This. Google would not be fucking us with Play Integrity and other DRM craps if Linus made the kernel GPLv3 licensed. It would have been a dreamland to have hackable phones, TVs and a whole lot of IoT devices where the users would be controlling them instead of other way around.

Fedora is very stable until a kernel update breaks a hardware function.

He is. This shouldn’t even be a question.

Because ARM is a fucking mess. Each device has it’s own way of booting. There’s no standard like UEFI or BIOS.

Plus you need propreitary code for modem to support 2G, 3G, 4G…etc. which are complicated to implement.

Who provides free cloud VM?

You can use GitHub.

Well, I can’t say they don’t deserve it.

No. Offline password managers are also suspectible to supply chain risk.

It is e2e encrypted and just works. Everything in Firefox Sync is encrypted including Bookmarks, History, Passwords etc.

Read GPL v3 and why it was introduced in the first place. Code being open source won’t do much.

Home Assistant OS on Raspberry Pi 5. Simple and maintenance free.

Same setup here. Worked for years and I’ve no plans to switch. As long as Nextcloud is up, bidirectional editing is simple. Trouble comes when one of the clients edited the KeePass file and can’t sync.

banIP works at IP layer. It basically injects additional firewall rules to nftable to reject packets from specific set of IP addresses. It is not aware of layer 7 like HTTP.

What is your goal exactly? Do you want to allow /.well-known to all countries including the bad ones you are blocking? Then you’ve to do it at application layer or setup a reverse proxy that has WAF (Web Application Firewall) and serve ./well-known from the proxy.

Good for you. I use OpenWrt on a decent router yet it’s so flexible. I can create multiple VLANs with different firewall rules, multiple APs, Ad and IP blocking etc.

Honestly I can’t imagine going back to a shitty ISP router ever.

That repo does not have any source code or license. The license file has a link to their terms & conditions.

Agree. Saying TPM is bad is same as saying Encryption is bad. It’s not about the technology. It’s about the evil hearted corporations using these technologies to limit user freedom.

I replaced Raspberry Pis with Intel NUC mainly because NUC comes with TPM 2.0. I can now encrypt my drives without storing the key in plaintext.

I could not read the blog because it blocked me for using VPN (speaking of DRMs :) ). While I agree DRM is evil and should be ablolished from user’s computers, readers should not get wrong idea about TPM. It’s what protects your phone and servers from attackers. Desktop would also benefit from it a lot.

I could not find the license or source code for their desktop app. Is it even open source?

It’s the Supreme Court of India not Telangana which is a state in India.

That was a rhetorical qustion. It’s their servers which generates the key. So Telegram has both the lock and the key and claim they are “heavily encrypted”.