sonalder

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Mobile operating systems like Android are way more sandboxed than traditional desktop OS. Even though the situation has improved on desktop, especially on macOS and some GNU/Linux distros, sandboxing is more of an iOS/Android thing.

On Windows, most people are admin users, which is a role with admin privileges. You're not running these by default on macOS or GNU/Linux, and you're not allowed to on your mobile. Both Android and iOS require an exploit to root/jailbreak to get admin privileges.

This doesn't mean that macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS can't get any malware. But by default, a phone OS gives apps very little permissions. Of course, apps can ask for them and trick the user into giving them. Some permissions give higher privileges, and you don't want every app to have those.

So, no, what you want is education, not an app with privileges to verify everything is okay. I don't say antivirus are useless, but you have to realize what it means to offer another app all these privileges. Fortunately, Hypatia has pretty basic permissions, but that means it also makes it less efficient than modern antivirus, as it works more basically.

Simply reboot your phone often and don't install shady stuff. It won't prevent the NSO Group from selling a spyware with 4 0-days exploits to a Nation State to spy on your device, but Hypatia won't either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fairphone are big tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

GrapheneOS is superior in many regards. CalyxOS is a more de-googled experience than standard LineageOS which it is based on with optionnal microG for better compatibility. LineageOS still have many Google blobs in it's code even though it's cleaner than every Stock Android OS in regards to privacy and third-party bloat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Never heard of Langis before :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thank you. And do you have any clue what happend on their side ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What was the previously used decentralised storage solution used by your instance ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Lucida is great especially from Qobuz !

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's not that great privacy wise. Probably not as bad as YouTube but unfortunately it doesn't seems to be their priority.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Bitrefill, CakePay and CoinsBee are plateform where you can sell crypto for gift cards and thus use them to pay online stuff in many places that don't accept crypto. You can also use them physically if needed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Lightning Network privacy isn't ideal (but has improve over time), off-chain doesn't mean private nor without anyone recording your transactions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

You know GNU Taler isn't a crypto right ? I mean it's not a "blockchain technology" it doesn't have a GNU token or a Taler token. It uses strong cryptography to protect the customer info while being compliant for the business. If you're not okay, this might not fit your needs with that do business cash, XMR and maybe the Lightning Network. But GNU Taler is far better than most payment processor used by business owners privacy wise

 

Pretty much the title. I installed my GOG games through Lutris and wanted to rapidly import them to Steam. Same for emulated ROM. Do you have advices ?

 

Would like to see open source client such as Infinity, Stealth, RedReader, etc... going to lemmy.

The best case scenario would be all reddit client including Apollo, Boost, etc... supporting the transition to lemmy but this is quite unlikely unfortunately...

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