Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)
Brave being listed alongside Firefox
Bestie Brave is literally just Chromium again. Not to mention the fact that their CEO is someone who got ousted from Firefox for being a tremendous bigot. It's not a better alternative to Chrome, it's just the same thing again. It you must use a chromium browser, use ungoogled.
Telegram being next to Signal is also questionable.
You forgot "Only uses 10+ year old librebooted Thinkpad" on tech paranoid
uses a modern Notebook which is QubesOS certified and runs coreboot
I forget there are linux-friendly laptops nowadays.
I find most laptops are well supported about a year after their release.
I fall under Tech Conservative mostly, but I would like to edit the last 2 points to this for myself:
"Believe every publicly traded company is inherently evil"
"Doesn't morally support big tech, but uses some anyway"
An important note to your last one is for some of us we don't get an option. Work does everything with Office 365? Welp, guess you gotta use Microsoft products now 🤷
I mean, work is work, you don't get a choice in what product your company uses. My point was meant for personal use.
🏳️⚧️ Congratulations on coming out and I wish you a successful transition. 🏳️⚧️
worst username award 🏆
Ty I couldn’t have done it without real life inspiration to guide me.
bruh
With every passing year, little by little I go deeper to the privacy paranoid side.
But my focus is way more anti big corporation than pro privacy, that fact those are almost one and the same is mostly a side effect for me.
Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.
It feels like there needs to be a category in between conservative and paranoid. I'm probably 90% of the way over to tech paranoid but using Tor Browser and Tails is a little much.
Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.
For some reason, the best word to describe it in my mind is "fun". Just fun to learn and play with, fun to install, fun to configure and customize, and fun to daily drive. Definitely not fun when a random package update breaks your system (looking at you grub), but that hardly ever happens anymore provided you don't enable the testing repo.
Also pacman is the fastest package manager I've ever used.
Also pacman is the fastest package manager I’ve ever used.
I hope you enabled parallel downloads, that makes it fast as fuck.
It's enabled by default now.
For fellow paranoids:
Mullvad browser is a fairly new Firefox fork which aims to reduce fingerprinting potential while also having sane (paranoid) defaults. Developed with the Tor project. Basically the Tor browser but without connecting to the Tor network. Passes coveryourtracks.eff.org.
SimpleX Chat is a fairly new privacy oriented IM platform which seems to address many issues current ones have. Development is very active. E2E, video and voice calls, decentralized, doesn’t have user ID of any kind.
How do you tell if someone is an Arch user? You don't, they will tell you.
What if my favorite OS is Mac, my favorite browser is Firefox, and my favorite app is self hosted?
The fact that the favorite OS of the tech conservative is an Arch based distro and and a Debian based distro instead of pure Arch or Debian makes this meme inaccurate.
Tails is also total ass as a daily driver. I know, I did it for a long time before the lack of persistence was such a pain I had to give in. Like, you can save in your data partition, but having to install/configure everything on each boot sucks, and if you made the system partition writable it would defeat the point of Tails.
I don’t think Tails, backtrack, kali, and similar distros were ever intended to be daily drivers. I’ve only used them as live ISOs to leverage their very specific toolkits.
Firmly in camp conservative (yikes) Fav OS: Fedora Fav browser: Firefox Fav apps: Thunder and Element and technically feeder but only because I haven't had the energy to write my own rss feed consumer nervously in dart/flutter
I'm in the process of putting together my own next cloud and moving to proton mail. After that I'll be able to install bridges from a self hosted matrix to discord for people and teams for work. I use edge, outlook, and teams on my work computer but it occasionally connects to my home network so at some point I'll probably put it on an isolated vlan.
I guess I am a cross between “Normie” and “Conservative”. I use macOS and Fedora daily, I watch MKBHD but also watch FOSS YouTubers. I use WhatsApp, but only because, in Netherlands, it’s impossible to live without it. I don’t use any Chromium, and I use Firefox, but I also use Safari.
Fuck getting labeled.
"I can't live with modern tech anymore"
uses modern tech
A truly paranoid individual unplugs every piece of technology and uses nothing with screens, buttons or electricity going through it.
I tick all the boxes for the middle one
whats irc chat?
Discord for chads
Internet Relay Chat. Super old school, everyone connects to a server with their own clients. I think with modern encryption though it's one of the more secure ways to chat as long as the server owner is trusted.