FutileRecipe

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Why you shouldn't use a SIM card and use an hotspot as an alternative (piped.video)

The video discusses the privacy concerns associated with SIM cards in mobile phones, highlighting three main reasons to be cautious. First, it explains how SIM cards enable constant location tracking through communication with cell towers. Second, it delves into the autonomy of SIM cards, particularly proactive SIMs that can...

FutileRecipe,

You know landlines are still in use, right?

Mine didn’t work so well when I left the house.

FutileRecipe, (edited )

I guess people just started to realise that mini x86s exist too

People always knew x86s existed. I think the main culprit is the price gap between them and Pis is decreasing. Pis used to be around $35, which has skyrocketed to 3-5x MSRP, plus they were unavailable for a long time. Now the Pi’s performance to price ratio isn’t justifiable to most, so people pay a little more for the x86 but get so much more capability.

what are your recommendations for a good privacy friendly sms app?

Hello, currently I use qksms but its very problematic and lacks basic fetures. One of those issues being you cant send videos, and sending and recieving media is pixalated or blurry because of a commpresion issue. I’ve already tried adjusting the compresion options in settings to find out it doesn’t work....

FutileRecipe,

Since SMS is already sent in the clear, I actually use Google Messages. For those who also have it, it upgrades the SMS to RCS with end-to-end encryption. Sure, it’s nowhere near as good as Signal (which OP says these people won’t use), but it’s better than plain-text SMS.

How RCS chats keep your conversations secure

FutileRecipe,

Specifically, the plug-ins are using our services in an unauthorized manner, which is causing significant economic harm to our Company.

How does this cause them “significant economic harm?” My immediate thought is they are losing out on data or ads, hence it being a privacy concern.

FutileRecipe,

Lawnchair, according to the devs, is not abandoned. In late November (of 2023), they said:

Sorry for the long break in Lawnchair announcements.

We have made significant progress in regards to Lawnchair development, and we are now actually developing Lawnchair 13 (with A13 QuickSwitch support) and custom-made no-root global search. Stay tuned for more updates and sneak peeks.

Coming soon to a lawnmower near you™

(And no, we are not dead. Also No ETAs.)

Then in December:

Hello again!

This time around, we are now developing Lawnchair 14 (with A14 QuickSwitch support). Alongside that, we are also re-adding an option to Hide Dock and options for custom Feed Providers, alongside other new features (we wont give too many spoilers 👀)

We also plan to support QuickSwitch for Android 11 to Android 14, so you can use Lawnchair with QuickSwitch on all your recent devices. (We will prioritize A12.1 to A14 first though).

(As always, No ETAs)

FutileRecipe,

Its a 5-year old product. With 5 year old specs.

It’s a Pi. Cutting edge (or even modern or high end) specs have never been it’s selling point or goal.

FutileRecipe,

I’m not sure why people insist on F-Droid, considering the F-Droid Security Issues.

FutileRecipe,

that scare piece you linked would have the reader believe

So an indepth and critical analysis of something is now a “scare piece?” Ok.

FutileRecipe,

Part of what I value in F-Droid is the additional layer in the build/release process, because it makes tampering more likely to be detected.

Barely and not really. “F-Droid can’t ensure the apps are safe. You still need to trust the upstream developers. We only do some basic check.” forum.f-droid.org/t/…/2

FutileRecipe,

“There are no seeding rules…if you fall below a 0.5 ratio, your downloads will be disabled.”

That there sounds like a seeding rule.

FutileRecipe, (edited )

Sensors permission toggle: disallow access to all other sensors not covered by existing Android permissions (Camera, Microphone, Body Sensors, Activity Recognition) including an accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, barometer, thermometer and any other sensors present on a given device.

I have started using fedora silverblue

Today, I made switch to fedora silverblue and then rebased to ublue image because it has flatpak included in the image. I am also thinking about making my own image based on silverblue. there is a video made by bigpod a youtuber about how to make your own custom ublue image and I learned a lot from that video. I am using toolbox...

FutileRecipe,

then rebased to ublue image because it has flatpak included in the image.

From Silverblue’s Getting Started Guide:

Flatpak is the primary way that apps can be installed on Fedora Silverblue (for more information, see flatpak.org). Flatpak works out of the box in Fedora Silverblue…

Just seems very odd to distrohop for one main reason (flatpak in this scenario), without even checking if that reason is available in your current distro…which it is, out of the box.

