Mikrotik is proprietary, and has a bad security track.

With multi-layered defense you should protect your network, but not trust that you always succeed.

It’s 67 in Germany, up from 65 recently. Meanwhile, life expectation continues to fall.

Debian is a community distro. Ubuntu is downstream of it.

It’s not going to, though. As soon as the tariffs disapper they’ll be impersonating Dory, again.

The problem is reliably hitting keys on glass tty with my thumbs. I noticed I need minimum 6.7" devices for that.

You people seem to have tiny hands.

It’s in the article.

GrapheneOS supports the 7 a until May 2028 with extended support 5 years https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-lifetime

Bought Pixel 7 a new for 335 EUR. Refurbished is another option.

Which network setup do you use? Use a VPN tunnel with 1:1 NAT, route a subnet? Something else?

Vanadium: Your Results Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 61101.0 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 15.9 bits of identifying information.

Proud digital commie since 1988 or thereabouts.

Apparently, they don’t need my business. Acceptable.

Thanks, useful information.

1. Do not have a mobile device
2. Do not install anything proprietary or governmental on that device you don’t have
3. Use borderline secure (GrapheneOS) OS on that device you don’t have and don’t unlock it if demanded unless your health and/or life is in danger

Does XMPP have feature parity with Matrix? I presume that bridges exist?

So is there anything useful outside of Firefox and Chromium derivates? I can’t imagine a Firefox fork lasting too long.

Thanks. It’s slightly worse than I thought. I’m kinda limited to communication with my small peer group, so I don’t notice that other user classes exist.

Many people run Tor nodes. I also used to run exits until dealing with complaints became onerous, then I ran middlemen for many years. In general one should only pipe encrypted traffic through Tor, and be it just for malicious exits which sniff and tamper with your traffic. There are use cases for using Tor together with a VPN tunnel, but these need careful consideration.