kornhole

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by kornhole 4y ago
Agreed that big data aggregation can do quite a bit and aid some features. I work with it myself except in operational rather than personal data. Some benefits accrue to consumers, but most go to the holders of the data. Most if not all of
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by kornhole 4y ago
Good for whom? It has surely been good for those who are collecting and distilling the data, but we can say the same for those being watched, manipulated, and worse.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Or Ohwellian: When someone realizes they live in a dystopian world and just says oh well.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Maybe it was at one time, but it is very easy nowadays. It can be setup in many ways. https://growyourown.services/beginners-guide-to-nextcloud/ Mine runs on a Raspberry PI with many services on the yunohost.org platfo
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by kornhole 4y ago
These oils actually have natural but low SPF. The ancient Greeks and Egyptians simply used olive oil. The zinc oxide adds much more SPF by reflecting.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Yes it stays atop the skin and reflects rather than absorbing into your skin and bloodstream. It is best for the beach in your non-fancy bikini. Removing it from the skin is done by wiping with a towel rather than soap and water.
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by kornhole 4y ago
The skin is a semi permeable membrane. So I don't put anything on it I am not prepared to eat. I have been using this mix for well over a decade, and ancient civilizations used it for millennia.
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by kornhole 4y ago
The simplest recipe is what I mentioned, but some people use carrot seed oil or other more exotic oils that have natural SPF. I find mixing coconut and olive oil give it the ideal consistency with natural SPF all easily obtainable from any
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by kornhole 4y ago
I live in a neighborhood in SF bay inhabited by only billionaires and millionaires. I am always looking up and cataloging all the surveillance devices mounted when I am moving around. We have plenty of ALPR's and other cameras but no s
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by kornhole 4y ago
Yes of course.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Hack your own sunscreen: zinc powder, coconut oil, olive oil. I bought a lifetime supply of zinc for $10. It is edible and free of toxic endocrine disrupters. Goal is not to block everything since you need vitamin D.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Several solutions to track your location on your device and on your private cloud exist. I use a Nextcloud add on. Nobody but me knows where I went.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Watching everybody's movements is tyranny. When you compare how much power those classical tyrants had to what the state has now, you may not need to compare the relatively impotent states of the past.
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by kornhole 4y ago
After learning about this, all kiddie pornographers will learn to put their photos through postprocessing to mask any signatures. Activists photographing corporate or government crimes may not take the same precautions.
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by kornhole 4y ago
I keep asking people if they know anybody excited about the metaverse. I have not found any even among people who are total Facebook products.
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by kornhole 4y ago
If you run graphene, no apps can read the imei. SIM cards do, but that is why you should use a burner SIM rarely if at all.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Here are mitigations: Run a VPN on your phone at all times. Use an alternate OS based on AOSP such as Graphene, Calyx, E, Lineage or Linux for the brave. These have no carrier bloatware/spyware. Transfer your phone number to VOIP. Then
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by kornhole 4y ago
I struggle to understand how private companies like mine are OK with MS reading all employee email and processing it through their AI. I get these daily creepy emails from MS saying that you said you would do this yesterday.. I have resorte
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by kornhole 4y ago
If you think corrupt governments are going to protect you, this may not be your guide.
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by kornhole 4y ago
What about those of us over 18?
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by kornhole 4y ago
A for profit weapons industry and a for profit health care industry create other problems such as more war and more sick and indebted citizens.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Always subscribe with a virtual card with limit such as privacy.com. cancellation is as easy as a click to turn off card. Pay the creators you want to keep creating and pirate the rest. I let you determine who to support. Use bypass paywall
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by kornhole 4y ago
I encourage everybody to continue trying, but I am also realistic. I often write my senators and congress people here in California about these issues and proposed bills. They send me back canned letters telling me to pound sand, save the c
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by kornhole 4y ago
I agree that political action is needed, but I have almost no hope that any substantive legal changes will pass in near future. Big money and power prevent proposals from getting anywhere. It is up to us to protect ourselves and loved ones.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Author does not mention the major reason I care which is that allowing others to know what we are doing, thinking, saying, where we are going.. either individually or collectively anonymously or not, gives them power over us in many ways to
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by kornhole 4y ago
What if he gets the whole data dump and then backs out of the deal? Does he now have kompromat on all the politicians who had the app on the phone tracking their location and more?
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by kornhole 4y ago
Yunohost.org is completely FOSS and a Debian based distro. It has no crypto apps. It is quite polished over many years including backup, lets encrypt, DNS, NGINX, fail2ban, diagnosis, and a nice web UI.
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by kornhole 4y ago
What distinction do you mean? Federation allows for interoperable decentralization. Without federation, we would have thousands of chat/mail/social media servers that can't talk to each other. Some may choose not to federate,
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by kornhole 4y ago
We are not surprised, and hackers have the luxury of knowledge to avoid much of this. Preying on innocent, data illiterate, and captive children is the worst of privacy offenses.
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by kornhole 4y ago
Both are important. When governments mandate back doors such as in EU chat control or US Earn it act, centralized services can be targeted much more easily than the thousands of xmpp and matrix servers running around the world.

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