TCB13

TCB13, 5 hours ago

Via the government ID system, the state exerts a monopoly on identity and an obsession with tracking people from “birth certificate” to “death certificate”. Disproportionate KYC regulations actively exclude people without government-issued ID from necessary services, including jobs, housing and healthcare and even everyday things like online shopping, receiving mail, buying a sim card, doing volunteer work, taking classes, or visiting the gym or library.

The author must be American… it is a given an accepted fact** across Europe that you’re required to carry around and show if requested by authorities your govt id. **Nobody consider this a big deal, and yes, it is obvious that if you don’t produce it then you won’t be able to get a job as registering for a job requires the company to enter both your tax ID number and your social security number in at least one govt platform so they can pay your and retain the required amount for taxes and social security you can can later have a retirement…

Americans like to play very loose with identities and then you get tax frauds, identity theft and ultimately SIM swapping attacks that are almost zero in Europe because every single mobile carrier will require your govt id to buy a SIM card in the first place and will also require it if you need a new one.

In an ideal world, people would be judged on their actions and intent, rather than on circumstances of birth and decisions of bureaucrats. For housing, only your ability to pay rent would be relevant. For a job, only your skills and work ethic would be relevant.

Yes… and how you’re expecting to have a pension and prove you’ve worked x years and some place if you don’t provide a govt id?

For healthcare, only your medical condition would be relevant (it would be against the Hippocratic Oath to deny medical treatment to people without ID, especially if they are paying out-of-pocket in cash).

Yes… and how are you expecting the hospital to keep a medical record that contains important information about your health and is required to provide you with decent healthcare without actually requiring a govt id / identification?

TCB13, 5 days ago

With great power…

TCB13, 6 days ago

This is a very cool project, but it would be cool to see it all in JS / client side instead of depending on a server-side Java powered component.

TCB13, 7 days ago

The guys who decided to block GrapheneOS for no reason and don’t provide reasonable explanations nor fix the issue… yeah right.

TCB13, 6 days ago

grapheneos.social/

TCB13, 7 days ago

You will never get the same font rendering on Linux as on Windows as Windows font rendering (ClearType) is very strange, complicated and covered by patents.

Font rendering is also kind of a subjective thing. To anyone who is used macOS, windows font rendering looks wrong as well. Apple’s font rendering renders fonts much closer to how they would look printed out. Windows tries to increase readability by reducing blurriness and aligning everything perfectly with pixels, but it does this at the expense of accuracy.

Linux’s font rendering tends to be a bit behind, but is likely to be more similar to macOS than to Windows rendering as time goes forward. The fonts themselves are often made available by Microsoft for using on different systems, it’s just the rendering that is different.

For me, on my screens just by installing Segoe UI and tweaking the hinting / antialiasing under GNOME settings makes it really close to what Windows delivers. The default Ubuntu font, Cantarell and Sans don’t seem to be very good fonts for a great rendering experience.

The following links may be of interest to you:

• gist.github.com/…/fa6c5341403bf306e23034a1a1a9111…
• joelonsoftware.com/…/font-smoothing-anti-aliasing…
• github.com/mrbvrz/segoe-ui-linux

TCB13, 7 days ago

but never really thought to use it in my home network

Because you don’t need it. OPNsense and pfSense may make sense in some cases however you’re running a small network and you most likely don’t require those. OpenWRT will provide you with a much cleaner open-source experience and also allow for all the customization you would like. Another great advantage of OpenWRT you’ve the ability to install 3rd party stuff in your router, you may even use qemu to virtualize stuff like your Pi-Hole on it or simply run docker containers.

TCB13, 7 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Yes, this mostly works as a managed DNS solution for enterprise networks that actually does what people in large organizations need and solves a ton of issues.

TCB13, 8 days ago

Finally someone going for the right approch with AI.

TCB13, 9 days ago

Yes, it is very good. It’s great to use perpetually half made software.

