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Tiritibambix, in Feeling like Privacy is a lost war.
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First, remember that you’re not fighting this war alone. The most important part is educating people who are curious about it around you.

Second, it’s not about winning; it’s about being the biggest pain in the ass possible for people making money off our privacy.

Keep fighting in the way that suits you best.

Facebones,

Second, it’s not about winning; it’s about being the biggest pain in the ass possible for people making money off our privacy.

This. I don’t think I’m “fighting a war,” but I pay for my own email server, self host a number of services, and am waiting on my pixel 8 now to run Graphene OS on. I can’t be “off the grid” but I don’t have to fuel everyone’s data hoarding machines.

jacktherippah, in Nick from The Linux Experiment will soon be interviewing Proton CEO Andy Yen And Wants Your Questions For him

When will the Proton Mail client not rely on GMS for push notifications

jacktherippah, in Deciding between Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8

I’d get the Pixel because of the long, not to mention timely software updates and security patches, better hardware and GrapheneOS. If you do get the Fairphone, use DivestOS. See this comparison

nottheengineer,

Thanks, I’ve been looking for a comparison like that but search engines have just gotten ridiculously bad. /e/ slacking on the webview updates is interesting and steers me away from it.

I’m leaning towards the fairphone right now because it’s cheaper at 256GB and not smaller than my current phone. DivestOS looks like it does most of what grapheneOS would do for me.

jacktherippah,

Glad I could help!

mojo, in Proton Mail CEO Calls New Address Verification Feature 'Blockchain in a Very Pure Form'

What is wrong with doing something like pgp key servers?

koper,

Key servers can be dishonest, so you need to have another way of verifying that the key you receive is correct.

Catsrules,

Blockchains are an immutable ledger, meaning any data initially entered onto them can’t be altered. Yen realized that putting users’ public keys on a blockchain would create a record ensuring those keys actually belonged to them – and would be cross-referenced whenever other users send emails. “In order for the verification to be trusted, it needs to be public, and it needs to be unchanging,” Yen said.

Pipoca,

How do you ensure the accuracy of the data going into the block chain in the first place?

Catsrules,

That I don’t know the answer too. And i would like more information about how it works. I am mostly familiar with Crypto in block chains work and I still wouldn’t say i fully understand that either.

I am also a little confused when they say unchanging. Sure block chain are unchanging but I am assuming you can add new data that would take priority of old data. I don’t think you would want a system that you could never change your key once you add it. Because that is stupid keys can and will get compromised eventually.

chicken,

You query the blockchain after you submit your data to confirm that it is what you intended it to be.

Cheradenine, in Helping others privacy through self-hosting?

You could do a SearxNG instance searx.space

Eggyhead,
@Eggyhead@kbin.social avatar

This is the first I’ve heard searXNG. This is really cool!

Blxter,
@Blxter@lemmy.zip avatar

Yes agreed I have been looking for a new search engine I was using something like 4get or something but it wanted me to do a captcha every day.

Jamie,
@Jamie@jamie.moe avatar

I can second this. I have SearxNG running in a docker container by itself and it requires no real maintenance of any kind. I do have a cron job that updates the docker container once per day, but it ran for ages on the same version without issues.

TofuWater,
@TofuWater@lemmy.world avatar

Is this a Tor Exit type situation? Where my IP will be flagged with whatever someone is searching? If not this looks incredibly easy to set up!

jlow, (edited ) in Deciding between Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8

I have a friend who (just like me) has had a FP3, we were both very happy with it. Not sure why but he needed to replace it, got the FP5 but it was to clunky for him. Replaced it with a Pixel with Graphene likes it a lot.

I’d still still perfectly happy with my FP3 running Lineage/MicroG but my SD-card slot seems to be broken and I’m running out of space. I’m getting a FP5 in about a week, let’s see if it’s too clunky for me as well ^__^

jlow,

I don’t trust e (that name 🤦‍♀️) not sure why but they pulled some weird stuff in the beginning that I can’t remember and at least back when I checked years ago they shipped a weird store that got it’s apps from shady apk sites which is a strange move to push on everyday consumers. I hope they changed but …

random65837, in Michael Bazzell's Irish Exit

The people that just learned about him get screwed with the old episodes not being available, but for those of us listening for a while now, he didn’t have a lot more to cover anymore, the last year has basically been retouching on old stuff.

He made starting up a privacy podcast useless, now, somebody may step up. Although he’d be hard to beat.

TheButtonJustSpins, (edited ) in Deciding between Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8

Try Petal Maps; might be able to replace Google Maps for you. It also has traffic info.

pkill,

OsmAnd is better since Petal Maps is proprietary.

nottheengineer,

I already have Osmand and while it’s a great offline map, it can’t pick the fastest route for me every single day.

jlow,

Another alternative is OrganicMaps which people seem to like. I can’t stand then colors and it hasn’t as many features but it’s nice otherwise

wowib56056, in Feeling like Privacy is a lost war.

