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solrize, (edited ) in VPS suggestions?

I can recommend buyvm. 500gb storage from them (hdd) is $2.5/m I think. You can mount it encrypted. Small hosts like that usually have enough trouble keeping up with the day’s tickets that they can’t spend time messing with your files unless there is a definite issue. Note that if you are serving semi public content (seedbox?) then by definition it’s not very private. And no vps can be as private as using your own hardware.

ArtemisArrow3579,

I am planning on getting an older PC and turning it into a server, but for now I can’t afford it, so I need something temporary

solrize,

You could get a kimsufi or similar cheap dedicated server and again, encrypt a disk partition.

lemmyreader, in British man Aditya Verma appears in Spanish court over plane-bomb hoax

TL;DR

Don’t use snapchat

TIL that Snapchat is an app used in 2024 without E2EE, Wikipedia article on Snapchat :

Encryption

In January 2018, Snapchat introduced the use of end-to-end encryption in the application but only for snaps (pictures and video), according to a Snapchat security engineer presenting at the January 2019 Real World Crypto Conference.[138][139][140] As of the January 2019 conference Snapchat had plans to introduce end-to-end encryption for text messages and group chats in the future.[141]

possiblylinux127,

Its also proprietary so any claim can’t be trusted.

dubyakay, (edited )

Well, doesn’t matter if it’s proprietary. Just need to sniff packets and you’d find out if they are encrypted or not, no?

Edit: looks like it’s not E2E truly. It might be encrypted in flight, but snapchat as an entity can read anyone’s messages. They have a policy to act on threats within thirty minutes and report it to the authorities. Dystopian.

possiblylinux127,

It very much matters. When something is proprietary there is a, no alternatives that will function exactly the same and b, you don’t know what its really doing. For all you know its detecting the sniffing and changing its behavior.

Additionally how do you know what’s being sent if its encrypted.

dubyakay,

Yeah, see my edit.

Before the edit, I just meant the technicality itself: is it actually encrypted or is it plain text? This would have mattered if the state intercepted the message somehow, spying on their citizens. But apparently they did not, because snapchat leaked the data to them in a semi-automated manner: auto-generated incident report based on filtering gets escalated to authorities.

possiblylinux127,

No matter what it was this is just a reminder to use Foss encrypted chats that have been validated by at least one security audit.

UnfortunateShort, in Should I get one of those shielded wallets?

I have a wallet that’s supposedly shielded and it turned out to be useless. Then I got a jammer card as a marketing gimmick. It doesn’t just shield, it creates interferences. The stronger the EM field the better, to some degree. It actually works flawlessly. At least with my smartphone I can’t read any NFC chip near that card.

neuracnu, in Wi-Fi Password On Post-It Note
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I keep this sign framed in my house (for the guest network, of course).

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/9a86b78f-0618-428c-9976-44cde918a816.png

mp3,
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Same but with a QR code

library_napper, (edited )
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this witch has made the incantation invisible!

Samsy, in Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone

Chrome Engine isn’t called Chromium, it’s Blink.

solrize, in Wi-Fi Password On Post-It Note

The Vivaldi link actually goes to theonion.com/wi-fi-password-on-post-it-note-read-… .

Zerush,
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Yes, but I did not want to take credit for this discovery, especially on a federated site, which is why I have shared the toot of the person who found it

solrize, (edited )

The Onion is not exactly obscure. If you want to credit the Vivaldi user, I think it’s still preferable to link the Onion directly, and add a note saying where you found it. That saves people from some clicking and tracking.

pineapplelover,

It’s a mastadon instance and Vivaldi is pretty privacy respecting. (Despite being chromium based)

Zerush, (edited )
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Tracking? I think that the Fediverse isn’t Facebook, no tracking conecting or linking from one to another, tracking from the Onion, but not from Mastodon. Look for yourself who is tracking you themarkup.org/blacklight (nice in your Bookmarks)

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solrize,

If nothing else, your ISP is also tracking.

Zerush, (edited )
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That isn’t avoidable if you don’t use an VPN. ProtonVPN (OpenSource) is fine, even the free one (no logs, encrypted military level, no data limits in the free version, made by cientifics of the CERN)

SheeEttin, (edited )

Discovering what? A very popular satirical news site?

Zerush,
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Not in Spain

Zerush, (edited ) in Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone
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Sorry for the devs who had years of nightmares and insomnia to get their browsers to work on this thing

https://file.coffee/u/ga3_cTune2Bcle1JQCl1V.png

Last news alternativeto.net/…/apple-has-officially-announce…

Dark_Dragon, in Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites

I don’t like brave browser from first use. Something seemed off.

fuggadihere, in Do you use Mull browser? If so you may want to donate to keep Divested computing alive so they can continue to maintain Divest os and Mull among other things.

