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Rikj000 Rikj000 @discuss.tchncs.de

Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!

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Advertisements in Manjaro?!..
  • I care for matray to give me news on OS updates,
    not to give me advertisements.

  • Advertisements in Manjaro?!..

    I logged in today and was greeted with this advertisement in my notifications.

    Seriously Manjaro team, I've been happily using your OS for the past few years, but if you jump on the enshittification train and start with pumping out advertisements in my OS, then it won't be long before I hop to Arch...

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    What if somebody wrote a virus that infected windows computers to replace the OS with linux?
  • That would be an anti-virus.. x)

    Since it would remove spy-ware from your computer.

  • They stole my voice with AI | Jeff Geerling
  • No, instead they raped his rights with some ToS..

  • What is the best FOSS alarm clock app?
  • I've been happily using the clock app that comes embedded with LineageOS for years now.

    If you don't want to switch to LineageOS,
    then you can still find/install it from ApkMirror:
    https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/lineageos/clock-2/

  • The future of getmonero.org | Looking for Feedback
  • I like the hammermann concept the most,
    it looks more professional then Diego's,
    very clean and modern looking :)

  • Here's how Android 15 blocks thieves from bypassing factory reset protection
  • The more I hear about Android 15,
    the less excited I get for it..

  • What's Google doing in your phone for 17hrs straight???
  • Spying on you :P

    That's why I replaced it with MicroG:
    https://microg.org/

  • Why do you care about privacy?
  • Imagine living in China,
    where the government is able to request data of each company in their country.

    Imagine that China would setup an AI/LLM, to feed all private chat data into it,
    and automatically flagging opposition of the government regime.

    Imagine a white van appearing in front of your house and disappearing into a concentration camp because you got flagged after expressing your opposition to the government to your mate in a private chat.

    All collected data can be abused like that,
    or by other means (E.g. a country at war gets hacked, which could lead to leaking critical private information on political/defensive decisions).

    To me the question is not if data collected on you will be abused, but rather when will it be abused?

    Just having it stored somewhere imposes risks.

  • Why do you care about privacy?
  • Privacy should be a basic human right.
    Data collection could be massively abused by oppressive governments.

    Not caring about it = Not caring about your rights.

  • Feature requests for a lemmy moderation bot
  • OP I agree with you, it's a great idea imo.
    I've been a moderator before on a Discord server with +1000 members, for one of my FOSS projects,
    and maintenance against scam / spam bots grew so bad,
    that I had to get a team of moderators + an auto moderation bot + wrote an additional moderation bot myself!..

    Here is the source to that bot, might be usable for inspiration or just plain usable some other users:
    https://github.com/Rikj000/Discord-Auto-Ban

    I think it will only be a matter of time before the spam / scam bots catch up to Lemmy,
    so it's good to be ahead of the curve with auto-moderation.

    However I also partially agree with @dohpaz42, auto-moderation on Reddit is very, uhm, present.
    Imo auto moderation should not really be visible to non-offenders.

  • China's EVs are fueling a big oil demand slowdown
  • I own a non-chinese EV and it currently is an unavoidable, unregulated, heap of spyware on wheels, all of them.

    The only benefit it has is my data is going to data brokers in the EU, which has some privacy laws, not the Chinese government, which has the ability to request any and all data from all companies in their country.

  • China's EVs are fueling a big oil demand slowdown
  • You misspelled "spyware on wheels" as "EVs"

  • is iceraven a good fork of firefox?
  • Happily been using it for a few years by now.

    The enhanced privacy, extension and about:config support are great features to have.

  • Aug 19 Nintendo Museum Direct
  • Either that, or they might dedicate a whole wing of the museum to all the lawsuits they fired off throughout their history, against independent community fan projects.

    Nintendo is a lawsuit company that makes games on the side after all.

  • LibreSpeed - Speed Test
  • Thank you for LibreSpeed! <3
    Been using it for a few years now,
    and it's become my go-to network speed testing tool

  • :D​
  • :D

  • UPDATE! Now 30% of Lemmy Apps display posts accurately
  • You forgot about Eternity

    Would love to hear about it's score since it's my favorite way to browse Lemmy :)

  • Is Palworld a “dead game”? Who cares, says the game’s developer
  • It's not dead,
    the (over)hyped period is just over.

    I for one do plan on picking it up again in the near future, they added quite a bit of new content (pals, tower boss, island, oil rig, arena, raids, ...) since I last played it.

  • Belfius Root

    github.com GitHub - Rikj000/Belfius-Root: Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices!

    Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices! - Rikj000/Belfius-Root

    GitHub - Rikj000/Belfius-Root: Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices!

    cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18470641

    > Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices! > > Source > https://github.com/Rikj000/Belfius-Root#belfius-root > > License GPLv3 > > Motivation > Belfius bank was pretty cool about having a rooted device in the past, > they just threw a dismissible warning about security risks of using a rooted device, > and then allowed you to keep using their app. > > However on 2024-07-01 this changed. > Nowadays they assume that you're an idiot that will not be able to keep your own device safe if you have root. > > I do not agree with that assumption, and likely neither do you. > Only power users that have a good idea of what they're doing tend to root their own devices. > > After only a hand full of transactions, done through the tedious browser process, > I grew agitated enough to do the research to write this module. > > Hope you'll enjoy this module and the ability to stay rooted! >

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    Belfius Root

    github.com GitHub - Rikj000/Belfius-Root: Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices!

    Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices! - Rikj000/Belfius-Root

    GitHub - Rikj000/Belfius-Root: Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices!

    cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18470641

    > Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices! > > Source > https://github.com/Rikj000/Belfius-Root#belfius-root > > License GPLv3 > > Motivation > Belfius bank was pretty cool about having a rooted device in the past, > they just threw a dismissible warning about security risks of using a rooted device, > and then allowed you to keep using their app. > > However on 2024-07-01 this changed. > Nowadays they assume that you're an idiot that will not be able to keep your own device safe if you have root. > > I do not agree with that assumption, and likely neither do you. > Only power users that have a good idea of what they're doing tend to root their own devices. > > After only a hand full of transactions, done through the tedious browser process, > I grew agitated enough to do the research to write this module. > > Hope you'll enjoy this module and the ability to stay rooted! >

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    Belfius Root

    github.com GitHub - Rikj000/Belfius-Root: Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices!

    Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices! - Rikj000/Belfius-Root

    GitHub - Rikj000/Belfius-Root: Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices!

    cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18470641

    > Simple Xposed module to support the Belfius app on Rooted devices! > > Source > https://github.com/Rikj000/Belfius-Root#belfius-root > > License GPLv3 > > Motivation > Belfius bank was pretty cool about having a rooted device in the past, > they just threw a dismissible warning about security risks of using a rooted device, > and then allowed you to keep using their app. > > However on 2024-07-01 this changed. > Nowadays they assume that you're an idiot that will not be able to keep your own device safe if you have root. > > I do not agree with that assumption, and likely neither do you. > Only power users that have a good idea of what they're doing tend to root their own devices. > > After only a hand full of transactions, done through the tedious browser process, > I grew agitated enough to do the research to write this module. > > Hope you'll enjoy this module and the ability to stay rooted! >

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    Suyu moved to Forgejo

    git.suyu.dev Suyu Git

    Suyu Git: Repository for Suyu development and yuzu archives.

    Suyu Git

    After the DMCA takedown on Github/Gitlab, Suyu (the active fork of Yuzu)

    Moved to their own Forgejo instance.

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    Forgejo or Radicle - Which do you prefer?

    github.com Alternatives to GitHub · community · Discussion #49869

    Since GitHub continues introducing antifeatures and enforcing an own vision of software development, like mandatory 2FA (I don't need such mandatory imitation of security when I'll have to bear its...

    Alternatives to GitHub · community · Discussion #49869

    Just finished writing out a lengthy comment, with the up/downsides I can see on each of the code forges I currently deem promising, on the Github Discussion "Alternatives to GitHub"

    And I was wondering, out of following 2, which code forge would you guys prefer and why?

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    Help preserve Yuzu's code base

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12733354

    As you all know or may not know, Nintendo has taken down Yuzu, see following post for more info on that: https://lemmy.world/post/12728163

    Now it's important to preserve the code base of Yuzu, so hopefully someday, once things cooled down a little, an active fork can stick it's head up.

    After looking at the Azure DevOps Pipelines of yuzu-emu/yuzu, I noticed the latest pipeline ran 8 hours ago as of writing this post:

    • https://dev.azure.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/_build
    • https://dev.azure.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/_build/results?buildId=26300&view=results

    Which tells us that the latest commit, was a merge of PR #13198 from zhaobot/tx-update-20240301020652

    This fork, is the most up-to-date one / contains the latest commit done to Yuzu before the take down: https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu/tree/tx-update-20240301020652

    I encourage you all to pull, star and fork this fork, not only the master branch, but all branches! The more copies floating out there, the better the project will be preserved.

    You can pull the code base to your local machine, with: bash git clone https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu.git (Requires https://git-scm.com/)

    And you can pull in all the branches, as described in this Github Gist: https://gist.github.com/grimzy/a1d3aae40412634df29cf86bb74a6f72

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    Help preserve Yuzu's code base

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12733354

    As you all know or may not know, Nintendo has taken down Yuzu, see following post for more info on that: https://lemmy.world/post/12728163

    Now it's important to preserve the code base of Yuzu, so hopefully someday, once things cooled down a little, an active fork can stick it's head up.

