Drugs are fun, but I don’t really worry about this, do rarely, don’t like weed, i’m safe 😄
My biggest problem with drug usage would be not the authorities, but more general mood of the regular people. I don’t like countries that are hostile to people partying, getting drunk, or high
It’s hard to explain, it’s just I’ve beeed to places that feel fun when you’re high, and the opposite and they start calling the police (so I just think this stuff is very mean, and don’t want to be around people like that)
About pixels and sim cards, I don’t really use sim cards. For services that require phone numbers I use modems attached to my homeserver(of course no name), and access them with Lora mesh network(radio)
Your answer is actually really what I wanted to hear, good opinion on the current situation 👏
I know Europe is probably like the best place for digital privacy, but at the same time for me it’s unsettling to see that some of the European cities are the most surveiled cities in the world, and how even countries in Europe are trying to ban e2e encryption
Add the 5-9-14 eyes, strict anti piracy rules in some countries, stories about people getting arrested for messaging something, or doing something political, and you will get a pretty grim picture
My main problem with this, I don’t like being surveiled, nobody needs to have a thread model against being surveiled, because this is just nuts
Probably my stand is a little bit radical, I usually don’t carry a sim card, use Lora for a remote access to my home server, I would never go to the land of free or use any of their services, same with the land of China
Nextcloud seems to have a bad reputation around here regarding performance. It never really bothered me, but when a comment on a post here yesterday talked about huge speed gains to be had with Postgres, I got curious and spent a few hours researching and tweaking my setup....
Hello everyone. I just tried to create an account with linode and got the automated cancellation email due to fraud, which left a bad taste in my mouth about the company before I even had the chance to get started....
I work in tech and am constantly finding solutions to problems, often on other people’s tech blogs, that I think “I should write that down somewhere” and, well, I want to actually start doing that, but I don’t want to pay someone else to host it....
Say I have Google Camera installed with network permissions revoked. Say I also install Play Services which does have network access. Would Google Camera be able to share data about my pictures to Play Services which would then phone home to Google?
I personally don’t use anything of google, browsing and trying apps from fdroid, and have obtainium for the ones I usually use
But Graphene’s approach is all about security, and privacy only after it So they recommend the most secure options first, and don’t recommend minor options So, their current opinion on fdroid that it’s less secure than googlag’s store, so a more secure option would be googlag, or that second store that has 3 apps in it
But it’s for “marketplace” apps, so obtainium not in the scope, but kinda should be (we just need to rethink where we get our apps from)
If it were possible to run LLMs without a significant investment to GPU prowess, this problem wouldn’t be very relevant. However, the bigger FOSS LLMs require a lot of power to run....
Is it possible to do it? Is it less hassle than trying to play nice with Google or Microsoft in order not to have your email sent to spam or not received at all?
hi I’m still exploring stuff and I was thinking about nix, with all his stuff, what do you guys think? maybe someone with experience can tell me if I should stay away from that or could be a good choice for privacy, anonimity and security
Nixos can be more secure than classic distros. First of all, you have atomic states of your system, so nothing can be added without rebuilding the whole system and giving it a new name
Also you can do impermanence to ensure nothing can slip in for sure, because the system will be recreated every boot
In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing trend of supplying me search results that are completely unrelated to the current query and tie back to my location or previous searches. I can say this with a high degree of certainty this is without a doubt beyond the 100th instance this has happened....
Podman is better, but believe my words, try nixos. It’s like a docker-compose file, but for a system, this is really something groundbreaking
You specify all the system and services passwords, usernames, all the stuff, your wallpapers, directories, keys, everything
And all basic configurations are already unified, so to enable some service you just need to add a line in your main config like services.nginx.enable = true; and it just works with all the bells and whistles (kind off, you can add much more. Even more than in containers)
The services are usually not sandboxes, but you can sandbox them, can even run the same containers
Sorry if you’re really not into it, it just nixos feels like a whole new lvl after podman
edit: even like that, I manage all my machines as a fleet with nixos, all from one configuration So I can basically press a button and change all the usernames on all machines and everything will continue working
Instead of adding each machine separately to a vpn, I just press a button and it deploys all the machines with wireguard and connects them all
Authorities have caught two Ho Chi Minh City-based firms printing more than 15,000 pirated copies of books and 2024 calendars, with a combined weight exceeding 15 metric tons....
