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possiblylinux127, in Proton Mail CEO Calls New Address Verification Feature 'Blockchain in a Very Pure Form'

Don’t use proton…

You can’t just give all of your data to one company and expect it to be private

volleyballcrocodile,

Is your suggestion to self host your email or not use email? I’m not sure why you couldn’t find a company that you do trust, and proton seems to be one of the most likely candidates.

LWD, (edited )

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  • volleyballcrocodile,

    I suppose that’s a fair point, although I thought they didn’t have access to your data in terms of email content. I agree with the point about not putting all your eggs in one basket but I’d seriously consider them for email only.

    psychhim,
    @psychhim@mastodon.social avatar
    possiblylinux127,

    Disroot uses proprietary JavaScript so I won’t consider it an option. I use posteo but I’m actually considering self hosting.

    The problem is that I probably would end up renting a VPS which would be much more expensive for little gain.

    In all reality email is pretty unprivate by design. Its better to focus on encrypted messaging.

    psychhim,
    @psychhim@mastodon.social avatar

    @possiblylinux127 okay. But self hosting Posteo on a VPS ! The VPS company can still see your mails if it's imap and maybe give them to the government as well.

    SplicedBrainwrap, in Difference with "Select" and "Copy" availability between browsers

    I wasn’t able to replicate this, in safari highlighting a couple words or several hundred words both worked fine, the copy option was there and stayed there both times. I tried on a iPad mini and an iPhone SE

    wowwoweowza,

    Well, that’s good news. Not sure why it was easy for me in Firefox but impossible in Safari.

    Thanks for taking a peek.

    hersh,

    Any Safari extensions installed that might be interfering with this behavior? That’s the best I can figure.

    JackSkellington, in Medical devices and user privacy

    Hello! I have some experience on that as a user(cpap) and as someone that checked the IT system for an health provider that used resmed.

    • it’s super late here already so I’ll in greater detail what usually happens with resmed equipment as well as what the company may be receiving in their systems
    breeze,

    Hey there, it looks like the text got cut in the middle.

    neutron, in Medical devices and user privacy

    What about rental programs, OP? You can try one for a month and see what models suit your needs.

    breeze,

    Considered that, but I got tight budgets to run around. I want to avoid spending more than I should. But thank you.

    WarmSoda, in Medical devices and user privacy

    What would a hacker even do with it? They would… maybe know how often you stop breathing at night?

    Donjuanme,

    Sounds like he wants to air that he’s willing to not sleep well for the sake of… People not knowing he doesn’t sleep well… I’m not losing any sleep over this, I hope Mr. “People can’t know I don’t sleep well” doesn’t either.

    Also the idea of privacy while posting to a public forum. Er but by the grace of god go I.

    breeze,

    Also the idea of privacy while posting to a public forum. Er but by the grace of god go I.

    Sure, dude. I’m soooo sorry because I’m asking questions about privacy on a privacy community.

    WarmSoda, (edited )

    Yeah OPs concerns are overkill.

    They’ve already shared on a public forum that anyone can read far more information than anyone could get from “hacking” a CPAP.

    breeze,

    Don’t you have better things to do instead of jerking each other off in a post you sure don’t even care about?

    rar,

    The nature of his medical condition isn’t relevant here. It could be his blood pressure, heart beats, whatever that makes an insurance company charge a premium on that poor sucker.

    AtariDump,

    It doesn’t log that data.

    WarmSoda,

    CPAP machines only do one thing.

    rar,

    I get your message, but I was not referring to the machine. I was referring that the what kind of data logged by the machine didn’t matter in the context of privacy.

    WarmSoda, (edited )

    The kind of data logged by the machine is how often they stop breathing, and how long they sleep. That’s literally all it does.

    You can’t be concerned about the data it transmits and also say the data it transmits doesn’t matter in the context.

    breeze,

    It’s not the collected data itself that’s the problem you dipshit. Don’t you know that distributors often make customers sign contracts at lease or purchase for warranty and tie that customer data along with statistics? You must be fun at parties.

    WarmSoda,

    I am fun at parties. I actually go to them. And I don’t worry about things like how much my freaking CPAP machine is spying on me lmao

    breeze,

    No sense talking to a chatbot taking things literally at face value.

    WarmSoda,

    That’s true, I agree. Not sure what that has to do with anything here but ok.

    breeze,

    So what? I post concerns about user privacy on a privacy forum and this is what I get? A gatekeeping comment about how my concerns are overblown? Way to promote the platform.

    WarmSoda,

    Ok. What privacy exactly are you concerned with?

