Ouch, that's a nasty bug imho. Thanks to this wiki entry I've looked up the file librewolf.cfg in /var/lib/flatpak/ and changed :
pref("network.trr.mode", 2);
into
pref("network.trr.mode", 5);
and that seems to fix it for now (till a newer LibreWolf maybe overrides that file).
Thing is that searx.be has been remarkably good for my use case since a long time. With other instances YMMV.
The mentioned server side changes (e.g. A server move you mentioned but could also be server settings, provider settings, etc).
I guess that is the case. According to https://searx.space/ the searx.be server is in Austria but might use some proxy to talk to Google and similar to avoid quick blocking. The maintainer of searx.be also maintains yewtu.be and that one uses proxies (The proxy names can be seen when blocking auto play of videos in Tor browser).
Also getting results in Russian here since a few days. Usually it is either Swedish or Dutch. Never German.
Been using searx.be for a bit now and they had many results in Dutch and German, which can be expected for a site based in Belgium.
Belgium is in the domain name. You can check where the server is located :
Austria AT NETCUP-AS netcup GmbH, D
Though I'm using Tor with searx.be searching I do get results in Russian since a few days. Usually it is either Swedish or Dutch. Never German. I can imagine the searx.be maintainer is rotating IP addresses at the part which does the talking with Google and other search engines to prevent quick blocking of the instance. yewtu.be (same maintainer) does use proxies (that is visible when blocking auto-play of videos).
Most if not all Piped video instances seem unusable right now : https://lemmy.ml/post/19084660/12956916
Indeed. I tried on mobile with LibreTube and with Mull and both fail. And also fails now in Tor browser. The list is getting shorter.
Now I've tried almost all of them in the Piped instances list (Several domain name for sale and server not found errors) and only the smnz.de one works for me. :( I am wondering whether a freshly installed self-hosted private Piped video instance will work fine.
The instances list is not up to date :
- List of instances : https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances But after trying maybe more than 10 of them I found one which manages to play a video :
https://piped.smnz.de/watch?v=bBhDWTZDH9c
There's probably more working instances.
Plan B : I guess running your own Piped instance and not sharing it with a lot of people could be worth considering.
Personally I'm sticking to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Yt-dlp#Faster_downloads for the video downloading I do.
Was about to post the great blog post from my bookmarks, but another commenter beat me to it (t y !). Here's comments on that blog post on Lobsters and HN :
Yes and no. Code development for Nitter has officially stopped afaik, but there are still some instances not completely dead.
- https://status.d420.de/ Nitter Instance Uptime & Health
This article is about Mobifree https://f-droid.org/en/2024/05/24/mobifree.html As far as I can see F-Droid mentions that it will be a contributing partner :
For more than 14 years, F-Droid has been developing solutions which act as pieces of the alternative mobile ecosystem puzzle. So it was a natural fit for F-Droid to become a contributing partner in the broader Mobifree project.
F-Droid playing a role :
F-Droid will play a major role in this project, tasked with creating a decentralized distribution system for developers to deliver apps to Android users.
Help to create the NGI funded project Mobifree :
F-Droid is one participating organization who has joined forces to help create this new mobile ecosystem. However, additional input, expertise, inspiration and work will be needed in order to break the traditional framework established by Big Tech. From community outreach to legal support, from developers, to researchers and end users, we welcome all forms of support.
I don't read that F-droid will force ads on F-Droid on users any time soon. I can imagine F-Droid will continue to exist as it is but I could be wrong.
TWIF generated on Thursday, 08 Aug 2024, Week 32F-Droid coreIt’s no secret that F-Droid continues to live and thrive thanks in part to you, the users that do...
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It’s no secret that F-Droid continues to live and thrive thanks in part to you, the users that donate, but also in part thanks to different grants we’ve received along these 14 years of existence. Our recent post covered the endangered NGI program and its importance.
The Guardian Project has been a long time supporter of F-Droid, pouring in not only grant money but also human resources. They are now looking for a part-time Grant Administrator so if you find the list of their achievements tempting and your skills match the bullet points, don’t be shy and get in contact. Who knows, maybe you can be featured here next. 😛
Back in May we’ve highlighted the work contributors around F-Droid have done in order to shine a light onto the app downloads stats. The Divested (thanks!) hosted page just got an update, covering the weeks since then: https://divestos.org/pages/fdroid_stats
/PS: if you are involved with the project(s) that download Termux packages 300.000 times per week, two advices: first, do get in contact with us because we’re curious about your work, and second please try to setup a round robin script of sorts that downloads from mirrors instead since we have plenty of those and it’s not in anyone’s benefit that you download 25-30Tb of data from our servers each and every week. 😐
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Tested playing a video with an Invidious instance right now and it worked. Did you try another instance ?
