Fine, but when coding projects undergo licensing changes that the contributors are against, the code author has to remove those contributions and replace them.
he does raise very valid points about reproducible builds, which should be a priority if your product is security
Edit: oh @Wolflink below points out that such builds are available for Android, but iOS has issues stemming from Apple and not Signal. This then begs the question, why is Telegram reproducible on iOS?
I genuinely thought the wired vs wireless earphone debate was over, and wireless won by a landslide.
All the phones I have ever owned have audio jacks, but I use them rarely, and prefer the convenience of putting my phone down to walk around and do tasks, than having it strapped to my side like I'm a tourist on a bad audio guide.
I can't be the only one who after holding out for so long, now relents that, yes, wireless headphones are convenient for a vast majority of use cases.
I've been wearing the same Sony plugs for 6 years now. Latency and quality is fine over short distances, and over long distances (something wired can't do...) the LC3 codec does a fantastic job keeping the signal and quality
Oh no doubt, and this is definitely an audiophile's phone. I just hope the benefit of the slight gains in quality outweigh the (imo) massive hassle of having the phone tethered to body.
My buds are sony wf-1000x3, been using them for years. Charge them once a day, use them pretty much all the time, no issues.
Yep. I just grew up with Gimp. I've used Krita a few times and might get used to it if I use it some more, but GIMP is forever my goto raster paint program
NFS is fantastic from a practical standpoint. You can literally specify it in your fstab to mount the network share at boot.
The best part is, there is no latency in waiting for it to mount. It only tries to fetch data once you request a resource from that mount path. Translation: If your network device is asleep, NFS will wake it up for you and fetch the resource on demand.
That's a feature! If you can access that share as rw, you should be able to do anything to it IMO. If it's hosted read-only, then no matter what privileges you mount it with, the data is still protected
I'm curious how software can be created and evolve over time. I'm afraid that at some point, we'll realize there are issues with the software we're using that can only be remedied by massive changes or a complete rewrite....
For anyone wondering: Alsa does sound card detection and basic IO at the kernel level, Pulse takes ALSA devices and does audio mixing at the user/system level. Pipe does what Pulse does but more and even includes video devices
The secret is to spawn multiple AIs to bump the stock, and then for the first AI to cash out early, leaving the other AI instances penniless. Somehow this results in a net positive.
Thought this was a good read exploring some how the "how and why" including several apparent sock puppet accounts that convinced the original dev (Lasse Collin) to hand over the baton.
SELECT 'ipaddress', 'username' FROM tables
WHERE (username.normalize() == "jomiran"
OR post.links CONTAIN "jomiran")
FILTER content IN _blacklist_keywords;
Or some such. Data is easy to mine if you have a target. It's finding unknown targets that is hard.
It's easy to disable a VPN remotely though, especially on handheld devices.
All you need to is to point the user to a post or a website that is bloated with JS and contains high rez images and/or video.
The device then has to either begin paging memory like crazy - or more likely - begins to kill background processes that it thinks are not used by the foreground apps (e.g. your VPN).
For newer smartphones this is less of an issue, since their RAM can handle it. For > 5 year old smartphones though? They might struggle.
I'm happy it works flawless for you man, and I'm sure on official Lineage builds which are as close as possible to AOSP things work exactly as you say.
I have an unofficial Lineage 18 ROM patched to hell to work with my old phone. All I can do is tell you what I see, and what I see is that when my phone tries to play a 720p or higher video, with an impossibly high bit-rate for the phone, the phone starts to aggressively background-kill apps, and that includes my VPN.
Again, happy it works for you, and I agree that in principle the default route should point to nothing if the VPN dies. On my device, when the virtual network device of the VPN goes down, it drops to the default network and finds another gateway.
Sure, fair. Though I have enough phones I've collected over the years, I'm not sure if I need any more. As long as I take care not to go media heavy sites, my current device meets my needs almost all of the time.
I see people talking about doas saying it's just like sudo but with less features. I'm just wondering if there is any situation where you should use doas or if it's just personal preference.
I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...
My point being that if said bank screws up whilst dealing with your loan, and you make a fuss to hold them accountable, the worse thing that happens to them is that they issue an apology.
What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT ( www.tomshardware.com )
Telegram founder and CEO alledges signal has backdoors, they don't provide reproduceible builds, etc.
Here's what he said in a post on his telegram channel:...
Dual headphone jack smartphone scores high in new reparability video ( www.notebookcheck.net )
Microsoft Just Released MS-DOS Source Code! ( github.com )
So, I want a t-shirt to show off love to open source. I need some org to buy it from (so my money counts). I also want it to have a clear message to regular people.
What's your pick?
What distro he uses? 🐧💻 ( lemmy.ml )
Got tracked down for my school reunion
Today I was contacted by someone at work....
Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them ( www.phoronix.com )
Linus Torvalds added hidden tabs to Kconfig to challenge parsers that can't handle them....
Krita FTW ( lemmy.ml )
https://mastodon.online/@dominikasafko/112270427923307005...
6 months review of the open-source Ploopy Headphones ( youtu.be )
Samba vs NFS vs SSHFS ?
Hi everyone !...
Are there any things in Linux that need to be started over from scratch?
I'm curious how software can be created and evolve over time. I'm afraid that at some point, we'll realize there are issues with the software we're using that can only be remedied by massive changes or a complete rewrite....
Microsoft is trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade with full-screen prompts ( www.theverge.com )
Thought I'd share my setup and steal some ideas (: ( lemmy.ml )
3 days 🤯 ( jlai.lu )
XZ Hack - "If this timeline is correct, it’s not the modus operandi of a hobbyist. [...] It wouldn’t be surprising if it was paid for by a state actor." ( lcamtuf.substack.com )
Thought this was a good read exploring some how the "how and why" including several apparent sock puppet accounts that convinced the original dev (Lasse Collin) to hand over the baton.
Reddit started blocking VPN users on old.reddit.com ( lemm.ee )
At this point, I'm not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.
What is the most visually pleasing package manager (in terminal)?
Let's discuss: Tetris ( beehaw.org )
The format of these posts is simple: let's discuss a specific game or series!...
Linux users with uncommon or unusual setups: tell us about it
I'll start with mine. yes part of this was to brag about my somewhat but not too unusual setup. But I also wanna learn from your setups!...
Is there an advantage of using doas over sudo
I see people talking about doas saying it's just like sudo but with less features. I'm just wondering if there is any situation where you should use doas or if it's just personal preference.
What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?
For me it is the note taking/PKMS tool SilverBullet.
DuckDB as the New jq ( www.pgrs.net )
Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone ( lemmy.world )
I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...