greentea23

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by greentea23 9mo ago
Not for all points. And not being anonymous means your identity is not private...
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by greentea23 9mo ago
Apple of course does an emormous amount of b2b.
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by greentea23 9mo ago
What you cited is for data on a device that was turned off. Not daily internet connected usage. No one is saying you have no protection at all with Apple, it is just very limited compared to what it should be by modern security best practic
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by greentea23 9mo ago
Mullvad is nothing like Apple. For apple devices: - need real email and real phone number to even boot the device - cannot disable telemetry - app store apps only, even though many key privacy preserving apps are not available - /etc&#
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by greentea23 9mo ago
There are a million legitimate reasons to root a phone (e.g. preserving the battery to minimize e-waste, blocking malicious trackers often allowed by Apple and Google, innovating on the UI, etc.). Apple/Google/Microsoft are run by
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by greentea23 10mo ago
I mean, yes, absolutely. I don't have a count limit on my boycott list. I won't be holding my breath for empty promises from corporate. We need to build systems that assert user sovereignty and prevent abuse, not wait around for e
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by greentea23 10mo ago
The bank thing is a much rarer problem than people make it out to be. We should challenge and boycott any problematic banks as much as we can https://community.e.foundation/t/list-banking-apps-on-e-os/3...
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by greentea23 10mo ago
Any libraries you recommend? Do you host a dedicated relay for your own apps?
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by greentea23 10mo ago
Those aren't very specific, so it's hard to understand the dichotomy you're trying to paint.
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by greentea23 10mo ago
Could you provide a specific example of an opinion labeled as "racist and hateful" that you believe was misclassified as such?
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by greentea23 10mo ago
When I was in school, the corporate shill language was MATLAB, and even today not every program has moved on to greener pastures (Python/numpy, Julia). But doesn't Swiftui support Android now? https://github.com/sk
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by greentea23 11mo ago
Lineageos maintains a list and you can filter for devices with official bootloader unlock https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ . Buy only these devices to signal to these companies that this matters. Noteably OnePlus 13
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by greentea23 1y ago
> Disposed of digital assets in exchange for property or services Reads pretty explicit to me. You have to report every event.
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by greentea23 1y ago
But then aren't you messing with the IRS? If you pay in crypto, you have to report every conversion from fiat to monero, and every payment out of the monero wallet: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/taxpayers-need-to-re
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by greentea23 1y ago
I prefer OpenAI and Anthropic big time because they are fresh players with less dominance over other aspects of digital life. Not having to login to an insidious tracker like Google is worth significantly worse performance. Although I have
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by greentea23 2y ago
Start with banning billboards.
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by greentea23 2y ago
By adding types back in :) mypy and pyright are fantastic. It's very much productive to annotate types. Debugging or extending untyped code is quite unproductive, not just for future you but for anyone else, amplifying the inefficiency
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by greentea23 2y ago
I prefer sites not to implement a custom dark mode and instead to make sure their styles invert well, less work for devs, more consistency for me. https://darkreader.org/ https://www.howtogeek.com/446198&#x2
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by greentea23 2y ago
I realize it's not for everyone but since this is HN, I breath a sigh of relief using this tool exclusively in Termux / PC shell instead of an app that stores the secrets in an obfuscated/proprietary/inaccessible manner:
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by greentea23 2y ago
WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram require a SIM enabled non-VoIP phone number available to receive SMS at all times in case they decide to reverify you. Doesn't necessarily have to be the same device, but still quite annoying.
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by greentea23 2y ago
You can pay for an SMTP relay service that maintains a good reputation if sending mail is important to you. Also if the email is only for auth purposes to decouple 3rd party account recovery mechanism from services like cloud storage, sendi
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by greentea23 2y ago
You can run these commands to turn that kill behavior off: setprop persist.sys.fflag.override.settings_enable_monitor_phantom_procs false /system/bin/settings put global settings_enable_monitor_phantom_procs false Termux as a
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by greentea23 2y ago
F-Droid style delivery is far more secure than anything from Apple or Google. This is only possible on Android since Apple only allows you to install mysterious binary files from their myaterious store on their mysterious OS. FDroid attests
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by greentea23 2y ago
Unless you are running a custom ROM which doesn't have Google services. This feature has the potential to force you onto a 1984-style ROM just for a single but essential app. It also forces you to not only make a Google account but log
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by greentea23 2y ago
Nostr makes so much more sense to me than the fediverse because your account is not bound to a particular server, so if your admin gets bored you can simply use other relays or host your own instead of being kicked off. And with this you ge
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by greentea23 2y ago
I think this is just the ollama site rehosting in violation of the license (unless there is some fine print I am missing). Huggingface makes you login and accept the agreement.
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by greentea23 3y ago
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt is a mature project with similar functionality in its arsenal via tagging and vim bindings, not limited to gmail either. You can also write emails in vim/$EDITOR fluidly.
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by greentea23 3y ago
Well it's still decentralized and scales in that there is significant competition participating in an open protocol. Even though most use the big 3, many smaller players have enough legitimacy to be whitelisted by gmail, e.g. fastmail
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by greentea23 3y ago
Sadly it's pretty hard. I have had a great experience with Lineage OS for several years now. Installing a custom ROM is not that hard imo, but it is scary to most and few flagship devices allow it. But I think more competition will be
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by greentea23 3y ago
Degoogling is a misnomer imo. It's not about not using anything from Google or Apple at all. They both contribute to Linux, clang/llvm and other core open software tooling after all. It's about not using unaudited closed sour

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