@akc3n@lemmy.ml another new OEM, this one using ARM cores: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/liberux-nexx--3#/
Seems like they are also trying to find their place, they just backed off from a pretty expensive desktop replacement device to offer a more reasonable phone. Maybe an OS partnership would also help them since they are currently rolling their own Linux OS...
Short TL;DR: nothing burger
Longer TL;DR: Linus sees bad changes to the git tree by Kees Cook that he interprets as being of human origin and intentional, calls them "malicious" changes and orders that Kees Cook's privileges be revoked. Turns out that the "git-filter-repo" tool being used was actually the culprit as it is very powerful and incorrect usage explains the changes. Discussion then moves toward implementing safety checks in the tooling. Kees gets his permissions back.
Just check their comment history 😂 you'll have to scroll some past their current bit where they pretend to talk like an AI, but you'll see what's up after that
Wow this is big news, Comaps is the fork of Organic Maps: https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/
Let's be careful to remember that there are different levels of effort and understanding required for different levels of security and privacy. GrapheneOS has taken the approach of offering harm reduction, with sane defaults and options that allow advanced users to take near-complete control over their device (within the limits of the Pixel hardware). This is obvious by their inclusion of the sandboxed Google Play Store as a major feature of the OS, as it is much better than the situation on Google's Android. It is also not installed by default, forcing users to at least somewhat educate themselves in order to install it.
Accrescent is right in line with this philosophy, and is also not installed by default. Of course if your threat model (or desire) is to achieve the highest level of online anonymity and to have a completely FOSS system, you should not use it... of course you probably shouldn't use FDroid either, in that case, and should build from source. However, you are clearly in a situation where your threat model does not require those lengths, and FDroid is more of a principled choice.
I think its pointlessly inflammatory to call Accrescent "dangerous" just because it allows for non-FOSS software. Now if you want to criticize whether or not it is fulfilling its stated goals, that is another story.
Device addiction... those are all low stimulation activities compared to the screen
No, he had access but clearly the router admin interface wasn't set up to allow remote access. He then needed to access the router from a browser inside the LAN, and he did have the proxmox host configured correctly to access remotely.
The amount that even the middle class is capable of wasting compared to the poor is immense... I imagine the stuff from encampments is probably just trashed with no other consideration
Depends on what your definition of winning is. If we reach a state where it is literally impossible to run your own software without heavy hardware modification, which would exclude 99.9% of users, that would be like big tech winning in my book. That's why right to repair is important, and we probably also need laws to prevent OEMs from disallowing the use of alternate OS.