p_consti

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[–] p_consti 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The safety number is not part of the encryption. It just says: this person is who they say they are. So as long as you can trust that the number actually came from that person, it's fine. Afaik, the number is derived from the encryption keys, so it can't be faked, but I would verify that if you're unsure.

Edit: was curious, here's the blog post that introduced them: https://signal.org/blog/safety-number-updates/ Essentially, it's a hash of the public key, so safe to broadcast, similar the HTTPS certificates employed on the web. They even say so: "the share button on the safety number screen and selecting FB, Twitter, email, etc to send the safety number to your contact."

[–] p_consti 6 points 1 week ago

Today I fixed a routing issue by merely enabling logging of some rules in the firewall. Probably something wasn't applied properly, but I like to think it was my touch that did it

[–] p_consti 5 points 1 week ago

The main reason for Ubuntu against Debian is the packages. For Ubuntu, they're much newer, and with PPAs (launchpad.net), you can often get more and/or newer packages built by other users. For debian, good luck, you're stuck with old packages (which is the intent of Debian stable, but not nice as a user, that's for server)

[–] p_consti 4 points 3 weeks ago

This would likely only hurt the end user. Many use chromium-based browsers, so you're just driving those away.

You can detect Firefox, so you can do a superficial block in JS, but lemmy is such a simple site that you'd find it hard to find areas where there's actual differences between the browsers, those usually only come from complex pages like video calling

[–] p_consti 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Immutable distros aren't immutable in the home folder though, they would be unusable otherwise, so that doesn't solve OPs problem of dotfiles/personal files (I know nixOS tries to get rid of dotfiles, but in my experience that almost never works, it's only helpful for replacing config files in /etc)

[–] p_consti 2 points 1 month ago

Same logo as on the left picture (bottom right corner) but rotated to align with the finger

[–] p_consti 5 points 1 month ago

Your example exactly shows that Fahrenheit is not "more precise", you're literally dropping the precision. In Celsius you just don't drop the precision, you'd say "around 12", which gives just as much info

[–] p_consti 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah sorry, missed that, yeah mobile screens are kind of identifying, not sure if any browsers get around that

[–] p_consti 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

For the screen size, it's not actually the screen but the window, which is why tor browser opens in a fixed window size. If you just maximize, even though many use 1080p monitors, your particular settings of your DE give you away (size of bars, window decorations, ...)

[–] p_consti 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Not quite correct. For html, that is to signal standard compliance, you can leave it away and the browser will still handle it. For the bash one, all (most) shell scripts use .sh, so you need to give a shebang to tell the loader which executable (sh, bash, zsh, csh, ...) to use

Also on Linux xdg does take file extensions into account, just executables do not

[–] p_consti 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You can start steam just fine without the packages. In fact, if you install without them, it'll ask you to install them every time, but you can skip that and it'll work, just 32bit games won't launch

Edit: Looks like I'm partially wrong, as pointed out by a commenter below, steam currently only launches the 32-bit version of the client, despite support for a 5l64-bit client

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