
This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 03 Apr 2025, Week 14Community NewsWe were sad to announce that the Divest projects were shutting down back in D...

not much
Haven't used this services but I keep seeing other people talking about it. From their FAQ : https://jmp.chat/faq
The easiest way is to make a call from your Jabber app, if you are using a supporting app such as Cheogram Android, Conversations, Snikket, or Movim. Simply add a contact just as you would for messaging and then select the voice call option in your app.
Okay, being able to go into the recovery mode is a good thing I would say. Did you search on XDA forum ? For example : https://xdaforums.com/t/hard-brick-moto-g30.4397117 and https://xdaforums.com/t/bricked-motorola-g30.4716793 could be useful to read ?
https://jmp.chat/ could do this depending on where you live.
Fastboot command only works in one mode, and adb in another mode. And if adb doesn't do anything it could also be a temporary problem on the computer.
This is the /e/os page for your g30 : https://doc.e.foundation/devices/caprip/community Can you get into recovery mode ?
TWIF curated on Thursday, 03 Apr 2025, Week 14
This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 03 Apr 2025, Week 14Community NewsWe were sad to announce that the Divest projects were shutting down back in D...
At the same time, Red Hat released the first version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. The Army deployed Red Hat’s operating system in its Blue Force Tracker system, which lived in jeeps and tanks on the battlefield. Major General Nicholas Justice, the man responsible for Blue Force Tracker, said later:
“When we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open source.”1
To this day, the U.S. Army remains one of Red Hat’s largest customers by volume. Red Hat was recently made part of the Army's Common Operating Environment, which is their enterprise standard.
Maybe this one ? https://www.pivpn.io/
Using your own domain is a great choice. You should however check whether your domain provider does auto extend the domain name for you, and if not, make sure your contact details are correct so you will get a reminder before the domain will expire after a year.
The other thing is that not all domain names are kind of equal. Some domain names have or had a bad name already when it comes to spam filters. For example IIRC the dot xyz domain names did have a bad name at some point, though maybe not anymore.
Also for serious emailing with companies for example my_name.lol may not be the best choice :-) Then there's the question where to host your email. For example mailbox.org and Tuta do support custom email domains.
LibreWolf comes with uBlock Origin. Your LW installation came without it ? Can you give more details ?
Why not let that email get forwarded to another email account of yours ?
Riseup provides email accounts and mailing lists. Anyone can create a mailing list.
But for an email account you will need to know a friend who can give you an invite code. Riseup is meant for activists though.
Disroot is open for anyone to ask for an account.
Don't forget to donate to Disroot if you can : https://disroot.org/en/blog/disnews-24.12
But here's the challenge: we're falling short of this year's financial target. Even worse, we're unable to support the open-source projects we rely on as much as we used to. While donations have increased since 2020, the number of supporters has stayed the same. To all of you loyal contributors, thank you — you've kept us going! 🙏
However, we need more people to join. Small contributions make a big difference when more people chip in! If you value the services we provide and haven't started supporting yet, now is the time to act. Together, we can sustain a real alternative to big tech services (where you are the product).
Apart from dd you can also go for Clonezilla or Rescuezilla. Both not super user friendly but once you get familiar with it makes backups and restore easy and fast for data and boot-loader.
Pixelix, a 3rd party app for PixelFed landed a few days ago
Pixelix: a user-friendly Pixelfed client for photo uploads, browsing, & sharing.
The issue (June 2024) and discussion : https://github.com/daniebeler/pixelix/issues/64
Fossify Paint app landed in the main F-Droid repository
Quick, easy and open source drawing app
Fossify Paint is your go-to app for effortless sketching and creative expression. Whether you want to doodle something fun or craft detailed digital art, Fossify Paint is built to give you complete control while respecting your privacy.
/e/os is LineageOS + microG with an easy installer available or pre-installed purchase. The interface design is based on how iOS works, for example to move an icon on your phone long press one of the icons and wait till they all go wiggling and then drag the icon to where you want to have it.
I think /e/os is okay for folks who want a deGoogled phone that comes pre-installed.
In case anyone wants to try the /e/os easy installer on an old and supported phone, the /e/os easy install is really much more easy compared to plain LineageOS install.
Sorry to spoil the party, but Mull browser and Mullvad browser are two different beasts. Mull browser is for Android by the DivestOS person, and Mullvad browser is based on Tor browser by the Swedish Mullvad VPN company.