Privacy is not just an illusion; it’s a delusion. Things like privacy statements and permission to use cookies are little more than sophisticated propaganda. If you think for a moment the Overlords cannot prepare a dossier on you within minutes that would make your mother faint and your father die of shame, you’re living in fantasy land. You have no idea how much data they store on individuals, and not just credit card purchases: tracking data, telephone conversations, text messages, anything you ever posted on the Internet. It’s a devouring machine. Get in their way, and you will find out how much they know about you. It has been this way for a very long time. This is nothing new. And yes, they really can turn on your cell phone camera and microphone at will without lights, so long as the battery is attached. And VPN? I laugh when I think about VPN. There is no cryptographic protocol used on the Internet, that the Overlords who brought all these technologies out in the first place, cannot decipher. None. The only way to live with this level of privacy evasion is to accept the reality of it. Stop thinking you are ever alone. Out in the middle of nowhere with no electronics on you? Maybe

metaStatic,

the internet wasn't made by overlords you utter twat.

it was made by hippies that thought we didn't need to lock our doors because everyone should live in harmony.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Lmao this “Overlords” guy again. How many fucking alts are you going to spin up to keep shitting out this over-simplistic drivel. This one is just 24 minutes old.

Like, do you really have nothing the fuck better to do with your life other than shit out some fearmongering about “Overlords?” The fact that you can’t name them by name but are using a dumbfuck “overlords/illuminati/what-the-fuck-ever” shows how simplistic this thought process you’re going through is.

MrBubbles96,

His comments were deleted (as I’m guessing his whole account), but I’m almost morbidly curious about whatever he was claiming to be the cause (I’m gonna wager it was “ThE ELiTe trying to subjegate the masses, man!” for $200?)

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

And what do you bet his version of the elite trying to subjugate the masses is being told he can’t say ethnic slurs online.

MrBubbles96,

Oh, he’s one of those “muh freedoms to be a racist jackass are being censored!” types? I mean, from how you called him out in your comment, you seem to have had dealings with this guy (or his alts that I’m guessing were very short lived) in other threads, so I’ll take your word for it if that’s the case. Regardless, it wouldn’t surprise me either way if he was since again, to have to keep making alts to say his piece…

MayonnaiseArch, in Proton Mail CEO Calls New Address Verification Feature 'Blockchain in a Very Pure Form'
@MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org avatar

The best thing is reading all of this with github.com/samhocevar/no-fucking-thanks

quaver,

This announcement doesn’t have anything to do with cryptocurrencies or nfts. I’m not sure if I like the idea yet either, but please don’t conflate it with all that other scammy nonsense.

0xD,

You should first try reading it at all.

MayonnaiseArch,
@MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org avatar

I dont want to, I just said it looks interesting if you use that addon.

andruid,

While it is funny (honestly replacing any tech term with circlejerk in a tech article makes it sound so funny to me, I have the mind of a child), it’s not very relevent here.

electric_nan, in Time to ditch #duckduckgo

I get the same shit at work where I can’t use a VPN: like 7-8 relevant results then basically just ads for local businesses after that.

touzovitch, in ̶P̶r̶o̶t̶e̶c̶t̶ Obfuscate your content from bots and AIs
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umami_wasbi,

I’m browsing via the Jerboa app, which I can’t read anything except some non sense strings.

You got the idea but the execution is subpar TBH. Browsers are not the only method to view contents nowadays.

touzovitch, (edited )
@touzovitch@lemmy.ml avatar

You’re right, App traffic is something we’ll need to crack. But as a first step, anything traffic going through a web browser is already significant.

wowwoweowza,

I see what you did there.

aprnu, in Signal's new version notification keeps popping up

Yes, I believe it has something to do with the new changes implemented because of the usernames.

Well, let them know about it, you have few options for that: GitHub, Official Forum or Signal Support website (how to get debug logs? read here).

There is also unofficial instance on Lemmy, cross post it over there.

I have the same problem on Signal (PNP), custom rom.

Extrasvhx9he,

Really appreciate it, I didnt even realize they had an official forum

andruid, in ̶P̶r̶o̶t̶e̶c̶t̶ Obfuscate your content from bots and AIs

Can you create custom decryption keys? I like the idea of an easy to use encryption mechanism for non private platforms.

touzovitch,
@touzovitch@lemmy.ml avatar

What do you mean by non private platforms?

In this POC, you can only encrypt content using Redakt’s public key. That way you are guaranteed to see the content since the key is already installed in the extension.

I intend to add the option to encrypt with a custom sharable key in the v.2.

andruid,

Honestly even this platform, but any public platform without e2e and the direct choice of who to share it with.

BurningRiver, in Is this VPN comparison breakdown trustworthy?

I use PIA, it was recommended to me by a cybersec friend of mine. It’s dirt cheap as well. $79usd for like 3 years I think?

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