I think that happens only for some subreddits like r/piracy,imatotalpieceofshit etc. that they deemed ‘problematic’ or something so they force the app on all posts.

If you are using uBlock Origin I think this filter removes the element: www.reddit.com##xpromo-untagged-content-blocking-modal

I downloaded RSSGuard and it appears that I can’t import my rss feed into it and they are online based?

Both.

Add a standard account first:

Then in the “Accounts” drop-down you’ll have the option:

IIRC, RSSGuard has a dark theme https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard (I used to use it on Arch Linux long ago before switching to ttrss in browser; apparently they also have Windows builds).

Edit. Ah, it also supports custom skins https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/blob/master/resources/docs/Documentation.md#skin

You can add a custom search engine to FF desktop if you don’t want an add-on or extension.

about:config -> create browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh (boolean), set to true. Then go to settings there should be an “Add” button:

(There won’t be a favicon though.)

Good that you brought this up. Perhaps it was patched or worked around in Tor browser ?

Yea Tor browser worked around it, see https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40432#note_2735850

There is Trickle https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trickle and Wondershaper https://github.com/magnific0/wondershaper#using-wondershaper

curl/wget both have a --limit-rate option

There is tc and iptables that can both do latecy and bandwidth quotas.

Done :)

NLnet is doing god’s work by funding so many important projects based around decentralization and privacy like Kaidan, Fractal, Lemmy, SearX, Briar, previously the Tor Project and many more current ones.

Hah, this one is classic :P.

There goes our chance of finding life on Mars :P

It was mainly for contributors and bug-reporters so that they can create a system quickly and reproduce issues/test things; when archinstall was moved to the repos. I haven’t seen anyone asking support specific to the install script method yet. And the wiki isn’t going away; if anyone doesn’t have a basic grasp of for example partitioning or in need of a customized setup they’ll still need to read it.

Regardless of the criticism Matrix is probably one of the best bets right now of a federated, decentralized real-time communication platform. Yes it gets complicated at the spec/protocol level when one is made to support so many use cases like Twitter,VR,IM,collaborative editing,bridges,bots,integration,video,audio,encryption,multi-device etc. but that is necessary to have a rich,diverse and modern protocol. The criticism is mainly at the specific IRC bridge and the clients. Admittedly the IRC bridge isn’t perfect due to the feature disparity between Matrix and IRC at a protocol level but it has been getting better. And saying that bridge isn’t perfect would be similar to saying IRC or a particular IRC client isn’t perfect.

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/new-gnome-versioning-scheme/4235

In extra https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gnome-shell/, https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mutter/ right now. So update :P

An update about this https://nitter.cc/thepine64/status/1378412624774365193; this is a great effort from Pine64!

See here. This is the issue tracking the UI for proxy too. The flag comes from Chromium; you can’t use a http+password proxy though since Chromium doesn’t support that too.

Verification of own/others’ devices is optional; it won’t prompt to setup if you aren’t using something other than Element or an E2EE capable client. Someone might have an account with cross-signing disabled or if it is enabled the new device will show up as unverified then there are chances/edge cases where they can be tricked into verifying that device; this way they’d also have control over encrypted content. Also admins have control over the password+login; they can delete the old one add a new password and it’s hash to the database then login using those and chat using someone else’s account on a public room. These are the reasons why it is always recommended to host one’s own instance or trust the instance you are joining.

This is an example of MITM in case of XMPP; Matrix would be very similar if the person doing it is the server admin.

If anyone is running AMD Stoney they might want to be a bit careful with 5.11 kernels; from 5.11-rc1 to 5.11.8 it gets stuck on loading initial ramdisk. The issue is solved in >=5.11.9.

This is a new low; not surprised though.

You have to trust the instance admin you are joining; the same goes for Lemmy/Mastodon/XMPP. The instance owner can see your IP address, your devices, email etc. They can act on your behalf - so basically they have a fair amount of control over your account. But they cannot see any encrypted content. These issues are a bit hard to solve in case of something like Matrix often at performance costs; same goes for the metadata issue.

If you want to self host you can run a de-federated instance for only personal use or you can run it as a onion hidden service - this way the metadata issue is solved. But note that Synapse is pretty resource intensive.