I never heard about them but looking through the site and seeing the documentation and work put into it I cannot help but donate

JoeKrogan, in Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites
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I’d rather have the sites break to be honest

Zerush, (edited ) in VPS suggestions?
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Maybe

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ArtemisArrow3579,

and the catch is?

Zerush, (edited )
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No catch, iFastNet is a good choice with a very good price. www.infinityfree.com/premium/

liliumstar,

That looks like a web hosting provider, not a VPS.

ArtemisArrow3579,

makes sense lol

leanleft, in VPS suggestions?
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oracle or free trials at the big faang type companies

CazRaX, in NSA Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says

That might be a loophole since they aren’t requesting it legally they are buying it like any other can.

library_napper,
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Fyi, this was only possible since Trump made it legal

CazRaX,

OMG, I don’t care about which boogyman you fear, it would have happened eventually regardless of color in the position. Money and power speaks much louder than political party.

makeasnek, (edited ) in NSA Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says
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Elections have consequences. Vote in generals and vote in primaries. Tell your reps (and potential reps) that you care about privacy.

N0x0n, (edited )

Haha… If elections had any impact, it’s long time ago we would have seen any changes… ! Every year the same parade, with the illusion of choice between a turd or a piece of shit… Either way, they both come out of the same a Hole and reeks the same…

Money = power ! Vote with your wallet instead… Stop buying unecessary things, just shut down your TV, radio, mobile… and open your mind to the REAL outside world, reconnect with your intuition, stop filling your body with deadly poison and stop being a brainless sheep (not saying you’re, it’s a figure of speech).

Than maybe we will see some real changes :)

makeasnek,
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You can do both. You always get the same shitty options to vote for because most people don’t vote, and even fewer of them vote in primaries or participate in the political process in other ways.

BobGnarley,

How is voting for the lesser of two evils ever going to change that every year you will still get to vote between the “lesser” of two evils?

makeasnek,
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The reason you only get to vote for the “lesser of two evils” is because you don’t participate in primaries (assuming you are talking about the US system here). If MAGA can get a psycho like Trump to be their party nominee, you can get your kind of psycho nominated as well.

Primaries are where you actually get a chance to express what kind of candidate you want. Hell, you can even run for office! Generals are where you hold your nose and vote for the lesser of two evils because otherwise it’s an automatic vote for the worst of the two evils.

I agree voting seems pointless sometimes. But it’s still important. But it’s a lever of power you have access to and nobody can take it away from you no. And you can spend the 364 other days of the year impacting politics in other ways.

queermunist,
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The reason you only get to vote for the “lesser of two evils” is because you don’t participate in primaries (assuming you are talking about the US system here)

Just popping in to remind you they destroyed the Iowa caucus to stop Bernie.

makeasnek, (edited )
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There was some shady stuff on behalf of the DNC but he legitimately lost. He didn’t get the votes. Because his voters didn’t vote in the primaries. A number of reforms have been made to the primary system since then, a bunch of the people who oversaw that primary got fired, and many states are now moving towards ranked choice voting which will eliminate the need for primaries entirely. If half the people who complain about how voting is useless actually participated in the primary process, our political landscape would look a lot different. I used to be one of those people, I get it, the whole damned thing is a bit of a racket, but it doesn’t change that voting takes 5 minutes and has a concrete impact on who runs the government.

Edit: And that’s the presidential race. You can make much more of a difference, and the rules are much less wonky, in local and state elections. Hell, many of those positions are entirely uncontested.

queermunist,
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He “legitimately” lost after they handed Iowa to a nobody loser like Pete to render Iowa irrelevant in the future. You don’t really think Pete won, do you? Sure, they gave the appearance of “cleaning up” after Iowa, but that was always the plan! Now Iowa is done as a relevant caucus state.

I voted in Iowa. Getting my caucus vote made irrelevant showed me the Democratic Party is not a viable vehicle. They’ll literally throw out your votes if they don’t like it.

BobGnarley,

That worked out well for Florida that one time. But you’re missing what gets people nominated to the general primaries, boat loads of money. If you don’t have that, good luck getting anyone you want to win to run. Thoughts and prayers and wishing don’t fund a campaign, but money does.

N0x0n,

Can’t argue against that :)

BobGnarley,

All of these bills they pass about spying on you (“PATRIOT” act, PRISM, etc) all have pretty astounding bipartisan support. I mean they can’t agree on anything except when it comes to spying on us or wiping out whole societies of people that don’t look like we want them to look. They all fucking incredibly come together and agree on that. Every time.

free, in Do you use Mull browser? If so you may want to donate to keep Divested computing alive so they can continue to maintain Divest os and Mull among other things.

Don’t use forks. Projects come and go.

lemmyuser30, (edited )

LibreOffice was a fork of OpenOffice. Tell me why I shouldn’t use LibreOffice and should use OpenOffice.

retro,

Or why I shouldn’t use Jellyfin over Emby.

possiblylinux127,

Forks are the only way when the upstream sucks

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