Tired and bored

US aggression and imperialism: 😡👿🤬

Russian aggression and imperialism: 😇🥳😍

I second this. I use BTRFS over ZFS for its reduced footprint but has always been very reliable. With a couple of commands I replaced a disk and btrfs scrub on a monthly basis makes me sleep peacefully (relatively)

No. I run my servers on low quality shit and I expect them to break any time. Never had to perform a data recovery but if I need, I’ll thank myself I didn’t encrypt my pics

Real

The person coming up with this must have been high af

Can’t ask too much off my little laptop, but here it is

• HomeAssistant
• Frigate NVR
• PiHole
• Wireguard VPN

*while reviewing their own code

This is me when I go to somebody’s house and they don’t have Firefox as I refuse to touch anything Chromium-based /s

I misunderstood your previous comment then. Apologies for that

Absolutely 👍

True, but we’re talking about clients here. If hackers want to hack Lemmy they wouldn’t be able to do that by looking at the source code of, let’s say, Jerboa.

In general your observation is right tho, but still, I like to have control over my software. We all have different point of views and it’s totally okay to live according to them, especially when it comes to something as shallow as which apps and programs to use.

I’d like to add that if a piece of software is vulnerable, it is vulnerable regardless of its openness. Surely hackers would have a more difficult time when it’s closed, but it’s a matter of time before it’ll be exploited.

I personally feel that open source gives me technological freedom. I’m free to change something if I don’t like it, freedom to analyze the code, freedom to fix something etc, which closed source software takes away from me even if I don’t exercise that right.

For example I’d rather live in a country with freedom of speech even if I had nothing to say, because if I wanted, I could do it.

As I said in another comment, it must exist a balance. If an app is closed source but way much better than an open source alternative, then it’s probably wiser to use that. The thing I do not agree with you is saying “FOSS is useless because I don’t check the code”, but you do you and have your opinions, that’s alright.

Don’t assume people who disagree with you to be stupid, because that’s the vibe I got from your comment. I think I am intelligent enough not to give myself warm and fuzzies over something so shallow, knowing from the beginning that my “analysis” was never supposed to be an audit.

P.S. I’m not blaming you, nor anyone else, for using what suits you the best.

But it was discovered. What if it was not open source?

But in general open source means freedom. Freedom of not being subject to the developer’s choices, freedom to analyze the code etc

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The good thing about open source is that I don’t have to necessarily do that as there’s a big community behind it. The thing that itches me is that even if I would, I couldn’t be able to in the case of Sync.

To answer your question, not too long ago, and it did not require too much time. I could see what libraries were imported thanks to a tool and decided it was likely not sketchy.

I understand. Of course there must exist a balance. Going FOSS only would be so painful, but in my case Liftoff works nicely

Closed source apps do not allow us to verify they do not actually steal our data or profile us. Liftoff for life

An European Country stores citizens’ critical data in vulnerable databases, whose password is in HaveIBeenPwned, on a VPN whose certificates are stored in random NASs. The IT guys don’t know how encryption and certificates work and I wouldn’t be surprised if everything was in some adversary countries’ hands