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LibreWolf support for appamor in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

agreed, I though I ammended my original post about it.

How to transfer files between profiles on GrapheneOS? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Not specific to grapheneos, and also battery friendly on LOS is localsend, and on gnu+linux I use instead localsend-go since it offers a CLI (what I use) and a rudimentary TUI which is missing some functionality but good enough (I prefer using it as CLI). But localsend also includes a windows app BTW. On gnu+linux some prefer kdeconnect, but I find it more battery intensive than localsend on the phone, and the extra functionality is not what I expected, like I originally guessed I could write sms from a gnu+linux box, or read past one, and that's not what sms control means.

Don't these alternatives work on grapheneos for some reason?

LibreWolf support for appamor in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Flatpak's use of bubblewrap (it comes from flatpak but then it became its own project) is not a good example, see:

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html#flatpak

But in general this is true. I talked out of memory, but firejail given its suid way is considered insecure (possible privilege escalation), that's right

LibreWolf support for appamor in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

apparmor comes with several profiles, and if in your distro it doesn't include one for librewolf, you can use the firefox one. And if there's no available one and you would be interested in combine it with firejail then most probably firejail will come with with a profile for firefox or librewolf and usually with support for apparmor. Regardless of the distros, the arch wiki can guide you with apparmor and firejail. I recommend becoming familiar with both. Another option if there's no profile on your distro is to look into another distro's profile. ubuntu used include some software with apparmor out of the box so perhaps it's a good source of profiles...

Also in this same community there's an old post precisely about what you're asking for, though it's a bit dated, you may want to scroll for some time until getting to it.

Edit:

Firejail is insecure, my bad. Better to use bubblewrap (I didn't know about bubblejail). The thing is that firejail offers profiles combined with apparmor which might have solved the lack of apparmor profiles. For my personal purposes I hope to take a look at bubblejail to have an easier way to do sandboxing. You can see the arch wiki bubblewrap examples to notice how bubblewrap doesn't help with apparmor profiles though. According to the arch wiki for bubblejail or the GH page for bubblejail profiles are used and can easily be created, however I have no idea of the interaction with apparmor, and if as with firejail such profiles include apparmor stuff, but intuitively I guess it doesn't.

Going back to apparmor, which is MAC enforcement, if no profiles available on your distro for librewolf neither firefox, then looking at other distros is OK, and also one can create profiles as well as one can also modify existent or available ones. See for example the arch wiki for apparmor.

What will you do after Android starts restricting FOSS apps? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

If you want to keep using google playstore and services, you no longer will be able to use f-droid, whether google or any aosp rom. grapheneOS claims it won't be affected given their sandboxed google play and services. Though I'm not sure if eventually google would come up with a counter measure or it won't ever care. They want to enforce that if anyone uses their proprietary stuff the apps interacting with it must be from register developers, which automatically exclude any libre/free app storage on which developers don't want to register to google. GrepheneOS being the exception.

If you use microG with any custom rom, I guess that might work through fake registrations, but can't be sure. But any custom rom without google play and services is supposed to be ok with f-droid. The thing is that google knows most if not all users need one app that depends on their stuff, perhaps bank apps, payment apps, and so on...

How to keep avoiding Google when it hamstrings Freetube [Linux] in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hmm, youtube-dl? I believe it's no longer the one to use, it's yt-dlp, and mpv has support yt-dlp for quite some time, but it could be any player as long as it supports yt-dlp. What I've noticed is that nothing gets as fast to fix these YT issues than yt-dlp. It's working fine for me on Artix for quite some time. And unless wanting ton use a browser, that's what freetube has been documenting every time receiving related bugs. See for example:

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/8083#issuecomment-3326565693

OSS PDF editor/markup software recommendations in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Papers or Zathura (+ required plugin)

How to keep avoiding Google when it hamstrings Freetube [Linux] in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Just so you know, if you like freetube, you can configure the external player to mpv, which underneath uses yt-dlp when streaming, and use the button to load the external player. Of course one can also launch smplayer, which underneath is using mpv, which underneath...

But the thing is content creators don't move out of YT cause they're there to monetize in the first place. So this thing seems never ending no matter alternatives like peertube exist.

What's a good private YT Music client for Android and Web (PWA) in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Besides outertune there's harmonymusic as well

None protect your IP if not using a non self hosted frontend like invidio or piped, cause if self hosted then you're providing your IP any ways. So now a days actually private is kind of hard. But these applications for sure help a lot.

What's a good private YT Music client for Android and Web (PWA) in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

2025.09.26 can still do it without deno. Besides, when the change happens, node and bun (never heard about bun before) will be supported as well, not just deno, but they will require extra arguments passed to yt-dlp. If using yt-dlp directly, and already having node or bun installed, no need for deno then.

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GTK pixbuf errors (gdk-pixbuf2-noglycin now available on omniverse) (forum.artixlinux.org)
Can i customize LibreWolf like this? in c/librewolf@lemmy.ml
[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is Librewolf, a fork on FF, whatever layout related you can do on FF you can on Librewolf. On More tools -> Customize toolbar you can set up that layout AFAIK.

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[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

apkupdater installing from apkpure?

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From forum: Xlibre release 25.0.0.0 now available for testing (forum.artixlinux.org)
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Futurile: Guix Resources (www.futurile.net)
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issues syncing with other instances (lemmy.ml)
 

Hello !

