This should allow averagenon-technical users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

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What does this have to do with privacy? It's just a userscript to modify the regular Twitter website with all its human rights abuse.

They're in the middle of a rollout of a rewrite and have promised to publish the source soon.

I'd define "bloat" as functionality (as in: program code) present on my system that I cannot imagine ever needing to use.

There will never be a system that is perfectly tailored to my needs because there will always be some piece of functional code that I have no intention of using. Therefore, any system is "bloated" and it's a question to which degree it is "bloated".

The degree depends on which kind of resources the "bloat" uses and how much of it. The more significant the resource usage, the more significant the effect of the "bloat". The kind of resource is used defines how critical some amount of usage is. 5% Power, CPU, IO, RAM or disk usage have varying degrees of criticality for instance.

Some examples:

This system has a calendar app installed by default. I don't use it, so it's certainly bloat but I also don't care because it's just a few megs on disk at worst and that doesn't hurt me in any way.

Firefox frequently uses most of my RAM and >1% CPU util at "idle" but it's a useful application that I use all the time, so it's not bloat.

The most critical resource usage of systemd (pid1) on my system is RAM which is <0.1%. It provides tonnes of essential features required on a modern system and therefore not even worth thinking about when it comes to bloat.

I just noticed that mbrola voices sneaked into my closure again which is like 700MiB of voice synthesis data for many languages that I don't have a need for. Quite a lot of storage for something I don't ever need. This is significant bloat. It appears Firefox is drawing it in but it looks like that can be disabled via an override, so I'll do that right now.

Why does Techno Mage need headphones? Does the OpenWellington not support sound drivers?

Usually, fundamental rights cannot be "sold"

It's really quite perverse if you think about it.

Why is this being downvoted? It's clearly labelled as Japanese; if you don't want to see foreign languages, filter them out.

Yes.

Monitor I/O on the drive; is anything using it while your system is idle?

What's I/O like when loading an album?

Does it work if you enable VRR via xorg config?

Which xorg driver are/were you using, amdgpu or modesetting?

You should cross-post this to !brompton@discuss.tchncs.de ;)

Exodus shows all permissions the app could use or request. You have denied all of those.

We know that sshd is targeted but we don't know the full extent of the attack yet.

Arch is on 5.6.1 as of now: https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/xz/

We at Nixpkgs have barely evaded having it go to a channel used by users and we don't seem to be affected by the backdoor.

This is the way. You need to check whether CPU and package are mostly in the highest C-states they can be. If not, you've got a task or IO device causing a lot of wasted power.

I don't see how undervolting would result in power savings on modern CPUs if you're not up against clock limits as the CPU would simply boost higher.

You don't use HTTP or SOCKS proxies to proxy internet traffic these days but VPNs. The effect is the same but it's a shiny new name to market. If you're talking to a normie (i.e. Google), you're looking for "a VPN".

This space is quite crowded as it's a super simple service to offer and is insanely profitable. You're basically being resold datacenter bandwidth with a profit margin of at least 90%.

What you're likely looking for (given the community) is a proxy to pseudonymise your internet traffic such that neither data brokers nor governments can trivially get access to this information.

Given the insane profit margin, there are tonnes of unscrupulous "VPN services" that stab you in the back and double dip; selling your traffic data to the highest bidder. If you want one who doesn't do that, you must pay and even then you have to be extremely careful in your selection. Unless proven otherwise or very implausible, assume any VPN proxy provider stabs you in the back for even higher profits.

The only exception I know of is ProtonVPN which offers limited free servers. The free tier is effectively a free trial with some limitations, namely that it's only a handful of countries and that P2P is blocked. I've used it for years and IME speed has almost always been absolutely fine.

Whether you trust Proton is up to you to decide. IMV the company does not appear to be in this primarily for enrichment but because they actually care about privacy. They offer quite a wide range of other services that they built from the ground up and largely open sourced. The raison d'être for their free VPN proxies appears to be customer aquisition and I guess it worked on me because I'm now a paying customer of theirs, though primarily for their email services.

Note that they comply with (Swiss) government orders (as any sustainable business must) but I trust them to not sell my data to the highest bidder or governments which is what I care about. If you're doing shit bad enough that could get someone to convince the Swiss government to go after you, they will not shield you (but also just.. please don't).

Yeah and that's great but my point is that I don't see an obvious way to use it for that in its current implementation. I'm sure you could build it but it's simply not built yet.

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Haha, these little details are so great :)

This wouldn't really solve the issue as the user could rather simply create as many accounts as they like to circumvent per-account limits.