Plus, check this out. The platform says I have 12 followers but only 4 show up. Major problems over there.

I think the author was too generous, the majority of signups are bots/AI mixed with super casual side accounts. 2.2 million Brazilians sign-up in a couple days? I call bullshit. Even if that were true, they signed-up and don’t use it. Why do I believe that?

It’s because the awesome account I follow Quanta Magazine gets 20 hearts/likes/whatever and often less than 10, with 0 or 1 comment. Super weak interaction across the whole platform if you check out accounts that should be popular.

Great point, thought the same thing myself. The Athena repo works well on CachyOS for example. Thanks for the input.

I think Debian was one of the first major Linux distros to fully implement full PIE and ASLR and is probably the most robust implementation. The only downside in my mind to Debian is the target size, opportunity gain, huge. Thanks for your comment.

Whoa, the downvotes are real! I had to slice up that title text and render it to path for the 3D effect, took forever, was like 30 layers. It took forever to get it just right and replacing Mastodon with “Lemmy” was just too much work. Was that it? I don’t get it ;)

What a superb list! Saved.

I was thinking of writing a guide on how to lead a digitally private and secure “life” since so many bad guides are out there.

I’d like to add that the best private and secure Operating Systems are:

• BSD
• HardenedBSD
• Commercial UNIX (HP-UX, AIX, IRIX)
• Void & Alpine Linux
• Indie Operating Systems

Private Search Engines

• Searx
• Searx.envs.net

Private Browsers

• Lynx
• Librewolf
• Waterfox
• Qutebrowser
• Hardened Firefox (at my repo)

Qubues runs containers yes, but the unique use of a paravirtualized Fedora Linux kernel itself leaves open lots of unique security holes and is therefore extremely hard reviewing the security of it yourself.

GrapheneOS is constantly being showboated by Ed Snowden which is a red flag and I did experience app contamination on it. I would also suggest PostmarketOS. Definite no on CalyxOS.

I’d like to throw in my own Free Open Source, git clone, security repositories for BSD and Firefox available on Bitbucket, Github, and my own self-hosted git server with the latest files. All my software is currently written in Python (my very first Python scripts!) and short so it’s very easy to review.