My Regarding the Kidnapping of My Husband article is raising a lot of questions answered by my article.

Well, first off it’s all completely based around this one persons hardware and needs, using personal keys instead of those in the care of an organization.

There’s nothing wrong with making your own cool Linux is stitched together from the pieces you need.

It’s just something short of a distribution.

The op isn’t even doing the “distribution” component, their isos are just torrents hosted by the internet archive.

Which isn’t an insult, it’s a laudable achievement to put together an os, it just might fall short of a distribution.

Think about it like this: if you swapped the engine and drivetrain of a Silverado into an old jeep and replaced the body panels with those of a bronco carefully bent and shaped to fit the new geometry did you make a new model of car? No, of course not. It’s cool, and I want to see and drive it, but you didn’t make The Homer, you made a custom car.

If you started a business modifying other people’s jeeps with ls engine and blazer body swaps then do you have a new model of car? The many shops that do this in real life would like you to think so, but their creations remain legally registered as jeeps and no one except the dorkiest of owners refer to them as Homers.

Yeah you gotta specifically prompt for that in great detail though.

The only consistent way I’ve gotten ai disagreement is as part of an agent or harness or with some moe models.

It’s messaggio!

Everyone, messaggio has come to see us!

It’s 4:02 utc, do you know what your smart fridge is up to?

Keep reading.

Oswald’s branch of the fair play for Cuba committee had only one member, him. Some of his leaflets were stamped with the offices of a cia asset. His defection to the ussr raised flags by the people processing his entrance but their concern was overruled.

When the story of the loner, directed by outside forces and manipulated into action, is referenced in media they’re using our understanding of Oswald as a baseline to tell that story.

Go listen to the blowback episode about Oswald. It’s one of their Cuba ones.

Business cards with your website on em the looooong way

My man is just checking to see if you’re rfc952 complaint.

Only hostname I ever seen with a glottal stop

You know ai out here registering domains bc it tried to put an em dash

I got u.

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I don’t know… did he achieve anything lasting? Are we better off? Is he? He tried something, it didn’t work. I’m not convinced he did it out of the goodness of his heart amd I’m fairly certain he did not envision a life sucking off the Kremlin just to remain safe. Don’t get me wrong, this could and should have crippled our trust in all governments… but it didn’t.

The problem is that you don’t know what you’re talking about and are a homophobic liberal.

I don’t mean that as a set of insults. It’s easy to see yourself through your own eyes and hard to see yourself through the eyes of others.

Snowdens leaks had direct results that have shaped the law, media and our understanding of government. They have been extensively reported on, written about outside of the press, used as a framework for other leaks & revelations and ensured that frameworks for safely revealing damaging information existed in the years to come.

So just in the first sentence you lose everyone millennial or older, they know you’re wrong because they saw it firsthand.

Then you go on to say that he didn’t leak out of the goodness of his heart and was “sucking off the kremlin”. There’s a human development hurdle that has to do with recognizing others act for their own reasons and their actions have consequences. I can’t remember the name of it but you’re writing literal baby brained stuff that assumes your reader will look at real events that actually happened in the world with the same level of seriousness and understanding as a Star Wars movie or bioware game. It’s all capped off with using fellatio as a pejorative in the context of a man.

Idk if it’s just latent or you consciously hate gay people. That’s on you to figure out.

You cap it all off by saying snowdens leaks should have crippled our trust in all governments, but Snowden didn’t leak something about all governments, he leaked extensive proof that the US government was illegally spying.

Again, you’re losing everyone who saw it happen and most of the people who know anything about it.

Taken as a whole a reader can’t help but either think “this person doesn’t know what they’re talking about and is a homophobic liberal” or “this person is a fed”. The second comes from the realization most people have that someone saying what you’re saying credulously might be doing it on purpose to shape discussion or gauge acceptance.

Debian and install the “unattended-upgrades” package.

You set it up with an email address to complain to when something fucks up and it just works.

E: no matter what you end up going with, some kind of reverse proxy or vpn will be helpful for when you need to remote in and fix something.

If you end up needing Remote Desktop and can do it, stay away from Wayland. The screen sharing situation there is confusing and annoying for seasoned users, let alone in a tech support situation.

What might be a better bet is either a windows (robust screen sharing setup) or mac (simpler interface and reliability) computer. You’re gonna be on the other end of it, so make sure to pick what you know the most deeply when it comes to remote support.

E2: another note in the vein of hated non linux oses: Those might be good because other people in the users life may be familiar with them and it won’t be such a pain when they wanna open a file or something.

Good luck. Before you make the leap to either a linux mobile os or graphene, make sure it can meet your physical security and emergency use requirements.

Oh yeah, you can also, if you’re the kind of person who would do this, just be caveman about it and build a physical media library. Learn how to rip and sync the files to your device and you’re ready to go.

CDs are the easiest because all you need is a cd drive and a computer. Records and tapes need their specific player and an audio interface (or one of those all in one newfangled players that have a usb on the back).

It’s pretty fun…

Don’t push yourself to switch from ios. It’s extremely unlikely you need to go to graphene to get the kind of privacy you need and familiarity with the system and how you can protect yourself in it is arguably more important.

Again, if exhaustion is getting to you, you don’t have to reply.

You can take a break and relax, there’s no big time crunch here, the same posts and replies will still be around tomorrow or the day after.

Put yourself first, call it a self-care day!

No one’s sitting you down in front of your logged in lemmy account and forcing you to reply. If you’re exhausted then take care of yourself first instead of engaging. It’s not gonna make me feel bad.

Yeah. The company cares about its identity and profits and is taking steps to protect them.

Part of what made badbox/superbox so successful (along with the marketing, mlm stuff, glut of cheap arm/risc decoders, environment of 69 fucking subscriptions a month your average person has to maintain just to watch terminator when they get home from a shift) was the presentation of malware payload apps from third party marketplaces alongside “legit” apps from the first party ones.

It’s the gas station effect. Of course you can trust the Tamriel rebuilt branded rhino pill, it’s on the same rack as the goodys powder and tums!

That same mixing made it very difficult for everyone trying to figure out what was happening to actually get something taken down. Apps on the play store would be barely legal or skirting the law but interacting with or funneling data around apps from third party stores that were definitely doing something “wrong”.

When takedown notices were sent for the play store apps they didn’t have any effect on the third party hosted ones.

So for the whole thing to run how it did, yeah, they needed third party repositories.

You might not see this as a good thing, but Google does. And tbh they’re right. It’s bad for the minuscule number of users who actually load stuff from third party sources, but its incredibly good for them as a company and a brand.

This, again, is what policing an application marketplace looks like.

The point isn’t to protect you the user, but to protect the reputation of their platform. Right now, and I know this isn’t easy to hear, Android is the scam/insecure platform.

I am a user of Android devices everyday, btw, not just some random hater.

From googles perspective it doesn’t matter if users are unable to anonymously install whatever they want if the various marketplaces and therefore the Android platform gains trust in the eyes of consumers (and law enforcement/security professionals).

They aren’t policing their platform to protect you, they’re doing it to protect themselves.

Op answer the following:

How do you usually listen to music? Not “I put on my headphones, fire up Winamp and go” but “I use curated playlists from Spotify” or “i listen to whole albums on youtube”.

What does private mean to you? What do you consider not private?