Brave being listed alongside Firefox
Bestie Brave is literally just Chromium again. Not to mention the fact that their CEO is someone who got ousted from Firefox for being a tremendous bigot. It’s not a better alternative to Chrome, it’s just the same thing again. It you must use a chromium browser, use ungoogled.
Brave also does sneaky shit with your data
Could you elaborate on that?
Telegram being next to Signal is also questionable.
I personally use Librewolf. Its just a hardened version of Firefox so you don’t have to do it yourself.
I tried it but didn’t care to find out if there was a way to stop it from deleting all my tabs and logins, and I’m not relogging into everything just because I needed to close my browser.
It doesn’t delete your stuff it just doesn’t save your history and cookies as a save browser should do. For me that little inconvenience is fine because I get a big privacy benefit out of it IMO.
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I think you replied to the wrong comment. If not wdym?
Yes, wrong comment, sorry.
You can set exceptions to the cookie deletion in the security settings. I personally have everything I use frequently (invidious and stuff) to keep the login cookies. Or you can just completely disable that feature.
Me too lol, why cant I see other replies tho?
I think the vanilla Brave Settings are better than Vanilla Firefox. Though something like Firefox with a custom user.js or Librewolf is a lot better than Brave
Unfortunately he’s also the inventor of JavaScript. Which makes the entire concept of Web 2.0 problematic by association.
🏳️⚧️ Congratulations on coming out and I wish you a successful transition. 🏳️⚧️
worst username award 🏆
Ty I couldn’t have done it without real life inspiration to guide me.
bruh
lolll
You forgot “Only uses 10+ year old librebooted Thinkpad” on tech paranoid
uses a modern Notebook which is QubesOS certified and runs coreboot
I forget there are linux-friendly laptops nowadays.
I find most laptops are well supported about a year after their release.
whats librebooted mean
Replacing the bootloader with a FOSS bootloader called LibreBoot
It’s an open source bios. There are only builds for a certain few laptops and it involves opening it up and flashing the bios chip
why would you even do that, forgive my ignorance
If you want to disable Intel Management Engine, the always-on backdoor built into every Intel CPU and/or want as much software as possible on your machine to be FOSS
Also it boots much faster than most stock bios.
Is there a similar issue with AMD?
Yes, it is called AMD PSP
What’s the deal with Play Station Portable?
Not that I know of, AMD is also soon going to make their own FOSS bios with OpenSIL so they’re generally the better option if you’re a privacy/libre software junkie.
As far as I know, OpenSIL stands for Open Silicon Initialization Library, and handles only the hardware initialisation part of the boot process. It may still require loading binary blobs like the Platform Security Processor (PSP), which is AMD’s version of Intel Management Engine
Attempting to closing NSA backdoors
I fall under Tech Conservative mostly, but I would like to edit the last 2 points to this for myself:
“Believe every publicly traded company is inherently evil”
“Doesn’t morally support big tech, but uses some anyway”An important note to your last one is for some of us we don’t get an option. Work does everything with Office 365? Welp, guess you gotta use Microsoft products now 🤷
I mean, work is work, you don’t get a choice in what product your company uses. My point was meant for personal use.
Same
The fact that the favorite OS of the tech conservative is an Arch based distro and and a Debian based distro instead of pure Arch or Debian makes this meme inaccurate.
Tails is also total ass as a daily driver. I know, I did it for a long time before the lack of persistence was such a pain I had to give in. Like, you can save in your data partition, but having to install/configure everything on each boot sucks, and if you made the system partition writable it would defeat the point of Tails.
I don’t think Tails, backtrack, kali, and similar distros were ever intended to be daily drivers. I’ve only used them as live ISOs to leverage their very specific toolkits.
They weren’t. Or at least Tails wasn’t. I did it anyway.
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As someone who started out with Manjaro and used it for a bit over two years, it does its job alright. That said, Manjaro’s “let’s use Arch repos but delay them for two weeks” policy leads to compatibility issues with the AUR.
Also, they’ve repeatedly let their certificates expire (happened like 3 or 4 times, iirc) and there’s been some management controversy, especially surrounding Jonathon leaving.If you want “Arch, but beginner friendly”, there’s better options than Manjaro, imho.
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Endeavor works quite well, especially if you don’t install much from the aur and use flatpaks when possible. Quite stable, although my brother got bit by the grub boot bug in October :(
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I would just use arch. Got nothing against Manjaro tho.
Lots of issues with Manjaro. I think Ubuntu is more stable than Manjaro but Snap packages and auto updates tend to be more awful. So everything is trash?
