hyperstar

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by hyperstar 5y ago
I tried installing Guix System maybe about a year ago, but had problems with LVM on LUKS with full-disk encryption and missing and outdated documentation. Has this situation changed?
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by hyperstar 5y ago
Question from a welfare country and complete ignorance: what exactly are the steps necessary to change this and why is it so difficult for the USA to take them?
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by hyperstar 5y ago
Before I got my Happy Hacking I had both control and escape on caps lock, but with HH, I have no problem using the default escape, which is closer there than on regular keyboards.
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by hyperstar 5y ago
On what frequency do they transmit? What non-smart equipment does one need to detect one?
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by hyperstar 5y ago
How much? So rich wackos get a practically free pass, or will the fines be adjusted to weath?
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by hyperstar 5y ago
What are the best ways of doing this without a smartphone?
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by hyperstar 5y ago
I tried Matrix a few months ago, but the clients were pretty horrible compared to irssi. The only functional one was the ugly GUI one with emojis and all that.
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by hyperstar 5y ago
I was assuming they have something equivalent to the Intel Management Engine. Do they not? > Isn't any hardware a "potential" hardware backdoor? I don't know. Is this true of open hardware? I mean, there could be a
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by hyperstar 5y ago
Great! now take the (potential) hardware backdoors out of your computers and make them Linux-friendly.
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by hyperstar 5y ago
But why don't they just keep the drivers etc. from the previous version? This doesn't seem to be a problem for Linux.
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by hyperstar 5y ago
Naive question: why is it that the newest version of macos doesn't run on older machines? (The solution is, of course, to install Linux on them.)
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by hyperstar 5y ago
I'm impressed by the (allegedly) tactile and clear keyboard https://frame.work/blog/the-keyboard but I'd be delighted to see a happy-hacking style layout, where the arrow keys are consigned to the fn layer
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by hyperstar 5y ago
Is the accelerometer of the iphone 5s also sensitive enough to pick up sound?
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by hyperstar 5y ago
VIm is to other editors what touch typing is to hunt-and-peck.
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by hyperstar 5y ago
> I’d like them to figure out things from a clean slate without my opinionated views on top of it What clean slate? The alternative is their being influenced by other people's opinionated views.
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by hyperstar 5y ago
As soon as they make it possible to install free firmware such as coreboot.
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by hyperstar 5y ago
It may be that the generic masculine bears witness of an historical injustice, but so what? A trace of an injustice is not a continuation of it. A language should be capable of expressing things simply and elegantly; it oughtn't to b
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by hyperstar 5y ago
I hope you're right.
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by hyperstar 5y ago
I recently bought a Wacom tablet, but didn't install any drivers except those that are in the free-software repository of Void Linux, which I suppose don't do this. I wish it were easier in general, though, to find out whether h
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by hyperstar 5y ago
Yes, the one was on Void Linux (no desktop environment), the other on Kubuntu (KDE).
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by hyperstar 5y ago
Safest gives me the same each time.
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by hyperstar 5y ago
I tried this with Tor Browser on two different computers and got two different fingerprints, even in safest mode.
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by hyperstar 5y ago
Preferably, don't take those jobs. Or, if you must, tape the cameras and remove the microphone. Use a wired headset for talking and unplug it when not in use. When not on the job, turn it off and wrap it in aluminium foil.
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by hyperstar 5y ago
I think there should always be physical off-switches for microphones: it should be possible to know that the thing is not listening. But smartphones also have other private information on them than what can be captured by its microphone. I
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by hyperstar 5y ago
By going to restaurants with proper service (if at all) and not going to sporting events.
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by hyperstar 5y ago
Rejecting the smartphone might be a start.
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by hyperstar 5y ago
I flash libreboot first to get rid of the intel management engine and then the latest coreboot to the bios region. I think I configuried it so that it doesn't include any blobs, but I'm not sure. Wish it were easier to tell fo
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by hyperstar 5y ago
The machines that get 5/5, do they have open hardware? I heard somewhere that there's this thing called microcode that resides in the processor and could contain backdoors. Is that taken into account here?
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by hyperstar 5y ago
What was the thing that detracted from the corebooted Thinkpad's trustworthiness?
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by hyperstar 5y ago
> both does that mean steamos and non-steamos linux or steamos (which is a linux)? it would be nice to know whether playing this required installing a new operating system.

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