This is a country where you walk(ride) on the streets and can buy sim card with no ID, windows flashdrives with an activator bundled, and visit internet cafés and play any game there directly from repackers
External email server vs port forwarding/vpn
Hey-ho 👋...
European countries from privacy and freedom perspective
Hey-ho, privacy enthusiasts...
Privacy Checkup Quiz: How well do you protect your privacy and security? (privacy-checkup.info)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11275170...
British man Aditya Verma appears in Spanish court over plane-bomb hoax (www.bbc.com)
TL;DR...
I deleted all my post from my reddit account, can they still monetize them?
Deleting a post is simply marking a piece of text so nobody sees it, but I think the text is still stored in their servers....
It seems so strange to me that we are locked in battle with providers mining our lives for whatever, and we have to work our asses off trying to stay anonymous, to the point of being denied service
or even pseudo-incriminated for attempting to maintain our own life....
Pornhub pulls out of Montana, NC as age-verification battle rages on (arstechnica.com)
Could we add alternativeto.net to the sidebar? (alternativeto.net)
It’s a great place to find alternatives (including opensource alternatives) to services and software.
Nextcloud Performance Improvements
Nextcloud seems to have a bad reputation around here regarding performance. It never really bothered me, but when a comment on a post here yesterday talked about huge speed gains to be had with Postgres, I got curious and spent a few hours researching and tweaking my setup....
Linode Alternative Suggestions for Small Projects
Hello everyone. I just tried to create an account with linode and got the automated cancellation email due to fraud, which left a bad taste in my mouth about the company before I even had the chance to get started....
How safe is self-hosting a public website behind Cloudflare?
I work in tech and am constantly finding solutions to problems, often on other people’s tech blogs, that I think “I should write that down somewhere” and, well, I want to actually start doing that, but I don’t want to pay someone else to host it....
Can Apps Share Data Back n Forth on GrapheneOS?
Say I have Google Camera installed with network permissions revoked. Say I also install Play Services which does have network access. Would Google Camera be able to share data about my pictures to Play Services which would then phone home to Google?
Any automated method to check for basic OPSEC mistakes whilst posting content online?
If it were possible to run LLMs without a significant investment to GPU prowess, this problem wouldn’t be very relevant. However, the bigger FOSS LLMs require a lot of power to run....
Nordic piracy stats (ttvk.fi)
tldr;...
Using email aliases (email alias services) with self-hosted email
Is it possible to do it? Is it less hassle than trying to play nice with Google or Microsoft in order not to have your email sent to spam or not received at all?
NixOS
hi I’m still exploring stuff and I was thinking about nix, with all his stuff, what do you guys think? maybe someone with experience can tell me if I should stay away from that or could be a good choice for privacy, anonimity and security
Time to ditch #duckduckgo (lemmy.world)
In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing trend of supplying me search results that are completely unrelated to the current query and tie back to my location or previous searches. I can say this with a high degree of certainty this is without a doubt beyond the 100th instance this has happened....
2 companies caught illegally printing over 15,000 books, calendars in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (tuoitrenews.vn)
Authorities have caught two Ho Chi Minh City-based firms printing more than 15,000 pirated copies of books and 2024 calendars, with a combined weight exceeding 15 metric tons....
The complete guide to building your personal self hosted server for streaming and ad-blocking powered by Plex, Jellyfin, Adguard Home and Docker. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
The complete guide to building your personal self hosted server for streaming and ad-blocking....