That one has posts from 2 months ago or older. After some searching I found another one which is recent, here's a post : https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/88991
Here's on Mastodon : https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]
And RSS feeds : https://hnrss.github.io/
Slowly booting full Linux on the intel 4004 for fun, art, and absolutely no profit - Linux/4004 Dmitry.GR
Dmitry.GR: Slowly booting full Linux on the intel 4004 for fun, art, and absolutely no profit
TL;DR
I booted Debian Linux on a 4-bit intel microprocessor from 1971 - the first microprocessor in the world - the 4004. It is not fast, but it is a real Linux kernel with a Debian rootfs on a real board whose only CPU is a real intel 4004 from the 1970s. The video is sped up at variable rates to demonstrate this without boring you. The clock and calendar in the video are accurate. A constant-rate video is linked below.
Ouch, that's a nasty bug imho. Thanks to this wiki entry I've looked up the file librewolf.cfg in /var/lib/flatpak/ and changed :
pref("network.trr.mode", 2);
into
pref("network.trr.mode", 5);
and that seems to fix it for now (till a newer LibreWolf maybe overrides that file).
Thing is that searx.be has been remarkably good for my use case since a long time. With other instances YMMV.
The mentioned server side changes (e.g. A server move you mentioned but could also be server settings, provider settings, etc).
I guess that is the case. According to https://searx.space/ the searx.be server is in Austria but might use some proxy to talk to Google and similar to avoid quick blocking. The maintainer of searx.be also maintains yewtu.be and that one uses proxies (The proxy names can be seen when blocking auto play of videos in Tor browser).
Also getting results in Russian here since a few days. Usually it is either Swedish or Dutch. Never German.
👏 Fireworks! 🎆
Indeed. I tried on mobile with LibreTube and with Mull and both fail. And also fails now in Tor browser. The list is getting shorter.
Tails 6.6 2024-08-13
Changes and updates
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Update Tor Browser to 13.5.2. Update Thunderbird to 115.14.0. Update many firmware packages. This improves the support for newer hardware: graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on.
Fixed problems Persistent Storage
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Increase the maximum waiting time to 4 minutes when unlocking the Persistent Storage before returning an error. (#20475) Made the creation of the Persistent Storage more robust after starting a Tails USB stick for the first time. (#20451) Prevent the Persistent Storage settings from freezing after opening a link to the documentation. (#20438) Prevent Additional Software from crashing when installing virtual packages. (#20477)
Networking
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Fix connecting to the Tor network using default bridges. (#20467) Allow enabling multiple network interfaces again. (#20128)
Tails Cloner
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Remove 30 seconds of waiting time when installing by cloning. (#20131)
For more details, read our changelog.
TWIF generated on Thursday, 08 Aug 2024, Week 32
TWIF generated on Thursday, 08 Aug 2024, Week 32F-Droid coreIt’s no secret that F-Droid continues to live and thrive thanks in part to you, the users that do...
F-Droid core
It’s no secret that F-Droid continues to live and thrive thanks in part to you, the users that donate, but also in part thanks to different grants we’ve received along these 14 years of existence. Our recent post covered the endangered NGI program and its importance.
The Guardian Project has been a long time supporter of F-Droid, pouring in not only grant money but also human resources. They are now looking for a part-time Grant Administrator so if you find the list of their achievements tempting and your skills match the bullet points, don’t be shy and get in contact. Who knows, maybe you can be featured here next. 😛
Back in May we’ve highlighted the work contributors around F-Droid have done in order to shine a light onto the app downloads stats. The Divested (thanks!) hosted page just got an update, covering the weeks since then: https://divestos.org/pages/fdroid_stats
/PS: if you are involved with the project(s) that download Termux packages 300.000 times per week
TWIF curated on Thursday, 01 Aug 2024, Week 31
This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 01 Aug 2024, Week 31F-Droid coreOne feature that was seldom in the limelight is HTTP Basic Auth for repositorie...
Digital border system that will require fingerprint and facial scans postponed until November
Jailbreaking RabbitOS: Uncovering Secret Logs, and GPL Violations
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/14981035
But as I and others looked closer, and thought about it more deeply, things became concerning.
