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so i am right and you are wrong. linux from SCRATCH you are a joke.
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i took it as dumb worthless feedback, that's why I tried to tell you how you can make it constructive on your next try if you actually know anything.
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so how much mitigations? I've heard 0. do you know? 1 mitigation? 2?
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If you think its wrong then show it. Show where I can get the source code and build instructions to build my own debian image.
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I clearly said if i'm not sure about something. I takes time to do research if you can do better than go ahead and show us what you know. If you think something I said is wrong then please make a constructive reply and tell us all how it really is.
And QubesOS isnt based on linux kernel. It uses Xen. Linux is used in the Qubes aka VMs.
More crypto discussions in general and I don't mean cryptography. I think because of those topics being almost dead here, it would be good to just have 1 crypto community instead of having different communities for every different blockchain/topic. Or maybe 2 communities to seperate shilling and speculating price from technological and political crypto discussions.
I meant communities. I just mixed the words up
I dont think its so active at least not topics i'm most interested in. Privacy has only one lemmy instance that is active. Security has only 1 instance but no one ever discusses there, it's just sharing Security news and 0 comments. Talk about crypto is pretty much completely dead as well which is strange.
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OP is wrong about firmware. linux-firmware package is not about mitigating firmware vulnerabilities. It's just blobs for things like nvidia and other stuff. I don't know if Linux has firmware vulnerability mitigation but if it doesn't then QubesOS is much better because it does prevent a lot of the vulnerabilities by disabling hyperthreading.
We need to stop the attacks against those who are trying to level up their privacy
There are lot of people in the privacy communities who are shaming and attacking those of us who want take take privacy seriously. more than just using firefox and a vpn. So many people are trying to influence the privacy community to not use whonix or tor browser. That it's paranoid and extreme to leave your phone at home. And so on.
They keep pushing this propaganda without even knowing what they are talking about. They will keep spamming everywhere that you don't need to protect your firmware from physical access adversaries because the only adversaries who can do something like that are feds and feds will never target you unless you are a cartel leader or running a darknet market or something very terrible.
But these same people who spread this propaganda can't even tell you what the difference is between bios and uefi. Which means they have no idea what they are talking about and are just spreading propaganda/disinformation.
Why would they do that? They are probably american f
they also make extreme examples of anyone threatening to "blow it up", show the public all the corruption and give freedom to the people. Edward Snowden is an example. Also recently Roman Storm the Tornado Cash dev. These extreme attacks from the government are meant to cause fear so no one dares to do anything like that again.
i forgot about that reason. That's true I think some people have that as their motive. They are probably thinking that it's best to not let the beginners know that vpn doesn't do much on its own or that brave doesn't actually stop all tracking and won't necessarily give you a non-unique fingerprint etc. They want to make it look easy to get privacy because if they make it look hard that these simple beginner steps aren't enough then they won't even get started and give up.
I think it's a wrong mindset to have. I don't think those types of people who give up if they realize privacy isn't a one click solution are the target audience for privacy. We want the people who can actually spend some time to learn and put in some effort because if they can't do that then they probably don't care that much about privacy to begin with.
But its just my opinion not a fact.
I think it's personal for techlore regarding grapheneos because a few people in the gos community helped him in a way he felt was rude. Then techlore started making lots of bad videos about gos and then maybe he out of cope had to try see some light in google because he alienated himself from gos community. That's just my guess.
You are right but I think most people would in hindsight say they wished the did more to protect their computer when shit happens. It's like a camera, you can buy a cheap camera meant to be used for a vacation then thrown away and it's not worth much but the pictures you have taken are worth a lot as in semantic value, memories you want to keep.
In someones computer they have their entire digital life. Work, personal life, social life, all kinds of data, pictures, banking, investments, crypto, etc. All that is priceless. That's why ransomware viruses are so effective, people will pay and do anything to get their data back and they all wished they had just done some simple backups and from then on they will probably spend effort on security.
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The big divide in the privacy community (threat model)
Everything I say will be generally speaking for all privacy communities so not specific to this community or another one unless I say otherwise in a short section.
Almost every single time I start a topic or make a reply and also many of the posts I read because they are interesting, there's always this one guy or several guys who have to say the same old argument about "that's tin foil, feds don't do that, unless you are a president or something like that then you don't need to have that in your threat model".
That's the divide I'm talking about because the privacy community can be split into two categories that are opposed to each other on that point. And it's a big issue because it becomes core in the types of discussions we can have.
For example in techlore's community they are very much against people who take privacy seriously. If you go to there community and start talking about leaving phone at home, using grapheneos, qubesos, intel me, etc, you will get run over by lots o
yeah the elites who run the world have limitless money for the lobbying. I don't think it's possible to win this war on their turf under their rigged rules. Revolution is the only way but I don't think that's a realistic possibility neither. They have so many ways to divide and conquer.
problem is getting everyone to do revolution at the same time. That's one of the purposes of mass surveillance, they can detect the early beginnings of organization and send them to prison before it grows into a big snowball.
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You have to negotiate.
They: Do you have whatsapp?
You: No i hate that app but we can use Rehnijobuboba, heard of that?
They: No and there's no way I'm installing something I can't even speak.
You: Ok, you dont want to install that and I don't want whatsapp, lets meet halfway and use Signal together!
They: Fine.