    After looking at the Azure DevOps Pipelines of yuzu-emu/yuzu, I noticed the latest pipeline ran 8 hours ago as of writing this post:

    • https://dev.azure.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/_build
    • https://dev.azure.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/_build/results?buildId=26300&view=results

    Which tells us that the latest commit, was a merge of PR #13198 from zhaobot/tx-update-20240301020652

    This fork, is the most up-to-date one / contains the latest commit done to Yuzu before the take down: https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu/tree/tx-update-20240301020652

    I encourage you all to pull, star and fork this fork, not only the master branch, but all branches! The more copies floating out there, the better the project will be preserved.

    You can pull the code base to your local machine, with: bash git clone https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu.git (Requires https://git-scm.com/)

    And you can pull in all the branches, as described in this Github Gist: https://gist.github.com/grimzy/a1d3aae40412634df29cf86bb74a6f72

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    Help preserve Yuzu's code base

    As you all know or may not know, Nintendo has taken down Yuzu, see following post for more info on that: https://lemmy.world/post/12728163

    Now it's important to preserve the code base of Yuzu, so hopefully someday, once things cooled down a little, an active fork can stick it's head up.

    After looking at the Azure DevOps Pipelines of yuzu-emu/yuzu, I noticed the latest pipeline ran 8 hours ago as of writing this post:

    • https://dev.azure.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/_build
    • https://dev.azure.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/_build/results?buildId=26300&view=results

    Which tells us that the latest commit, was a merge of PR #13198 from zhaobot/tx-update-20240301020652

    This fork, is the most up-to-date one / contains the latest commit done to Yuzu before the take down: https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu/tree/tx-update-20240301020652

    I encourage you all to pull, star and fork this fork, not only the master branch, but all branches! The more copies floating out there, the better the project will be preserved.

    You can pull the code base to your local machine, with: bash git clone https://github.com/zhaobot/yuzu.git (Requires https://git-scm.com/)

    And you can pull in all the branches, as described in this Github Gist: https://gist.github.com/grimzy/a1d3aae40412634df29cf86bb74a6f72

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    She looks damn fine compared to everything else

    • https://www.getmonero.org
    • https://www.cato.org/visual-feature/risks-of-cbdcs
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    PSMD in Citra looking neat!

    Playing some Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon, through Citra Canary v2798 with:

    And I gotta say, I'm happily impressed by how good it looks! Apart from the low resolution font/texts, I'd forget that I'm playing a mobile title from 2015 😄

    Edit: I disabled the High Resolution Textures, because they cause:

    • Random game freezes in connection orb screens
    • Slowdowns while in villages / dungeons / connection orb screens
    • Incorrect black / white rendering of clouds / earth during cut scenes
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    "Easy" awesome Alpha Frostallion

    I figured out a way to "easily" get them in single-player.

    Recommended prerequisites (Not so easy):

    • Reach level 44, for Legendary sphere's
    • Upgrade your Capture Power to level 10 at the statue of power with Lifmunk Effigy's

    Cheese method for Alpha Frostallion:

    • Install one of following mods:

      • Pal Info https://www.nexusmods.com/palworld/mods/178 I've been using this one up till now.
      • Pal Analyzer https://www.nexusmods.com/palworld/mods/336 I will soon switch to this one, since it looks nicer.

      They both will show you the passive skills a pal has, allowing you to check em out before catching the pals, so you don't waste sphere's

    • Travel to Frostallion, check his passive skills without battling, if they're not as desired, exit / re-enter your world, that will re-spawn / re-roll in a new one with new passive skills, repeat till you find a desired one.

    • Start battling as soon as you find a desired one, took me 20-30 minutes for mine.

    • There will be a large / tall ice rock in the area (Coordinates X: -349, Y: 519), just start circling around it, always keep the large / tall ice rock between you and Frostallion

    • Eventually he'll climb up the ice rock, and will fall down from it eventually as well, which will hurt him through fall damage for about 300 - 3000 HP!

    • Rinse and repeat until his HP is low, then start throwing your legendary sphere's 😄

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    Am I the only one getting agitated by the word AI?

    Am I the only one getting agitated by the word AI (Artificial Intelligence)?

    Real AI does not exist yet, atm we only have LLMs (Large Language Models), which do not think on their own, but pass turing tests (fool humans into thinking that they can think).

    Imo AI is just a marketing buzzword, created by rich capitalistic a-holes, who already invested in LLM stocks, and now are looking for a profit.

