Thank you nyan
I will look into the dmask and fmask mount options.
Definitely a no! in regards to attaching my drives to any windows machine.
The last windows machine I turned on was a Windows 95 machine when they first came out.
I thank god, That I wouldnt even know how to turn on a windows 10 or 11 surveillance machine.
Thank you Hack3900
Thank you SavvyWolf
This is particularly annoying when I have to upgrade my distro and all my files have to be moved to an external drive.
Unfortunately some of my files are up to 10Gb. thats why I stayed with exFAT.
I will certainly try Ext4 on my external drives.
Thank you Eugenia
Compressisng the files sounds a great idea.
I have in fact compressed a 12Gb file that I split into 10Gb chunks that still decompresses without problems.
This is particularly annoying when I have to upgrade my distro and all my files have to be moved to an external drive.
Unfortunately some of my files are up to 10Gb. thats why I stayed with exFAT.
I will certainly try Ext4 on my external drives. I will test it this week
People in the USA do have more rights than people here on Airstip One.
Though we are both under the big black boot of government friendly fascism.
Since October 2007, we have had Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 or RIPA.
We cannot refuse to give up a password or access to an encrypted device.
Section 53 of RIPA makes it a criminal offence to not comply with a Section 49 notice, carrying a sentence of up to two years in prison, and up to five years in cases involving national security, terrorism or child indecency.
We have no Fifth Amendment covering self-incrimination laws to protect us from over zealous police and state.
Who in society is going to argue against laws that are sold to us to protect our children?
I am an old retired psychotherapist. I remember the introduction of the CRB (criminal records bureau) check, here on Airstrip one in the early 2000’s. Now called a DBS check.
The CRB scanned the Police National Computer for any criminal offences that you had committed, this also included juvenile, aged under 17 offences. Which empowered all employers to use the CRB checks to get rid of staff and refuse to employ certain people. Discrimination was rife.
You were now judged, not on your competence to do your job, but whether you had a criminal record.
I would not have minded so much if they solely searched for any offence that were linked to child abuse, terrorism or national security, but they provided your entire life criminal offences.
My enhanced CRB check showed that I had gotten fined £3 for riding my bicycle on a pavement in the mid 60’s when I was 11 years old. My mum had to pay. My dad earned about £10 per week as a lorry driver.
What a danger to society I was! An employer could refuse to employ me just because of that little bit of information.
Sold to the UK population as a means to protect our children from sexual predators. Of course no one complained.
Yet, forward just a few years and you needed a CRB check to work at:
The airport, the local supermarket, as a gardener in a school, as a handyman sweeping the car park of the local doctors practice.
you needed to have a CRB check if you came within 100M of a child or vulnerable adult.
Even University students now have to have a CRB checks if they are on a psychology, counselling or psychotherapy course, because they may come into contact with children and or vulnerable adults.
This is the slow creep of government policies expanding, with no oversight, sold to us under the guise that they are protecting children and vulnerable adults.
fear is a great driver for change. scare someone enough and they will give up their granny.
I think this is also linked to Airstrip One’s governments, continually attempting to remove all encryption from devices by using child protection as a reason
As a retired psychotherapist I can tell you, that every single person on this planet has something to hide.
Obviously, psychotherapy offers a safe, private and confidential space to speak about those things. Society does not offer this safe space. So Humans hide things.
Sometimes these hidden things are even hidden from the person.
we have all broken our own, and societies, moral codes, the things we do not share with other people.
Our own sexual preferences are the most hidden of all subjects. Even in this so called Enlightened age. Sexuality still reigns supreme as the most hidden of all subjects.
I always say to people spouting the “I have nothing to hide” argument.
If you have nothing to hide!
Why do you continue to wear clothes when you go out.
Clearly it has nothing to do with the fact that: a CCTV camera on the corner of your street, a camera in a passing car, a RING doorbell facing towards the street, school kids filming with their phones, will film you and intrude upon your private life.
It is because you have something to hide.
For instance: Examples of the things that people hide.
As we see this quite regularly with our politicians and those generally in powerful positions:
The Pro family values political evangelists who espouses that homosexuality is a sin, and then gets caught with a male prostitute.
In psychoanalysis this this called “Splitting”. Its where the politician projects all his hidden, unacceptable parts of himself, in this case his homosexual preferences, and projects them onto other people in society. Those bad bad people who are homosexuals.
Or the pro child protection evangelist politician, who gets caught with gigabytes of child abuse images on their laptop. Same thing.
Its the same with the recent rise in the Right Wing anti-everything brigade;
anti-immigrant, who most likely had a foreign girlfriend when they were young, and are now ashamed of it because their mates are anti-immigrant. Group think.
anti-abortion, probably got a girl pregnant, wasnt man enough to support her, and left her no choice to get an abortion. Misogyny
anti-homosexual, probably a repressed homosexual who fantasises about sex with same sex partners. Far too ashamed to come out.
anti-this anti-that; Oh the shame!
This always speaks more about the hidden belief systems that those people carry. It is not about the people onto whom they are trying to project there own personal stuff.
To be human is to have a private life, and to keep it secret.
Hey arsus5478
There are instructions to install with wget on the git page as you mention and you seem to have folowed that guide, but the easiest way is to use APT.
For debian I would add the PPA repo:
There are clear instruction on the git page to install from apt.
