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JustVik

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  • Russian techie flees Russia following FSB spyware plot

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  • Hard to imagine that they so low skilled. If FSB really want to install a backdoor, it will be so low-level that more of a hard work will be required to detect it.

  • The "Nothing to hide" argument is a logical fallacy

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  • Something like a joke about this:

    If you're working on something genius great, no matter who's watching you, they won't understand anything, but if you're doing ordinary things, it's really not that important that someone is watching.

    But of course, annoying comprehensive surveillance, especially from commercial companies, certainly should not be justified.

  • What Operating System do you prefer to use the most and why?

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  • It's nice to see such a willpower to use fully free distro. I am often prevented from using a fully free distribution only by the non-free firmware for AMD GPU.

  • The big divide in the privacy community (threat model)

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  • Yes, value can be expressed not only in monetary terms. If people find it very valuable, they should pay more attention to privacy. However, you can protect yourself from cryptolockers by remote backups as one of the ways.

  • The big divide in the privacy community (threat model)

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  • Then all available and legitimate methods of ensuring confidentiality are adequate and justified. But sometimes at work you may need to use programs that you don't really like etc. And without work, you will have nothing to eat. Maybe a little exaggerated.

    Speaking specifically about me, I try to use free and open source software to the maximum extent possible. I only run non-free games sometimes. And sometimes some propriatary software for/at work.

  • The big divide in the privacy community (threat model)

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  • If you are going to protect something, then you should not spend more on protection than the protected property is worth... It's always about balance. :)

  • What's your favourite Youtube channel most people probably haven't heard of?

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  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLfFWXUNJ_I It's more of one playlist than a channel about quantum mechanics on Russian, but as I see it has English subtitles. A fairly clear explanation with a small amount of simple mathematics, probably the minimum that is possible. It helps to understand at least a little such a complex and illogical science for the average layman.

  • What are the anti-personnel landmines the US is sending to Ukraine and why are they banned by more than 150 countries?

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  • Even if that were the case, this is not a reason to destroy millions of people more. People's lives matter the most. Russia definitely does not kill anyone unarmed and does not torture in these territories. And Russia has stated many times that it does not want to seize the whole of Ukraine.

  • Do any of you daily drive a mobile Linux distro on your cell phone? Is that viable / will it ever be?

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  • It has sufficient list of programs: browsers (I use firefox), ebook readers, fractal (matrix), telegram, maps, that works good enough on mobile at least for my daily use.

  • Do any of you daily drive a mobile Linux distro on your cell phone? Is that viable / will it ever be?

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  • I use postmarketos with phosh. It's kind of viable, but it has some infrequent bugs. For example sometimes, quite rarely, the call menu may freeze after the call and not respond to touches until the reboot. The camera doesn't work at all. But there are positive aspects, an ordinary Linux terminal and the usual convenient console programs. :)

  • My issue with every chatbot I've tried

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  • There is no need to ask GPT for a ready-to-use code, it does not work well for it. But it explains someone else's complex code much better. Students need to ask it for short hints in places where it is not clear specifically or very small parts of the code, then it brings good benefits.

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  • You can turn off your phone at least sometimes. :) But this of course does not solve the problem.