For the needs of “degoogled but fully functional Android OS” these days at the end of 2023, the options are LineageOS for most phones, GrapheneOS on a Pixel, and that’s it? Or are there more projects at this point?

VPNs were never intended to make you anonymous, if you expected a VPN to make you anonymous you were very mistaken

Tangential partial offtopic aside: Unless i’m misunderstanding, you’re setting this up behind your home router and allowing it on your various devices using a VPN. Am i right? Any details, or even better, guides, on how to replicate this setup? I guess the DNS records on Leng are to be able to call services inside your home LAN by name instead of IPs, which is a nice quality of life upgrade.

Most did, but there’s always people like OP 😅

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

Troy Hunt, the Have I Been Pwned person, has a very informative analysis of the breach that was not a breach, turns out nothing actually “leaked” from Linkedin, it’s a mix of scrapped and generated stuff

Archive link

It gets worse

Well fuck…

Clippy Reborn!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9o5_W6hn9k

Their recent-ish AMA doesn’t show that they care about moderation much

Here’s a laundry list from one of the Beehaw people, and apparently the devs don’t have any of this as a priority

I’m thinking of the target user for this: For us here it’s a really unfunny joke. For the people wanting to do “non-kosher” stuff like watching streaming for other countries or even outright pirating i don’t think Google’s gonna have their back. People trying to hide their identity while doing compromising stuff (like anything sexual or identity related, not illegal but not something they want in public) hopefully know not to trust Google on this. And corporate users already have their own corporate VPNs, don’t think they’re aiming for those (yet).

Who the fuck is left as potential user? My only conclusion is the terminally gullible. I see no other option. And since of course there’s a sucker born every minute it’ll have millions of users…

Likely related to that lawsuit they’re dealing with

They enforce it this way in France i believe

Seen many attempts at “Brand/Series/Game/Fandom OS” over the years, and now i wonder if it wouldn’t be better to spend the effort on theming engines or something over a base but functional distro, and then have a gallery of themes to choose from that applies them on everything from the bootloader screen up to the mouse cursor. Want to switch to some other Brand/Series/Game/Fandom? Apply this and reboot, you get the other one. Like the ancient MS Plus but much deeper since Linux allows for a lot more these days.

Password managers, people! They help!