Malware targeting individuals rather than servers do not need privilege escalation. They just need to run as the user and swipe cookies/credentials/wallets etc. Privilege escalation would allow them to do catastrophic damage but that’s not the point in that case.

If you don’t trust an extension then you shouldn’t install it in the first place. If you think an extension might be nefarious, trying to work around that by limiting its internet connection is risky.

majority of unixporn posts are people copy pasting premade hyprland configs so…

How dare those people make and release software for free but don’t dedicate me more of their time to me!

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Running those adblockers on your devices is extremely insecure. They register as a VPN and intercept HTTPS traffic. They decrypt the encrypted traffic, filter it, and encrypt again meaning all your communications are signed by this single app’s certificate. Not to mention any vulnerability would wreak havoc.

https://grapheneos.org/faq#ad-blocking-apps

Cool channel, never came across it before. Always good to find high production quality Linux channels.

The Netflix analogy does not make any sense in this context.

they could always ask. Ask and then listen.

Not nearly enough people turn on optional telemetry. I’ll bet you don’t always either.

I am happy they’re giving people a choice. On the other hand, the fact is, (privacy respecting) telemetry is the only way to make a program as complicated as a web browser better. Especially important when your competition is a giant data hoarder with orders of magnitude more users. And people will just not turn on opt-in telemetry.

What’s up with the attitude like gpu accelerated terminals aren’t extremely popular? If you’re fine with what you’re using, have fun and tone down the high horse.

Anything is fine unless you’re using the terminal very heavily. Almost all of my workflow is within the terminal so I want everything to be as fast as possible. I want a minimal, low config, fast terminal that has the exact same behavior when using the same config on Linux and MacOS (I know, fuck me, I have to use it for work). And those are Alacritty and Ghostty. I hate Alacritty’s horrible icon so I use Ghostty.

Yeah the protocols are there, portals support it, OBS works. It is great that random applications cannot capture the framebuffer.