As federated, I'm subscribed to communities from other instances than lemmy.ml, for example !xmpp@slrpnk.net, !monero@monero.town, !programming@programming.dev, !technology@lemmygrad.ml, and several other ones...

The common thing is that the federated communities are often pretty out of sync with regards to the original ones on their corresponding instances, and that in the best cases, some times I don't think they've even been syncing for quite a while.

I'm wondering if it's a limitation given lemmy.ml can't keep up, given its amount of users and federation, or if it's something that can be looked at...

Thanks !

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any desktop gtk client like lemoa? (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25256388

Unfortunately lemoa has stopped development and its repo is now archived since a year now. Current install on AUR (Arch, Artix, ...) doesn't even render...

But I like gnu+linux native clients, in particular gtk ones. On the apps recommendations I see no real gnu+linux native client similar to what lemoa was. Are you aware of any fork, or any similar client, hopefully low on resources?

Thanks !

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any desktop gtk client like lemoa? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by kixik@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
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Unfortunately lemoa has stopped development and its repo is now archived since a year now. Current install on AUR (Arch, Artix, ...) doesn't even render...

But I like gnu+linux native clients, in particular gtk ones. On the apps recommendations I see no real gnu+linux native client similar to what lemoa was. Are you aware of any fork, or any similar client, hopefully low on resources?

Thanks !

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From privacy community: If you use the LibreWolf browser, you may want to read this. (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17370625

I've been a user of Librewolf for a about a year now, and it's always served me pretty well as a nice easy way to get a hardened Arkenfox Firefox.

However, recently I was curious why Librewolf wasn't recommended on PrivacyGuides, and took a look through their reasoning on their forum. That thread spans multiple years, and for the most part I thought their reasons for not including it were a bit unfair, especially after Librewolf started offering automatic updates.

But towards the end of that thread in October, a Privacy guide team member posted a link to the Arkenfox github issue tracker, where a Librewolf team member reveals how the project appeared to have lost steam after a critical member left, and they are struggling to keep it up to date with the latest Arkenfox updates, despite putting out new releases.

I'm not sure if those problems have been resolved since that time. One of the maintainers did mention they're still short staffed in this topic on taking over maintaining Mull.

After considering the arguments for and against in the PrivacyGuides thread, I think their conclusion for not recommending it was ultimately correct. Using Librewolf adds an additional layer of trust, not only to not be malicious (which I don't suspect they are) but to also be able to adequately fulfill what they set out to do reliably.

Another big part of them not recommending it was the existence of the Mullvad Browser, which I didn't realize was in fact a very well hardened version of Firefox (essentially the Tor browser without the Tor part), and is far more effective for private browsing compared to Librewolf or an Arkenfox'd firefox.

Ultimately you'll have to come to your own conclusion, but personally I'll be switching back to Firefox as my convenient daily browser full of addons, alongside the mullvad browser for (more) private browsing.

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DivestOS ends development (www.divestos.org)
 

This is so so sad, :( I've been using Mull for quite some time and recently Hypatia. I guess time to move to fennec since I doubt there's a fork in the horizon, :(

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ACSPublications: Presence of Perfluorohexanoic Acid in Fluoroelastomer Watch Bands (pubs.acs.org)
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lineageos 21.0-20241216 nightly update on moto one 5g ace (kiev) boot loop (lemmy.ml)
 

Anyone with a moto one 5g ace (kiev) that performed OTA update recently and got a boot loop out of it?

I use lineageos for microG, which is based on lineageos, and Today got an OTA update which I can't matches the same version as the one on lineage, but after attempting the reboot required by the update, the phone gets into a boot loop.

I haven't found a way to get out of the loop without losing data. Downgrading doesn't help, no matter if a major upgrade is attempted.

It looks to me this could be rather lineageos issue, since I got a past experience with a pixel 4a (5g), and at that time I lost all data attempting a factory reset that didn't even help at all. Later there came an update from lineageos, which I manually installed, and got the phone back, though with all data lost. This time I'd like to avoid losing data.

Any help or hint is appreciated.

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apkupdater not working properly (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22214348

Some weeks back apkupdater stopped being able to download/upgrade/install from apkpure, but now a days I see issues with apkmirror as well (I see way less apps when searching for them). There was an initial issue about not being able to install from apkpure, but it seems more than that.

Agreed there's aurora store, but to be honest, I pretty much prefer avoiding the Google Play store at all, and I haven't found an issue with apkpure.

There was apkgrabber, but it was not working since so long, and finally it got archived on github.

Is there some FLOSS app similar to apkupdater, other than aurora store?

Anyone experiencing issues with it? Issues are not meant to be status reports once filed, but it seems not many have even noticed about the referred issue.

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apkupdater not working properly (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22214348

Some weeks back apkupdater stopped being able to download/upgrade/install from apkpure, but now a days I see issues with apkmirror as well (I see way less apps when searching for them). There was an initial issue about not being able to install from apkpure, but it seems more than that.

Agreed there's aurora store, but to be honest, I pretty much prefer avoiding the Google Play store at all, and I haven't found an issue with apkpure.

There was apkgrabber, but it was not working since so long, and finally it got archived on github.

Is there some FLOSS app similar to apkupdater, other than aurora store?

Anyone experiencing issues with it? Issues are not meant to be status reports once filed, but it seems not many have even noticed about the referred issue.

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