That’s because you’re using it for a purpose it wasn’t intended. I2P isn’t designed to be used to browse the regular internet, for that it’s better to use TOR. However for anonymous torrenting or accessing i2p-sites, it’s quite fast imho.
Okay, good.
Windows does have a fallback mode called safe mode and that’s exactly what’s being used to fix this utter mess.
The other fix was reboot your Windows computer at least 15 times.
Package management isn’t going to save you from this as it didn’t save the Linux systems affected last time. It didn’t stop Arch Linux from failing to boot after a Grub update either.
Not everyone was affected though :
How come not everyone was impacted?
Prior to the most recent version, grub only registered the fwsetup if detected support. If your machine detected support, you would have had the fwsetup command registered and the failure wouldn’t occur.
There's more to it. The mono-culture is one thing, but rolling out the update to millions of computers on the same days sounds like a bad idea.
Fun fact in 2008, with nuclear submarines, the mono-culture was not that bad yet.
It's interesting to note the UK went with a Windows XP variant and not Windows Vista, which is marketed as the more reliable OS. The USA never made the same calculations: The American Navy runs on Linux.
fans start rotating for a few seconds and then it shuts down.
That could mean the CPU is getting too warm. Does the CPU cooler still work okay ?
Digital border system that will require fingerprint and facial scans postponed until November
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/14981035
But as I and others looked closer, and thought about it more deeply, things became concerning.
These logs include:
Your precise GPS locations (which are also sent to their servers). Your WiFi network name. The IDs of nearby cell towers (even with no SIM card inserted, also sent to their servers). Your internet-facing IP address. The user token used by the device to authenticate with Rabbit's back-end API. Base64-encoded MP3s of everything the Rabbit has ever spoken to you (and the text transcript thereof).
I’ve used a lot of tools over the years, which means I’ve seen a lot of tools hit a plateau. That’s not always a problem; sometimes …
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/163062
> Last year Danny Mekić wrote this article : https://dannymekic.com/202310/undermining-democracy-the-european-commissions-controversial-push-for-digital-surveillance which was published in a newspaper and then the author got shadow-banned on X. Today the same Dutch newspaper reported that Mekić won two court-cases about this. > > * Dutch article about the verdict - paywall : https://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/x-mag-gebruikers-niet-meer-zomaar-shadowbannen-oordeelt-amsterdamse-rechter\~befb7fd0/ > * Archived copy : https://archive.ph/ckW2a > > * tl;dr English translation : > > X is not allowed to shadow-ban users easily the judge said. Only during the court-case X explained why the account of Meki was shadow-banned : He had shared an article about the CSAM law on X. "I still > do not understand why X this only said in the court hall, rather than telling me right away when I > asked about it" Mekić said. > > * Mekić on Mastodon : https://mastodon.social/@DannyMekic > * The author's username on X : DannyMekic > * Article from last year by WIRED : https://www.wired.com/story/csar-chat-scan-proposal-european-commission-ads/
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The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka] - GitHub - SaumonNet/proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17288716
> > This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS. > > > > ⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself. > > > >📬 Help / Discussions > > > >There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS. > > > > Thanks > This project has received support from NLNet.
The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka] - GitHub - SaumonNet/proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17288716
> > This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS. > > > > ⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself. > > > >📬 Help / Discussions > > > >There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS. > > > > Thanks > This project has received support from NLNet.
The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka] - GitHub - SaumonNet/proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS [maintainers=@camillemndn @julienmalka]
> This project is a port of the Proxmox Hypervisor on NixOS. > > ⚠️ Proxmox-NixOS is still experimental and we do not advise running it on production machines. Do it at your own risk and only if you are ready to fix issues by yourself. > >📬 Help / Discussions > >There is a matrix room for discussions about Proxmox-NixOS. > > Thanks This project has received support from NLNet.
Professor emeritus' operating system influenced multiple generations of students and inspired Linux
What's Changed refactor(tracing)!: rename HATSU_LOG_LEVEL to HATSU_LOG by @kwaa in #42 feat: new generate_204 api by @kwaa in #44 refactor: use flake instead of devbox by @kwaa in #45 refactor(fla...