About half way down the page you will see APT.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation
APT
You can download and install yt-dlp for recent Ubuntu and other related Debian-based distributions by adding this PPA
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomtomtom/yt-dlp
sudo apt update
sudo apt install yt-dlp
Your system’s package manager will now automatically download the correct dependencies and keep the package updated with the rest of your system whenever you update:
Done
this is a good introduction to adding an external PPA repo to apt and getting to know debian
Hey Novocirab
Thank you
I do like surprises.
I am a retired psychotherapist, so I value all person to person contact.
Anything else is just not human nor fulfilling for me.
you are correct.
here on Airstrip one, we are the most monitored country in the world, with one cctv camera for every 14 people. very scary indeed.
I am an old geezer, nearly 70, so my car is very old, no tech.
Hey Truscape
Thank you for the wonderful thoughtful reply.
I particularly liked “the informed and the uninformed”. This is true
Being a retired psychotherapist, I have known for all my professional life how easy it is to manipulate people. This is why, all practicing psychotherapists have to have, one hours supervision for every five hours of client work they do. This is to protect the clients from us, the therapist. There is no protection like that in the tech world.
My heart sinks everytime I see some shill promotimg online therapy. without ever understanding the lasting damage that they will do to the human being.
I do agree with all that you write
its called irony
On linux you can access your Signal messages in db.sqlite.
once you delete a message from signal, either through disappearing messages or manually, all those messages are deleted from the db.sqlite.
They are stored in an encrypted db.sqlite here:
/home/user/.config/Signal/sql/db.sqlite
you can also extract it from you phone:
only the messages that you can see when you open the Signal app are visible there.
to access the messages:
install:
signal-bakcup-tools-git
https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools
and
DB browser for sqlite
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The most straight forward way is to create an output file to html.
copy the db.sqlite to a new directory
open a terminal and run
signalbackup-tools --exportdesktophtml signal.html
this will create folders of all your contacts and messages and media.
easily acessible. open the signal.html files in your browser
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To open db.sqlite as a Sqlite database;
first you need to get the key:
copy the db.sqlite to a new directory
then run in terminal:
signalbackup-tools db.sqlite --showdesktopkey
OpenSSL 3.3.2 3 Sep 2024)
Signal Desktop key (hex):
58bfa167bb66b2b13b2ca6eadc33f4bf7275c254006d17ae5e3de5356c60f0b7
copy the key to a text editor
===========================
you must now add 0x to the beginning of that line:
0x58bfa167bb66b2b13b2ca6eadc33f4bf7275c254006d17ae5e3de5356c60f0b7
then open db.sqlite with the sqlitebrowser
right click db.sqlite, select open with DB Browser for sqlite
select RAW from the dropdown menu
input the passphrase from above. make sure you added the 0x to the beginning.
The entire database opens.
you can view all the information that signal collects. phone numbers, messages, images, media etc
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this is the difference between Molly and signal.
In Molly you can password protect db.sqlite, Signal removed this a while ago
Thank you
I shall update the post to title to [Solved]
new user learning
Reading stuff like this reminds me of why I have been a linux user for over 20 years.
Its why I only use AOSP roms on my phones.
Its why I have never used any USA surveillance companies. No one needs any of that shit!
Its why I get in my car, and visit people I care for, and not send them a message or use facebook to see what they are having for dinner.
I wouldnt even know how to turn a windows machine on. My last windows experience was with windows 95.
Do you still press a button?
I am a retired psychotherapist, 69 years old now, and have seen the devastating loss of our freedoms in my lifetime.
we all need to get back to being human again. We are human beings not human doings.
My display avatar is in fact a photo from a StoneHenge free festival in early 1980’s. A time when we actually used the word freedom and meant it.
I do fear for you younger people and what lies ahead. What will be like in 20-30 years when I am long gone.
I have installed Lineage on all my families phones.
all with android 15
Oneplus 5T; still going string after 8 years use
motorola edge 20 128GB 8GB RAM; I had to buy it for £20, fluff in the charging port. fabulous phone.
motorola edge 20 pro 256GB 12GB RAM: My daily driver.
Samsing SM-T500 Tab: As an Ebook reader.
Android 11. no longer supported Samsung S4 with E/os: my alarm clock and stop watch for the kitchen.
There is a New samsung Heimdall firmware flasher called Heimdall-Grimler for installing custom roms on samsung phones. A much improved Heimdall.
I only use Heimdall-Grimler especially on linux where there is no Odin only Jodin3-bin which is a pain to use.
Thank you Björn
I knew someone more technically gifted in the community would have a good answer as to why this happened.
Hey BCsven
We definitely do.
“Some people go their entire lives without hearing news that good” – Neo
I only use Lineage and have done so for years without any problems since CyanogenMod 10.1.
Do remember that it is the choice of the developers to use google services and nothing to do with google.
When you say “Le Chat”, do you mean Mistral AI assistant/chatbot? Its probably stopped working since GPT‑5.
Currently it is not possible to run “Le Chat” ai on a phone without google,
Again its the devopers choice. They could develop a non-google Le Chat.
who on earth needs a chatbot on a phone?
I have never have any problems finding open source alternative apps.
MAPS: Comaps, Organic Maps and MagicEarth, all provide Turn by Turn navigation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn-by-turn_navigation
I dont use any Banking Apps. Why do you need a banking app? I login to my bank in the comfort and safety of my home.
Lineage:
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
If you must use google try E/OS. It Uses MicroG and works very well.
microG is a FLOSS implementation of Google play services
Thank you Eideen
I have never used any back up programs, Maybe I should consider it.
Both Borg and Pike-backup are in the offical repos (extra).
I shall check them out