Thank you for supplying your birthday, please upload a copy of three photographic government identification documents.

You can even archive extended attributes with the ‘--xattrs flag.

I’m a software developer with over 40 years experience. Much of it with FOSS.

Your argument in relation to GitHub does not take in the reality of the effort involved with migrating to a different platform, effort that is likely unpaid, has no logistical upside and stalls the development efforts of a project, not to mention breaking every single source code repository link across the wider internet, links that represent publicity and community engagement.

It’s one thing migrating after a service vanishes, it’s an entirely different thing to migrate due to the philosophical differences perceived by the ownership change to Microsoft. In my opinion, chanting FOSS is insufficient as an argument.

I have several projects and clients that use GitHub and while I detest copilot and the enshitification that the new ownership represents, I’m also aware that it’s likely that the sale provides financial security to the continued existence of GitHub.

I think it’s admirable that a project is asking its community if it should stay or move and I wish the developer(s) wrestling with this all the strength and patience in the world to work through it.

I know I’ve struggled with the same considerations and I’m still using GitHub … for now.

Docker is not virtualisation, although it’s a common misconception.

A better way to think of it is a security wrapper around untrusted processes.

You can prove this for yourself by looking at all the processes running in a Docker host while one or more containers are running, you’ll see all the processes listed.

In other words, you don’t need a CPU capable of virtualisation to run Docker.

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Use a bash command line:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6250698/how-to-decode-url-encoded-string-in-shell

Excellent example. I hadn’t even considered electronics coming from a software background.

It’s like “sugar free” and “green”, meaningless unless it’s regulated, policed and prosecuted.

As others have said, the best labelling system we currently have is the licence that’s attached to the software.

Mind you, that in and of itself is not sufficient, since the source code needs to come with it, and arguably the ability to actually compile it, neither of which are guaranteed, again more requirements for policing and prosecution.

Also, when I say policing, I’m not talking about the law enforcement community, I’m talking about developers and end users paying attention and calling out breaches.

Whilst contemplating all that, this costs money, something that is in very short supply within the wider open source software community and what little there is, goes to pay for food and lodging for a very very very small group of developers.

Fix funding and you can have all the stickers in the world, in the meantime, nope.

So, somewhat disappointedly … no.

A bug is a bug. Someone needs to deal with it. The forum is for discussion, a bug report is to advise developers that there is a problem.

As a developer, I’m not looking at forums for bug reports, I’m looking at bug trackers.

Lodge a bug report.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/Bugs/Reporting

Tah, I’ve now added my question on Mastodon.

First of all, congratulations.

Second, I have a question.

Based on the link you supplied, SPI is a USA based organisation. How do you expect to protect yourself against the legal lunacy that is currently overrunning the USA?

For example, what if as a member project you are suddenly compelled by a USA court to install a backdoor into your codebase?

It’s easy to ignore such concerns, but governments around the planet are reevaluating their relationship with companies like Microsoft for precisely such reasons, and they have much more money to spend on legal advice than you do.

OP was talking about Lineage, not Graphene.

If an app doesn’t have data it cannot share it.

If you don’t install the app, it cannot breach your privacy.

You don’t need direct internet access to leak information, for example, an app with access to your calendar has indirect internet access.

Keep your existing phone and OS.

Use it differently. Decide what information you store on it, which applications you install or disable, what permissions you grant and what services you use.

Just installing an OS to “debloat and degoogle” is not ever going to change anything unless you change your habits and you don’t need to change OS to do that.

You already know the answer to this question.

When I last played with this a decade or so ago, there were several map tiling solutions in the geosciences that are self hosted.

From memory, “World Wind” is a good search term, but there’s others.

The Hollywood hacking depictions are equivalent to seeing syringes being used on film. To the uninitiated it looks “real”, the reality is somewhat different.

Source: I’ve been an ICT professional for 40+ years and have had hundreds of (medical) needles poked in me over much of my life.

Privacy breaches come in many guises … this is one of them.

Yeah … that thought occurred to me as well.

I wonder if there’s a way that you can legally monetize the process, so the organisation who left a gaping hole … or several bazillion in this case … gets an education in corporate security and the researcher gets paid for their efforts. A corporate symbiosis if you like.

If course the non legal way is extortion … but that tends to go towards warfare and mutually assured destruction, rather than collaboration.

Perhaps this opens the door to a white hat penetration testing department at the corporate regulator who issues fines (which pay for the work) … but I’m not seeing any evidence of an appetite for anything even remotely resembling such a set-up anywhere on Earth.

Espionage on the other hand …

Timezone differences permitting, you can always join F-troop at midnight UTC on Saturday (about one and a half hours from now) and start the discussion. The net runs for an hour every week.

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