kixik

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[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago

If using wayland: wlsunset

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where did you get this idea?

I didn’t knew about Microsoft taking over the fsf either, and I am getting concerned about the real freedom behind my beloved Linux.

I think you are confusing FSF with the Linux Foundation, and you can see MS as part of the platinum LF members. Was that it, or you really meant FSF?

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Interesting.

Though there are misconceptions, like the andriod/aosp xmpp clients being pay-to-download model. They are on the official google playstore (google play), but they are FLOSS apps, and you can find them at no cost (of course one can contribute the developers or f-droid devs as well):

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.siacs.conversations

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.monocles.chat

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.cheogram.android

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.snikket.android/

And some other ones. No matter the country, people would do themselves a favor if they start using f-droid, where there's an infrastructure in place and build artifacts trying to detect and get rid of non FLOSS component, which in general are not good privacy wise.

I think I don't get the snikket route, you don't get both a client and a server at the same time, do you? Also, if you self-host your own server that'll be better for you, snikket or not, I don't see how that is related particularly with the snikket route.

And actually I wouldn't recommend quicksy, why providing your phone number, and why looking for phone numbers xmpp addresses, I don't thing that plays nice with privacy.

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

wow, I had no clue ! That might have been it. It's weird, but they actually get something eventually, but very dated... I hope this works, I have already selected a couple of languages besides undetermined, which seems to be a must as well.

Thanks a lot !

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

If you have installed wlroots, that's why. Wlroots has a hard dependency on libseatd, which is provided by seatd. Labwc also directly depends on it. Sway as well can use seatd as both documented by sway itself, and its arch wiki, but for some reason it doesn't directly depend on it, though it depends on wlroots, :). This is not a problem on arch since the seatd service can co-exist with logind/systemd, and on arch you can use the seatd service combined with libseatd for software build on top of libseatd, and users on arch can then choose between seatd or policy kit on that software. On other non systemd distros like artix, the seatd daemon is in conflict with logind (on artix it's extracted from systemd), precisely because you can get away without logind as long as you use acpid to provide some of the functionality logind also provides besides session administration. Not sure if besides wlroots on archthere's additional software depending on seatd. Several wayland compositors are based on wlroots, which attempts to somehow offer a standard for compositor and applications developers.

So it might be xdg-desktop-portal behaves differently for sandboxed apps such as flatpak ones than regular apps, hmm. So I'd still like to know how required d-bus is...

Thanks a lot !

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ohh, good to know about multi language. I guess that would restrict what I read to only the languages I select (be more restrictive), whereas "undetermined" should allow me to see everything, or so I understood. BTW, I'm not blocking anything, since I haven't found the need to do so, with that, I'd guess the more one blocks, the more restrictive one becomes, but that's not my case. That's why a was a bit surprised that my settings could be the cause for me to see less up to date stuff, :( In my mind, my settings are the least restrictive possible.

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Have you explore hyprland, niri (scrollable, not dynamic, but it's sort of dynamic then) or sway (static tiling though, but offering tabbed layout and dynamic stacking/floating, plus hugely customizable)? Did you discard them because not close enough to bspwm? Just curious, not to judge your decision or anything like that.

Being an artix user, are you using logind (the official default), or just seatd, or the new logind alternative turnstile (not supported by all init systems, looks like only dinit which I use and openrc, tough void has it working with runit I believe)? I'm wondering what's really required on wayland. I like the approach of just seatd, but I don't know what one would lose and what are the wins, but if not seat alone then turnstile which actually require seatd. Also I would like to drop calling d-bus, but I'm not sure if that would prevent the compositor to work, but further if screen sharing with webrtc, electron apps like slack or teams-for-linux would stop working. I guess not using d-bus would not affect mako. But any ways, I'm curious of what would be you choice for your wayland experience if/when you get into it. The official and default way is just logind plus d-bus plus polkit. For such sharing xdg-desktop-portal is required, which fundamentally seems to be plumbing of d-bus, but I'm not sure...

BTW, from the blog post referenced, dudemanguy is also the mpv developer, so that requires quite a lot of effort (mpv specially on the support side of things, besides the developing effort, particularly to support wayland, and mpv does for some time now) together with artix effort. I'm glad he's back writing, :)

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey, sorry to take adantage of your answer, perhaps you can help me out though.

Is dbus actually necessary for xdg-desktop-portal? I understand from this flatpak post that xdg-desktop-portal is actually a bunch of d-bus interconnections, which of course make d-bus fundamental for xdg-desktop-portal, but wanted to confirm. xdg-desktop-portal is a must on wayland if one wants to share screen through webrtc, or electron apps like slack or teams-for-linux (probably zoom which is Qt as well). But I've read some people (this for example) start sway from console without d-bus, without logind/systemd, just seatd on the background (wlroots and sway support seatd). So perhaps those people are not interested on sharing screen, I don't know. Or perhaps such d-bus plumbing is only required for flatpaks apps, which are sandboxed, thus requiring all that interconnection to access resources and such, and then I'm not sure about a thing...

