in Lenovo Chromebook just lost 30% batterylife over a course of 4 hours or more. And it costed 140€!

 

Just made a dedicated repo about a bunch of tricks I regularly use.

A KDE Plasmoid is definetly missing on that list. Having it work without garbage Electron, at least most of the time, is crucial.

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