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@ Neptr @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I'm the Never Ending Pie Throwing Robot, aka NEPTR.

Linux enthusiast, programmer, and privacy advocate. I'm nearly done with an IT Security degree.

TL;DR I am a nerd.

  • Learn to code

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  • I don't know any YouTubers other than "Let's Game It Out".

    My fav game to speedrun is Neon Boost (free on Steam) because of several bugs I have found in the game. Otherwise a small boring indie platformer about rocket jumping is made fun (to me) through exploitation of its physics.

    1. Diagonal movement is faster (hold two adjacent directional keys). Sliding makes you even faster.
    2. Precise rocket jumps can receive more velocity than the developers intended, allowing you to skip many parts.
    3. You can touch the end of stage goal post from underneath the platform.
    4. You can wall jump off of the top of walls, allowing for many skips and time saves.
    5. You can get massive upwards velocity by sliding into a small couple-pixel ridge and jumping precisely once you touch it. This is possible on the starting platforms of all World 1 levels. It basically only improves individual level speedrun records, except on one level where you can skip the whole level and complete it in 1 second (an 9x faster than intended.

    My crowning achievement was completing the final level of World 1 (1-12) in 18 seconds. The Devs expected a fastest time around 40 sec.

  • There is now an 'on the go' section in Flathub to promote mobile apps

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  • Lacks many features atm, eg VoIP, matrix call, threads, etc. Still very promising and I like that it is written in Rust.

  • If you use the LibreWolf browser, you may want to read this.

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  • They used to recommend Mull (firefox-based) before it died.

  • Learn to code

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  • Dying to a stupid bug is a great way to suddenly get frustrated though. Hard agree with you though, buggy games are my favorite. Especially small indie projects because I you can find the great bugs.

  • Text to speech engine reccomendations?

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  • Linux distro for 14* year old laptop?

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  • Aurora is a downstream Kinoite distro by the Universal Blue project. It is tweaked to be a bit more user friendly and has a lot of tweaks and changes. I recommend anyone try it out.

  • Linux distro for 14* year old laptop?

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  • uBlock Medium requires some unbreaking of websites, so i would avoid it on this laptop. Ungoogled Chromium could be a good replacement for chrome.

  • Stealerule

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  • Here you go:

  • I have a 64-bit gender

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  • Gender is obviously a signed byte.

  • Cheese rule

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  • How insensitive! Lactose are people too.

  • Firefox 134.0 released

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  • Nah I did too.

  • GitHub - celenityy/Phoenix: Phoenix is a suite of configurations & advanced modifications for Mozilla Firefox, designed to put the user first - with a focus on privacy, security, freedom, & usability.

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  • I have no experience with this project. I will check it out.

  • superior rule system

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  • ...and now it's broken :(

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    Does anybody in this sub using Fedora Secureblue?

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  • Are you on the userns image? Because podman/docker/toolbox/distrobox all require unprivileged user namespaces.

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    Does anybody in this sub using Fedora Secureblue?

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  • I also experience with Secureblue, so here are my answers:

    • I used GNOME because it is the only DE that protects the screen copy API. I used GNOME extensions because native methods of customizing UI/UX are very limited.
    • I personally re-enabl Xwayland because many apps (eg Steam) still use/require XOrg.
    • Yes I recommend use and recommend Bubblejail as a simple way of sandboxing some apps. Not a "super tight" but much better than unsandboxed. FYI, AppImages don't work with Bubblejail, or Secureblue (cus they remove the unmaintained FUSE dependency).

  • Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting

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  • Fingerprinting is a complex beast and nearly impossible protect against. RFP (created and upstreamed by Tor Browser) protects and normalizes most fingerprintable metrics (timezone, display viewport dimensions, user agent, audio devices, installed system languages/fonts, etc) to a stable value for each Firefox version. Canvas is the only metric which is randomized. The purpose of this is to create a shared stable browser fingerprint for all RFP users, creating a crowd for people to blend in with each other.

    While RFP is strong, its anti-fingerprinting strategy was created for Tor Browser, which users are not supposed to customize. The same can not be expected of all other Firefox users, resulting in most users being much easier to distinguish from each other. RFP also can cause some site breakage and doesnt offer a granular way to toggle specific features per website (eg. Canvas protections breaks your webcam in conference calls).

    There is no good solution. Best options are use Firefox (or a fork like Librewolf) for casual use, and Mullvad/Tor Browser for more critical situations. Always use uBlock Origin (except with Tor).

    On the Chromium-side, Cromite and Brave randomize some fingerprintable metrics, but they aren't as exhaustive and aren't upstreamed to Chromium (for obvious reasons).

  • Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting

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  • Online tests of uniqueness are skewed by the population who uses them, aka privacy-conscious aren't the typical user even if a dataset overrepresents.

    My point was introducing Canvas noise isnt going to make you less fingerprintable, actually quite the opposite. Firefox's RFP is much better at normalizing fingerprintable metrics and is native. Canvas is one of many many other fingerprinting vectors.

    If you go the route of trying to protect against fingerprinting through randomization, use the extension JShelter which seems to do much more noise than Canvas blocker does. I am still very skeptical of it (and other anti-fingerprinting extensions) because of how complex fingerprinting is.

  • Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting

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  • Not an exhaustive solution which results in easier unique fingerprinting. Plus Firefox already randomizes Canvas noise with both FPP or RFP modes (FPP is default).

  • Late night discontent rule

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  • Classic rap song at this point.