The interview is in english

TIL

• Mark was a Debian contributor
• His goal was to make Linux succeed like Dropbox and Netflix
• He acknowledges how ChromeOS and Android (both newer than Ubuntu afaik) shaped the Linux Desktop
• ChromeOS uses upstart, the init system that Canonical created
• Canonical is smaller than SUSE
• Mark considers Ubuntu to be more open than Fedora because they have flatpak in their repos (well, Snaps arent sandboxed outside of Apparmor, so that just makes sense I guess?)
• Ubuntu kept in contact with GNOME while switching to Unity, so they could easily fall back
• Microsofted lured in Linux devs with money, to make licensed software
• The cloud department in Microsoft was pretty progressive, using Linux anyways
• Azurelinux is a competitor against Ubuntu

Opensource geodata of celltowers, wifis and bluetooth beacons is crucial.

It allows apps like UnifiedNLP to give the OS the location data it needs, without relying on GPS Sattelites.

GPS can be tampered with, and A-GPS is not privacy friendly at all.

UnifiedNLP is only found included in microG, which is pretty insecure.

But GrapheneOS devs are working on a regular user app that serves network location data, using Apple, Apple (proxied) or a local BeaconDB database!

BeaconDB is a new service to replace MozillaLocationServices which has shut down unfortunately.

Apps like TowerCollector dont yet support it, but NeoStumbler does, and also has more advanced features.

Collect network info in your region, and in the future you (and everyone else using it) dont need GPS anymore!

(You can also use the screenshots in that mastodon thread as reference)

Opensource geodata of celltowers, wifis and bluetooth beacons is crucial.

It allows apps like UnifiedNLP to give the OS the location data it needs, without relying on GPS Sattelites.

GPS can be tampered with, and A-GPS is not privacy friendly at all.

UnifiedNLP is only found included in microG, which is pretty insecure.

But GrapheneOS devs are working on a regular user app that serves network location data, using Apple, Apple (proxied) or a local BeaconDB database!

BeaconDB is a new service to replace MozillaLocationServices which has shut down unfortunately.

Apps like TowerCollector dont yet support it, but NeoStumbler does, and also has more advanced features.

Collect network info in your region, and in the future you (and everyone else using it) dont need GPS anymore!

(You can also use the screenshots in that mastodon thread as reference)

Opensource geodata of celltowers, wifis and bluetooth beacons is crucial.

It allows apps like UnifiedNLP to give the OS the location data it needs, without relying on GPS Sattelites.

GPS can be tampered with, and A-GPS is not privacy friendly at all.

UnifiedNLP is only found included in microG, which is pretty insecure.

But GrapheneOS devs are working on a regular user app that serves network location data, using Apple, Apple (proxied) or a local BeaconDB database!

BeaconDB is a new service to replace MozillaLocationServices which has shut down unfortunately.

Apps like TowerCollector dont yet support it, but NeoStumbler does, and also has more advanced features.

Collect network info in your region, and in the future you (and everyone else using it) dont need GPS anymore!

(You can also use the screenshots in that mastodon thread as reference)

Opensource geodata of celltowers, wifis and bluetooth beacons is crucial.

It allows apps like UnifiedNLP to give the OS the location data it needs, without relying on GPS Sattelites.

GPS can be tampered with, and A-GPS is not privacy friendly at all.

UnifiedNLP is only found included in microG, which is pretty insecure.

But GrapheneOS devs are working on a regular user app that serves network location data, using Apple, Apple (proxied) or a local BeaconDB database!

BeaconDB is a new service to replace MozillaLocationServices which has shut down unfortunately.

Apps like TowerCollector dont yet support it, but NeoStumbler does, and also has more advanced features.

Collect network info in your region, and in the future you (and everyone else using it) dont need GPS anymore!

(You can also use the screenshots in that mastodon thread as reference)

The CPU is quite old and the ports are horrendous.

But that machine has a crazy screen, pretty nice keyboard (actually my first laptop with a numpad ever) and the fan is really silent.

And the install was very easy. Now runs Fedora Kinoite!

Chromebooks, with Linux, not just ChromeOS (the batterylife difference is tiny) are really great for simple office stuff and even media consumption, while being efficient.

My main, 11in Lenovo Chromebook just lost 30% batterylife over a course of 4 hours or more. And it costed 140€!

Just made a dedicated repo about a bunch of tricks I regularly use.

A KDE Plasmoid is definetly missing on that list. Having it work without garbage Electron, at least most of the time, is crucial.

Edith: ist anscheinend die vom letzten Jahr

Israel, Russland und mehr.

Die Geheimdienste wissen sehr viel mehr als wir, so bekommen wir wenigstens ein bisschen.

Ich teile nur den Link. Dass gleich am Anfang Israel verteidigt wird, ist absolut blind.