Bonus when you disable software flow control: In addition to Ctrl+r to reverse search through commands, you can search forward via Ctrl+s

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Yeah, I’m confused by this video (which is from nearly a year ago, btw). It looks like a gnome shell overview more than anything.

Pretty good privacy. It’s an unexciting name for a public/private key encryption program.

I believe WhatsApp uses the same protocol (or at least the same crypto algorithms), though I’m not sure if they were involved in its development.

Good point on the metadata. Signal has the “sealed sender” thing, which (I think) helps with the metadata problem somewhat.

As the other commenter mentioned, your best bet is being selective about which services you use to communicate.

Unencrypted (plain text) is the worst, since data is easy for a third party to sniff (think of it as a wiretap). For example, HTTP and SMS are unencrypted.

Encrypted is a good start, since third parties can’t sniff your traffic, but the server handling your communications can usually see everything that passes through it. For example, HTTPS is an SSL-encrypted variant of HTTP, and services like Facebook messenger are encrypted, but Facebook can still see all of your messages, since it’s stored on their servers.

End to End Encrypted (E2EE) is the golden standard. Only the endpoints (i.e. you and your friend) can see the content of your messages, and all traffic is encrypted in a way that even the server cannot view it. Signal is end to end encrypted, as are many other modern messaging platforms (WhatsApp is E2EE in theory, as is Google Meet, but we can’t verify this ourselves).

Well, not the highest one. This was a state supreme court, fortunately.

I’m using droidify and couldn’t find signal in there either.

Well good thing I finally realized it wasn’t enabled and set my environment variables to enable it.

As an aside, is digital ID a gating factor in us bring forced to digital currency? Stores are already refusing cash, so we’re practically digital already.

I tend to disagree with a lot of Californian politics, but hot damn are their pro consumer laws the best. Can’t wait for 2026.

I’ve run plain ol’ openbox without a desktop environment on top of it, and it’s quite nice. IIRC I also had a standalone status bar application, but I can’t remember which one I used.

There are a couple utility programs (obconf and obkey?) that help to configure everything comfortably.

Based, mostly

And even then, a properly configured SSHD instance wouldn’t really benefit from a firewall, unless you wanted to block all countries besides your own or something.

Every computer has a bunch of ports (1-65535 if I recall correctly), each of which is a unique entity to which a single service can bind. In layman’s terms, a port is a door that one service is able to answer when someone knocks. By convention, some ports have a specific associated service (80 = HTTP, 443 = HTTPS, 22 = SSH), but there are a lot that you can just use as you deem appropriate.

If you want a service (e.g. a web server) to be accessible, you have to run a service that binds to a known port (e.g. 80), and a client has to reach out to your server on that same port. A firewall sits between your service(s) and any potential clients, much like those steel security screen doors. If that’s closed, nobody gets through on that port, even if a service is bound to that port and is listening for a connection.

As a general rule of thumb, you want your firewall to block as much traffic as possible without breaking something (I.e. blocking one of your public-facing services). If you don’t run any services on your computer (web services, media servers, etc.), you can probably get away with blocking all inbound traffic. without any discernable impact.

Khal looks promising:

https://github.com/pimutils/khal

Meanwhile, ISPs actively sell every single byte about you and your browsing habits that they can.

Ah, I’ve almost always used a single monitor setup, so my use case wasn’t weird enough to break X11. That said. Even Wayland is wonky on my multi monitor setup at work, though that’s probably more a GNOME thing than a Wayland thing.

I do still think the approach they took with Wayland is a tad odd, in that everyone has to implement it themselves. But hey, if it works, it works.

old

Old doesn’t mean bad

broken

Is it?

unmaintained

Is it?

I use Wayland personally, but I’ve had almost zero issues with X in the last decade, maybe with the exception of minor screen tearing several years back.