kornhole

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by kornhole 4y ago
Because I suspected this mess, I took a less expedient path to deleting my account. I found a picture of somebody with my same name and made it my picture. I unfriended everybody I actually knew and only kept randos. I liked a bunch of rand
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by kornhole 4y ago
Password vaults are trivially small to host. The marginal costs for these individual users is small. The bigger concern is if they try to monetize these users in some way that harms them. If they ever pulled something like that, many of us
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by kornhole 4y ago
But you still need to make and receive regular OTA calls and SMS at times. This is where VOIP is needed such as voip.ms, Twilio, Google voice.. Voip.ms with Linphone app and SMS app called VOIP.MS on android have worked well for me. I occas
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by kornhole 4y ago
and reliably managing a secure backup is too much to ask of my mom and some others. I am pretty technical, self host, and manage backups, but I have lost data in situations due to failed disks and DB corruption. Losing one's password v
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by kornhole 4y ago
One benefit of providing a great free service to individuals is that they become champions and help sell the product. Case in point, I work in IT at a large company that currently does not have an official password manager, and I am recomme
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by kornhole 4y ago
The amount of data in a typical password vault is insignificantly small measured in kilobytes. Bitwarden cost structure is mostly fixed costs for the infrastructure with small variable costs. If a company was providing hosting of large data
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by kornhole 4y ago
The company is providing a service of vault hosting around the free software they maintain. Hosting and maintenance has many costs that need to be covered somehow, and we want them to improve the service. The hosting costs of individual use
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by kornhole 4y ago
Burnernote code is FOSS if you want to investigate how it works. As for IP addresses, you are probably aware of TOR and VPN's if you want that additional layer of obscurity.
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by kornhole 4y ago
The people at Bitwarden and their supporters are familiar with countless examples of this playbook. Those tricks are not as easy to pull anymore. I have seen Bitwarden be very ethical in their business so far. I recommend it to my friends a
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by kornhole 4y ago
When you don't have a secure E2EE coms channel with someone, these services enable creation of a one time link that you can send over SMS/email. If the intended recipient is unable to open the link, you know your coms have been in
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by kornhole 4y ago
Butnernote.com could be a good way to share the room URL over generally insecure channels. After MVP, maybe an ephemeral room link could be created using the code from burnernote to save a step.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Both Ithings and Google devices have a find my phone feature that works even when the phone is off. That is something you can test yourself if you have one. Obviously for this to work, the phone is sending its location even when it is suppo
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by kornhole 4y ago
>One of the value-adds of Amazon is there's a whole bunch of tech sellers don't need to know how to write, run, and maintain. You'd need to understand how big the niche "technically literate to run their own e-commerc
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by kornhole 4y ago
Many have already done open source Google and MS. We have those solutions already, and they are great though not yet pervasive. We need open source market place and logistics, and that is where they should stay focused.
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by kornhole 4y ago
This is why stop and frisk is rarer when you don't need to stop people to see their ID's. Cops can just pull up their screen and know each of those guys standing on the corner. We all get frisked many times a day and don't ev
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by kornhole 4y ago
In a word, yes. Some relatively rare phones such as Pinephone and Librem have actual power switches, and maybe some others actually go off. The vast majority of consumer phones appear off but are still calling home to the mother ship. Many
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by kornhole 4y ago
I am not sure how IP theft has any relevance to how they setup their networks. Yes in the western media we hear much about the censorship and surveillance in China. We do not hear as much about their need for data sovereignty and defense ag
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by kornhole 4y ago
The great Chinese firewall is far more effective than the GDPR. They outright ban US corporations such as Google or Facebook from operating in their country or retain control over the data and networks of companies such as Apple.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Once you start following them I think you will find that they are very focused and have been quite successful at not diffusing into other areas.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Most phones do not actually turn off. You need to put them in a faraday sleeve. The other options more difficult for many is to use phones with alternative OS such as Graphene, Calyx, Lineage, Linux.. with only safe FOSS apps installed. SIM
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by kornhole 4y ago
Once something like this leaks, we need to realize corporations and intelligence agencies have been surveilling us in an unholy alliance for profit and power for a long time. Some people may have been placated by the Snowden leaks and think
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by kornhole 4y ago
It has been done and many of us are using it although we are a small minority. Most people are unable to make the changes needed as the implants are too embedded in them to remove. Try getting someone to switch to degoogled Android from Iph
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by kornhole 4y ago
Possible sources: -Telcos who use cell tower triangulation -Apple and Google -A huge list of apps that collect location data regardless of OS
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by kornhole 4y ago
This should be an extra push for some to get onto https://pixelfed.org/ .
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by kornhole 4y ago
Not talking about things exacerbates the problem. Many Americans need to learn how to have productive argument with each other which means asking more questions and really listening rather than stating positions. I personally love talking t
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by kornhole 4y ago
Does this only apply to phones with Google Play Services installed?
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by kornhole 4y ago
Mastodon community is improving discovery features but algorithmic manipulation of feeds seems to be off limits. Maybe a user controlled feed algorithm would be accepted.
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by kornhole 4y ago
I bought one similar fro Ebay for curiosity but then was afraid it might contain some kind of malware on it. If stores allow products with fake specs, they would allow malicious ones as well. This is a bigger concern to me.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Psychedelics are illegal not because they create hallucinations but rather because they help break down the hallucinations we have about the world. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is a hallucinating idiot.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Interesting how some workers know and like the monitoring tools on themselves. Many of the debates on HN and elsewhere around this technology are split between psychologies. Many hate to be watched and controlled while others want the oppo

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