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TCB13, 8 days ago

The point is that every single feature they try to add to it ends up as yet another buggy thing that never gets fixed. They should focus on making the core things works decently instead of adding new features. After all this time they didn’t get the sync to be as reliable as Syncthing, why would they venture into webmail’s and whatnot ?

TCB13, 8 days ago

They improved it? You can’t even add a bullet list. No way to have a full screen typing experience. It’s slow like no other and basic formatting tools are already hidden. Is that what you call improvements?

TCB13, 11 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

Well… Poettering will eventually work his way up to browser engines and then we’ll get something efficient… Here’s the announcement:

"There’s a new component in systemd, called “engined”. Or actually, it’s not a new component, it’s actually the long existing “WebKit” engine now done properly. The engine is also a lot more fun to use than “WebKit” or “Blink” because you can finally have hundreds of tabs open in your browser without running out of RAM.

Coming soon in Coming for systemd 981.

TCB13, 13 days ago

It seems that the motherboard is dead, and that it’s a common issue with the 5a

Where did you get it? Can you ask for warranty and get it replaced?

Frankly speaking if you’re looking to de-google and have a secure experience (including re-locking the bootloader and having everything signed and encrypted) then your only option is GrapheneOS + Pixel phones.

TCB13, 13 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Not interested in GrapheneOS.

Okay, then it will be easier. But be aware of the security implications of running the other alternatives, if someone gets your phone they can mess with your bootloader / turn it into a tracking device / add spyware / extract data.

TCB13, 13 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Besides the fact that you can re-lock in CalyxOS in some specific cases… or end up with a totally broken phone is isn’t just as good as GrapheneOS. They don’t even like to point out this situation, they try to navigate around with with less than ideal information on their documentation or complete omission.

They also do a lot of snitching on you (including to Google and Mozilla) and they overlook critical details such as this one allowing the OS to contact 3rd parties such as Qualcomm. This Qualcomm situation clearly shows how unable to actually research things properly and work around them they are. Those kinds of issues don’t happen in Graphene because they’re actually better at covering all grounds.

TCB13, 13 days ago

To bad the “open up” isn’t even a real “open up” under the iPhone. Until we can run unsigned code from any source without bullshit nothing really changed.

TCB13, 12 days ago

Apple could add a few warnings, make users use a computer to enable some kind of “developer mode” and accept the risks. Only apply the relaxed rules to binaries the user specifically whitelists etc. There are a lot of ways to make it secure and for what’s worth we had recent leaks of Chinese intelligence where they were able to infect iOS devices as it is right now.

TCB13, 11 days ago

This goes beyond what “voting with your wallet” can accomplish. What Apple is doing is making everyone’s phones hostage of their central control and software. Android does this as well to a lesser and more manageable extent but it’s still wrong. Think about it, any of those devices running 100% offline / no access to their servers how long will they keep working , be able to open/install apps etc? This is a threat to democracies and the majority of people aren’t aware / don’t care about the long terms effects of their choices.

How different would be our world if IBM, Microsoft and Apple pulled this kind of frap on computers back then? Probably not as good as it is today, no Linux ever made (because the signed bootloader wouldn’t allow it) and with it half of the software innovation accomplished.

This is why governments should act and push those companies into behaving.

TCB13, 14 days ago

Hard drive stocks are currently a mess. I don’t get it, even Amazon has low stocks on everything be it small or large drives.

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Local supplier increased prices to ridiculous values and still doesn’t have the numbers. Anyone knows what’s going on?

TCB13, 14 days ago

With Amazon if you have prime shipping or next day delivery (whatever they call it) enabled

I don’t have those…

TCB13, 14 days ago

Yes, it looks a lot like artificial stock limitations to drive prices up.

TCB13, 14 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

I’ve a very bad experience with GNOME boxes, both VMware and VirtualBox seem to outperform the thing and work better (drag and drop and resolution scaling, actual GPU acceleration).

TCB13, 14 days ago

+1 here, intel on laptop.

TCB13, 12 days ago

You’ve to set BOTH things (-B and -S) with reasonable values in order for it to work.