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1 • PorteuX (by vmclark on 2025-06-02 01:34:13 GMT from United States)
PorteuX is THE fastest usb system I have EVER used. For a lightweight system, nothing compares.
Now running PorteuX 2.1 XFCE
2 • Securonis (by penguinx86 on 2025-06-02 02:21:01 GMT from United States)
Last week's New Additions mentioned Securonis. I gave it a try in Virtualbox on 2 different computers, one Intel and one AMD. It worked well on both of them. It doesn't start the Tor network by default. You have to start the Tor Browser manually once it boots up. Compared to Tails, it seems to run faster and it's easier to use because you can easily install it on a hard drive or VM. The disadvantage of installing it is data gets saved instead of being 'Amnesic'.
3 • Problem with privacy today... (by moonwalker on 2025-06-02 04:12:08 GMT from United States)
...is that even if you have absolutely bullet-proof setup on your local computer, you're still leaking tons of data via any online banking/shopping/etc due to disappearing alternatives. If you're driving an electric car, sooner or later you'll have to deal with public charging stations, and to date every single one I've dealt with require you to install an app on a phone and register an account, all of which are used to siphon data about you in exchange for the "privilege" of you being able to pay for their charger. If you rent, your landlord may limit your options of making payments to a single method, e.g. Bilt, which will be collecting bunch of data about you and your financial habits and share it with everybody who's willing to pay. Sure, you'll get small discounts here and there, like a cup of coffee worth of points every few months when your rent is several grands, but I'd rather keep my data private if I could. Brick and mortar shops are going out of business, with fewer and fewer options for buying anything without leaving constant trail of data with various amazons.
Bottom line - it's a battle I'll keep fighting as hard as I can 'till I die, but it sure looks like a losing one.
4 • Privacy: cornerstone of personal security (by Dob on 2025-06-02 06:59:12 GMT from United Kingdom)
Sadly we can’t just unplug
It Nissan necessary to participate (to a degree) just to be able to monitor potential instances of identity theft, challenge or disassociate from any misrepresentations.
Our government’s let alone our associate’s reliance on information technology with ineffective safeguards and lack of regard for our personal boundaries will continue to betray us.
From the time you get issued with a social (in)security number
(a primary database key) the matrix has you
Resistance is futile
5 • Arduino microcontroler (by linux_user on 2025-06-02 08:41:14 GMT from Greece)
Very interesting review of Raspberry Pico and robotics aplication by Jesse. An other microcontroller is Arduino. It can be connected via usb to a computer and we can program it to perform certain actions. We can connect leds, motors, supersonic sensors, temperature sensors to it and much more. It has a very active community who provide help and ideas. We can program it in a specific simple language as explained in the arduino web site, but also in micropython. There is an arduino simulator in tinkercad.com for those wishing to test arduino whithout buying the microcontroller, wich is programed using blocks as in Scratch. It is a fantastic experience for children (and not only for children) to code and play with it.
6 • Re: Problem with privacy today (by gumb on 2025-06-02 10:15:53 GMT from France)
@3: Totally agree. I still can't believe with what ease the privacy-abandoning app culture implanted itself into society with so little pushback, just for people's supposed convenience. It's like a drug, apps present themselves like an adult candy store. People stand around bored looking at the colourful grid of apps on their home screen and think 'which one shall I choose next?'
I should count myself lucky living in France, which is always a little behind the curve with regards to technology and trends that sweep first the US, then the UK and some other northern European countries. Not necessarily that France is a hold-out or more privacy-focussed, although with any form of change there can be resistance here, more just that the society is a bit more closed in on its own routines and methods so it takes longer for people to adopt changes occurring elsewhere.
Consequently, paying with cash is still widespread and only just beginning to evolve. Try forcing the thousands of stall-holders at the commonplace markets or the boulangeries on every street to abandon cash and there'll be two years of strikes and demonstrations. Even cheques are still a thing here. I'm obliged to pay the local police for my residential parking voucher by cheque as they won't accept any other method. When I visit the UK, I'm increasingly having trouble paying with cash; cards and phones are taking over.
I begrudgingly switched to an Android phone but I run iodéOS and downright refuse to install almost any app except those that are open and privacy-conscious, typically from F-Droid. I'm thankful that I can still do my banking via the PC with Linux, Firefox et al, avoiding any obligatory app interaction and only needing a code sent by SMS, but for how much longer I'm not sure.
