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  • Det er mest det at håndtere kød der ikke bare er hakkekød i køledisken.

    Totalt bybo der ikke forstyr hvor maden kommer fra herovre 🙋‍♂️.

    Fik også forleden friske æg fra en kollega der bor på landet. Et var et andeæg med en ælling i. Vi havde det lidt som om vi modvilligt var med på settet til Alien-filmen.







  • plc@feddit.dktoLinux@lemmy.mlApp Lock under Linux?
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    2 months ago

    Hm… I struggle to picture what you’re trying to achieve…

    If you are “making an app” as in coding one, you can just have it say ask for a pin in a window as part of starting up.

    You suggest various encryption related solutions… what is your threat model? Do you want to make the identity of the app unknown to others? Normally, autkenticating users is the responsibility of the os/desktop environment, and it would be non-ideomatic for an application to bundle its own auth, except for apps such as a password manager.

    If you want to make an existing system app privileged/secret in some way then that sounds awkward indeed. Normally you’d definitely be using user management facilities (e.g. dedicated users and sudo config) to achieve such a thing.

    If you really do want to make the app “secret” in some sense you could achieve the same thing as with your mac using a combination of loopback block devices (see man losetup) with an encrypted luks volume inside… but depending on the app you might end up in dependency hell if it’s not statically linked.

    ymmv 🙂










  • Right to repair often comes up as a remedy against software monopoly (think appstore/play/android/ios) because it implies being able to override the bootloader and OS.

    The one major obstacle to a thriving OSS mobile market is a lack of compatible devices, because iphones and androids are locked down.

    If you were actually free to do it you could easily (in a world where this market was allowed to develop) extend the life of an iphone 7 by 5-10 more years, even though apple has decided no longer to support it with software updates.