hackris

hackris , 3 months ago to Privacy in Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected | Aalto University

What do you think about Pinephones? I'm thinking about buying one as my next phone.

hackris , 4 months ago to Privacy in I installed Windows 10 in a virtual machine...man, this is straight up dystopian.

I have to agree. I used to play Rainbow 6 with my friends. I enjoyed it, because I was addicted to gaming and they were the only friends I had. After I switched to Linux, I couldn't play R6 online, which led to them... well... not being friends with me anymore. I'm glad I got out, because if the only thing keeping them being friends with me were the all-nighters of Rainbow, there was no friendship to speak of (I knew these people offline, not just online). After this I eventually stopped gaming completely, not because of a few very minor compatibility issues, but because I realised how much time I was wasting gaming.

So essentially, not only did Linux help me get back control of my computing, but it also completely eradicated my gaming addiction and helped realise what functioning relationships look like, since I even started socialising more. An absolute bargain!

hackris , 4 months ago to Privacy in Problem with Mull and Duolingo

Fair enough. But again, I seriously doubt that Duolingo uses something not supported in Firefox..

hackris , 4 months ago to Privacy in Problem with Mull and Duolingo

This is definitely the case, but I wonder why companies don't add a button, such as "Access website without support", that would get you to the site while clearly telling you that any technical problems (of which, in 99% of cases, there will be none, since all of this seems like supporting Google internet dominance) will be ignored by support.

hackris , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Privacy in Tails 5.22 Enhances File Access and Persistent Storage Repair

Your phone cannot be used as a USB by itself. Both the phone and the computer must have an OS running on them already to utilize the MTP protocol, which allows you to transfer files between them.

Edit: A possible approach:

Warning, this is not secure and kind of defeats the point of Tails!

In this scenario, the only way to boot Tails from a phone would be to first boot a different OS on the computer, plug the phone in and mount it using the MTP protocol, then boot a virtual machine image stored on the phone with QEMU or similar.

hackris , 5 months ago to Memes in Blockchain: the wave of the future

Please elaborate

hackris , 5 months ago to Memes in razor blades

What are you going to wrap the last blade in if you forget to buy new ones?

hackris , 5 months ago to Memes in eww

Some Slavic languages, such as Russian, use Roman numerals for numbering centuries

Edit: why was this downvoted? If I'm wrong please tell me, I'd like to learn :)

hackris , 5 months ago to Privacy in The Boost android client for Lemmy is displaying these dark pattern ads pretending to be system notifications. What security/privacy conscious Lemmy clients do you recommend?

Please. For the love of god, NEVER use a proprietary app to use a piece of FOSS software. I think it's kind of sad that we have this amazing FOSS social network and people use fucking proprietary software to use it.

hackris , 8 months ago to Memes in oof

And, when called out, everyone tells you you're a paranoid, tinfoil hat wearing, organ trafficking criminal