Some adjoining countries like Spain have WhatsApp embedded so tightly in the culture that it has not only replaced SMS for the most part, but performing many official services is practically impossible without it. As is the use of Acrobat for PDF form-filling and digital signatures. But some figures in the French government, as is the case elsewhere, are pushing for reforms that would outlaw any unofficial OS and enforce the use of either iOS or Android on phones.
Jesse writes: 'Trying to be entirely private all the time will, unfortunately, lead you down an impractical rabbit hole.' I feel like I'm already far enough down that hole to be bathed in mud, paws bruised from the continual efforts to dig further. At some point the fox will get far enough in to grab my tail.
I fear at my age I'm going to spend the latter part of my life screaming into the wind and railing against all this and almost nobody will be listening. I'm already the only hold-out amongst the thousands of employees in my company who doesn't use any of its many obligatory apps, and who is the only person to bother clicking on the company's Terms and Conditions links for its internal online procedures, only to find that they're always a generic unfinished cut-and-paste joke with placeholders and no reference to the company, and when I point that out to the upper echelons I feel like I'm looked upon as a nuisance. 'Him, the one who's avoiding all our half-baked apps. Get him!'
7 • @6 gumb: (by dragtonmouth on 2025-06-02 10:50:13 GMT from United States)
The price of convenience is privacy and security.
8 • Distribution by Country of Origin (by Dave on 2025-06-02 11:42:01 GMT from United States)
Wow, I didn't even know this page existed and honestly, I've never considered where a distro was from. I knew Mint was from Ireland, EasyOS is from Australia and Arch is Canadian. But, that's it. Thanks for creating, and updating this list.
9 • Privacy (by Wedge009 on 2025-06-02 06:42:22 GMT from Australia)
On a similar note, what 'everyone else is using' (your contacts) seems to have a large effect too, and Jesse's remarks touches on this idea. I remember not too long ago a lot of my friends and relatives started using Signal... but since then many of them have since stopped using it and gone back to whatever commercial platform they were using before.
10 • Privacy (tools) (by aguador on 2025-06-02 12:30:39 GMT from Spain)
@6. Yes the use of WhatsApp here in Spain is lamentable. I'm considered something between a cretin and a grumpy, out-of-touch old man as one of the few holdouts. Not having it has not interfered with essential transactions, but I cannot subscribe to updates from a regional cultural institute without Whatsapp. I would love to follow one of the parties here, but they use a Telegram channel...which presents other issues. Sigh! And the manager of my soon-to-be-former bank was shocked, SHOCKED I say, to learn that I refused to use the bank's app.
The mobile landscape is appalling. I followed Purism for several years before plunking down a ton of money for the Librem 5 which I will replace with an Android phone running /e/os in the not distant future. What a disappointment to buy something "innovative" that is slow, expensive, has poor battery life, has at least one essential feature I still cannot get to work, has inadequate keyboard options, is still stuck on a Debian old stable base (despite kernel and a few other essential updates) and simply is a user nightmare compared to Android-based phones (this comment from someone who is a fairly long-time Linux user!).
To address the topic of the survey, I don't do that much special with my PCs: Vivaldi and (still for now) Firefox both run with Privacy Badger and Ghostery. My set up in Evolution requires nothing more than the bocking of internet image links...and I use plain text for messages. Oops, sounds like a cretinous, grumpy old man!
11 • Security Hardening (by ManyRoads on 2025-06-02 13:26:15 GMT from United States)
Implementing security hardening is not an exercise in paranoia but a prudent approach to preparedness.
Every enhancement in security entails its own set of costs, benefits, and trade-offs—this guide endeavors to elucidate these aspects, enabling informed decision-making.
12 • Privacy tools. (by Tuxedoar on 2025-06-02 13:26:19 GMT from Argentina)
Hi. As for privacy tools, I use Firejail to run a some apps. I also use "Firejail DNS" for internet traffic generated outside the web browser.
I use GnuPG for some encrypted files and I also have some encrypted volumes with ext4.
For the time being, I'm using Firefox as my web browser. I customize its config for improved privacy and security, but I don't install any extension.
Have a nice week.
