drnick1

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by drnick1 8mo ago
> What you're proposing where you're adding a backdoor to your home network (via Wireguard) that needs to be maintained/hardened I have been doing this for years, and it is both convenient and secure. No maintenance or har
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> cloud-based password managers. Enough said. This kind of stuff should be offline only. If you need to access your password database on multiple devices, set up a LAN and/or a Wireguard tunnel for remote access.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
How would the website know that it is a "proxy email?" I am using my own domain name and email server, and don't believe I ever received a rejection.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> Now people bank with real money on their phones. Maybe the real solution here is not to. Pay cash when you can (better privacy), else use a credit card. Other types of "banking" such as sending wires is best done on a big scr
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> How else should verification be handled? There should be no verification. The idea of a single platform where every worker is listed, identified, and connected to other people he/she knows IRL is scary. It shouldn't exist.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
This is precisely why I give each website an alias such as website@example.com. If I start receiving spam to that address, I revoke the alias and name and shame the website online whenever I get the chance. Not that I would use LinkedIn any
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by drnick1 8mo ago
If by fine you mean "they work," then sure. But since it is a closed platform controlled by Apple, you are always one law away from client-side scanning of your conversations, emails and any other content on your Phone. Of course,
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by drnick1 8mo ago
The privacy cost of Facebook is too high. Even if you have "nothing to hide" today, sooner or later you will post something you wish you had not posted, or someone else will do it for you. Once data about you is out there, it is i
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Unfortunately, those are also being surveilled by Meta, so the exodus from Facebook did not help. Consider Signal or a private XMPP server.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> There was so much joyous sharing. And it wasn't done for clicks, views, or monetization. All along, Meta was vacuuming that data to build profiles of you, your family and friends, to be sold to third parties. You have been duped.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Why would Imgur cave in and pay the fine when it's easier to block UK users? This is political battle for you to fight or sooner than later all you will be able to access is BBC state propaganda.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
I urge you not too. iOS is fully locked down -- Apple won't allow you to exert control over the hardware that you bought and own, it's shocking.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> Android is not good. I use it despite its flaws, because of the trade-offs, not because it's better. Android is good, but Googled Android is not. You should check out GrapheneOS to see what Android done properly looks like.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Have you considered Graphene since you own a Pixel? It's a huge upgrade over the stock OS in terms of security, privacy and general reduction of bloat.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
If you really don't have an alternative in Europe, buy the cheapest Googled Android device (less than $100 or euros), and use that as a glorified 2FA device. It's not ideal because you have to pay for it, but on the other hand And
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by drnick1 8mo ago
I run Graphene on my Pixel and banking apps just work. There is no Google Pay, obviously, since Google dependencies have been stripped out from the system. I just carry a credit card.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> A great example is the banning of RT, they lost licenses IMO in multiple countries, but the agency was spreading a lot of lies. IMO what we all want is objective news reporting. You shouldn't need a "license" to publish
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Porn (now requires age verification), online libraries, movies, some news websites, sports (because of obscure copyright laws) and countless other things.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> As a former academic at a top US university, no, the US no longer has that strong reputation. I find that hard to believe. Applications to top U.S. colleges and graduate schools are at an all-time high and acceptance rates keep falling
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Firefox tries to position itself as that secure and private alternative, but this is mostly marketing. For a long time, Chromium had better site isolation, and the default Firefox settings are permissive when it comes to fingerprinting. Out
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by drnick1 8mo ago
If those "popular websites" are the likes of Facebook and Instagram, I don't see that as a big loss. That being said, I find that most of the Web works just fine on Tor, so it's certainly possible. Most of the issues see
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Regardless of the language it is written in, one thing that I hope Ladybird will focus on when the time comes is a user-respecting Javascript implementation. Regardless of what the Web standards say, it is unacceptable that websites can (ab
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Not too surprising. Swift is too tied to Apple and it's not really clear what the benefit would be relative to a subset of C++ written with contemporary memory safety practices. It's a battle tested choice and pretty much every br
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by drnick1 8mo ago
It's a bit disingenuous to present solutions like Tailscale as more secure than opening a VPN port on one's on machine. The latter solution should always be preferred when available just because you don't want your infrastruc
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> These should be handled by the government, equally for all. This is certainly possible, but it's called communism.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> but you do need to break terms of service to get the files if you don't have a phone with Google services installed Why would I care? It's not like what Big Tech does is ethical or legal. You need to fight fire with fire.
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by drnick1 8mo ago
What's the point of doing this in "Zig" instead of C, the traditional choice for this kind of thing?
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Seems like a missed opportunity to move away from proprietary solutions entirely. Teamspeak is self-hostable, but it is proprietary, supports limited numbers of users on the free tier, and presumably send telemetry to the proprietors even w
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by drnick1 8mo ago
> 'privacy' browser projects based on Chromium for Android As far as I know none of these projects have tackled the JS fingerprinting problem. The most earnest attempts seem to be Brave and Firefox with the Arkenfox user.js, bu
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by drnick1 8mo ago
Like others have said, you can use Youtube without Google account. Moreover, you can give Google the middle finger by using uBlock Origin or viewing though a third party client like VacuumTube. Also don't forget the shorts filter recen

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