Thanks !

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Hmm, ok, it should pretty vanila, meaning I have barely touched it... Here are some fields:

  • Interface language: browser default
  • Language: undetermined
  • Theme: darkly (I chose it so long ago)
  • Type: subscribed
  • Show NSFW: true
  • Blur NSFW content: true
  • Auto expand media: false
  • Show scores: false (just turned it on, though I have no idea what that is)
  • Show upvotes: true
  • Show downvotes: true
  • Show upvote %: false (just urned it to true)
  • Show avatars: true
  • Bot account: false
  • Show bot accounts: true
  • Send notifications to email: false
  • Open links in a new tab: false

I imagined if I had specified a language that would limit thinks, as warned by the setting itself, but I haven't. BTW, we're missing having the option to add as many languages as one might understand, that would make the field more useful. Limiting to just one language might make people never use it at all, :) But I can't think of any of these settings preventing me seeing up to date federated communities...

Thanks again for answering !

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

BTW, just in case, not only the system configs are inmutable on Guix, the root/system directory is also read-only making it an inmutable distribution. So the argument that the Guix system is not inmutable is not correct. There are many places clearly stating that, but the itsfoss 12 inmutable linux distributions is one of them, and by its definition of inmutable:

An immutable distro ensures that the operating system's core remains unchanged. The root file system for an immutable distro remains read-only, making it possible to stay the same across multiple instances.

So Guix is actually an unmutable distribution. But moreover, it's much more than that.

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Thanks a lot for taking a look !

Now, perhaps I don't understand how it works, se how the xmpp community looks on lemmy.lm

Now see how it looks on slrpnk.net

In my mind, and it might be only in my mind, what lemmy.ml shows is pretty out of date. And I've noticed this not only on community contents, also when people from other instances comment on something I post or comment myself. Most of the time, I can't see their post on the original post, and I might need to see the context, since I might have forgotten what the reply or what I get in my inbox is talking about, so context might be important. So that and the communities contents make me think, perhaps just me, that there's something going on with syncing or federating. But perhaps I just got it all wrong.

Thanks !

 

Hello !

As federated, I'm subscribed to communities from other instances than lemmy.ml, for example !xmpp@slrpnk.net, !monero@monero.town, !programming@programming.dev, !technology@lemmygrad.ml, and several other ones...

The common thing is that the federated communities are often pretty out of sync with regards to the original ones on their corresponding instances, and that in the best cases, some times I don't think they've even been syncing for quite a while.

I'm wondering if it's a limitation given lemmy.ml can't keep up, given its amount of users and federation, or if it's something that can be looked at...

Thanks !

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25256388

Unfortunately lemoa has stopped development and its repo is now archived since a year now. Current install on AUR (Arch, Artix, ...) doesn't even render...

But I like gnu+linux native clients, in particular gtk ones. On the apps recommendations I see no real gnu+linux native client similar to what lemoa was. Are you aware of any fork, or any similar client, hopefully low on resources?

Thanks !

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

I second xmpp + omemo, and would caution that as far as I can remember matrix leaks significant metadata when syncing between instances/services.

As a personal decision I got away from signal (molly in fact) more than a year ago.

I'm also keep jami working with my family, particularly for things not requiring immediate response. It's a different beast, since it's p2p, but there's no server associated to it, no matter if decentralized or not. It's easy as well, just not as responsive, in particular if looking for immediate responses... I like and keep both, hoping jami improves.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by kixik@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
 

Unfortunately lemoa has stopped development and its repo is now archived since a year now. Current install on AUR (Arch, Artix, ...) doesn't even render...

But I like gnu+linux native clients, in particular gtk ones. On the apps recommendations I see no real gnu+linux native client similar to what lemoa was. Are you aware of any fork, or any similar client, hopefully low on resources?

Thanks !

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17370625

I've been a user of Librewolf for a about a year now, and it's always served me pretty well as a nice easy way to get a hardened Arkenfox Firefox.

However, recently I was curious why Librewolf wasn't recommended on PrivacyGuides, and took a look through their reasoning on their forum. That thread spans multiple years, and for the most part I thought their reasons for not including it were a bit unfair, especially after Librewolf started offering automatic updates.

But towards the end of that thread in October, a Privacy guide team member posted a link to the Arkenfox github issue tracker, where a Librewolf team member reveals how the project appeared to have lost steam after a critical member left, and they are struggling to keep it up to date with the latest Arkenfox updates, despite putting out new releases.

I'm not sure if those problems have been resolved since that time. One of the maintainers did mention they're still short staffed in this topic on taking over maintaining Mull.

After considering the arguments for and against in the PrivacyGuides thread, I think their conclusion for not recommending it was ultimately correct. Using Librewolf adds an additional layer of trust, not only to not be malicious (which I don't suspect they are) but to also be able to adequately fulfill what they set out to do reliably.

