I thought “control” as in “control your device instead of Google controlling it”.

Google is giving me PTSD.

I’m sorry, I fixed it. My english is getting worse every day, I’m not native but it’s definitely getting worse. Probably due to mental issues.

Ads are the least of my concerns, but trackers can be used against you in many ways.

If you refer to physical access I wouldn’t say that, I’ve encrypted partition.

But if you’re saying just access to my main user inside the OS, then I’d really like if you could elaborate with real examples how can user access do any harm to my system without root access. Real examples please not speculation or theory. Something I can run here right away to see by myself.

What’s up with all these vulnerabilities?

Kind of worried to be honest, two in like a week? Pretty scary.

I’m very dumb about Linux technical stuff but I feel like root access is way too easy to be accessed.

Is there any way to make it harder? I mean let’s say similar to Android, you need to unlock the boot loader first, flash a recovery and flash Magisk or something, that’s a good layer before root access.

At least for Linux Desktop, maybe make it so we can get root access only via a bootable USB with a correct password? Just for sporadic system changes.

Is there anything like that?

Yea it works on arch, I just tested on my own PC:

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: Linux 7.0.3-arch1-2

❯ ./exp
[root@arch dirtyfrag]# ls
README.md  assets  exp  exp.c
[root@arch dirtyfrag]# whoami
root

I updated it last week.

Edit: I just ran yay -Suy to update everything and still works.

Piracy will continue existing either you release that tool or not. I can’t see the concern related to this.

Also, I could just setup a virtual machine, open Windows on it and take a screenshot or record from the host machine, I don’t think Windows would be able to detect it.

Maybe because it’s cheaper? You don’t need to pay for Windows license so it’s usually cheaper.

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good times playing codm

Why is this a reason to delete Reddit if they didn’t provide any private data yet?

https://www.emailnator.com/ generates @gmail accounts, harder to detect, but some services still might detect it

I just don’t understand how people still use Flatpak.

Once I had to download a small app 400kB more or less, and suddenly it started downloading 200MB of environment packages.

Never again.

Good video

There’s a bullet proof old tech called communication, you reach someone in the street, or any business around there and ask questions about where the specific location you’re looking for is located.

Yea but the main thread of this comment is talking about:

How much of your life are you willing to sell for a slightly more convenient map app?

Usually when people say that on a privacy perspective it refers to how impossible is to ditch Google Maps because of its live traffic things and other things like Android Auto.

So I replied saying you should change your life to not depend on such apps, not your apps to fit in your lifestyle.

I mean you could in theory disassembly your phone, remove antenna, wifi, mic, camera and sensors parts.

Then you still have a tool, transfer things you need via USB only.

I really don’t think something can leak from your phone after that, even emergency calls might not work if you removed the antenna.

I know this might cross the line of paranoiac but some people do this, I’d do it too if I was too concerned about privacy, which I’m not. I’m just an average privacy enthusiast.

But OSM provides a map. What exactly are you talking about?

I thought the problem was people depending too much on Google Maps because its privacy invasive data harvesting.