yeah no fucking way they’re respecting user privacy. data up to the server and down to the client is encrypted with https anyway so I really don’t see a point in the e2ee

that just depends on how comfortable the instance owner is, if i was hosting I’d ip block the UK

tbh if the government demanded fediverse servers do this then they’ll probably comply as well, I really don’t think this is apple’s fault as much as i hate them and every similar tech megacorps

like the Picard thing they make

interesting, I’ve been using Musicbrainz myself but this seems a lot easier for songs available there

foss spyware is still spyware

yeah that’s probably easily fingerprintable

if they got lineageos on the device it’s already unlocked right?

anyway it seems supported decently enough by postmarketos, which is currently the best distro (imo) for Linux mobile

their site has install instructions (on the OnePlus 5 page that is linked)

anyway I wouldn’t use docker or anything, using nginx on bare metal to host a website is easy and extremely lightweight

it’s for the WINE overhead :)

including examples for everything in the docs is the best way to explain imo

‘optional’ just like the functions Intel ME provides?

i mean there’s a possibility of malware hiding in usb peripherals since they have flash, and for thinkpads I think the camera, touchpad, smartcard reader are usually usb. If they hypothetically acted as usb mice/keyboards/network adapters/display devices, they could possibly infect your system ig

malware living on the bios rom could possibly live through an internal bios flash (normal “update firmware” thing in the bios or things like ivyrain) if it somehow manages to manipulate that process.

however, it is always overwritten by an external bios flash (using a raspberry pi or something using flashrom), because then you’re directly communicating with the flash chip. (if you suspect that the flash chip has been replaced with a malicious one you’re probably a bit schizo)

one thing is though is that the flash on the embedded controller is left untouched in most operations like this, so it could possibly harbor malware, but the only thing that could possibly do is make your laptop unusable or die randomly. It can’t really affect the software running on it i’d think. What you’d want to do if you’re really schizo and suspect your EC is infected is to externally flash lenovo firmware and use something like this to update the EC before externally flashing Heads.

the chain of trust for your installer USB would be something you can’t really avoid though, just use the most trustworthy computer you have

with the induction coil thing, it NEEDS to boot into a Linux partition that boots into RAM just to play the ElectroBOOM fleming’s right hand rule song at full volume while the coil runs

unfortunately there’s no ElectroBOOM song about the right hand coil rule or electromagnetic induction

as for making adversaries make ridiculous mistakes, making the power button short out the battery permanently and wiring up another button for the power instead would be a hilarious security measure

chromium is still ‘libre’ though, so I don’t think that’s enough

“chrome was hogging up my ram” is the dumbest part of all of this lmao, this person’s decisionmaking is completely driven by placebo and it’s hilarious

does ddg not have its own search backend anymore?

i mean it’s in the name:
FEDiverse

free and open not free open