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    Introduction to fair Monero mining

    ⛏️ Fair CPU pool mining introduction Monero (XMR) is one of the only projects which offer a way of mining in a pool as it should be implemented, with P2Pool:

    • Fair - Instant payouts according to your share.
    • Decentralized - No pool owners - No centralized party handling the P2Pool.
    • Decentralized - Pool participants - Due to the RandomX algorithm being used, no specialized Antic miners can be built for XMR. Meaning that an average Joe can still participate and earn shares with their CPU.
    • Private - XMR itself continuously aims for the best possible privacy cryptography can offer.

    Source Code / Links:

    • Gupax: A GUI (Graphical User Interface), to easily mine Monero on P2Pool using XMRig https://github.com/hinto-janai/gupax https://gupax.io/
    • P2Pool: Peer to peer pool, truly decentralized pool for Monero mining https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool https://p2pool.io/mini/#pool https://p2pool.io/#pool
    • XMRig: RandomX, KawPow, CryptoNight and GhostRider unified CPU/GPU miner https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig https://xmrig.com/
    • RandomX: Proof of work algorithm based on random code execution https://github.com/tevador/RandomX
    • Monero: The secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency https://github.com/monero-project/monero https://www.getmonero.org/
    • Monero GUI: Official Monero GUI, for wallet, miner and monerod node https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui
    • P2Pool Observer: Monitor various P2Pool stats https://mini.p2pool.observer/ https://p2pool.observer
    • XMRvsBeast: Enter a free lottery, only for participating XMR miners, to win a chance of a short, but serious boost in your hash-rate / payouts! https://xmrvsbeast.com/p2pool/
    • Monero Fail: An extensive list of publicly hosted monerod nodes https://monero.fail/

    ⛏️ Fair CPU pool mining guide This guide will help you setting up a fair Monero miner, please note, that you still will have to create your own config files for: Gupax, P2Pool and XMRig

    1. Use Monero GUI to create a wallet
    2. Use Monero GUI to run your own monerod instance (Monero Node daemon), configure following startup flags under: Monero GUI => Settings => Node => Daemon startup flags: properties --zmq-pub=tcp://127.0.0.1:18083 --out-peers 32 --in-peers 64 --add-priority-node=uwillrunanodesoon.moneroworld.com:18089 --add-priority-node=nodes.hashvault.pro:18081 --disable-dns-checkpoints --enable-dns-blocklist --prune-blockchain --sync-pruned-blocks --db-sync-mode=safe --log-level 1 These startup flags will help with:
    • Blocking malicious nodes
    • Keeping your copy of the blockchain as small as possible
    • Provide logging incase a priority-node goes down (Use Monero Fail for replacements)
    1. Configure the P2Pool + XMRig binary paths in Gupax under: Gupax => Gupax => P2Pool/XMRig PATHs
    2. Use Gupax to run P2Pool, connect to your local monerod instance by configuring P2Pool as following: Gupax => P2Pool => P2Pool Mini => Fill in the following: properties Name = Local Monero Node IP = 127.0.0.1 RPC = 18081 ZMQ = 18083 Out-peers = 32 In-peers = 64
    3. Use Gupax to run XMRig, connect to your local P2Pool as following: Gupax => XMRig => Command arguments (configure --threads as desired): properties -c config.json -o 127.0.0.1:3333 --http-host 127.0.0.1 --http-port 18088 --threads 30 This will make it possible to load a config.json file from the same directory as the XMRig binary

    Notes

    • If you're gonna run on normal end-user hardware (e.g. Desktop/Laptop/Smartphone), then I'd recommend to mine on P2Pool Mini instead of the main P2Pool
    • Your P2Pool wallet adress is public, periodically move mined funds to a new, truly private XMR wallet
    • My use-case? I mine to support the cause and to earn a little back from heating my room during winter times 😄
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    Improve your Lemmy feed!

    Hi all 👋

    Here with a small guide for the Eternity app for Lemmy, on how to setup your own custom filters, so you can weed out unwanted content 🙂

    Motivation: I was getting sick of my feed being bombarded with war related content.. So in this guide, that's what we'll be filtering out.

    Guide: => Open Eternity app => Tap Hamburger menu icon (Top left) => Tap Settings => Tap Post Filter => Tap Plus icon (Bottom right) => Fill in: Post Filter Name = No War => Fill in: Title: Exclude Keywords = Gaza,Hamas,Israel,Palestine,Pakistan,Ukraine,Russia => Tap Save icon (Top right) => Tap new No War filter => Tap Apply To => Tap Plus icon (Bottom right) => Tap Subscribed => Tap Plus icon (Bottom right) => Tap Search => Tap Back Arrow (Top left) => Close / re-open Eternity app

    This was just an example, adjust as desired + can create filters for whatever you (don't) want 😉

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