Rikj000

Rikj000, 2 years ago (edited 2 years ago)

Google software = Spyware with some features on top.

I hate any form of spyware.
I hate how they pampered it with a euphemism and called spy-ware “telemetry”.
I hate how sheeple are sticking their head in the sand regarding the spy-ware a.k.a. “telemetry”.
I hate how we still don’t have enough laws protecting our digital privacy.
I hate how the world appears to be turning into a massive surveillance state…

Please come up for your rights for privacy,
by saying no to spy-ware.

Rikj000, 1 year ago

Terminal still has use-cases imo:

• Some programs only offer CLI, no GUI,
  to use them, the terminal is the only way.
• Sometimes it’s faster to use CLI instead of GUI, especially when you can use your command history to re-execute.
• Testing single lines of scripts while writing them.

Rikj000, 1 year ago

Paying for spy-ware,
how dense do they think we are?!

Let Google rot :)

Rikj000, 1 year ago

I don’t expect that average users will become android/privacy experts.

I don’t even think of my own privacy being all that important.

However systematic privacy,
through laws that protect us all,
that’s what the average joe should be made aware off and stand up for.

Rikj000, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Yes,

But the software on it has been completely re-done to enhance it’s privacy and functionality.

I’m running LineageOSforMicroG,
with Magisk/LSPosed,
to run things like AdAway/XPrivacyLua/Blocker.

Additionally I replace everything I can with FOSS from F-Droid,
and scan all apps from Aurora (Play Store) with ClassyShark3xodus, against well known trackers, to either look for better alternatives, or to block the spy-ware in them with Blocker.

Further, a premium no-log VPN, which has been vetted (servers confiscated in the past, though 0 logs retrieved), configured as always-on + block connections without.

Rikj000, 2 years ago

Btop has been rewritten in C++, hence the ++

Rikj000, 1 year ago

But what do you call a robot that teaches itself how to walk

In it’s current state,
I’d call it ML (Machine Learning)

A human defines the desired outcome,
and the technology “learns itself” to reach that desired outcome in a brute-force fashion (through millions of failed attempts, slightly inproving itself upon each epoch/iteration), until the desired outcome defined by the human has been met.

Rikj000, 1 year ago

That humans in general aren’t?

After working 2 years on an open source ML project, I can confidently say that yes, on average, lights aint that bright sadly.

Rikj000, 1 year ago

Thank you for reminding me about NPCs,
we have indeed been calling them AI for years,
even though they are not capable of reasoning on their own.

Perhaps we need a new term,
e.g. AC (Artificial Consiousness),
which does not exists yet.

The term AI still agitates me though,
since most of these are not intelligent.

For example,
earlier this week I saw a post on Lemmy,
where a LLM suggested to a user to uninstall a package, which would definitely have broken his Linux distro.

Or my co-workers,
who asked development questions I had to the LLMs they use, which yet has to generate me something usefull / something that actually works.

To me it feels like they are pushing their bad beta products upon us,
in the hopes that we pay to use them,
so they can use our feedback to improve them.

To me they don’t feel intelligent nor consious.

Rikj000, 1 year ago

It depends on what you’ll run on it.

LineageOS in itself is good/private.
However the GApps/GMS are not.

I’d recommend replacing GMS with MicroG if you need that for the apps you use,
which still talks to Google,
but in a minimal way.

YouTube isn’t private either,
but Grayjay/NewPipe are.

Rikj000, 1 year ago

Android TV is not free though.

You pay with yourself,
your interests / watch habits,
all being collected and sold to the best bidder for “personalized ads”…

Rikj000, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Take a look for yourself with a rooted phone.

Blocker will show you all the recievers/services/activities/providers the app uses,
and will allow you to block them.

github.com/lihenggui/blocker

Apps often still work correctly with about 80-90% of their recievers/services/providers blocked, since they’re spyware, which doesn’t add functionality to the app.

XPrivacyLua will allow you to lie to apps when they request sensitive data.

Aditionally it will show you timestamps of what it lied about, to which apps, reveiling what they try to collect on you.

github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua

ClassyShark3xodus allows you to decompile and scan apps on the fly,
to check which well known trackers are embedded into it.

bitbucket.org/oF2pks/fdroid-classyshark3xodus

Idk if these apps still do it,
since I have not used them for years,
but that’s how I learned about many things like:

• 9GAG contained a face detector service at some point.
• Facebook Messenger requests access to your microphone, even when you are not calling with it.

Rikj000, 1 year ago

Just find a build with it ripped out / worked around it and play offline?

Rikj000, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Only show interest in open source software,
let the anti consumer surveillance tech companies drown.

For SearX,
checkout these random SearX redirectors:

• GimmeASearX - Self Hosted
  github.com/demostanis/gimmeasearx
• SearX NeoCities - Publicly Hosted searx.neocities.org

Both increase your privacy + prevent rate limits.

Rikj000, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Pair it with a Real-Debrid subscription,
then it’s not leeching,
and with premium speeds ;)

Rikj000, 1 year ago

Contradictions.

Doing nothing?
Yet you’re posting memes,
meaning you did something c:

Rikj000, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

How about WholesomeMemes? :)

lemmy.ml/c/wholesomememes

Rikj000, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Hope these will suffice :)

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