https://kycnot.me/

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incredibly sus looking tbh, page looks vibe coded. just dropping a distro with one guy, addressing concerns on security just by having signing keys (list packages? did you do any personal coding on this? which directory has the custom code on the repo? it would help validate trust). at least fan projects on github of say, spinoff images of fedora atomic are more descriptive about what is in the package.

all im saying is it gives major hostageware vibes right now

Mostly before proton and wine got really good tbh. I also have a ton of the old free Ubuntu CDs and we can see where that went 😔

I’m also pretty disappointed with the security standards on Linux, flatpak next pls save us

The bigger concern here is that the app isn’t sandboxed, not machine id. Run something like secureblue that has better sandboxing by default

https://github.com/secureblue/secureblue/issues/1121

Okular

Mullvad browser is still mostly maintained by the Tor project and doesn’t phone home, still one of the best choices for a no fingerprint browser even if you use a different vpn for it. Biggest downside imo is it’s not on Android. It’s entirely FOSS and again, no phoning home on an action, so it doesn’t matter what the creator thinks.

My personal use case for tracking is different from others, I mostly want to avoid surveillance capitalism. It’s genuinely a problem for my PTSD, if I talk about my PTSD on a corporate app I’ll get spammed with triggering shit 24/7 because they like to spam you with “solutions” and self help and news for crimes against women like it’s my special interest. Obviously I would love to avoid state surveillance but you’re not getting that from any vpn server domiciled in the west, it’d have to be in a geopolitical enemy of the west e.g. Russia or China or Serbia and most people would not like the latency that involves.

It’s not in English, it’s on WeChat and you need a Chinese phone number

im in a giant chinese chat server filled with trans people, and none of them are homeless. they are shocked when i tell them about how many homeless trans people are in my other american chat server. even the chinese trans people who are really bad off were given a plot of land by the government to live on (this trans person bought a camper trailer and hooked it up to electricity and plumbing on the government-given plot)

it is true that access to medical care is difficult for trans people in china, but their basic necessities are provided for as part of a universal grant to all of china’s population. plenty of trans people in america, including friends I know, have died of destitution and would have lived if they were given a plot of land to live off of.

I mean most things are just timeserver checks or poking GitHub/flathub/repo servers. Not something you can fully prevent if you value seamless functionality. Fedora has an opt out telemetry ping just to see how many people are using each version, but it comes part of when you run an update and ping their servers for that anyways. If you want it all removed and still have good functionality I really recommend secureblue

a nightlight is my biggest peeve with it. also the lack of tabs and more dolphinesque features in its file browser. would be great to have file previews for less common files like .stls. runs great otherwise

i also think something like spectacle for kde but for cosmic would be fantastic, frankly spectacle is close to best in class. only competition it has is probably google’s android assistant with circle to search and other convenience features of that nature. and of course sharex on windows.

ive been considering writing up some accessibility software for cosmic, mostly stuff like screen readers, llm based screen explainers (describes images automatically to a blind user) etc.

Can always just layer it with rpm-ostree install (.rpm file)

499? hahahhaa

what makes you think im in mexico

idk why you think its somehow a much more monumental task to support something that already works (re:gos and aosp) vs building something entirely from scratch

linux needs to focus on becoming as secure as aosp/gos first before even considering being on a phone

linux is not secure enough to be a phone lol

if cops arrest you and its not fully turned off and encrypted with luks youre boned, and look at all the current devices supported for linux, its basically just the very expensive pine or fair phone. older pixels are fairly easy to buy in poorer countries.

then theres postmarketos which has the far larger selection of devices but most of these are quite old at this point. not to mention it uses far more resources and will drain your battery 10-20% faster

flathub stays winning?

graphene is the way

The issue with it is how it operates in userspace and how any settings alterations makes the print unique

yes, but ideally via something built into the browser, not an extension