Another big part of them not recommending it was the existence of the Mullvad Browser, which I didn't realize was in fact a very well hardened version of Firefox (essentially the Tor browser without the Tor part), and is far more effective for private browsing compared to Librewolf or an Arkenfox'd firefox.

Ultimately you'll have to come to your own conclusion, but personally I'll be switching back to Firefox as my convenient daily browser full of addons, alongside the mullvad browser for (more) private browsing.

 

This is so so sad, :( I've been using Mull for quite some time and recently Hypatia. I guess time to move to fennec since I doubt there's a fork in the horizon, :(

 

Anyone with a moto one 5g ace (kiev) that performed OTA update recently and got a boot loop out of it?

I use lineageos for microG, which is based on lineageos, and Today got an OTA update which I can't matches the same version as the one on lineage, but after attempting the reboot required by the update, the phone gets into a boot loop.

I haven't found a way to get out of the loop without losing data. Downgrading doesn't help, no matter if a major upgrade is attempted.

It looks to me this could be rather lineageos issue, since I got a past experience with a pixel 4a (5g), and at that time I lost all data attempting a factory reset that didn't even help at all. Later there came an update from lineageos, which I manually installed, and got the phone back, though with all data lost. This time I'd like to avoid losing data.

Any help or hint is appreciated.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22214348

Some weeks back apkupdater stopped being able to download/upgrade/install from apkpure, but now a days I see issues with apkmirror as well (I see way less apps when searching for them). There was an initial issue about not being able to install from apkpure, but it seems more than that.

Agreed there's aurora store, but to be honest, I pretty much prefer avoiding the Google Play store at all, and I haven't found an issue with apkpure.

There was apkgrabber, but it was not working since so long, and finally it got archived on github.

Is there some FLOSS app similar to apkupdater, other than aurora store?

Anyone experiencing issues with it? Issues are not meant to be status reports once filed, but it seems not many have even noticed about the referred issue.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22214348

Some weeks back apkupdater stopped being able to download/upgrade/install from apkpure, but now a days I see issues with apkmirror as well (I see way less apps when searching for them). There was an initial issue about not being able to install from apkpure, but it seems more than that.

Agreed there's aurora store, but to be honest, I pretty much prefer avoiding the Google Play store at all, and I haven't found an issue with apkpure.

There was apkgrabber, but it was not working since so long, and finally it got archived on github.

Is there some FLOSS app similar to apkupdater, other than aurora store?

Anyone experiencing issues with it? Issues are not meant to be status reports once filed, but it seems not many have even noticed about the referred issue.

 

Some weeks back apkupdater stopped being able to download/upgrade/install from apkpure, but now a days I see issues with apkmirror as well (I see way less apps when searching for them). There was an initial issue about not being able to install from apkpure, but it seems more than that.

Agreed there's aurora store, but to be honest, I pretty much prefer avoiding the Google Play store at all, and I haven't found an issue with apkpure.

There was apkgrabber, but it was not working since so long, and finally it got archived on github.

Is there some FLOSS app similar to apkupdater, other than aurora store?

Anyone experiencing issues with it? Issues are not meant to be status reports once filed, but it seems not many have even noticed about the referred issue.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by kixik@lemmy.ml to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml
 

I'm long K9 user, and I was aware of it becoming Thunderbird, but I need to clarify what should I do to easy eventual transition, hopefully without having the deal with all my K9 settings...

Today K9 turned into Thunderbird Beta for Testers, however there's already an app called that way Thunderbird Beta for Testers showing up on f-droid. Thoug the actual ID of each differ (com.fsck.k9 vs. net.thunderbird.android.beta).

What should K9 users do, to avoid losing its current settings (accounts, folder settings, encryption and so on)? Should we remain using the K9 app, and hope that when it goes away then the thunderbird app replaces it somehow automatically and pick all accounts and settings? Should this period when the two apps with the same name coexist be used to install thunderbird beta for testers, hope that it pick all settings from K9 up, and then remove K9?

It's somehow confusing, I was originally hoping at some point K9 just turned into thunderbird, but at once, automatically, without still having two apps, so I'm wondering what's next. For now I'm just still using the K9 app with thunderbird name...

Thanks !

Edit 1: Many thanks for those who replied, at least I don't have a google account, and no need to inherit the OAuth to google, or any other of such account for that matter, although I could remain to K9 I migrated to Thunderbird official release (no beta) without issues. It sounds like a good opportunity to migrate to Thunderbird.

Edit 2: It's sad that the OAuth can not be inherited, though understandable. For those who were just using TB or K9 for a long time with gmail, and the account gets into the infinite dependency loop of requiring a device already logged in, given the stupid security question has no answer, then perhaps it's time to ditch google and look for an alternative, I haven't found anything useful to help around there. Google actually sent a message indicated it has protected the user from herself, and inhibited her attempt to reach her own account. Meanwhile, just staying with K9 seems OK, since it's still there (just a metadata name corrupted but the app ID remained K9 still).

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