WHY ARE THEY LOOKING?

Why not? It’s consensual, anonymized, and doesn’t include my browser traffic.

I like being able to choose my desktop environment.

I like knowing I’m not being spied on (although I did set my telemetry to max telemetry).

I like how Linux will keep supporting my hardware near indefinitely.

Better than American owned and operated.

There wasn’t exactly anyone else it could be except Motorola Mobility. It’s not much of a leak since we all already knew.

Not really, I’ve mostly just heard about their security problems on the grapevine, I don’t have specific concerns in mind.

Arch is pretty famous for being lax on security. Debian for having a pretty scrappy organisational structure.

The five major upstreams are Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian, and Arch. Three of those are corporate, two have some questionable security practices.

So there’s no perfect distro.

Red Hat has a lot of control but it’s open source we don’t need to trust them. In terms of security Fedora is doing better than Debian and Arch, and in my experience RPM-based distros have been the best I’ve used.

If you’re concerned you can always use OpenSUSE Leap. I would use it if I needed to distrohop for some reason, I’d just need to figure out what to do about RPM fusion.

With the risk of AI spam and bot accounts, being able to identify a user on Github is important.

Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

It should be the law that any information a online service collects about it’s users should be given to the government immediately and unconditionally, then suddenly people will start really caring about how much information a service has access to.

Australia has some bad tech laws, don’t get me wrong, but they’re nowhere near on the level of the UK.

There’s also

• Cash purchases are private
• Cash purchases don’t incur merchant fees for the retailer
• Cash/Card purchases don’t deliver money to American big tech.
• You can use GrapheneOS if you get rid of Google Pay.

I’ve never lost my wallet once.

When my phone got to be about 10 years old the battery was dying any time it got too cold.

If you leave your wallet at home, you won’t:

• Have ID.
• Have cash for when your phone dies.
• Have a card for when your phone dies.

There are many reasons to have your wallet with you.

In the age of AI, without verifying the identity of people there’s no way to really distinguish AI spam. A trusted user under a well-known pseudonym might work, but that requires they build up trust anonymously and as time goes on that’d be harder.

So basically, the internet is dead without this, and it’s dead with it.

No. It’s developed by the Linux Foundation Europe.

But also Rust can’t replace skill.

Never said it could, just that it gives them a leg up.

Security and stability are related. They’re both about preventing unexpected behaviour.

It’s unremarkable and has baggage.

The Servo browser is where it’s at. It’s written entirely in rust so it has a leg up on stability and security over other browsers. The issue is that they’re not really interested in the most important part, which is things like bookmarks and dark mode. They are laser focussed on the engine and anyone who would use Servo would be fine with a few websites looking broken.

If Firefox released a Servo-based spin, I’d use that in a heartbeat.