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const_void, in This is how I KNOW it works as intended

Oh no! Anyway…

anarchy79,
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Ha ha hah!

sjmulder, in This is how I KNOW it works as intended

The world turned upside dooooowwwwn 🎵

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll counter with

I don’t want to set the world on fire

moon, in This is how I KNOW it works as intended

Weird, I don’t have this. Also installing the Bypass Paywall extension might help if it comes up.

anarchy79,
@anarchy79@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for the tip but I’m good. I’m not going to waste more energy fighting to read whatever CNN has to say if they take such issue with my “browser configuration”.

Shepy, in Invidious dragging to a halt

I got sick of some of the various Invidious instances taking 5+ refreshes to load a video, so ended up installing my own instance and its been a much nicer experience

7heo,
@7heo@lemmy.ml avatar

I suspect one of the ways that Google detects the invidious instances is with the instance’s behavior: if a lot of different clients use a given instance, it makes it stand out.

Therefore using your own instance is a good way to get around that problem. I think I’ll try that as well.

Shepy,

Seriously worth a go, takes minutes to setup if you’re already ready for docker containers. Restart it often (dailiy is the official guidance, i find it doesnt need that with only me as user, i just do it when it starts to feel sluggish) - and I’ve put it behind a reverse proxy with auth to keep it to myself

7heo,
@7heo@lemmy.ml avatar

I mean, in 2024 half of the IT landscape takes minutes to deploy if you can run docker containers… 😅

“It works on my machine!” - “then we’ll ship your machine” meme

library_napper,
@library_napper@monyet.cc avatar

And that’s why there’s so many supply chain vulnerabilities in servers now

Shepy,

Yup, pretty much :P

shootwhatsmyname, in Invidious dragging to a halt
@shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee avatar

I’ve found small invidious instances seem to work better. There’s also Piped

ruplicant,
@ruplicant@sh.itjust.works avatar

damn, even with seeing the bot around here i forgot to try Piped these days

anyway, i’ve found a solution - i had “proxy videos through Invidious” turned on on Freetube (which was redundant since i’m behind a VPN). i’ve unchecked it and things seem fime now

still, thank you

exocrinous, in Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control

The admin of Blahaj is openly interested in exposing trans people’s alt accounts and outing them on their mains. And somehow it’s the biggest trans instance. We need a community and admin reaction in favour of defederating people who do that.

magnor,
@magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh avatar

Wait what? Do you have a source for this?

exocrinous,
magnor,
@magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh avatar

I don’t see much proof. Did anyone corroborate?

exocrinous,

In order to show you proof I would have to help Ada in her attempts at doxxing, but I asked a friend who saw the whole thing to confirm.

magnor,
@magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh avatar

I understand this is hard to prove without doxxing. This situation is very concerning, and if true absolutely disgusting.

moreeni, in Invidious dragging to a halt

FreeTube with local API works good. Same with NewPipe

ruplicant,
@ruplicant@sh.itjust.works avatar

yeah on Newpipe videos load fine. thanks to your comment I noticed Freetube is giving me an error with local API, so that’s why

Tatar_Nobility, in Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

I see myself blowing up a pipeline.

lugal,
Tatar_Nobility,

I am intrigued to know what is the original message.

tatterdemalion, (edited ) in How bad is Idea of .Zip as password manager?
@tatterdemalion@programming.dev avatar

If your goal is to “self-host” a password manager, you might as well use Keepass + SyncThing.

  • free software
  • master password protected
  • has organization and auto-fill features
  • can sync across multiple devices

Usually the downfall of rolling your own password manager is it’s easier to make mistakes and accidentally lock yourself out. Or if you don’t keep backups/replicas then you could easily lose your passwords.

gray,
@gray@pawb.social avatar

Or self host Bitwarden and you don’t have to bother with syncing the file around.

wreckedcarzz,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

Vaultwarden (server) + bitwarden (application, extensions), and save money while getting most enterprise features.

joeldebruijn, in What site can scan sites for trackers?
willya,
@willya@lemmyf.uk avatar

Mobile safari even blocked more than this website found.

dysprosium,

Sooo safari is hallucinating or blacklight failed us

willya, (edited )
@willya@lemmyf.uk avatar

Try newsbreak.com, that’s a shitshow.

dysprosium,

YESSS! Exactly what I was looking for again. I can’t believe this site is so hard to find manually. Not the right keywords? Invisible…

Loucypher,

That is because search engines are shittier by the day

lemmyreader,

Thanks for that.