13 • Privacy (by kc1di on 2025-06-02 13:52:55 GMT from United States)
Privacy is a compromise the more locked down your system the Less net content you will beable to view. I try to stay middle of the road and do use a VPN and some encryption and add blockers. Even with that I have to at time disable the add blocker in order to get to info I need. My distro of choice is PCLinuxOS which is systemd free and I think Systemd is a bit too invasive for my tastes. That I know has been debated over and over so it's just my Opinion.
14 • Privacy (by Slappy McGee on 2025-06-02 14:20:13 GMT from United States)
I routinely switch usernames, change out my makeup, disguise my voice, and wear different clothes all the time.
Nobody online is the wiser.
15 • KDE vault (by mircea on 2025-06-02 16:16:16 GMT from Moldova)
i use kde vault, the preinstalled tool from KDE, which does 2 jobs:
1) store files in a some folder encrypted for local use
2) stores encrypted files in a folder, which is used by dropbox
so I kill 2 rabbits here, I use password encrypted folder, and backup it in cloud, so that cloud provider sees only the encrypted files, while I use file contents in dolphin/kvenview/libreoffice/kate
16 • Privacy (by dr.J on 2025-06-02 18:12:49 GMT from Germany)
I now have a clear opinion on privacy: forget it.
My Linux system was always very private (two virtual machines: Whonix Gateway+Archlinux as a workstation, both fully encrypted), but meanwhile this construction no longer works, because it's no longer about what comes in (such as unwanted advertising that you stop with an adblocker), but about what goes out. Endless trackers, hardware fingerprinting, etc. If you stop this by using Tor or a vpn, for example, the problems start.
It usually starts with geoblocking. If the page you are accessing and the ip are not from the same country... Game over. Blacklists from Tor computers, vpn servers etc. block you. The pre-selection of search engines by country is also a big problem. Meaning: you are looking for something in Europe, but have an Asian ip and the Tor Firefox has English set as the system language. Then you can forget about the search results. These examples could be continued endlessly. To quote Jesse: “Trying to be entirely private all the time will, unfortunately, lead you down an impractical rabbit hole.” That's right. And this has worsened drastically over the last 10 - 15 years.
17 • privacy tools (by Joe P on 2025-06-02 19:08:26 GMT from United States)
I use a VPN, privacy oriented search, have Tor and OnionShare available, strict firejails for applications, no social media (in fact most are in my block lists), Privacy Badger and NoScript plugins, ipsets to block known cryptominers, advertisers, and certain rouge countries in or out of my firewall. I also use macchanger, GPGP, and config options in Firefox. I distrust many CAs on my laptop and phone. I don't add any non open source apps to my phone. My laptop is encrypted with Luks and a 6 word diceware passphrase. Of course I use KeepassXC and don't have anything valuable on the phone. It's for calling only.
I still look for and appreciate ideas for more or at least not losing what privacy I have left. Even spending cash in the real world is getting hard since automatic license plate readers follow you around and there are more cameras in stores and at the point of sale.
I have nothing to hide but everything to lose. The holders of our data need to be accountable for the loss when they get hacked.
18 • privacy and CAs (by picamanic on 2025-06-02 20:44:21 GMT from United Kingdom)
@17: I was interested in "I distrust many CAs on my laptop and phone". Why? Do you remove the ones you dislike from /etc/ca-certificates.conf or adopt more radical actions as in the Tor web browser?
19 • Privacy protecting tools? (by Bert on 2025-06-02 23:06:58 GMT from Brazil)
Well, not many. I use a VPN and have the Tor browser and Brave installed. As soon I read about the new policy of Firefox, which had been my preferred browser (but not the only one installed) since I moved into Linux, I dropped it. I wish it a long life, however, as Floorp is now occupying its place (Floorp is firefox-based).
On all browsers (except for Tor) I have Privacy Badger, Ghostery and an adblocker.
20 • privacy and CAs (by Joe P on 2025-06-03 01:09:59 GMT from United States)
@18
I use s feed reader to check headlines. Over the last few years I have seen several CAs with issues that caused browser makers to issue warnings or distrust them. Recall issues with DigiNotar and just this morning I saw that Google is planning to take actions against Chungwa Telecom and NetLock in Chrome.
I used to use certutil from NSS tools. I check the cert list from time to time to make sure nothing is added via updates.