These logs include:
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Your precise GPS locations (which are also sent to their servers). Your WiFi network name. The IDs of nearby cell towers (even with no SIM card inserted, also sent to their servers). Your internet-facing IP address. The user token used by the device to authenticate with Rabbit's back-end API. Base64-encoded MP3s of everything the Rabbit has ever spoken to you (and the text transcript thereof).
I’ve used a lot of tools over the years, which means I’ve seen a lot of tools hit a plateau. That’s not always a problem; sometimes …
TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Jul 2024, Week 28
This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Jul 2024, Week 28Community NewsCartes IGN, Discover France another way and witness the land’s evolution, is ...
X (former Twitter) lost court-cases about shadowbanning after critical post about EU and CSAM
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/163062
Last year Danny Mekić wrote this article : https://dannymekic.com/202310/undermining-democracy-the-european-commissions-controversial-push-for-digital-surveillance which was published in a newspaper and then the author got shadow-banned on X. Today the same Dutch newspaper reported that Mekić won two court-cases about this.
- Dutch article about the verdict - paywall : https://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/x-mag-gebruikers-niet-meer-zomaar-shadowbannen-oordeelt-amsterdamse-rechterbefb7fd0/
- Archived copy : https://archive.ph/ckW2a
- tl;dr English translation :
X is not allowed to shadow-ban users easily the judge said. Only during the court-case X ex
225K downloads/week? Those are rookie numbers, lets update Termux! - TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Jun 2024, Week 26
This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Jun 2024, Week 26Community NewsMumla, Voice chat on Mumble servers, was updated to 3.6.11, adding more langu...
"I have Linus to thank for a long career using FreeBSD" | comment on HN
Comment by drewg123 on July 25, 2019
I met Linus at the Linux BOF at the 1994 Boston USENIX. Very ironically, I have Linus to thank for a long career using FreeBSD. It sounds like a cheap shot, but please hear me out:
I was sysadmin'ing a university stats department at the time, and NFS use was very important. I had been trying to use Linux on 486's, but performance of xdvi (with NFS mounted fonts) was abysmal. A 486 would take minutes to render the same page that a wimpy DECStation could render in a second. From tcpdump, I figured out it was because Linux did not do any sort of NFS caching at the time, and xdvi wandered around font files one byte at a time.
I asked Linus at the BOF when they planned to implement NFS. He told me NFS was unimportant, nobody used it, and so on.
I then attended the FreeBSD BOF where a clean shaven guy in a collared shirt was giving a power point presentation. I asked about NFS there, and was tol
SaumonNet/proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS
The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka] - GitHub - SaumonNet/proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17288716
This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS.
⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself.
📬 Help / Discussions
There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS.
Thanks This project has received support from NLNet.
SaumonNet/proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS
The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka] - GitHub - SaumonNet/proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17288716
This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS.
⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself.
📬 Help / Discussions
There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS.
Thanks This project has received support from NLNet.
SaumonNet/proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS
The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka] - GitHub - SaumonNet/proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka]
This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS.
⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself.
📬 Help / Discussions
There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS.
Thanks This project has received support from NLNet.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum receives ACM Software System Award
Professor emeritus' operating system influenced multiple generations of students and inspired Linux
Hatsu v0.2: Improved RSS compatibility, receive likes & reposts, new comment component
What's Changed refactor(tracing)!: rename HATSU_LOG_LEVEL to HATSU_LOG by @kwaa in #42 feat: new generate_204 api by @kwaa in #44 refactor: use flake instead of devbox by @kwaa in #45 refactor(fla...
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21064022
Hello, Hatsu is a self-hosted Fediverse bridge for static websites.
I recently released version 0.2 with the following features:
Improved RSS compatibility
RSS compatibility was terrible at 0.1.x due to some bugs - should now work with most valid Atom / RSS feeds.
Receive likes & reposts
Hatsu now receives likes and retweets for local posts and outputs them via a mastodon-compatible API.
New comment component
KKna is a new comment component (also written by me) that has Hatsu preset that automatically infer URL.
You can check the integration instructions in the documentation:
https://hatsu.cli.rs/users/backfeed-based-on-kkna.html
(It's still unstable)
Nix Package
Are you using NixOS / Nix? I am, so I packaged it into NUR and Nixpkgs.
There is no documentation on this at the moment, I will update it later.