Check this box to affirm you have no conflict of interest. on Website [image] GitHub - divestedcg/Brace: Offers a wide range of opinionated settings that... Offers a wide range of opinionated settings that prioritize privacy, security, and usability for a curated set of Linux pro…

What applications does Brace install for you? I haven’t had a close look at the repo yet, but it seems like it installs a hardened version of Chromium? I’d love any testimony from your experiences using it, if applicable.

I personally find that Brace’s applications are less important than the configurations. But Brace does help install stuff like Tor Browser without having to compile it from source or use the Tor Browser Installer, which is useful.

Hello, I know the question wasn’t directed at me, but I want to share my experience. I’ll put here the direct link to the program package, to facilitate the discussion: brace/usr/sbin/brace-installer 18e41d342 #!/bin/bash #Copyright (c) 2015-2020 Divested Computing Group # #Th…

@anon63378630 Please let me know if you would prefer me to ask this elsewhere, but are there any plans for adding in Brace the option to replace GNU utils with uutils , sudo with sudo-rs , bash with fish shell , and sysctl with systeroid ? I was considering opening up a topic to ask PG to suggest these …

@anonymous261 changes like that would be out of scope and should be done by the distro

Would you be able to consider Phoenix instead of Arkenfox for Brace? [image] Phoenix, a suite of Firefox configurations hammer_and_wrenchTool Suggestions Website https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix Short description Phoenix is a suite of configurations & ad…

I like Phoenix, I mean, some stuff annoys me sometimes, but it’s more due to BadBlock than anything, arkenfox is just like a simple base that requires the user to know more about security, e.g. you should disable Firefox’s password manager in favor of your own, whereas Phoenix makes these decisions …

Some notable things to me that Brace fixes for example are: blocks unauthenticated installs/removals with PackageKit on Fedora, enables opportunistic DoT, enables IPv6 privacy extensions (disabled on Fedora! as if it was a server or something! bad), uses NTS for secure time (helps with the use of ti…

Hi everyone, especially @anon63378630 , thank you for creating Brace, it is very useful. Also, I would love to get feedback from Brace users. I’m not technical, so please excuse me if these questions seem basic. I am interested in using Firefox with ArkenFox via Brace on my Fedora GNOME system for b…

[image] doan: plain ArkenFox ArkenFox is a template, brace changes some few settings as marked with the //BRACE comments [image] doan: match or replace the Mullvad Browser no, you should still make use of Mullvad and Tor Browser where appropriate, but just use eg. Braced Firefox as yo…

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