I might seem paranoid but why have certs from authorities that you aren't likely to need anyway?
21 • victims & perps (by Victorian on 2025-06-03 01:52:50 GMT from Singapore)
"Do you have any privacy protecting tools on your distro" - good question for victims, and some appt replies.
But what about a question for the cyber stalkers & hackers out there? Like...
"Do you use any apps or online courses to improve your troubled selves, and make you more adult?
22 • Privacy as in Poetteringland (by rhtoras on 2025-06-03 08:28:55 GMT from Greece)
It's funny people using privacy tools when they use systemD which is the biggest attack surface in the unix ecosystem. For example: binary logs are more easily corrupted and guess what: systemD uses binary logs...
and i won't go further messing with the power give in cgroups and so on...
to be more specific: 10 things control 10 sub things or one thing controlling 10 subthings. Which is easier to attack ? What's your opinion guys ?
In my case now: internet is not intended to be a safe place... BUT people who like safety take it seriously... be carefull where you enter and what you are doing... it's like electricity: you have to be cautious when messing with electricity!
Making updates, cleaning your system regularly and using an os with security protection proven is a good practice. I trust Openbsd and Void Linux. Others prefer Fedora. Well good luck to them...
23 • @19 Bert: (by dragonmouth on 2025-06-03 10:51:57 GMT from United States)
I suggest you read the following:
https://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/choose-your-browser-carefully.html
and then reconsider your decision about Brave and Floorp.
24 • Privacy (by Mark on 2025-06-03 01:22:11 GMT from United States)
Google kept telling me Brave may be insecure, and wanted me to use another browser to sign in to Gmail. Told me twice before I was able to log in. What the heck?? I guess Brave doesn't play right with Google (i.e. give us all your data). And I refuse to use the store, bank, restaurant, etc. apps on my Android phone. I need more marketing junk mail (paper and electronic) like I need another hole in my head.
25 • Privacy (by TiredGit on 2025-06-03 13:32:46 GMT from United Kingdom)
I use Veracrypt for all backups. I use several extensions with Firefox to remove trackers cookies etc.
26 • Dejadup and backup on the cloud (by Flavianoep on 2025-06-03 13:38:59 GMT from Brazil)
I answered that I do not use any privacy tool, but I remembered that I use one. I encrypt my backup with Dejadup before uploading it to OneDrive.
27 • Machine Language Programming (by GWBridge on 2025-06-03 16:02:07 GMT from United States)
After receiving my liberal arts degree, I worked on an electronics degree from Milwaukee Area Technical College in order to get a job and buy food. This was circa 1980 when microprocessors were the latest thing. We had to write programs in machine language for the 8080 or maybe 8085 microprocessor. No fancy interface. Quite a complex procedure just to get some LEDs to blink in a certain order, but extremely satisfying when your program finally got it to work, and then work with the fewest lines of code. Fun memory.
28 • My lack of ability to authenticate (by Clarence Perry on 2025-06-05 17:06:18 GMT from United States)
My saving company has installed 2 factor authentication, AFTER login with password. We have an ongoing problem where it doesn't work with my Android phone and the tech support says it works fine.
Needless to say I'm not going to install the app what will cure my problem.
Cleaning all those needless apps you find an occasional person who depends on them.
This is a test of wills, will they find a change that will work for everyone, including me, or do I give in?
So far
I'm still sending complaint emails.
29 • Two-Factor Authentication (by Stefan on 2025-06-06 03:48:14 GMT from Brazil)
@28 (Clarence Perry):
Sometimes, 2FA may be "a little bit troublesome", but it is certainly the most effective security measure that anyone can implement to prevent a banking account from being hacked. By the way, I use in my Android cellphone an open-source (and offline) authenticator called Aegis.
I suppose your saving company is trying to enforce the use of an online application like Microsoft Authenticator or Google Authenticator. If you still didn't learn how to configure such a kind of application, simply search for an Internet article describing in detail how to do it. Then, no bad guy will ever be capable of hacking your banking account.
But if your cellphone model is really "incompatible" with that specific application, just buy a compatible one and stop sending complaint emails. Business corporations generally don't respect their clients anyway... at least in my country!
30 • Quit surfing. (by ParanOid on 2025-06-06 07:22:24 GMT from The Netherlands)
update when the first next thing the user will do is to log in to the Google, Microsoft, Steam, etc. account?