Subverb, in Is there a search engine that filters out cookie wall and paywall pages ?

Use kagi.com. By default it indicates pay walled sites and you can also block whole domains if you choose. Listicles are broken out separately and if you’re feeling ambitious Kagi supports regex-based redirects, so you could redirect paywalled domains to a paywall bypass website.

Tangent5280,

Im concerned that adopting kagi is just taking your data back from multiple greedy corporations and giving it to one corporation instead, and also giving them a direct link to who you are via your payment method.

Subverb,

Understandable. Unfortunately, this is the world we live in.

loudwhisper,

Their privacy policy is rock solid, and there is no business incentive for them to do so, at the moment.

Tangent5280,

Wish they would atleast allow payments in crypto.

hydrogen,
floofloof, in Bitwarden Privacy Software Stack Survey

Is “favorite” the one you use or the one you know you should use?

AtariDump,

I took it as “the one I currently use the most”

LWD, in Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control

There’s a grim tragedy in how many people in this comment section have either succumbed to defeat or actively seek to advocate against privacy.

The comments can mostly be boiled down to:

  • My data is online already, and I give up
  • Your data is online already, and you don’t deserve control over it
  • I have nothing to hide and nothing to fear (and you should too)

You will find Fediverse types are far more cynical and antagonistic to privacy than people on other platforms.

Tangent5280,

But why? Is there a compromise taken on privacy in favour of visibility and mass adoption of whatever fediverse client they’re using? I don’t understand this, especially since I also find the strongest advocates for privacy right here.

LWD,

A lot of Lemmy adopters joined with rose tinted glasses, and came with a lot of good ideas, like getting data out of the hands of big companies, making it easy to access it (as Reddit locked down APIs), etc. Which is all good, but a subset of them believe “not officially belonging to one company” is good enough. As for how your data is handled online, a subset of them believe nothing can be improved, and a subset believes it shouldn’t be improved because your data shouldn’t belong to you at all.

And Lemmy is made up of all sorts, so there’s overlap between Reddit refugees and diehard fans. That interaction is a lot more implicit here, but the friction is a lot more visible on sites like Mastodon where similar privacy discussions have been happening.

Devorlon,

I’ve not seen any of these arguments. Though it may be all downvoted to hell and back.

My main gripe with adding privacy features to Lemmy is that the whole point of Lemmy is that all data is already publicly available and for Lemmy to continue working the way it does it’ll need to remain that way. And because of that there’s nothing that can be done to stop bad actors setting up an instance and selling all the data they collect.

At least in the EU (and UK to a lesser extent) no major corporation would be able to get away with selling that data, so the spent man hours on allowing privacy settings would be wasted time.

LemmyHead,

It doesn’t necessarily need to remain that way. For example,we should have the option to make our profiles private. We should also be able to create pseudonyms for content we submit. The content will still be federated, but not necessarily linked to one user ID

risencode, in Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control

The only privacy setting I can encourage on any social media site is don’t share private stuff about yourself and never link to your account from other accounts

LemmyHead,

That is part of the problem though. Proper privacy allows you to express what you want to, without self censorship. The issue is not: don’t speak about x, but rather: speak about it and feel comfortable that you can do it in a safe environment. I fully agree with the account linking though

Quereller, in the encryption keys, why can't the government just sneak on them?

I think no one has mentioned the base for all the cryptographic functions. A mathematical operation which is simple in one direction but very hard in the the other (backwards). The factorisation of large prime numbers is one example.

zaknenou, (edited )
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I’m satisfied with the answers and insights I got so far. But if you may add I’d be happy to know why factorization of prime numbers is so crucial in cryptography. I heard about this a lot before but don’t know anything. I know quite well about Prime number and theorems about them on math, but not their applications

Rootiest,
@Rootiest@lemmy.world avatar

As I understand it, it’s just as they said:

Calculating primes is fairly straightforward so you calculate a few large prime numbers, and do some math to them.

Now you have a strong key that didn’t require a supercomputer to create but taking that final number and turning it back into those original primes is a much more computationally expensive proposition.

In fact, it’s one that’s not viable with current technology.

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