Here is a blog post by a widely respected cryptographer on why XMPP+OMEMO is not secure: https://soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against-xmppomemo/

To clarify: KDE Plasma has both an X11 and Wayland session, on the Wayland session X11 apps run using the provided Xwayland server.

The difference is that there are some restrictions for X11 apps, like on many distros X11 apps can’t detect all keypresses when not focused or steal mouse focus.

It (Wayland) is the default session, but supports both for now. OP mentioned they chose the X11 session because games lose mouse lock, which is why GNOME wasn’t an option since it doesnt support X11.

Why is Artix in the schizo tier? It is a pretty awesome project.

I hate how LLMs have made any talk about machine learning immediately cause a bad reaction for most people. ML isn’t inherently bad. LLMs are a neat technology, but it is hard for people to understand that when capitalism does what capitalism does best (extract and pervert). Now no one is excited to see anything related to ML.

I remember when GAN images started to be shown around the internet (which looked like acid trips lol) and I was so excited to see the technology improve. Now no one is excited to see anything ML because it is being used to do the worst things: spy, replace workers, cheat, propagandize, steal from the commons, lie, destroy the environment, destroy the economy, and (of course) kill people.

Linux Mint has LMDE based on Debian.

OpenPGP for encryption through autocrypt is a BIG NO for me. OpenPGP is inherently flawed, read any reasonable cryptographer’s opinions on it. DeltaChat is a significant security downgrade from Signal. I would much rather use SimpleX or Briar.

Some people don’t understand that systemd isn’t the only init system, not even just the only init with modern features. We have runit, OpenRC, s6, dinit, each with very levels of features. The reason there is no real competitor to what systemd does is because it is “cheating”, and by that I mean systemd isn’t just an init system. It has major scope creep, trying to do everything. It isn’t even the best at doing what all the other software it replaces (like DNS, time, etc). What it offers that is irresistible to developers is unifications and abstractions which make developing for Linux simpler. This though is the exact opposite of what many people love about Linux: the option to pick and choose.

KDE Neon is basically dead and only has one developer. It has also has numerous problems in the past making it unstable. KDE has an official distro (KDE Linux) now that they actually use as a test bed, though it is in alpha last I heard.

Fedora has amazing support for KDE in my experience. Fedora or openSUSE.

You could use a VOIP provider so you can do calls and SMS from your computer without needing a SIM. An example provider is JMP.chat, which could then be used with any fully featured desktop XMPP app, like Dino or Gajim.

For ditching Signal on mobile, you can use Flare, an unofficial Signal desktop app built from scratch, which supports setting it up as the primary device. It is recommended to use the Flare in conjunction with the official Signal desktop app so that you get all of the features without compromises.

Not a great name when the Soulseek project already exists. Soulseek has been around for much longer and such a name collision could have been avoided if they asked around in FOSS communities before choosing it.

The one I like to use was not mentioned. It is called Gapless (g4music) and is available on Flathub. Basically, you just specify a library location and based on metadata it sort things. The Flatpak requires minimal permissions by default, but you can disable Network permission because it only uses it to song album art (which in most cases is embedded in the song file itself).

OCR support seems really cool. Currently for OCR I either use NormCap, or on Android some random OCR on f-droid which doesnt have any crazy perms.

Lol, GNOME 46

PLM is hard dependent on systemd.

Yeah np

No, nothing runs as root in a Flatpak. The problem is that Flatpak stops apps from using unprivileged user namespaces, which is used by all modern browsers to isolate web contents. Because the browser (Firefox) can’t use namespaces, a malicious website can use a single exploit instead of needing to chain two separate exploits, making it significantly more likely to break the sandbox.

The Firefox Flatpak has much weaker isolation because the Flatpak sandbox interferes with the browser sandbox. This means a malicious site can compromise other sites and even the whole browser with a single exploit instead of the two normally required (which is a significant degradation in protection). The specific part blocked by Flatpak is user namespace sandboxing by Firefox. If you can help it, DO NOT install as Flatpak. Snap does not have this problem, but nobody likes Snap. Chromium has a similar problem as a Flatpak.

For higher quality Text-to-Speech, install Pied (Flatpak or Snap), which offers a GUI for installing and configuring Piper TTS voices.