It's funny how google pretends the music on YouTube isn't straight up piracy and everyone just goes along with it

Most people have extremely weird ideas of what’s considered piracy and what isn’t. Downloading a video game rom is piracy, but if you pay money to some Chinese retailer for an SD card containing the roms, that’s somehow not piracy. Exploiting the free trial on a streaming site by using prepaid visa cards is somehow not...

FutileRecipe,

They posted it on the Internet, so it has to be.

FutileRecipe,

But OP is, and still asking…

FutileRecipe,

I use ProtonVPN’s Secure Core. Their entry nodes are in privacy-friendly countries — Switzerland, Iceland, or Sweden — and exit nodes can be to any of their VPN servers in dozens of countries around the world. It’s a double hop which increases latency slightly, but I don’t real-time game on this configuration.

protonvpn.com/features/secure-core

FutileRecipe,

It’s part of defense in depth. No single piece will protect you from everything, so you you use multiple layers of protection.

FutileRecipe,

Depends on how you want to use it. For home use, I’d say setup a Pi-Hole with Unbound. You can add your own blocklists and it cuts out the middle man.

FutileRecipe, (edited )

it won’t take long for someone to build a Wamazon Linux distro with all the features and none of the crap.

I don’t know what “features” Amazon would include that aren’t somehow directly tied into their store and ease of shopping…aka “crap.” It’s not like they would build a better video/audio driver or something. It would all just be more…advertising and analytics, probably on a cheap platform as hardware has never been their largest source of income, to include Kindles (AWS is, last I checked). Strip those two out of their build and we have essentially an untouched kernel lol, at least that’s how I see it happening.

FutileRecipe, (edited )

No one offered to? Not even the business who runs the site nor the departments within said business who do the testing? From the link:

What we test - Canonical’s QA team performs an extensive set of over 500 OS compatibility focused hardware tests to ensure the best Ubuntu experience. Every aspect of the system is checked and verified.

Regular testing for up to 10 years - Roughly every 3 weeks, Ubuntu releases Stable Release Updates, ensuring a secure and reliable experience. These updates are carefully tested by the Hardware Certification team to make sure that systems work well with Ubuntu.

Our laboratories - Canonical conducts tests in dedicated laboratories, located around the world. The “Ubuntu Certified” label is applied to systems that have been verified and are continuously tested by Canonical throughout the Ubuntu release life cycle.

Sounds like it should be someone’s job at Canonical to update the list/site.

FutileRecipe,

Not a fan of how they say “we didn’t say it’s a backdoor,” but have “secretly share” in the URL and article title.

FutileRecipe, (edited )

A backdoor would imply some sort of external control I’d think…

Yes, technically a backdoor listens: csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/backdoor

Being able to command a device to send you info or perform tasks is different than the device sending info of its own accord.

In this context, where it’s implied to send without the owner’s knowledge (ignoring the fact it’s documented), not really. The article screams “gotcha!” when in reality it didn’t, so they’re trying to backtrack and downplay their initial response. But I do appreciate their update, it’s just got a PR spin to it.

Edit: if the article was initially written as more of a “did you know” and/or expanding on existing documentation, wouldn’t be an issue. It’s the “it’s secretly stealing” that implies malice which is part of the definition of malware… that’shares a category with backdoor. So splitting hairs in the name of PR.

FutileRecipe,

I used for a bit…

What changed?

FutileRecipe, (edited )

Everything must blow your mind.

Just people in a privacy community advocating for even less privacy than Google, who is decidedly anti-privacy, wants. The company who detests privacy and wants to collect data on everyone said, “this might be private and we shouldn’t go with it,” and you go “nope, it’s not, give it over?” I feel like Google is a very low bar to pass for privacy, and you still tripped on it.

So yes, no matter how much I experience in the world, people advocating for being taken advantage of or having their rights violated (which is what’s happening here) blows my mind, despite running into it semi-constantly.

FutileRecipe,

You’re fine with not targeting an individual and using blanket warrants instead? Even a judge said it was unconstitutional due to it not being individualized, and the EFF says it can implicate innocents. Even Google, who tracks and collects most everything, was reluctant to hand it over.

Sure, this reinvigorated the case, but it has an “ends justify the means” feel to it, which is a slippery slope. But you’re actively endorsing a less privacy friendly stance than Google, of all things. That blows my mind.

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