kornhole

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by kornhole 4y ago
That is an option but not tenable to most people in our modern world. How do you become informed about our world and people we care about far away without computer tech?. The better solution is free software we control and better ways to fu
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by kornhole 4y ago
Linux laptops are lovely at this point. Linux phones are for the more adventurous and tolerant hackers, and I love them for working out the issues. Android without any Google is the best handset option for most people. Degoogling can be acc
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by kornhole 4y ago
I use and like the service for what it does. Has anybody found a competing service?
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I know both of these guys use signal.org. Such correspondence could not end up in public record unless one of them chose to make it public. Then comes the question of why they chose to make this correspondence public.
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by kornhole 4y ago
It is actually very easy to move your identity along with follows and followers from one Mastodon instance to another. I did it a couple times to finally land on my own instance I have running on a Raspberry PI.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Some communities are more right wing, and others are very left. You just need to look further. Most of the people on the fediverse chose to be there for many good reasons.
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Except if someone said they were going to do something, and then it happened. https://lbry.tv/@RT:fd/JoeExplainThis_YT:0
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They are generally pretty normal seeming or boring which makes them great spies. They don't stand out. I am not giving names out.
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by kornhole 4y ago
This is why I despise movies like James Bond and Mission Impossible and love the movie The Lives of Others. James Bond would be the worst spy ever and is unlike any spy I know. Why should we glamourize those who spy on us?
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by kornhole 4y ago
If one did not need to register the device to one's real ID when activating it, this would not be such a big issue. I ditched my Iphone long ago for this reason, and to my knowledge it is still not possible to make an Iphone anonymous
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Because the code of IOS is closed source, we have to trust these settings actually stop transmitting data back to Apple. Given how valuable such data is to central collectors, this trust is a big leap for some of us. Comparing Apple to Goog
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by kornhole 4y ago
Couple that with a Nextcloud instance, and you are golden. This private cloud is where you can synchronize your contacts, calendar, photos, files, bookmarks, passwords, location, news, podcasts, music, tasks, notes and host chats and video
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Flag them down in many places. If I need to call them, I activate the burner SIM and call with VOIP.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Phone number does not equate to SIM. I use VOIP for SMS and only when really needed. I suppose this solution could work with dual esim where one could primarily use https://invisv.com/articles/pretty-good-phone-privacy.
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When needed, pay taxis with cash, and use public transport with rotating bus cards. Only activate the burner SIM on your phone when really needed.
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What do you think of the wisdom of the great Groucho Marx: I wouldn't be a member of any group that would have me as a member.
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B Franklin said that someone who is willing to give up freedom for security deserves neither. This rider didn't get the security for which he surrendered his freedom and got worse.
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The alternative services for users and ways to avoid Google are now many and mature. Google sees more dark data ahead and these threats as cutting into their top line at an accelerating pace. They need to resize to this new world. It is a s
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The corporate captured government will only protect their privacy and profits. The quicker people realize this, the better.
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We are all useful idiots to different extent in this system. I have become less useful and less idiotic as I have grown wiser. I am less worried about Chinese propaganda and manipulation than the domestic sort which is much more powerful an
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This means that folks at Oracle can also read and write any of these volumes. This emphasizes the need for any client using these hosts to encrypt everything with their own keys.
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Antennapod is your Android client that syncs with gPodder. I sync with my Nextcloud add on app.
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by kornhole 4y ago
I am not a product of any corporate or government controlled social media. However if I had to be one, being influenced by China rather than US corporations seems better. The two US parties have no substantive difference on economic and for
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I would be more comfortable with all that collection if it remained in China, a far away government that has much less control over me than my own. However, the data they collect is shared with and used by the same domestic corporations and
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It is kind of hard to tell what the real goals are after reading different reports of the review. It does seem to be an internal only review and not something that will enlighten the public much. It shouldn't be any surprise that the P
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Why would we put much credibility into an organization investigating itself? This review is itself probably centralized narrative control. It goes something like this: Through social media monitoring, the Pentagon sees an uptick in people q
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I think I know what you mean when you say Luddites, but the Luddites were actually very knowledgeable about technology. They rebelled against technology being used against them without any benefit to them. If you understand that history, yo
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Yes it is a different scale with different needs. It is noncommercial for friends and family. It is private cloud services at a small scale with appropriate security and backup measures.
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Both Gates and Buffet promised to give away all their money, but they have only become richer. Gates uses his philanthropic trust to influence decisions that enrich his investments while convincing people he is doing it for good. How long a
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Another bonus of turning off these advertising activities on phones and networks is that people are not as manipulated into buying more crap they don't need. Mass consumerism is a major cause of CO2 production.

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