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utopiah

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  • Beyond Left and Right. Digital ID is Everyone’s Enemy

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  • Oh that's a sexy form factor! It does fold and hold the card in place right?

    I do have a card reader already but its cable isn't in top shape. Any reference?

  • Is there something like GitHub, but without big tech involvement, no data collection, no ads, open source, and preferably decentralized (maybe Fediverse or even P2P)?

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  • Fact : what's really behind the Swiss E-ID

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  • So who gets to see then beside I guess your bank and the merchant site? You don't have to share anything specific, can be company names but if that would reveal some of your personal preference you can share type of economical actors (e.g. other shops, advertisers, insurances, etc).

  • Printers for Linux

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  • Bought a HP Laser 107 nearly 5 years ago and I changed the toner few months ago. It's just black & white but works on my LAN with any device, no driver issue. I paid :

    • 110€ for the printer itself,
    • 50€ for the toner,
    • 15€ for 500 pages which I'm finishing about now.

    The setup was painless and it just hangs on the my LAN at home until I need to print something, which is quite rare.

    I also have a Brother for labels which I nearly never use but also just worked right away. Maybe had to spend 5min to get the right PPD file and setup gLabels with the right format of labels (namely rolls for in my case).

    So... yes as long as you buy something that doesn't require specific software, account, subscriptions, etc but relies on works according to standards it will work properly and will keep on doing so.

  • Apple as a future Graphene OEM?

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  • I mean... if you are love swimming upstream, yes, go for it!

  • Is there something like GitHub, but without big tech involvement, no data collection, no ads, open source, and preferably decentralized (maybe Fediverse or even P2P)?

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  • I run my own Gitea instance at https://git.benetou.fr/ but I admit didn't look much at the federated aspect, yet.

    Sadly I just checked https://forum.gitea.com/c/federation/10 and despite few attempts, e.g. https://nlnet.nl/project/Gitea/ and eventually potentially upstreaming via forgejo https://forgejo.org/2023-01-10-answering-forgejo-federation-questions/#will-gitea-also-gain-federation that does not seem to be usable right now.

    I'm checking https://forgefed.org/ which I learned about via checking federation on Gitea and it looks nice, in theory, but until I see an actual list of instances federated together I'll just applaud the effort from afar.

  • Is there something like GitHub, but without big tech involvement, no data collection, no ads, open source, and preferably decentralized (maybe Fediverse or even P2P)?

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  • Gitea is Google which is obviously a no-go.

    Please explain how "Gitea is Google"

  • Fact : what's really behind the Swiss E-ID

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  • To clarify, I know it works. I used it years ago (2022 I guess) and found it extremely convenient then. I did even help others set it up because I found it so efficient. So that's or popularity is not into question. How secure it is also isn't what I'm questioning because honestly if my bank suggests to use it, and it's not secure, they will have to pay in the end. No, the question is solely WHO gets WHICH data. For example is the bank consortium that can see my purchase? Is it "anonymized" (whatever that might in practice means) then sold to 3rd party?

  • FLX1s is Launched

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  • Always excited to see more "buy here" alternatives rather than "just" an OS or custom ROM. Obviously we need that too but all too often we get stuck having to buy another phone we do not want (e.g. Pixel because Google) or hardware that's not supported enough for daily driving (e.g. PinePhone with camera still not supported properly on Pro, years later, power management unable to handle a day of use).

    Unfortunately "FuriOS" doesn't look like a reliable alternative just based on the number of eyes, and hands, on it, cf https://github.com/FuriLabs so unless they can somehow pull all that weight on their own then I'd let others try before me and read reviews on the whole experience, not solely the quality of the hardware or the architecture of the software.

  • Gaming on Linux, -

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  • PS: been player for years on Linux, from AAA e.g. Baldur's Gate 3 to Elden Ring to VR games e.g Half-life: Alyx to indie games in VR and flat, not once did I have nor want to go back to Windows.

  • Gaming on Linux, -

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  • Looks like Flightgear will run on them

    Where did you see that? Somehow didn't find it on ProtonDB.

  • Gaming on Linux, -

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  • No idea about Flightgear but to get super niche X-Plane works in VR on Linux, including with flight simulator joysticks.

    I can't help you with your specific setup but my point is that gaming on Linux works very well unless you need kernel level anti cheat which at this point is pretty much only a portion of competitive gaming.

    I don't see anything on https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Flightgear though so not a good sign.

  • Fact : what's really behind the Swiss E-ID

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  • Every authentication uses your SIM, your civil service number and your password (PIN, fingerprint, face id)

    Maybe I misunderstand what you are covering but I don't think so, e.g. card reader and Ente Auth do not require connectivity.

  • Fact : what's really behind the Swiss E-ID

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  • French speaking sources

    Works for me, URL please and thanks already for the clarifications.

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  • Should be illegal IMHO

  • Is there a phone I can buy that out the box is rooted, private, and does not install bloat apps?

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  • no headphone jack, no SD slot, comes with /e/OS.

    • I personally didn't need jack but I understand it might be problematic for some. If you create music for example you might not want the latency but for that I have a dedicated PBG-1 (OSHW grove box) which does have jack. FWIW there are USB-jack adapters.
    • it has an SD slot, I have a .5To inside
    • comes with /e/OS was the point for me. I wanted a deGoogle Android without any tinkering. If you don't want that though you can buy straight from CMF but I don't know with what ROM they will ship.

    In the end any mobile phone is inherently privacy invasive because of tracking by the cellular carrier, and the unending security bugs in the software. It’s hard to do much about this.

    • if you don't trust cellular carriers you can setup your own network, e.g. https://www.crowdsupply.com/ukama/ukama but... yeah that's a bit demanding and obviously nobody else will connect to it. You can use eSIM but still have to trust the resulting carrier. You can rely on WiFi only but same, trust the ISP or encrypt everything you can, have your own VPN elsewhere and hope you can go through deep pack inspection
    • on bugs in software... but I like https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor is exploring the idea, pragmatically, of verifying the whole stack, hardware included, but it doesn't go to mobile packed. One could consider this with simpler modem equivalent, e.g. LoraWAN, but with the obvious bandwidth limitation. None of that removes bugs but if the entire stack is verifiable at least it's about genuine bug, not backdoors.

  • Fact : what's really behind the Swiss E-ID

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  • itsme is often the only option when doing things on mobile

    Indeed that's why TOTP, via e.g. Ente Auth, was a good surprise. I didn't see it until now and I believe that's the mobile alternative to ItsMe.

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  • centrally regulated.

    Any privacy freak who did a review on ItsMe? I just shared minutes ago https://lemmy.ml/post/36346569/21174131 that I don't trust them but maybe I'm just paranoid. The fact that they are regulated means little, Meta and Google also are and they legally siphon everything we let them.

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  • I'm talking about public services. For private services I have no idea what they all do and, as importantly, what they are legally bound to do. I would hope that obviously they would have to provide at least 1 solution that doesn't rely on any third party, e.g at least provide the card reader with legal Belgian ID option (which seems to be what they offer you, so IMHO that's good enough), but I don't know.

    ItsMe not running is pretty good in terms of privacy because their entire business model is, and correct me if I am wrong, to be an intermediary. I didn't check what data they share but I'd be pleasantly shocked if it was none.

    The card reader might seem slightly inconvenient or outdated but there is no intermediary and it is, AFAICT, secure because it's based on well established cryptography.

    PS: it's also fun because you can play with PAM and thus, I didn't try that, login or get su and sudo with your ID card.