    AtariDump, in Medical devices and user privacy

    What make/model?

    It’s usually connected with a cellular modem.

    You can put an SD card in the side and potentially use OSCAR to read the data with the ResMed Airsense 11.

    My insurance, if in a poor cell area, would let me ship the data to them on an SD card. I had to if I didn’t want to pay full sticker price for the machine.

    breeze,

    I was considering a BMC, but still asking providers. And thank you for the program’s name - I knew there were more people like us.

    AtariDump,

    PM me if you want more info

    Mereo, in Not even Notepad is safe from Microsoft’s big AI push in Windows

    Thank God I switched to Linux. Windows 11 is a glimpse of what’s coming in Windows 12.

    PanArab,
    @PanArab@lemmy.ml avatar

    Which text editor do you use?

    kat_angstrom, in Not even Notepad is safe from Microsoft’s big AI push in Windows

    And that’s why I use Notepad++! …at least until AI ends up there

    Zeon,

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  • SuperSpruce,

    Notepad++ is FOSS and licenced under the GPL: notepad-plus-plus.org

    TCB13, (edited ) in Alternatives to Canva?
    @TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

    A self-hosted or desktop Canva would be cool indeed.

    There’s www.photopea.com that is very good and framagit.org/aktivisda/aktivisda that I’ve never used.

    governorkeagan,

    Photopea might be what I’m looking for. I’ll have a look on my PC tomorrow morning

    poVoq, in Not even Notepad is safe from Microsoft’s big AI push in Windows
    @poVoq@slrpnk.net avatar

    I am getting Clippy flashbacks 😆

    xilliah,

    Huyyy I looks like you’re bitching about your family in your diary. Do you need help with that?

    LWD, (edited ) in Not even Notepad is safe from Microsoft’s big AI push in Windows

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

    Notepad is heavily used as an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) by a lot of people. It’s not exactly a good development environment but it is nonetheless. I would actually argue Notepad is used primarily by programmers, and that casual Windows Notepad users are in the extreme minority. The whole reason it’s so heavily used is because unlike WordPad or Word, it doesn’t include formatting data, which can fuck up computer code.

    Notepad++ for example is literally built to be more like an actual IDE and supports color-schemes and indentations for numerous computer programming languages.

    Microsoft isn’t entirely stupid (just mostly), and in knowing this, they’re pushing to put their programming Copilot where they think it needs to be: Inside IDEs, which to them includes Notepad.

    _MusicJunkie,

    Notepad++ may very well be widely used as an IDE. Notepad isn’t. Other than the name they have nothing do do with each other. It’s just a plain text editor with absolutely no features. Maybe some people use it to write code but unless you can’t use anything else, even a web browser, why would you.

    bstix,

    Notepad is used by anyone who wants to see what is actually in a text file.

    It’s used a lot for stuff where data is transferred in a text format. Comma separated files etc. are still widely used for transferring data flawlessly without having to convert types or mapping a document standard or whatever method that could potentially fuck up or just take more time. It’s simple and it works.

    F.i if you open a file in excel or word, change one character and then save, you can bet that the entire file is fucked up afterwards, because those programs don’t show the data directly. The moment you open it, it might very well be fucked up just from that. If you transfer a file by some kind of JSON format, which is all the rage currently you’ll have to map it from both ends, and it also begs the question: Why are we doing running all this code just to transfer one byte?

    The beauty of text files is that it’s (almost) raw data. (Only “almost” because there are still different localization standards that can fuck up even a text file.)

    Notepad covers that. Of course we could use other apps for viewing data, but most of the time, it actually is text and not hexidemal codes or whatever you can save in bytes.

    Programming wise, the only thing I use notepad for is making DOS batch files. Again, because it’s raw text and should be created and read as such. No parsing, no compiling. Just text. I’ll also use it for storing data for programs, because it’s easy and raw.

    For actual programs, it’d be better to get Notepad++ or MS visual studio code, which at least will highlight commands and collapse functions etc. And still, these also aren’t actually IDEs, because they don’t compile the code (unless you get those add-ins).

    We could also use those for text files as well, but it’s overkill. I don’t really want to open an app to view data. Notepad is small and quick and not bloated with features, which is ideal for whenever I only want to see what’s in the file.

    The original MS Paint was similar for pictures. They fucked that up real good. Its been…14 years and I haven’t really gotten over how bad it is. It used to be pixel perfect and logical, but now you can’t even save a file with transparency, but hey here’s s brush with stroke width and blur that’ll make sure you can’t edit a single pixel. Way to go Microsoft.

