Still using spaceship. lmao.

Probably the funniest linux meme I’ve seen in a few years. Nice.

https://github.com/Droid-ify/client

Can use any open-android store repository, including IzzyOnDroid and F-Droid. It’s the only real choice.

I was unaware of this change, and it’s perfectly acceptable. No one has any ground to lambast Signal for requiring phone numbers to get an account. I think that’s a perfectly reasonable spam mitigation technique. The issue is having to shotgun your phone number to every Howard and Susan that you want to use Signal to communicate with.

This was honestly the only thing holding me back from actually using Signal. I’ll likely register for an account now.

So, you’re going to get two schools of thought on this, and one of them is wrong. Horrendously wrong. For perspective, I was a certified CEHv7, so take that for what its worth.

There’s a saying in security circles “security through obscurity isn’t security,” which is a saying from the 1850s and people continually attempt to apply the logic to today’s standards and it’s–frankly stupid–but just plain silly. It generally means that if you hide the key to your house under the floor mat, there’s no point to having the lock, because it doesn’t lend you any real security and that if you release the schematics to security protocols and/or devices (like locks), it makes them less secure. And in this specific context, it makes sense and is an accurate statement. Lots of people will make the argument that F/OSS is more secure because it’s openly available and many will make the argument that it’s less secure. But each argument is moot because it deals with software development and not your private data. lol.

When you apply the same logic to technology and private data it breaks down tremendously. This is the information age. With a persons phone number I can very likely find their home address or their general location. Registered cell phones will forever carry with them the city in which they were activated. So if I have your phone number, and know your name is John Smith, I can look up your number and see where it was activated. It’ll tell me “Dallas, Texas” and now I’m not just looking for John Smith, I’m looking for John Smith in Dallas, Texas. With successive breakdowns like this I will eventually find your home address or at the very least your neighborhood.

The supposition made by Signal (and anyone who defends this model) is that generally anyone with your private number is supposed to have it and even if they do, there’s not much they can do with it. But that’s so incredibly wrong it’s not even funny in 2025.

I’ve seen a great number of people in this thread post things like “privacy isn’t anonymity and anonymity isn’t security,” which frankly I find gobstopping hilarious from a community that will break their neck to suggest everyone run VPNs to protect their online identity as a way to protect yourself from fingerprinting and ad tracking.

It frankly amazes me. Protecting your data, including your phone number is the same as protecting your home address and your private data through redirection from a VPN. I don’t think many in this community would argue against using a VPN. But why they feel you should shotgun your phone number all over the internet is fucking stupid, IMO, or that you should only use a secure messaging protocol to speak to people you know, and not people you don’t know. It’s all just so…stupid.

They’ll then continue to say that you should only use Signal to talk to people you know because “that’s what its for!” as if protecting yourself via encryption from compete fucking strangers has no value all of a sudden. lol

You have to be very careful in this community because there are a significant number of armchair experts which simply parrot the things that they’ve read from others ad-nauseam without actually thinking about the basis of what they’re saying.

OK. That’s my rant. I’m ready for your downvote.

Directly from the developer:

iVentoy and Ventoy are two completely different softwares and have no shared files.

You seem to be implying that because iVentoy (which is not Ventoy) is vulnerable to this attack then that means that Ventoy is also vulnerable which is not only highly speculative, it remains to be seen.

Actually, when iVentoy boot Windows through PXE, it will boot the WinPE with test mode, so there is no need for the driver file to be signed. So httpdisk_sig.sys is actually not needed and can be removed later.

The dev goes on to explain;

the httpdisk driver will be installed only in the temporary WinPE environment (running in the RAM), not the final Windows system

The driver is singularly used in the PE environment. That’s it.

Is this a security issue? Sure. Is it as bad as everyone wants to make it out to be? Not really. From start to finish the Ventoy fever people seem to be getting by unsigned blobs is simply insane. Its a bout of hysteria and it’s not impressive at all.

https://siftrss.com/

The only appropriate answer!

For some languages gender-neutral pronouns aren’t possible or aren’t appropriate. It’s really only in English and maybe five other languages that gender-neutral pronouns are a real thing and even in these languages if you’re not used to using neutral pronouns or reading them in common writing sounds like a mistake to begin with. It’s generally just easier to automate the task based on names, and the library itself comes from a time when that wasn’t a controversial thought. Lol

It’s a maintenance process which preloads essential office files into memory for usage when you launch the different Microsoft applications so their startup time is reduced as well.

OfficeClickToRun.exe is years and years old. This isn’t a new thing at all.

Google Play Services is at the very core of Android and it will only get worse from here, and a very significant portion of the Android ecosystem requires GPS to function. Auto updates, built-in Android security features, a significant portion of secure apps like banking and financial service applications, Find my Phone, Cloud Backups, etc. The list goes on. And it’s funny because each one of these removed features are generally replaced with a third party alternative, which means you’re still trusting a third party with your data… I could understand if you didn’t want any company to have your data. That makes sense. But you specifically curtail Google who authors the OS in favor of a third party who also might be doing the same things with your data anyways. It’s all just so incredibly stupid.

You may be completely happy with Graphene, but the overwhelming vast majority of people won’t be because it removes the specific advantages of using Android as an ecosystem.

If you want to be free of Google, then be free of Google and don’t use hardware and an OS that they designed and made. It’s like hating Nazi’s but wearing an SS jacket because “it’s warm.” It’s fuckin’ mind-blindingly crazy.

If you’re serving content over HTTPS, it’s really not that big of a deal either way. HTTPS isn’t a silver bullet, but it’s not enabled on Jellyfin as a default and it’s actually a real PITA to setup.

De-googled projects get none of the benefit of being android, while all of the downfall of being android. So either use it or don’t. It simply doesn’t make any sense.

It’s like buying a Tesla and then replacing all of the systems within it because you hate Tesla. Like, wtf. Why would you buy it then? End of the day its your money, do what you want, but still. What the fuck.

You supposedly hate Google, yet have an android… The fuck is wrong with you?

Matrix. Self-hostable, and basically everything you’re looking for. Just can be a real PITA to setup TURN/STUN.

When giving docker access to a socket, the docker process will have access to any folder/file the running user has access to. That doesn’t mean that your containers do, generally, but they can. This is how the Kinsing docker virus is so prevalent.

WHY this function requires hostname

Because it uses DoT and not DoH.

I also had issues like this, so I just sidestepped it and setup AdGuard Home. When away from the house I use RethinkDNS.

https://nym.com/ is great.

I’ll give it a go.