An LSAG signature proves that the signature came from one of the announced public keys, but it is impossible to know which.

I mean I just took the users word for summarizing the thing accurately, but doesn’t seem too complicated to me https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/112036

Either way, it’s not about this specific idea. It’s just that you need some technical way to combat bots, be it cryptography, web of trust, subjective moderation etc. If it’s open source, there will not be enough volunteers to do moderation

This kinda app would need at least an attempt at a technical solution to the bot problem. An open source app can’t just pay people to kick bots out. And even the paid apps that can are drowning in bots.

Something cryptographic maybe. Tor is kinda magical, makes anonymity possible while the each machine knows who they are talking to. Maybe something where you can show that you are “a verified user” without showing exactly which one.

I have a few (internal) web pages like that at work, they do the job but yes they are ugly

Have you ever seen HTML without CSS? It’s ugly as hell

I think the better comparison (whether that’s technically accurate or not) is to HTML + CSS + JS. Which is overly complicated for just small blogs and personal webpages etc. I think that’s the “issue” Gemini is trying to solve.

They are called digital audio players / DAPs nowadays. Theres a wide variety of them. Also you can also buy a used ipod or a sony walkman. I use an iPod nano, though that’s would be a bit of a hassle without macos.

The modded ipod classics are kinda cool, larger storage and open source software. And no bluetooth if you are concerned about that.

I grew up using macos, still use it on my work laptop, and use elementary os on my home machine. For the most part, it’s great. I like

• The intuitive UX and the clean, consistent and beautiful UI
• Good default apps and settings
• Flatpak out of the box, no snap bullshit.
• Generally you can get away with quite a bit without resorting to the terminal

Unfortuntalely, there are a few big issues with it, mostly due to the small number of developers

• Updating the OS to a new major version (that they release every 1-2 years) is a hassle, there is no direct way to do distro-update like on ubuntu for example
• The mail and calendar apps don’t support Oauth, and by now, google doesn’t seem to support password+IMAP anymore. So no google calendar or mail integration. Also a hassle to set up anything that uses Oauth by default.

If those aren’t dealbreakers, I can recommend eos. But do check out the other options as well.

It is really easy to mirror git repos though, which makes this less of an issue than most other monopolies

Git repo that I sync with my raspberry pi. You never know if some of the dotfiles contain sensitive info so I like to keep them on machines that only I can access

Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether

Even if you can’t, minimizing smartphone use, uptime and carrying mitigates some of the risk

There’s a million easier ways to claim the German unemployment money than that

A Git history would be quite an easy way to show that you are doing something regularly.

That ATM cash tracking thing comes to mind

I only work once, then copy that work everywhere.

Good that works for you. If only my needs were so simple that the configs could be same on each machine.

So you’re willing to do a lot of manual package managing, in general put a lot of work into optimizing your workflow, adjusting to different package availability, adjusting to different operating systems…

…but not writing two different configs?

That is your prerogative but you’re not convincing me. Though I don’t think I’ll be convincing you either.

I have separate configs/aliases/etc for most of my machines just because, well, they are different machines with different hardware, software, data, operating systems and purposes. Even for those (most) that I can easily install fish on.

those scripts not always work

This feels like ragebait. I have multiple devices, use fish whenever that can be installed and zsh/bash when not, and have none of these issues.

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or some methods to jump to most recent directory like z.

Manually downloading the same shell scripts on every machine is just doing what the package manager is supposed to do for you. I did this once to get some rust utils like eza to get them to work without sudo. It’s terrible.

I mean if all your scripts are fully general purpose. That just seems really weird to me. I don’t need to run my yt-dlp scripts on the computational clusters I work on.

Moreover, none of this applies to the interactive use of the shell.

at least not on all the machines that I have to use

Ok?

What does that have to do with anything?

Always confuses me when people say this. You can use multiple different shells / scripting languages, just as you can use multiple programming languages.