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  • Any proclaimed prioritization of privacy or privacy improvements in stock Android serve only to bring your data more directly under the control of Google at the expense of other entities, so that those other entities must pay Google as a middleman to your data. On stock Android, there is no privacy - Google has access to everything, always.

    In my opinion, one step that could reasonably be taken to improve the situation is for Google to go fuck itself, lose every anti-trust suit brought against it, and die.

  • It's still right to complain and protest about something that is unjust, even when ways to circumvent it exist. Because the next logical policy step is to ban VPNs, as many countries already have, and the solved problem becomes unsolved again.

  • In the bridge-vids option, you can replace 2-4094 with a space-separated list of vlans to be allowed tagged ingress/egress on the bridge interface, if you prefer to limit it. Nothing in the GUI for that, as far as I know.

  • ssh predates the specification, exists somewhat independently of even the idea of a desktop (not common to see xdg env variables like XDG_CONFIG in a headless environment, for example), and uses the homedir/.ssh directory on both the client and server side of a connection. I think it's less to do with security and more to do with uniformity for something as important as ssh - ssh doesn't need to change to use the xdg spec, and xdg doesn't need to allot anything special for ssh when it's already uniform across the unix spectrum

  • If you aren't going to fully wipe your drive in horrible events like this, at the very least use shred instead of rm. rm simply removes references to the file in the filesystem, leaving the data behind on the disk until other data happens to be written there.

    Do not ever allow data like that to exist on your machines. The law doesn't care how it got there.

  • If you can find a cheap used micro-form-factor pc with hdmi output (eg thinkcentre m93p), that's a great sustainable way to go. Stick debian on it, get a cheap tiny bluetooth keyboard/trackpad, stream via web browser. Bonus if it's got a dvd player, for the ultimate utilitarian foss htpc.

  • China is bad

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  • The standard of "you will be prosecuted and punished for publicly criticizing the ruling party/leader" certainly disqualifies China from being called a democracy, regardless of how many students they massacred or why.

  • Is APKPure Safe?

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  • If you can't get a packaged apk directly from the developer/publisher, or from a trusted repository like the play store or fdroid, I wouldn't resort to third party sources like these. If you can't compare the signing signature of an apk from an untrusted source to that from a trusted source, you can't be certain that what you're installing hasn't been tampered with.

    • Fill the 3L jug.
    • Pour the 3L jug into the 5L jug. The 5L jug now has exactly 3L of water.
    • Fill the 3L jug again.
    • Pour the 3L jug into the 5L jug until it is full. There is now 5L of water in the 5L jug, and 1L remaining in the 3L jug.
    • Pour out the 5L jug.
    • Pour the 1L of water from the 3L jug into the 5L jug.
    • Fill the 3L jug and pour it into the 5L jug. There is now exactly 4L of water in the 5L jug.