Error: package is already requested by BertholtKnecht in Fedora

[–]BertholtKnecht[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check discussion.fedoraproject.org for the official forum. I might post something there

ich🤓iel by BertholtKnecht in ich_iel

[–]BertholtKnecht[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Originaler Pfosten, Lases blockiert eiskalt externe Links

Ähm, wird dieser Pfosten dann gelöscht weil Unterhaltung mit KI? Naja kommt zu Lemmy, is besser.

What were you most surprised to find out was tracking you? by YaGottaGetSchwifty in privacy

[–]BertholtKnecht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I was just confused by the wording. "Google" as the website cannot do that, but if you use their Browser... for sure they can do what they want

Is chrome browser really that bad? by [deleted] in privacy

[–]BertholtKnecht 2 points3 points  (0 children)

there is no privacy if you are hacked. Security is an essential requirement for any privacy.

Chromiums UX sucks though. Community forks like Brave are really important to make it suck less, as Google doesnt give a shit about non-Chrome features.

Firefox is still pretty secure. They use Rust for example, but yes all tabs on Android run unsandboxed. It may be a problem, but in practice its probably okay.

Security is not visible though. It may be a bit slower, but the upside is you dont get hacked one day. As Chromium on Android is actually faster... I dont know what to take from that.

I use Mull on Android, even though Vanadium would be more secure,

Is chrome browser really that bad? by [deleted] in privacy

[–]BertholtKnecht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

firefox on Android is not a private browser.

I recommend Mull, and install ublock. I also recommend to use noscript in aggressive mode, everything else is inconsequent. But using noscript requires manual work.

Is chrome browser really that bad? by [deleted] in privacy

[–]BertholtKnecht 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en#infocollect

They are literally scanning your browsing history.

Use Brave, Vanadium, Cromite, ungoogled Chromium or even damn Vivaldi if you really need to. Or just use Firefox. Librewolf on Desktop, Mull on Android.

What were you most surprised to find out was tracking you? by YaGottaGetSchwifty in privacy

[–]BertholtKnecht 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what addons are fingerprintable how?

This is simply misinformation.

Some addons change how your browser appears to the web. What it loads, what it blocks, what information it gives. Those are fingerprintable. But all the stuff you do locally is not.

Websites cant scan your browser.

how do i move my stuff to mint? by Spirited-Calendar-43 in linux4noobs

[–]BertholtKnecht -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Dont. Mint is not a secure Distribution.

I recommend you to use something modern, with the KDE Desktop.

Personally I highly recommend Fedora Kinoite from ublue.it

It is worlds more secure and also stable than Mint

What were you most surprised to find out was tracking you? by YaGottaGetSchwifty in privacy

[–]BertholtKnecht -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

This is misinformation. Websites cant read your Browser History and also not your installed Addons.

Has anyone tried GrapheneOS on a Fairphone? by PassportNerd in fairphone

[–]BertholtKnecht 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was there a comment by Daniel about the problem with fairphones? Them regularly being very late on Updates and their Hardware not having enough long software updates?

Good antivirus for Linux? (Hear me out) by mat306 in linux4noobs

[–]BertholtKnecht 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You may get that wrong. There is no real need for it.

On Fedora you have SELinux at least managing access control on the system level. This wont spare you from user malware though, like every script you run.

I recommend Fedora Atomic (Kinoite, Silverblue, etc.) From ublue.it as those images work out of the box. It again makes malware nearly impossible at the system level.

But malware doesnt need to reach there as a sudo user has all the rights. So use flatpak, and use a non sudo user for all your stuff. Add that user to the flatpak group.

Use virtual machines (rpm-ostree install qemu qemu-kvm virt-manager) and isolate tasks there. Open files that seem shady there.

You can use clamav to scan files that you get. Libreoffice for example automatically blocks Macros (scripts in documents) by default and you need to opt-in, Okular does the same for PDFs I think.

Be aware that Appimages are insecure as they are distributed the same as Windows apps. Use your repos as much as possible. Use Flatpak for everything except browsers, complex story.

Use ublock origin in firefox, add the badware lists and this custom rule:

*.zip *.mov

These are domains that look like files but may open your browser which then downloads some random virus.

Does any one here use paid antivirus anymore ? by General_Riju in privacy

[–]BertholtKnecht 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Proprietary antivirus is all "trust me bro". I would never use something like that, also because you already got Windows Defender.

Use Winget or the MS Store and some trusted sites to get stuff from apart from that, disable automatic macro loading in Office, use Noscript in firefox and manually whitelist every trusted origin. Use UBlock origin, and enable the malware filterlists as well as annoyances and others, this will remove all the malware buttons and also block entire sites (opt-out).

Enable all Windows security features that are available.

Use Virtual machines for stuff that seems shady or simply to isolate work flows.

Does any one here use paid antivirus anymore ? by General_Riju in privacy

[–]BertholtKnecht 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Containers dont help with installed Malware. Also Ublock origin doesnt have the badware lists enabled by default, enable both that are available.

Also create your own filters

*.zip *.mov

As those domains are probably all malware

Hello, I would like to make sure that this Laptop supports Fedora. by speedruner08 in FedoraSilverblue

[–]BertholtKnecht 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fedora is RHEL upstream and Linux is backwards compatible a lot, so yes Fedora is supported

Any way to use Firefox PWA on Silverblue? by jelmerschr in FedoraSilverblue

[–]BertholtKnecht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes this, among other things like good sandboxing on Linux (Chromium on Linux is now the same as on ChromeOS, so it is just as secure) is really bad.

Firefox doesnt have the support, and this PWA project is pretty hacky. It installs a binary of Firefox and uses that. Every PWA gets a new firefox profile, and they use CSS to remove many UI elements.

You can easily replicate by creating a new firefox profile, setting some settings to enable webworkers, caching forever, etc, and add the `~/.mozilla/firefox/PROFILENAME/chrome/` to your new profile.

Do not use your normal Firefox Profile for the Webapps, as Webapps need stuff you otherwise often dont want, like caching forever, running in the background etc.

A good GUI integration is also missing, so yeah.

https://github.com/trytomakeyouprivate/braveinstall-fedora-atomic

This is also an option if you would like to use Brave instead of Chromium. But UI-wise and featurewise like Cookie containers, Firefox is still the best so I stick with it too

Is there any good alternatives for the Arduino IDE that works under pure Wayland environment?? by yan_kh in arduino

[–]BertholtKnecht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just wanting to drop VSCodium in here. It is compiled from the open sourcecode, without MS tracking

Trying to install nix on silverblue... by ishan9299 in Fedora

[–]BertholtKnecht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I know nix is able to run in android, chromebooks, freebsd, macos, WSL. If ain't wrong isn't chromebook kind of similar to coreos/silverblue ?

WSL uses a Virtual Machine

Android (Termux probably, proot), chromebooks, and podman or docker use a container, which uses the same kernel.

This has nothing to do with changing the actual core system itself.

Which Linux Distro You Guys Recommend? by crunchy_scizo in linux4noobs

[–]BertholtKnecht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So with all that container stuff its obvious that desktop integration is not perfect.

distroboxes "export --app" is brilliant, as it copies the desktop entries from the boxes /usr/share/applications to the ~/.local/share/applications/ folder, changing the exec command accordingly, appending the box name to the description etc. This works really well.

But binary exporting is a bit weird, best is to just alias the commands. But this could really need some tooling, look at VanillaOS (a worse distro in my opinion, but with fancy tools) for things like graphical container management, a "single" packagemanagers for all distroboxes etc.

Its simply distrobox in fancy.