Re: [qubes-users] Re: Announcement: New community forum for Qubes OS users!

2020-09-18 Thread 54th Parallel
On Tuesday, 15 September 2020 at 01:13:13 UTC+8 m.fernande...@gmail.com wrote: > The cloud-based aspect of Chromebooks means that in those situations where > you don't consider you have much local on-site security, you can gain extra > security by keeping things in the cloud, and using cloud

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Announcement: New community forum for Qubes OS users!

2020-09-14 Thread Mark Fernandes
On Wednesday, 26 August 2020 at 17:01:20 UTC+1 sv...@svensemmler.org wrote: > > ... Google earns almost all their money > by selling user data / presenting advertisements. ... > > Even if the engineers working on their products have good motivations, > as a publicly traded corporation

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Announcement: New community forum for Qubes OS users!

2020-08-26 Thread Sven Semmler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 8/26/20 3:07 AM, 54th Parallel wrote: > the wider point I want to make is that people jump on Chrome OS > simply for being an OS by Google. Well, that is a bit understandable. Google earns almost all their money by selling user data / presenting

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Announcement: New community forum for Qubes OS users!

2020-08-26 Thread 54th Parallel
On Wednesday, 26 August 2020 at 10:52:47 UTC+8 sv...@svensemmler.org wrote: > Here are my thoughts: security is on a spectrum, here are two extremes: > > a) > - - completely offline > - - in a locked room at a secure location > - - completely shielded > - - I never leave that room > > b) >

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Announcement: New community forum for Qubes OS users!

2020-08-25 Thread Sven Semmler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 8/22/20 5:11 AM, 54th Parallel wrote: > I don't want to get into an argument with you, so all I'll say is > that you should probably read up more on ChromeOS. Here are my thoughts: security is on a spectrum, here are two extremes: a) - -

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Announcement: New community forum for Qubes OS users!

2020-08-22 Thread 54th Parallel
On Saturday, 22 August 2020 at 17:37:24 UTC+8 Qubes wrote: > > Yes a big difference, but the two are intertwined in ways that it is > impossible to separate them. If you believe an operating system from > Google, Microsoft, Apple, or any other tech giant, provides > "near-absolute" security I

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Announcement: New community forum for Qubes OS users!

2020-08-22 Thread Qubes
There's a difference between privacy and security. Chrome OS provides security (near-absolute security, some might say) but obviously little privacy is to be expected. Yes a big difference, but the two are intertwined in ways that it is impossible to separate them. If you believe an

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Announcement: New community forum for Qubes OS users!

2020-08-21 Thread 54th Parallel
On Saturday, 22 August 2020 at 01:35:05 UTC+8 Qubes wrote: > > If you configure Firefox and uMatrix properly you should see less of > these funnies creep up. Have a look at this guide, > >

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Announcement: New community forum for Qubes OS users!

2020-08-21 Thread Qubes
On 8/21/20 6:37 PM, 54th Parallel wrote: On Friday, 21 August 2020 at 23:35:05 UTC+8 deeplow wrote: It's working just fine for me (also tried it in chromium version 83.0.4103.116). Does it work for you in other browsers? Working fine on Firefox and Tor Browser, but not Chrome 84.0.4147 on

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Announcement: New community forum for Qubes OS users!

2020-08-21 Thread 'deeplow' via qubes-users
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, August 21, 2020 4:37 PM, 54th Parallel wrote: > On Friday, 21 August 2020 at 23:35:05 UTC+8 deeplow wrote: > >> It's working just fine for me (also tried it in chromium version >> 83.0.4103.116). Does it work for you in other browsers? > > Working

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Announcement: New community forum for Qubes OS users!

2020-08-21 Thread 54th Parallel
On Friday, 21 August 2020 at 23:35:05 UTC+8 deeplow wrote: > It's working just fine for me (also tried it in chromium version > 83.0.4103.116). Does it work for you in other browsers? > Working fine on Firefox and Tor Browser, but not Chrome 84.0.4147 on Chrome OS (yes, I'm a dirty Google

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Announcement: New community forum for Qubes OS users!

2020-08-21 Thread 'deeplow' via qubes-users
On Friday, August 21, 2020 3:15 PM, 54th Parallel wrote: > On Friday, 21 August 2020 at 01:21:11 UTC+8 a...@qubes-os.org wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> Dear Qubes community, >> >> We're pleased to announce the launch of a new forum for Qubes OS users: >> >>