People either reject messages they don’t like and hate the correspondent outlets OR people don’t ever see information that would contradict their view and couldn’t stomage it either.

Pick one. You can’t have it both ways. That only works in your favorite narratives based on massive amounts of cognitive dissonance but not in the real world.

I’m still using the S7e. The failing battery was so nice to pop open the glued back, so I could easily and cheaply replace it.

for now…

Is that really that different?

Conceptionally yes. You can refuse to unlock your phone with your face. You cannot refuse to allow Google to access your account (and thus your phone, too) with a picture of your face -no matter how bad the tech is- if Google implements this.

Nobody is saying “Linux is obscure”

How about scrolling up to the exact comment I anwered to? Or -as you seem to be on the exceptional dense side- let me do it for you…

Linux’s “security through obscurity” was never going to last.

As already explained above I did not expect that statement to use the common “long-standing industry term” because -again- it would be utterly insane to claim security through obscurity for something open source.

Just google the term

Yes, please do.

The actual notion of “security through obscurity” (that will surely come up on Google if their AI bullshittery hasn’t screwed up completely…) for Linux is insane because open source is the polar opposite. By that definition proprietary code is actually much more linked to the concept.

The often more unprecise and colloquial usage I thus assumed you were using doesn’t apply either, for the reasons I summarised.

So which imaginary definition of “security through obscurity” are you using and assuming that it will come up on Google when none of the real ones makes any sense?

You are right. I don’t know what your personal definition of “security through obscurity” is as it’s very obviously not matching actual reality.

There was never an actual notion of “security through obscurity”. LInux runs the complete Internet and most coporate server infrastructure. That’s where the actual money is.

People hallucinating that Linux is something obscure simply have no clue and confused their home desktop for real computing. Windows desktops are constantly targeted not because they are -unlike Linux- so wide-spread but because they are already insanely insecure. They are the low hanging fruit where you can cobble together some cheap shit and will still find million of PCs vulnerable. If you want to find a Linux comparison it’s definitely not server or desktops but cheap IoT devices not having seen an update (or any security to speak of) for many years.

For reference: We are talking about guests in a virtual pc escaping it’s container. That’s not something obcure. That’s basically all cloud hoster’s whole business model, thus the reason Google pays a lot of money for finding such exploits.

Petitions are useless

Protests are useless

Governments and corporations conspire to implement surveilance knowing what comes next

<-- we are here

Actual resistence

GDP is not a measure of real economy

Correct it’s only a meaningful measure for countries not lying on numbers. So Russia is already out and probably a lot worse than what GDP would suggest. 😂

Russian domestic industry has been developing

Name something they produce that is not instantly shipped to Ukraine to get trashed there? 😂

in terms of productive economy Russia is very clearly far ahead of the collective west

😂😂😂

Governments all over the world are destroying welfare. Just never for the imaginary reasons they talk about but because those corrupt fucks want to destroy welfare for their rich buddies benefiting of more dependent workers and lower wages and the populations are finally brain-damaged enough that they can away with their lies.

the agent is a tool you used

My hammer is also a tool. But if I start using (and talking about) it to wash my cloth and do my dishes I would really hope to get called out for being stupid.

I’m using the default calendar app that a long time ago came with that lineageos install.

Should be this one iirc…

Don’t host the calendar, just host some WebDAV/CalDAV. That format is supported by basically all apps on every platform (usually including the default app on most phones), so everyone can pick what they want (or just stick with what they already use).

My personal pick for that purpose is Radicale.

A mandatory [AI] tag? Sure.

A [NOT AI] tag? No, that’s the default. Why normalise AI bullshit even further?

While you are right in general, you are just creating a file with a <user>:<hashed password> line without any identifying context. So have fun searching the world for where I might have actually used it. Sounds like a really bad use of ressources to create list of passwords.

PS: Yes, as an Arch user I am still pissed that this tool is not available in the repos beside installing the complete Apache server…

The options to password protect it are in the (usually /etc/radicale/)config file under [auth].

For proper security you could use

type = htpasswd

htpasswd_filename = /etc/radicale/users

htpasswd_encryption = bcrypt

then create a users file with apache tools (htpasswd -c -B users User1) or one of the million online htpasswd file creators.

Occasionally I need to run an “occ” command after an install to fix some indexes

That then fails and breaks it (in about 1 out of 3 cases). Which requires rolling back everything, running the commands again pre-update, then updating and praying to not have to do another re-install (~ 1 out of 5).

I actually moved away from classical self-hosted cloud storage solutions after trying the usual suspects like opencloud, nextcloud etc.

And for me the time and effort (also the ressource-hogging if you don’t use quite overpowered servers) just weren’t worth it. Not when the used interfaces most of the time are open standards anyway and simpler solutions do the job:

Radicale for contacts and dates via a webdav subset. Webdav concidently being widely supported for integrating online storage into any filesystem (or as the backend for several other things like for example syncing my bookmarks over several devices and browsers). SFTP or the million tools being just a frontend for it.

One shiny platform like for example Nextcloud to do it all might be nice for a lot of users when they have someone dedicated to maintain it. But for selfhosting (as in: mainly for myself) the constant attention needed to fix stuff was quite tedious.

When I think of “Google Drive” or “Dropbox” alternatives nowadays it’s just a drive hooked up to some low-spec device and accessed via one (or several) already existing open standards.

(Bonus point: that lost phone is simply cut off by deleting its keys - unlike so many dedicated platform where you have to manage -if you even can- multiple dedicated users and their rights just to easily separate your personal access from your devices that are by design not all equally secure.)

While that is true in general, combined coal power plants also only sit at about 50% on average, 65% with the most modern ones.

So burning stuff in a power plant, then adding some more loss in transfer, is not actually much better.

Which of course is not an argument against EVs but against coal and gas power plants. In the end they are still just glorified rather primitive steam machines.