Even Chromium is tracking you, regardless of installed add-ons (Google has made quite some news for blocking add-ons from the Chrome store that they were not comfortable with, e.g. actual good ad/tracking blockers).

If you want an proper Chromium, look up 'ungoogled-chrome', it's a Chromium with a massive patchset to remove anything Google related.

@Yggdrasil They wanted to implement the same utopia that they have in China: You cannot go to any shop, your workplace, public transport, etc... without your proof of not having had contact with any infected person. People accept that because "it's for their security". The current party pulled in some great simulated election results by just having press conferences constantly where they first fan fear and later declare that THEY have done everything so well and that the country's safer now becaue of them.

People can be manipulated easily, but it's especially trivial if you put them into an constant state of fear. When you control the media it isn't an challange anymore. The parliamentary opposition hasn't had any major presence since the state of emergency has been declared.

@linuxxx Well IntelliJ Community Editon is completly open source, no hidden shit there :) (Google uses it for their Android Studio, I think Google might have put their tracking crap even into a product they straight up copied)
I would certainly think of JetBrains as one of the more ethical companies (like IBM was at some point before some of their divisions put profit before their customers), just that their products might get expensive (they often sponsor licenses for their professional editon IDEs for open source project maintainers though).

@Yggdrasil Austria's government wanted to force you to wear a bluetooth key fob that it gives out for elderly and other people without smartphones 🙄

Have you ever compared it to a JetBrains IDE or at least Eclipse?
I was forced by my then-company to use NetBeans 8.2 for a rather long project (about 2 years), and I only remember it as an slow, useless, constantly-crashing text editor and in generally having the worst code completion, code generation and error checker.

@epse "I don't have a smartphone"

The Austrian government proposed to give out bluetooth key fobs for the elderly and other people without smartphones 🙄

With I2P (Invisible Internet Project) you can choose your own .i2p domain, instead of TORs way of brute forcing .onion domains ;)

@oddmemtius Then why are you sad that your internship ended?

I absolutly hate Vaadin too but it was released in 2006, 'now' isn't really the right wording for that.

@EdoPhoenix Contabo.de is pretty cheap, have been using them for a few years

@linuxxx https://f-droid.org/app/...

@linuxxx Most XMPP servers don't do a bad job at protecting user data either, and most clients (like Conversations) are very user friendly too (registering is literally two textfields, one for username and one for password), and you don't have to provide ANY actual information like phone number, e-mail address, etc... I never liked that all of my Signal contacts have my phone number :/

@linuxxx But Signal is still a totally centralized service and relies on Signals servers and you cannot simply change that either :(

@Sangat Telegrams source code is always 4-5 months older than the actual release, it's full of magic numbers for int values like "42540" which are passed as flag values. This makes the code seem obfuscated, even though that might not even be intended. If-Else statements are too long and there are really long methos (300 loc in one method). Btw, no documentation on them, ofc. It's also full of spaghetti code and pure C.

Open source != mean audited or *auditable*.
Some compiled applications are more auditable than this.

@ddephor Signal encryption officially exists, but you don't have any control over it, so you can treat is as non-existent.

At least you should have control over the keys, but Signal does encryption automagically (that's actually a nice word), so you never know what it does, if it's safe, which encryption/key info is sent to whom and if it's really end-to-end.

@irene You can host your own if you wanted to, or choose from 100s of free servers. When I use Signal, all of my data is on Signal servers and I cannot change that, I'm bound to that one Signal client and if it ever gets backdoored because some agency called Signal, I wouldn't even know. Maybe federated would be a better word. With the current decentralized networks, there are just to many drawbacks (thinking of the Tox network).

And right now, Signal and Wire appear as viable solutions, but at one point WhatsApp did to, and I don't think that any other centralized service is a solution. If everyone could just use XMPP/Jabber, that would be quite nice.

@Jilano You know, I really don't like WhatsApp either, but at least it's encryption even EXISTS. SMS is substantially just shouting some message, and everyone that followed some tutorial to build a GSM base station can read all of your received and sent messages.

@linuxxx, by texting, do you mean actual SMS? Because I'm quite sure that these are even worse than WhatsApp, as SMS are not encrypted at all. From the Snowden documents it came up that the NSA has surveillance software at right about every bigger provider.

@SukMikeHok What is wrong with you?

Wow, that was a suprising notification. Welcome back!

@linuxxx

About 0 :p

@kescherRant Windows even calculates Gigabytes as Gibibytes, good luck won't be enough :p

@Bubbles dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.txt bs=64M count=80

Creates a file called "test.txt" with an input of /dev/urandom and outputs the first 5G of that.

dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.txt bs=5G bs=1

@b3b3 alias c='cd'; alias cl='clear';

Yeah it's a default setting you can enable in LineageOS.

@deadPix3l I guess that's the point of speed indicators...

It'll just show you what kind of network you're connected to. The signal strength is something completely different, thus you're getting it displayed right besides the network type. The network type itself has to be seen as a maximum speed indication, not the average link quality. If an radio pole has an 3G and an 4G sector antenna and you're very far away from that pole, the 3G network will actually be faster than the 4G network as it has a longer effective range.