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21064022
> Hello, Hatsu is a self-hosted Fediverse bridge for static websites. > > I recently released version 0.2 with the following features: > > Improved RSS compatibility > > RSS compatibility was terrible at 0.1.x due to some bugs - should now work with most valid Atom / RSS feeds. > > Receive likes & reposts > > Hatsu now receives likes and retweets for local posts and outputs them via a mastodon-compatible API. > > New comment component > > KKna is a new comment component (also written by me) that has Hatsu preset that automatically infer URL. > > You can check the integration instructions in the documentation: > > https://hatsu.cli.rs/users/backfeed-based-on-kkna.html > > (It's still unstable) > > Nix Package > > Are you using NixOS / Nix? I am, so I packaged it into NUR and Nixpkgs. > > There is no documentation on this at the moment, I will update it later.
Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration
Meet the new projects
Trustworthy hardware and manufacturing
Collection of Verified multi-platform Gatewares — Comprehensive repository of open source gateware designs Flashkeeper — Write Protection on SOIC-8 flash chips without soldering foaHandler — Reverse engineer the OpenAccess file format FPGA-ISP-UVM-USB2 — Open hardware FPGA-based USB webcam MEGA65 Phone Modular MVP — OSHW mobile device with form-factor of hand-held game consoles nextpnr for GW-5 — Add support to nextpnr for Gowin GW-5 FPGA family VexiiRiscv — Next generation of the VexRiscv in-order FPGA softcore
Network infrastructure incl. routing, P2P and VPN
Movedata — Privacy-preserving, energy efficient data replication and verification NixBox — Nix integration with netbox OpenHarbors — Dynamic Tunneling of WPA over IP/L2TP Toward a Fully-Verified SCION Router — Formal verification of the reference open source SCION Router
Software engineering, protocols, interoperability, cryptography, algorithms, proofs
Diesel — Safe and performant query builder and ORM written in Rust lib1305 — Microlibrary for Poly1305 hashing libvips — Add animated PNG and enhanced JPEG XL support to libvips MailBox renewal — Performance upgrade of MailBox mail modules PTT — Unikernel Mailing list server in OCAML Support for OpenPGP v6 in rPGP — Implement draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh in rPGP Tracing and rebuilding packages — Improved metadata/provenance for build artifacts UnifiedPush — Decentralized and open-source push notification protocol
Operating Systems, firmware and virtualisation
Arcan-A12 Directory — Server side scripting API for Arcan's directory server Arcan-A12 Tools — A12 clients for different platforms and devices such as drawing tablets postmarketOS daemons — Add modern service daemons to postmarketOS Redox OS Unix-style Signals — Add Unix-style signal handling to Redox Operating System TrenchBoot as Anti Evil Maid - UEFI boot mode support — Add UEFI to the Qubes integration of Trenchboot with AEM tslib — Better configuration and callibration of touchscreen devices Wayland input method support — Better specification for Wayland input methods
Measurement, monitoring, analysis and abuse handling
Back2Source next — Better matching of binaries with source code Enhance the vulnerability database — Enhance the VulnerableCode vulnerability database LANShield — Constrain local network access for mobile devices OWASP dep-scan — Security and risk audit tool
Middleware and identity
Client Proof-of-Work in TLS — Mitigation against DoS amplification on the TLS handshake
Data and AI
LabPlot — Scientific and engineering data analysis and visualisation
Services + Applications (e.g. email, instant messaging, video chat, collaboration)
bluetuith — Bluetooth connection/device manager for the terminal Draupnir — Moderation bot for Matrix servers Gancio — Shared agenda for local communities that supports Activity Pub Miru — Multi-track video editing and real-time AR effects Openfire IPv6 support — Add IPv6 support to the Openfire XMPP server
Vertical use cases, Search, Community
COCOLIGHT — Lightweight version of Communecter OpenCarLink — Security tooling for vehicle ODB2 ports
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Turning a 15-year-old Canon PIXMA MP250 printer into a network printer was much easier than I initially thought.
Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive the traffic from the vulnerable server.
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/20097432
> Unbelievable...
TWIF generated on Thursday, 30 May 2024, Week 22F-Droid coreBack in October 2023, we’ve talked about vulnerability patching and listed some 7 apps that might...
