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Comes in handy quite frequently.

It's based on Firefox, but those modifications do have a rather large impact in terms of privacy.

In my experience, once you've got Arch set up, it less work to maintain than Manjaro. On Arch, you have noticeably more frequent, but smaller, package updates. On Manjaro, compatibility issues with the AUR may occur, which happened a few times for me, while that won't happen on Arch.

Fwiw, OpenStreetMap is pretty amazing

An dieser Stelle big shoutout an mailbox.org, die tatsächlich allen Kunden eine E-Mail "[Wichtige Information] Sicherheitsrisiken bei neuem Microsoft Outlook" gesendet haben.

Sich als relativ kleiner Mailanbieter zu trauen, eine (vollkommen berechtigte) Warnung vor dem wahrscheinlich weitestverbreiteten Mailclient zu verschicken, ist schon beeindruckend, finde ich.

but it will make the planet a lot less habitable for humans.

And, unfortunately, for a wide range of other species.

Outer Wilds had so many profound moments, imho. Just listing a couple more:

Es spielen halt auch viel weniger Frauen Schach als Männer, da entstehen solche Diskrepanzen allein aus statistischen Gründen. Wenn man den besten Spieler aus einem bestimmten, kleinen Land betrachtet, ist das meist ähnlich; der beste Däne ist z.B. Weltrangliste 137.

Falls dich das Thema mehr interessiert, ist aber die Karriere von Judit Polgar (und ihren Schwestern) durchaus beachtenswert. Sie hat es als einzige Frau jemals in die Top 10 der Weltrangliste geschafft (Platz 8) und ist mit Sicherheit die beste Schachspielerin aller Zeiten. Sie ist zwar nicht mehr aktiv, aber mit ihrem letzten Rating würde sie noch Weltranglistenplatz 72 belegen.

Relevant xkxd

Yes, it's usually still available, but systemd timers are the more "modern" way, which is why distros like Arch use them by default:

There are many cron implementations, but none of them are installed by default as the base system uses systemd/Timers instead

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cron

Kann mir jemand erklären, warum ein Verfahren zustande kommt, wenn selbst die Staatsanwaltschaft auf Freispruch plädiert?

Gibt es einen bestimmten Grund, dass du "AFAB" statt "cis" verwendest bzw. haben diese Begriffe unterschiedliche Bedeutungen/Konnotationen?

Mir war "AFAB" bis eben kein Begriff und ich musste schon bisschen nachdenken, um drauf zu kommen, dass das wahrscheinlich "assigned female at birth" bedeutet.

they all went dark

A couple of them (such as Infinity) were granted an extension and still work.

Despite the memes, Arch isn't that hard to install nowadays. The Wiki is stellar and archinstall is a thing (as well as EndeavourOS).

But Debian testing is a fine choice as well, of course.

I have to say that some of the points on that site are outright ridiculous.

First off, they quote the privacy officer of the German protestant church, who has no technical background according to his own bio:

"… when using Signal, data protection concerns remain, especially because this service processes personal data of its users outside the scope of the GDPR. The use of this messenger service can therefore not be recommended.”

Not sure what that's supposed to mean, because the GDPR applies based on user location and not company location. Although I'm going to grant that having servers in US jurisdictions may be a concern.

And he goes on to say that Threema (for profit, proprietary server code and (at the time) client code) and SIMSme (for profit, fully proprietary) are preferable over Signal because of the jurisdictions they're in. Not sure about anyone else, but I'm going to trust the open source software more, regardless of what jurisdiction the servers are in.

I do have to give him credit for recognising a "self-hosted messenger service based on established and freely available protocols on federated servers" as the best option, though.

negative: actual server software used does not have to match the version published on GitHub

Fair, but how many other messaging services publish server code at all?

negative: terms of use (external) as well as privacy policy in English only

I suspect there's very little overlap in the Venn diagram of people who use (or even know of) Signal and people who don't speak English.

negative: weaknesses in authentication for encryption

This boils down to users trusting Signal as a certificate authority and not verifying their contacts "security number". Fair point, but a user can still choose to use Signal in a way that removes those weaknesses.

Of course, since we're on a federated service, I expect people to jump on the chance to recommend Matrix/XMPP instead, but realistically, I've had much more success getting people to use Signal. And apart from federated messengers, I'm not aware of anything better than Signal.

And if one is not able to install Arch using archinstall, then they should question themselves if Arch is even the right distro for them.

Without wanting to be elitist, I'd go further than that. While archinstall is a nice convenience, even the "manual" installation is really just diligently reading and following the wiki guide.

If that's too much for you, you're likely going to struggle when stuff needs manual intervention and you're probably better off with a different distro.

That depends a bit on the ruleset. According to Guinness (where hyperventilating with pure oxygen beforehand is allowed), it's 24:37.36. According to the freediving organisation AIDA (where pre-breathing oxygen isn't allowed), it's 11:35

What distros are there that have drive encryption but don't require decrypting the drive while booting? Isn't LUKS pretty much the standard disk encryption for all Linux distributions?

Ich hab erster Hand Leute gesehen die NPC rassistisch verwendet haben und auch welche die es Sexistisch verwendet haben.

Hab ich noch nie in dem Kontext gehört und die Verbindung zwischen NPC und Herkunft/Geschlecht ergibt sich mir auch nicht. Ich kenne das primär als Begriff für "uninteressante Person ohne Tiefgang".

Telegram being next to Signal is also questionable.