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Extra firmware cannot be modified.

Firm firmware might be able to be modified, but documentation is largely unknown.

Silken firmware is easily modified by the user.

These names are taken from tofu packaging.

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  • JShelter actively fights fingerprinting.
  • NoScript blocks by domain by default.
  • uBlock Origin with cookie list to block ads, trackers, and hide cookie banners.
  • DarkReader to help the eyes.
  • Stylus to fix any CSS not fixed by the rest.

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 5. It is very nice and I would recommend it.

Oh, more meetings will fix it! /s

I forget where I read this, but something like 15-30% of reddit users third-party apps. 19% dip sounds like some of that group continued using Reddit while a majority either stopped or found Lemmy/Kbin.

There are alternatives that provide more privacy. FSF India made an excellent visual chart comparing messaging applications. Signal stopped publishing their back end so they moved from the third bucket to the second bucket. The fourth and fifth categories are good.

The ability to edit titles seems like an obvious feature that Reddit never added.

You cannot rename a file from webp to jpg, but you can change the URL to .jpg and it will likely serve you the jpeg version. You can also convert webp to another format with dwebp or MS Paint.

You were hacked by the manufacturer.

What do you find limited about Hugo?

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Like Pixelfed?

Antimine on F-Droid is good for a mobile fix.

I would recommend making a full git repository and at least adding a license header so that others can expand upon it. Maintaining a useful gist is cumbersome as issues tend to be ignored comments.

There are many ways to run code at startup. cronjobs and systemd are common ways to handle this. I have also had things start automatically with my desktop environment which comes later in the boot process.

DD might be using something like that. I have heard they block TOR as well. I have used a VPN with ports 80 and 443 on their WiFi years ago.

Or you're trudging uphill and will eventually plummet to your death.

You could also have your back end pull from a git repo every minute. A cron job could check a GitLab repo for changes and update the site if any changes are found.

This is a common result of firm firmware and tinkering.

That is a networking issue which is not specific to Hugo. You need to solve this as most of the suggestions also involve SSH.

One way is to use a VPN like openvpn or wireguard that can use a common port like 80 or 443.

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Will this be open source?

threads.net is the domain. You can get a head start and block any IP addresses associated with it using the firewall of your choice.

This is the first top-level comment that hints at the main criticism against systemd. systemd is increasingly difficult to replace as time goes on. I like and use systemd because it has a fast boot, but I wish the project was developed in a more modular way that had choice built-in. It is instead developed as the way that everyone should systemd instead of alternatives. This philosophy gets in the way of distributions that want to provide alternatives (Devuan, Gentoo, Parabola, etc.). Some of the sysadmins I work with closely use Devuan and follow development. I hear the patch set around bypassing systemd grows in size and complexity each year which is worrisome for choice.

Manjaro had a rough history of not taking security seriously. I hope they have improved, but the impression stuck.

They have done a few things right by making Arch more approachable when Arch was more of a RTFM type distribution. Now Arch is easier and even ships with an installer, but Manjaro's installer is easy.

The end result is still that the user still needs to manage an Arch distro. I would recommend learning the Arch way from Arch instead of taking the easy road.

If you want an easy distro, rolling releases, and up-to-date packages, I would recommend Debian Did over Manjaro. If you want Arch, use Arch.

Jerboa on F-Droid is nice.

Didn't the US already pay for this and nothing ever came from it?

If it is closed source, I don't trust it. It would need to be permissively licensed if it ends up in the Apple Store. I would recommend Apache-2.0 for a permissive license.

The moral of the story is to support projects that you might want to use in the future even if they are not finished yet before you need them. Mastodon and Lemmy have been around for years. When the mainstream alternative suddenly becomes lame, it isn't an emergency on the devs part.

You can apply this to most alternatives. Support GIMP, Krita, and Inkscape if you are an artist using Adobe products. Support mixxx, audacity, and lmms if you are a DJ. Support LibreOffice if you use Microsoft Office.

I'd never heard of KISS Linux. Sounds like Gentoo, but a one developer project.

Many apps that are on F-Droid are also on Google Play, but there are exceptions. Gadgetbridge (smart watch connection app) warns that the Google Play version is unofficial and unaffiliated. An unofficial app might be upstream compiled without modifications, but this opens users to potential supply chain attacks from the uploader and Google.

Deep packet inspection is unlikely the culprit in my experience. SSH and SFTP use port 22 by default which is probably blocked. I log in to my work VPN through common ports 80 and 443 on public WiFi.

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You may be accustomed to the process, but fixing issues in the registry is not intuitive. It is simple enough if you find a guide that tells you exactly which item you need to work on and exactly what the default is and what you need to change it to, but what if the guide isn't exactly what you want?

In the GNU/Linux ecosystem, nearly every program has a config file. Sometimes each line has detailed comments in plain text around it you what the option does with examples of what it could be. If the documentation doesn't exist, you can dig deeper and see what that option does in the source which is usually documented as well. Programming experience is not required to search for text and read comments. Such documentation is not equivalent in Windows.

Is this on GitHub?

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