alright open source tech types, what would you use for OS on your edge device? opnsense? openwrt? something else?
I was leaning toward opnsense, but the lil NUC I got could get wifi added on, and it's tempting to get better coverage, but looks like my options are super limited for FreeBSD compatible M.2 cards?
Was poking around on the Meshtastic discord, just found out they have an openwrt channel for the exact setup I was thinking about (plugging a Meshtastic device directly into an openwrt router and running a node that way) and even more then that someone got the very recently released openwrt open hardware router running Meshtastic
Chromium and Firefox are both free and open source, as are both of their browser engines. Blink is the engine for Chromium, and Gecko is the engine for Firefox.
Mozilla's products lack basic sandboxing in almost every OS. The sandboxing for Firefox in Android and Linux, the two OSs I use, is quite honestly God AWFUL.
Gecko based browsers are significantly more vulnerable to exploitation, both internally and externally.
Gecko has a much more attack surface than Blink does.
No Gecko based browser has per-site process isolation.
Gecko's fingerprint protection is not great at best, bordering on a bit useless at worst. Both Tor and Mulvad fix this issues.
Gecko also is less resource efficient. While the discrepancy of resources efficiency between Gecko and Blink is getting smaller by the year, the gap is still pretty large.
The monopoly that Blink has on the browser market is fucking despicable, and has been one of the large reason the web as we know it is getting worse.
There are many websites that simply do not retain full functionality when used with Gecko based browsers.
Having to use a Chromium browser is an unfortunate reality for a lot of people. A lot more than you think.
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A empresa TP-Link, conhecida no setor de tecnologia, está enfrentando uma crise de segurança cibernética após a descoberta de várias vulnerabilidades em seus modelos de roteadores. Essas falhas têm provocado preocupação entre os usuários, especialmente na Europa Oriental, onde dispositivos com firmware desatualizado ainda estão em circulação. A situação se agrava em um cenário em que a segurança digital se tornou uma prioridade para usuários e especialistas, principalmente considerando o aumento das ameaças cibernéticas.(...)
Well, I couldn't get the Xbox 360 to work, but I did manage to set up my OpenWRT router as a client. Network speeds went from 5Mbps/<1Mbps, to ~50x faster! 🥳