greentea23

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by greentea23 3y ago
There is no such thing as a safe hardware vendor at this time unfortunately. The good thing about Google is they are the only company that actually lets you swap out the software to at least improve your privacy (but they penalize you by bl
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by greentea23 3y ago
Email is decentralized. The client provides the spam protection and moderation.
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by greentea23 3y ago
I want to move to the "future", but I use several firefox profiles via xpra in combination with xdotool based hotkeys. The fluidity with which I can control my different profile windows without a mouse and with which I can switch
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by greentea23 3y ago
I think libgen and scihub are even more future proof. Something as important as scientific (or any) literature must be distributed and uncensorable. Libraries are destroyed by authoritarians all the time throughout history.
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by greentea23 3y ago
https://github.com/mbbill/undotree
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by greentea23 3y ago
Or better, use matrix/element if you can (the backbone technology of Beeper). It's an open protocol not beholden to one central server (Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram/Discord) that could go out of business, get bought, or
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by greentea23 3y ago
Two projects that are trying: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android
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by greentea23 3y ago
Airlines and banks do have to have to prove compliance with formal standards via audit to operate. These audits often require revealing some code to regulators under NDA. So our trust in them stands on sturdy ground compared to the offering
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by greentea23 3y ago
But that's tracking your web requests to search engine servers. The way those requests look is dependent on your browser, not which ROM you are running. You can setup your user agent to be whatever you'd like at least on android o
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by greentea23 3y ago
AOSP is not a deviation from the norm. It's the thing Google ships, vendors install play services as separate apps on top, so there is nothing oddball about your device fingerprint just by not installing Google specific services like t
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by greentea23 3y ago
The best you can do now is run whatsapp apk on an emulator or spare device, then auth that with the matrix bridge, then you can avoid needing to use whatsapp clients on daily drivers. Works decently well: https://github.com/
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by greentea23 3y ago
If it requires government support for us to have a strong arts and humanities thread in society because the private sector can't keep it thriving, please take my tax money. STEM supports life, but art is the point of life.
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by greentea23 3y ago
1. Privacy: mac/windows requires an online user account sign-in and have built-in telemetry that can't be disabled. 1984 is your reality on these OSs, particularly a problem outside of the free world. 2. Hardware lifespan: apple o
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by greentea23 3y ago
Youtube could disappear or, more realistically, become heavily censored (internally or externally) at any time for a variety of reasons. The true value of this project and other federated or fully distributed and open source alternatives is
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by greentea23 3y ago
Sure, but that's besides the point. What if my risk model means not sending packets under specific controlled circumstances because that would reveal my approximate location? What if the right apple or microsoft engineers were coerced
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by greentea23 3y ago
Yeah, I don't see how windows or mac could ever be considered secure when you can't turn off telemetry and when the systems are closed source and cannot be publicly audited. Linux lets you be as secure as you need to be. The milit
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by greentea23 3y ago
I agree that it's fanatical. I don't understand how people can be such sheep to these fake engineer celebrities like Altman and Musk. They talk like Trump: no real substance, half fluff and half word salad compared to listening to
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by greentea23 3y ago
I am fairly certain that it's illegal to sell the content of SMS messages in the United States at least. The metadata like who is messaging who and timestamps and best guess locations maybe is sold though. But the contents can be obtai
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by greentea23 3y ago
I cannot imagine using the play store or the apple store ever again. What hell. This is the true value of Android vs. iOS though: Google can do whatever corporate nonsense Google does, and I can live in my own parallel universe that works f
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by greentea23 3y ago
Are there any known examples of this actually being done by law enforcement or government and working?
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by greentea23 3y ago
Except that to run those in the first place you need to be running non-private spyware on your phone (iOS or vendor issued android ROM), so you give up all ability to maintain privacy in or out of the car.
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by greentea23 3y ago
Is that possible anymore? I think all new cars are always online and always collecting data now, and you void your warranty (very different cost/benefit calculus than voiding a phone warranty) if you tamper with the antennas to keep it
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by greentea23 3y ago
Science historically works on the time scale of decades and centuries, not months and years imo. So I think it's working faster and better than ever before. Journals are not science, just a small tool for slightly better communication
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by greentea23 3y ago
Not for everyone, but this does that perfectly well: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux-brightness
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by greentea23 3y ago
The problem is that paying is almost never anonymous, and there are still many places in the world where consuming the wrong text makes you a quasi-criminal.
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by greentea23 3y ago
Google employees can do that in my opinion. These aren't coal miners in small town Virginia with no options. They are (for the most part) tech elites who could work just about anywhere.
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by greentea23 3y ago
Yeah, but I can totally relate to getting lost in the sauce growing a freaking T-Rex (!?!?). Bonus points if it eats management. But even just the word "attestation" makes me want to beat up the office printer in a field.
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by greentea23 3y ago
Who wakes up in the morning excited to go implement 1984 style attestation? I cannot imagine being empowered with hard engineering skills and then wasting my precious little time on this earth toiling away at something so uninspiring. There
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by greentea23 3y ago
"All the world's a stage, all the men and women merely players", Shakespeare anyone?
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by greentea23 3y ago
More practically, supply chains are finite. No single company, even as big as Apple, can make enough units for everyone.

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