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  • It worked, you nailed it! So, the problem was that with automount it was root that was mounting, which ended up breaking permissions. As a result, I could not unmount the drive, and Pika couldn’t do backups. After setting the uid, it started to work properly as it began mounting under my name. As such, changing user to users was not required. But now I know the difference, so thank you anyway!

    Case closed, and thank you again.



  • written before reading the article; it get the topic from another, more interesting and less imaginary, angle

    Do we explore it post-Google or post-anything that would take its place?

    Because those are two very different scenarios. There are plenty of Big Tech corps that are willing to take Google’s place.

    If we actually mean no one does search with targeted advertising and stuff, my bets are on more indie sites popping up, and Fediverse getting stronger as well.

    We’ll have more link indices, and more relevant search results hosted on different corners of the Internet.

    On the negative: unless open-source projects step up their game, usability and quality of web interfaces will suffer dramatically. And without truly massive Fediverse or at least decent webrings, finding basic information and connecting to others might actually get harder.




  • (not me downvoting)

    I understand the concern with locally made software. However, I’d rather see something open-source come from the US than something closed source come from my own country.

    Speaking of Konqueror, what about Falkon? It is the newer option by KDE team, and works on a more modern engine. And, it works on Windows.


  • Of course I mean pure ungoogled Chromium, without bloat on top.

    Not only browser code consists of millions of lines, it is also audited by thousands of people, and, importantly, changes can be highlighted, which doesn’t allow for them to go unnoticed.

    Successful mass attacks with OSS typically require much more skill and resources as you need for you malicious code to be written in a way that stays unnoticed (and eventually, rather soon, it will be discovered, with all consequences).

    With closed source programs, integrating malicious code is easy, and this code can stay there unnoticed for ages, so they are 100% “trust me bro, I don’t do anything bad”.

    So, yes, OSS is more secure.




  • Firefox is open source, and while it takes some shady practices to fund it (it sure isn’t cheap to run your own damn engine alongside everything on top), I take it as a more tenable compromise. It’s not about free as in beer freedom, it’s about basic security.

    You can also have degoogled Chromium which is open-source if you’re into it.


  • Kinda, but I would like to tailor my experience a bit more than “all or nothing”.

    IceCat is directly a GNU project, so it’s highly ideological - which is important and respectable in a way, but then it gets adoption to near-zero because most sites just don’t work out of the box, and to make it work properly means completely removing all safeguards that make IceCat make sense. There’s little in between.

    I’d rather have something like LibreWolf, but without phone-home functionality, or at least a switch to turn it off. Out of all Firefox forks I know, only IceCat respects user privacy in this way - 0 connections on startup, and then only connection to actual site and whatever it requires.

    Opt-in telemetry (ideally - leveled) and manual bug information sending are totally fine, though.




  • Brave? Hard no. Vivaldi? Also no.

    Also, where are qutebrowser and Zen?

    qutebrowser and IceCat are real top of the game when it comes to privacy. But then, they break some of the sites functionality, especially IceCat who seems to be going under the “if your site doesn’t work, it’s your site’s problem” motto.