LemmyHead

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LemmyHead,

A more private and secure messenger than WhatsApp, signal and telegram, like simplex

Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account

I’ve been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I’ve given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It’s unreal how strict the requirements are now....

LemmyHead,

They didn’t delete your account. They deactivated it. It’s still worth money to them

LemmyHead, (edited )

xmr.directory also a good source, and kycnot.me

LemmyHead,

Wise also has virtual visa cards you can generate and delete. Great for not being victim to leaks

LemmyHead,

One catch is their website is mostly in German, so support probably as well. Don’t expect decent support

LemmyHead,

Scaleway has educative blog posts about water usage footprint of datacenters and how they’re approaching it more efficiently. Recommended reads

LemmyHead,

Actually no. The thing is just that systemd handles so many things that makes the lives both developers/distro maintainers and users easier, but most of it happens in the background. You can forget about having to learning complexer tools, just do it all via systemd

LemmyHead,

I can understand that it makes it easier to add changes that would benefit systemd and distros in general. I read that they introduced run0 to solve long shortcomings of sudo (I’m not aware of which). That sounds logical.

LemmyHead,

Why do you consider it as poisoning? I’ve heard the argument about not doing things the traditional Linux way (binary logs for example). But if the alternative provides so many benefits, why is it an issue? Systemd is a piece of cake for all parties compared to sysvinit and alternatives, so why is it bad when it solves so many issued, and makes it super easy to use by just adding e.g. a new option to a Unit?

Another example: timers are more complex than cronjobs, but timers offer additional needed features like dependencies, persistence, easy and understandable syntax, and more. So although more complex, once you get the hang of them, they’re a very welcomed feature imo

LemmyHead,

You can still forward to text syslog or to a central logging server like Loki if working with multiple hosts. I still don’t get the issue with binary logs.

LemmyHead,

You can set the space limit for journals logs really low then, to avoid double space usage. As for the last argument, that also was an issue for me years ago because not all tools were compatible with the journald format, but that’s since long fixed now and I’ve not experienced any issue for a long time. Journal logs provide a standard format for all applications, so third party tools don’t need to be compatible with every log format of your applications. And it also comes with great additional features like -b or --since etc. So I still don’t get the issue here

LemmyHead,

I was arguing how it is a very useful tool with many great additions, rather than rely on the: “no old better!” reply based on ignorance. But it looks like your replies have turned full removed, so no point in continuing here to try and educate you.

LemmyHead,

Also a big downside for me but they said because of privacy focus they don’t wanna do that. That said,I’ve been using them happily as a second provider for more than 5y

LemmyHead,

I’m actually happy that they don’t follow the feature bloat trend.

What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?

LemmyHead,

In Europe we have PSD2 but I dunno if it’s enough to create a full app

LemmyHead,

Arch could use better standard MAC security applied to systemd units like Debian does.
Arch could have an easy few clicks installer, something like a default modern setup.
Live kernel patching.

LemmyHead,

I still have 200 euro wired in ear headphones that are my favorite pair so I need to 3,5mm port. But I never got the loud commotion over the disappearance of the port, because you can easily use a 3,5mm to USB-c cable. Having said that,I do still appreciate such a port in my phone because sometimes I forget to take the cable with me or I lose it.

LemmyHead, (edited )

Don’t wanna be a whiner but wireless in ears never last long enough for me. I’m forced to stop using them after a while because they need to be charged. Even a 2 and a half hour phone call is enough to deplete them. This is a non existing problem with wired ones

LemmyHead,

Here’s some more examples:

Systemctl edit: create an extension for the unit file and add some changes
S edit --full: edit the full unit file (and timer too iirc)
S enable --now: enable + start
S disable --now: disable + stop

Reproducing a Microsoft corporate environment on Linux.

Most companies I’ve worked at where employees had a Microsoft work computers. They were under heavy control, even with admin privileges. I was wondering, for a corporate environment, how employees’Linux desktops could be kept under control in a similar way. What would be an open source or Linux based alternative to the...

LemmyHead,

I’m not a supporter of the approach of blocking sudo access from capable people (non tech yes), because they can still download and execute binaries as their user. Or go to rescue mode to make modifications. I had to do that myself because of a micro managing IT team. Allowed? No. Allows me to focus on my work and let me be efficient? Yes. Usually this approach also requires a backdoor tool on your device that they install, which is just ridiculous.

Just communicate setup requirements (drive encryption, firewall, AV,…) And have some tool to check the security requirements and rating and this way you can apply proper security policies in the company and respect the user’s privacy

LemmyHead,

Tbf you only need iwd, as systemd can take care of the rest. But it’s not an option for me on desktop anyway because signal and vpn connection visibility are important for me and that’s not possible without a GUI running

LemmyHead,

Isn’t matrix encryption beta? I remembered element always warns about that

LemmyHead, (edited )

Why should that be an issue? It’s fully open source

LemmyHead, (edited )

I think it’s just that there are too many options and the communities are so fragmented. I’m trying out simplex but it still feels like beta software. Regardless I’d like to see it succeed so we have a real private alternative that doesn’t rely on big tech or shady government sponsorship.

LemmyHead,

Different purposes true, but not exclusively. RAID only has effect on drive failure specifically. If downtime is intolerable then it’s not the right solution to just use RAID and you should look into total redundancy of the hardware and more. It also comes with performance bottlenecks or improvements depending on the setup, that’s another factor to take into account. So in the end it really depends on your requirements and backups can actually serve as an alternative, depending on your setup and as long as it meets your RTO

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