At least I can fix ubuntu and de-snap.
For fellow paranoids:
Mullvad browser is a fairly new Firefox fork which aims to reduce fingerprinting potential while also having sane (paranoid) defaults. Developed with the Tor project. Basically the Tor browser but without connecting to the Tor network. Passes coveryourtracks.eff.org.
SimpleX Chat is a fairly new privacy oriented IM platform which seems to address many issues current ones have. Development is very active. E2E, video and voice calls, decentralized, doesn’t have user ID of any kind.
Do you know how Mullvad browser compares to Librewolf?
Tor/Mullvad are better for anonymity use cases, but when you go tweaking it (settings, add-ons) you are no longer blending in with the pack. LibreWolf suits a more privacy-oriented use case I think since it’s not aiming to mimic Tor, but just have privacy settings mostly maxed out & you opt into everything you are comfortable with, such as cookies—whereas base Fx you have to opt into more privacy.
I mostly use librewolf as a substitute for private browsing. Firefox is my go to for places where I log in
It’s librewolf if they had a VPN to shill to you
People care so much about the weirdest stuff.
I tick all the boxes for the middle one
With every passing year, little by little I go deeper to the privacy paranoid side.
But my focus is way more anti big corporation than pro privacy, that fact those are almost one and the same is mostly a side effect for me.
Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.
It feels like there needs to be a category in between conservative and paranoid. I’m probably 90% of the way over to tech paranoid but using Tor Browser and Tails is a little much.
Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.
For some reason, the best word to describe it in my mind is “fun”. Just fun to learn and play with, fun to install, fun to configure and customize, and fun to daily drive. Definitely not fun when a random package update breaks your system (looking at you grub), but that hardly ever happens anymore provided you don’t enable the testing repo.
Also pacman is the fastest package manager I’ve ever used.
Also pacman is the fastest package manager I’ve ever used.
I hope you enabled parallel downloads, that makes it fast as fuck.
It’s enabled by default now.
Updates go brrrrrr
Apt is very quick as well (with the
nalafrontend), no complaints there. I’ve been running Arch for the past 5 years and recently switched to Debian Stable. The “grub event” was certainly notable, but otherwise I don’t think Arch is really that unstable or gimmicky. Arch itself is a very solid and dependable platform - the reason I decided to move is because I really don’t need the bleeding edge packages from other projects anymore. With Flatpaks and all the rest of the/home-based package managers that are around now, I can keep a stable base system and install a couple bleeding edge packages that I want, instead of being forced to run my entire system as bleeding edge (do my printer drivers really need to make me bleed?).Overall, I’d say the Arch experience is as high quality as the Debian experience, they just target different usecases. Neither of them is better, it’s just up to the user how bloody they want their system to be.
There is another version with two more tiers
Please tell me there aren’t two more tiers to the right of paranoid. The last tier would just be “homemade pencils only.”
There’s one either side!
Edit: also, I’m at “Newborn Paranoid” and definitely feeling the pull towards tech paranoid. Writing this on Librewolf in Arch (btw) lol.
The only things I even recognize from those two are fdroid and lynx.
Most of the others were Emacs related. I’m sure someone on here is even using the new emacs client lem to read this comment.
Its Emacs all the way down
I definitely fall in newborn paranoid too
I use arch as my main disto with Firefox but use tails and tor for “purchases”
Also the middle should be called Tech Centrist or Tech Social Democrat, daring to use the projects from philosophical minorities is not conservative at all.
Conservative means “not extreme”
E.g. conservative estimates
Words can have multiple meanings - it might be best to find one that doesn’t have the same baggage that conservative has, such as “risk-averse”
I am on arch rn and I think that I’m still on the middle one from the pic.
What if my favorite OS is Mac, my favorite browser is Firefox, and my favorite app is self hosted?
It means you’re Tim Cook’s mistress
Ain’t Tim Cook gay?
win-win
“I can’t live with modern tech anymore”
uses modern tech
A truly paranoid individual unplugs every piece of technology and uses nothing with screens, buttons or electricity going through it.
Your body uses electricity to send nerve signals…
Your body uses electricity to send nerve signals…
“self-hosted alternative to nervous system 2023 foss reddit”
Monkey brain
The nervous system of humans has been corrupted by being fed data from the internet, alcohol, toxic people, society in general etc. A lot of people, understandably so, want to escape this and take control of their own brains, and by extension their nervous systems.
It is illegal to slice up humans and analyze the source code of our brains unless you have a licence. And we as consumers are not provided with all the data the professionals gather. Think about it. We aren’t even allowed to know what is in our own brains. This goes completely against the philosophy of Free and Open Source.