    If they do the same to Notepad, I’ll have to resign my job, because it’s not going to work like that.

    Melody, (edited ) in How do I prevent others random device suggestions in Public Areas?

    Search through your settings for a “Quick Pair” or “Fast Pair” option. Turn it OFF. Do not leave it turned on except during times when you’re wanting to use a known device you’ve bought new that supports the feature.

    Turn the feature off when not setting up new devices to work with other devices.

    LunchEnjoyer,
    @LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world avatar

    Thanks! Got it 😊👍

    lemann,

    For anyone running a ROM based very closely on AOSP, the ability to disable Fast Pair was sadly not built into the OS until Android 14

    Before Android 14, it is possible that Google has backported this setting to your device using Play Services. It can be found under Google Settings, Devices and sharing, Devices, and “Show Notifications”

    Moghul,

    That was it for me, thanks

    GlitzyArmrest,
    @GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world avatar

    On Graphene with Sandboxed Google Play (even on Android 14), this was where the setting was.

    _MusicJunkie, in Is this even legal? Hiding data deletion behind login (after email request)

    Did you tell them that you don’t have access to your account? Because to me, this reads like the default answer (“here’s how you do it yourself”), not like they won’t do it by email if asked to do so.

    My company does the same - if you ask our support how to delete the data, they will send you a link to the customer portal. Only if you tell them that doesn’t work for you, they will work out another way.

    We built the feature into the customer portal, so we want people to use it if possible. Because that’s way less work for our support team.

    pacjo,

    First I wrote on live chat support. After they couldn’t help me, I sent the email.

    …and it’s not the email alone I’m mad at (maybe a little) but the overall experience I had with them. After explaining my issue I was told multiple times they couldn’t do anything and the best suggestion I got was “you could create another account”, that’s not helpful. What am I supposed to do, just leave the old one to die slowly and forgotten?

    survivalmachine, in Is this even legal? Hiding data deletion behind login (after email request)

    saying when the account was created (month and year)

    This is an absurd requirement, but do you have a ballpark idea, and does it let you continue to guess multiple times? Submit a few dozen password reset requests and if they complain, tell them to verify you via alternate means.

    pacjo,

    It allows 3 guesses, but I don’t know how often they reset. I’m pretty sure the account was created after September 2019, but that’s still a lot of possibilities.

    sxan, in Golang telemetry (again)
    @sxan@midwest.social avatar

    As long as it’s opt-in (which it is), I’m not sure I understand the concern. You’d have to enable it.

    Go has been routing module requests through GOPROXY since modules were introduced; it’s where all of the mod version is cached, so any time anyone builds a Go package from source, calls are made to the mother ship. Unless the builder is running their own proxy, which is mostly corps, who care less about this sort of telemetry. There are good, valid reasons for the main Go proxy, but it’s certainly also a valid concern that the Go core dev team is utterly deaf to.

    In any case, the only thing that’s new is the telemetry which, as I mentioned, is opt-in. I don’t see any reason for new concern.

    RuikkaaPrus,
    @RuikkaaPrus@lemmy.ml avatar

    So, that means telemetry is optional? How I ensure is currently active or not? Just wanna an explanation. I (as I said) searched about this thing and got almost nothing :(

    it’s where all of the mod version is cached, so any time anyone builds a Go package from source, calls are made to the mother ship.

    I don’t understand it at all. Why I’ll need something like that?

    Thank you for your response!

    kevincox,
    @kevincox@lemmy.ml avatar

    Why I’ll need something like that?

    IIUC it is mostly to avoid placing huge load on the original package host when people download the same package hundreds of times a day in their CI workflow. It also means that Google can take control over the user experience rather than huge issues coming up every time some smaller host goes down or someone deletes an existing package version.

    Overall I doubt that this proxy was added as a source of tracking. And the privacy policy on the service is pretty strict: proxy.golang.org/privacy. So even though I am pretty wary of Google overall I think this is actually a fairly reasonable decision by them to have enabled by default.

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

    That’s a pretty good explanation about. Care if you reply the source of your information? I’d wanna keep it as reference <3

    Thank you!

    kevincox,
    @kevincox@lemmy.ml avatar

    I don’t really have a source. It is just me thinking logically about the system and many offhand comments I have read over time. Other than the privacy policy which I have linked.

    kevincox,
    @kevincox@lemmy.ml avatar

    I don’t know what you mean by “the source of this concept”.

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

    Sorry my english spell is a shees.

    I corrected my post

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