Nobody is behind YOU—you are the one among trillions of browser connections per hour, and if 'they' are behind you, then you have a problem anyway. The light bulbs and window glass are transferring vibrations, just like your home heating pipes, and they can listen to what you talk about…
Simply use what all other people use—the most popular OS and the most popular browsers—and you reach the maximum privacy possible—you become a water drop in the ocean.
Your browser is connecting to the internet when you start the browser to connect to the internet. Imagine!
https://privacytests.org/
Don't be paranoid.
31 • Privacy tools (by Robert on 2025-06-06 13:50:00 GMT from United States)
I don't go too crazy on privacy. I use some tools as basic precautions, but I don't compromise my internet experience.
VPN, which frankly I forgot to turn on more often than not. Should probably configure it to autoconnect.
Protonmail, which for me is more about avoiding spam than for privacy.
Adblocker
Brave browser
I default to Brave search, but still use Google often enough. Despite the AI and ad garbage it still is the best tool for finding things that I know. Used to use DuckDuckGo, but its really bad.
No cloud storage for my files. Everything is on my own computers.
I could certainly do better. But I'm not really interested in going so far as to maintain a public-facing server to run my own services. I probably should install Privacy Badger again though, kinda forgot about it.
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| • Issue 1119 (2025-04-28): Ubuntu MATE 25.04, what is missing from Linux, CachyOS ships OCCT, Debian enters soft freeze, Fedora discusses removing X11 session from GNOME, Murena plans business services, NetBSD on a Wii |
| • Issue 1118 (2025-04-21): Fedora 42, strange characters in Vim, Nitrux introduces new package tools, Fedora extends reproducibility efforts, PINE64 updates multiple devices running Debian |
| • Issue 1117 (2025-04-14): Shebang 25.0, EndeavourOS 2025.03.19, running applications from other distros on the desktop, Debian gets APT upgrade, Mint introduces OEM options for LMDE, postmarketOS packages GNOME 48 and COSMIC, Redox testing USB support |
| • Issue 1116 (2025-04-07): The Sense HAT, Android and mobile operating systems, FreeBSD improves on laptops, openSUSE publishes many new updates, Fedora appoints new Project Leader, UBports testing VoLTE |
| • Issue 1115 (2025-03-31): GrapheneOS 2025, the rise of portable package formats, MidnightBSD and openSUSE experiment with new package management features, Plank dock reborn, key infrastructure projects lose funding, postmarketOS to focus on reliability |
| • Issue 1114 (2025-03-24): Bazzite 41, checking which processes are writing to disk, Rocky unveils new Hardened branch, GNOME 48 released, generating images for the Raspberry Pi |
| • Issue 1113 (2025-03-17): MocaccinoOS 1.8.1, how to contribute to open source, Murena extends on-line installer, Garuda tests COSMIC edition, Ubuntu to replace coreutils with Rust alternatives, Chimera Linux drops RISC-V builds |
| • Issue 1112 (2025-03-10): Solus 4.7, distros which work with Secure Boot, UBports publishes bug fix, postmarketOS considers a new name, Debian running on Android |
| • Issue 1111 (2025-03-03): Orbitiny 0.01, the effect of Ubuntu Core Desktop, Gentoo offers disk images, elementary OS invites feature ideas, FreeBSD starts PinePhone Pro port, Mint warns of upcoming Firefox issue |
| • Issue 1110 (2025-02-24): iodeOS 6.0, learning to program, Arch retiring old repositories, openSUSE makes progress on reproducible builds, Fedora is getting more serious about open hardware, Tails changes its install instructions to offer better privacy, Murena's de-Googled tablet goes on sale |
| • Issue 1109 (2025-02-17): Rhino Linux 2025.1, MX Linux 23.5 with Xfce 4.20, replacing X.Org tools with Wayland tools, GhostBSD moving its base to FreeBSD -RELEASE, Redox stabilizes its ABI, UBports testing 24.04, Asahi changing its leadership, OBS in dispute with Fedora |
| • Issue 1108 (2025-02-10): Serpent OS 0.24.6, Aurora, sharing swap between distros, Peppermint tries Void base, GTK removinglegacy technologies, Red Hat plans more AI tools for Fedora, TrueNAS merges its editions |
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