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by dngray 4y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1612085234648121346.html
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by dngray 4y ago
Except that solarized has a bunch of other problems https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized/blob/master/whats-w...
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by dngray 4y ago
A while back, Eliot Miranda posted a detailed message for dark theme users on the squeak-dev mailing list. This is what he wrote: Hi Dark Themers, in an earlier life I worked in optics, designing holographic cameras for bubble chamber physi
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by dngray 4y ago
I used to use solarized, but switched to selenized some time ago. https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized/blob/master/whats-w... Never looked back. Next best theme would have to be nordtheme.com
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by dngray 4y ago
I don't fault Microsoft for increasing the security baseline, it's a fact that threats actors are getting smarter in general. If they did nothing, people would whinge that "Windows is so insecure". The reality is that Li
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by dngray 4y ago
Yes "we" (privacyguides.org) consult with the authors of that project as well as a few others. It was nice to see they quoted our blog article https://www.privacyguides.org/blog/2021/12/01/firef
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by dngray 4y ago
> actively hostile to the ads and tracking and use Ad Nauseum Don't do this, it doesn't work the way you think, but in fact makes your browser easier to fingerprint. Very few people use that extension.
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by dngray 4y ago
This, it's also why it's in the category of "don't bother" https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-don... not only that it will make your browser easier to fingerprin
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by dngray 4y ago
Decentraleyes resources are hugely out of date to the point where it does nothing.
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by dngray 4y ago
THIS. Which is why we don't recommend extensions on privacyguides.org besides uBO (uBlock Origin). If that ever gets bought, you'll hear about it everywhere and there will most likely be a fork. These days for privacy with Firefox
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by dngray 4y ago
> The search for a theme led me to Solarized by Ethan Schoonover, which I was ultimately not satisfied with but inspired me to try and improve on its ideas. https://github.com/nealmckee/penumbra#acknowledgments Whic
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by dngray 4y ago
This article is a pretty garbage. > There is no need to use Git source code management if you don't need it. Git's a complicated tool, which is why Linus Torvalds gave it the name: it's British English for a hostile or un
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by dngray 4y ago
Or the fork which is much more active these days https://docs.searxng.org/ In the past it Lukol served Google Ads: https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/issues/1557#...
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by dngray 4y ago
> This is not just a simple list of software with summaries, and after looking at it more it's worse than I thought. And you're right about propagating bad/out of date advice being a problem. Where we notice this effect is
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by dngray 4y ago
> How is this worse than any system that depends on a server that routes messages? Like almost all of them... Not in the same way that email does. Email metadata is much more extensive than that of say Matrix. If we look at metadata, oft
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by dngray 4y ago
The issue with lists like this though is privacy is implied by merely using the software and not from the fact you control the server. For most people self-hosting isn't an option or something they want to do. Software should be develo
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by dngray 4y ago
Vanadium and Brave are only available on Android. Vanadium doesn't really have any privacy features that people normally think of (anti-fp, adblocking etc), it's a series of security related patches https://github.com&#
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by dngray 4y ago
> just like video sharing The difference with our video sharing section, is we primarily focus on clients which store data on the device https://www.privacyguides.org/video-streaming/
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by dngray 4y ago
Another section I noticed there that is horribly wrong: > Without using a secure, privacy-centric DNS all your web requests can be seen in the clear. You should configure your DNS queries to be managed by a service that respects privacy
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by dngray 4y ago
> Deltachat also embodies some of the best parts of email encryption It also embodies all of the metadata associated with it, which is still not encrypted. > Open federation based on the popular and well known SMTP standard and ineffi
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by dngray 4y ago
If I submitted PRs re-writing every privacy list/gist on Github. yeah you know where I'm going with that I'm sure. Privacy Guides, is a community project, we accept community contributions, which are then verified before bein
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by dngray 4y ago
> Whats the current consensus on Brave? If you want to use Chromium based browsers it's probably the only browser that is: - Cares about security, (not doing stupid shit like disabling CRLSets), they are proxied by Brave. See https
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by dngray 4y ago
Yeah, it is. A lot of these lists focus on the fallacy that all open source software == secure, and anything that is not open is instantly bad. We list the Yubikey, as it is at the moment it's one of the better MFA products out there.
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by dngray 4y ago
Would upvote parent more than once if I could. > I went through a mad phase where I had loads of extensions installed in my main browser. Then all these stories came out about addon authors getting contacted by shady actors who wanted to
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by dngray 4y ago
> OpenPGP is a message standard that specifically covers the offline, end to end encryption case. So the contention that it bad at other cases isn't very interesting. It's an overly complicated protocol, https://lata
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by dngray 4y ago
> - Mumble: Not really private Unless your self hosting, it's not really private, as it doesn't use E2EE. If you're self hosting and restricting access, then any software could fit into the "private" category. Do
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by dngray 4y ago
> What's your take on Briar? Briar is audited was audited https://briarproject.org/news/2017-beta-released-security-au... It's a decent piece of software.
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by dngray 4y ago
> starting point to see what exists for your own research, the bigger issue is that it claims to be curated when it's more like a wiki. Problem is they also serve to repeat bad/out of date practices. I always feel people who pu
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by dngray 4y ago
> ... and yet it's still the ONLY cross-messenger system, not everybody uses group chats, and not everybody cares about status updates or whatever. There is Matrix. The issue is that people don't know what actions are E2EE and
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by dngray 4y ago
The problem with lists like this is they really are just a "here's 100 open source products", without any criteria or individual evaluation. It is often just parrots repeating what other parrots say. Something which is clearl

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