You can find monkeys in the wild. They are not an endangered species by any means, which means that people will only report you to the police because of disgust, not because you are breaking laws. [Note: I am not a lawyer and haven’t read the laws relating to animals deeply, I do not take responsibility for legal troubles you get in if any]. Rip apart the monkeys and you can see the brain and nerves in their full glory.
Now you may ask, why monkeys of all animals? That is because they are one of the animals closest to humans that an individual can realistically capture. You do not want to fight a Chimpanzee unless you don’t care a lot about your life.
You may realize that you don’t understand the brain even though you have it. No worries there. You can’t understand the code of any FOSS application you use either. The important thing is that the source is available to you without restrictions.
Another question you may ask is that “This is too primitive”. This is a misunderstanding. People(non-developers only) think the command line is primitive and outdated now that graphical interfaces exist. This is simply not true. We are simply going back to our roots.
To self host it, you can simply install its docker image. Now this is the tricky part, since we don’t have a traditional OS. Basically, primitive brains, all they do it eat, sleep, reproduce, and do dopamine releasing activities. All you need to achieve this is follow the following two steps. They are very simple and everyone can achieve it without any technical knowledge or difficulty.
- Reject modern humanity
- Return to monkey
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You do not want to fight a Chimpanzee
“Jamie, pull up that video”
You do not want to fight a Chimpanzee unless you don’t care a lot about your life.
As someone who lives in a country with monkeys, you do not want to fight them either.
People don’t realize that part of diverging from our monkey ancestry traded a lot of brute strength for dexterity. Chimpanzee’s can weigh as much as an average adult male, but their hand and arm strength is enough to literally tear your face off.
Not joking, there was a lady who made the news because a chimp removed her hands and then all of her facial features. The way muscles insert in their arms and the upper arm/forearm proportions maximize force but reduce the range of motion and fine motor control, but it’s still like fighting a middle schooler with the strength of a couple of adult men. And also that kid’s a an angry cannibal.
Apparently chimps have been seen killing and eating gorillas. Basically, monkeys can be rough, but chimps are scary as fuck. This website almost reads like it’s joking, but all the numbers actually line up and it seems like a legitimate zoology website.
No, nerves use cascades of ion potentials. Those are just triggered by touch or electricity.
Ion potentials are electricity… That’s the same thing as a voltage measurement: a difference in ion charge between two areas. Open the gate and the charge diffuses. That’s a wire.
Edit: poor phrasing with use of the word “wire”, I meant in a sense that it’s moving electricity, not that it’s a conventional solid wire with flowing electrons.
And in nerves it’s ion pumps first shoving ions outside and if a trigger occurs, the gate opening, ions flooding in, opening the next gate and so fort. It’s not the same.
I’m not arguing that it’s the same as a conventional wire, but it is definitely still electricity. Communicating a signal by difference in ionic charge is, by definition, an electric signal, even if it’s the movement of ions in a pump instead of electrons across a solid wire.
But it’s a cascade of pump triggering the next pump, not electric.
The truly paranoid are not reading this on here :p
We call them The Amish
I fit somewhere between normie and conservative. Philosophically, I agree with the tech conservative, but I also have shit to do and when FOSS gets in my way, it’s hard to justify it.
I use Firefox because it was an easy switch.
I used Signal until they killed sms support. Sorry, most of the people I know use a default messages app. And the day I force everyone I know to use Signal is the day they stop talking to me.
I dabble in Linux, but I main Windows because I’m not a programmer or IT admin. I know how to use it, for better or worse, and I don’t have to memorize terminal commands to perform even basic tasks. Sure, gaming is getting better on linux, but it’s still a compromised experience and I still, to this day, have to look up tutorials and terminal command every time I try to do anything on my Linux box.
But…wherever possible, I use FOSS software.
I like to call it the tech pragmatist. I agree with the conservative, but I’m not that smart and I got shit to do.
Signal killing sms was heart breaking
I’m a software engineer that uses windows and firefox, has no social media accounts (minus message boards), and owns a google pixel. Be confused. You can’t stop me.
Chaotic neutral
This is the way. Because all the rest of that other stuff is fine and dandy… but I gotta work, and jobs often requires a Windows environment. Video games are plug n’ play w/ windows. I know about proton, but for now… it still isn’t perfect. Firefox because it works just as well as Chrome without the feeling of Google overseeing everything. Most social media has turned to constant ads and trash, and Pixel because Apple locks down their phone with little to no customization.
If proton can handle starfield at launch, its jover for windows.
