sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

@chillja nixos lets you nix-env -i without touching configuration.nix

@sesivany @sossalemaire software running as uid=0 can't compromise the system. you'd need qubes or a pretty advanced selinux config to parallel that, neither of which works out of the box on most hardware

activity monitor in big sur is fucked up; it doesn't show handbrake (x86_64 via rosetta) using much cpu at all, even though it's encoding a video. cpu usage percentage graphs show usage, just not the app that's doing the usage...

@sossalemaire my daily drivers:

2 16gb pixelbooks (chromeos linux)

1 imac pro 256gb (catalina)

1 i9 extreme 256gb (nixos)

1 16" 64gb i9 rMBP (catalina)

and about 4 cloud metal hosts running about a dozen VMs (~4 windows, ~8 linux) and 50 containers.

that's not counting the embedded systems i'm the admin for and use every day

crazy that:

* SNI is not encrypted

* encrypted wifi traffic doesn't have forward secrecy

* the "privacy" os will bypass your vpn

* the "freedom" os is way more susceptible to spyware and ransomware than the "privacy" os

* can't download the gui compiler for the "privacy" os without showing ID

@arh@hostux.social @idontthinkyouseemtounderstand @codeberg@mastodon.technology where did he "introduce me"?

@arh@hostux.social @idontthinkyouseemtounderstand @codeberg@mastodon.technology

i self host gitea, i love it.

@sossalemaire i'm also curious why you think i've only got one computer and don't have like 3 machines running linux within arms reach right now

@idontthinkyouseemtounderstand @arh@hostux.social @codeberg@mastodon.technology

gitlab is fine with working with human rights abusers.

https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/

@sossalemaire also: https://s.sneak.berlin/@sneak/105218729922550972

my open letter response is a 5000-ish word draft so far.

@sossalemaire linux is 5-10 years behind the state of the art on desktop security. most people who don't know this are ignorant of the state of the art of desktop security.

@xj9 @allison yeah opting out of human civilization is extremely straightforward if you actually hate it.

@xj9 @allison sounds like a personal problem. this planet is gr8 and mars will be even better. you can leave at any time if you want.

it's a little upsetting that all the decent privacy tools (vpns, signal, etc) are all getting restricted, demanding RCE, doing increased phone-home...

there's a trend here and i don't like where this line is going.

@xj9 @allison it's colloquial sarcasm. they didn't actually have to buy shit.

@allison no those people who were doing it then were never trendy. i'm talking about all the iphone normies that were butthurt they had to buy bluetooth headphones

ok so apparently it's trendy to hate apple and to want them to fail?

i'm not part of that. i just want my tools to work well. all tools suck, in different ways. all tools have trade-offs, and the downsides to those trade-offs must be mitigated no matter what tools you use.

i use apple tools because i'm intimately familiar with the tradeoffs of all major platforms and the upsides minus the time it takes to mitigate the downsides is greater there than other platforms.

@josias@theres.life also if you think publishing facts is complaining, then please unfollow me because i'm not publishing the sort of information you're going to want to read.