kornhole

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   by kornhole 4y ago

   Agree. This also creates additional challenges for data brokers when trying to tie together datasets about you.
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   by kornhole 4y ago

   Based on my surveys of people in the US, 97-99% of people with handsets are location tracked nearly 24/7. I am in the 1% with my hardened phone free of Goople and on airplane mode 99% of the time. I hope these companies continue to be
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   by kornhole 4y ago

   Brings back so many memories. Back then getting new stuff would save you money, but now things are going in opposite direction for some use cases. Supply chain has eliminated some new products such as Raspberry PIs. I have instead been buyi
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   by kornhole 4y ago

   I heard the consultants working on this in a recent presentation propose creating a fund payed into by all farmers and then paying some farmers from that fund to fallow their fields.
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   by kornhole 4y ago

   I think you are alluding to a recording done when radios are in off mode. The devices I mentioned have power and baseband switches. So they could ensure that nothing is going on when a phone is set off properly.
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   by kornhole 4y ago

   And this just posted to HN today to explain in detail for you how the Iphone stays on and transmitting when you think it is off. https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06114v1
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   by kornhole 4y ago

   Thanks. I think it will be a little hard to enforce. I believe tens of thousands of XMPP and Matrix servers are currently running, and they are proliferating. Matrix protocol management is centralized giving authorities a place to apply pre
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   by kornhole 4y ago

   I agree hardware switches should be available, but I think only handsets from Pine and Purism offer such. These features have some additional negative externalities. A stranger came to my house a month ago and was sure that his lost Ipad wa
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   by kornhole 4y ago

   Russell manages to give a laugh at even the most disturbing topics. Here is is his show about the huge industry of blood extraction. https://youtu.be/82pOL361zUk
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    by kornhole 4y ago

    How can they scan messages on my xmpp server using OMEMO e2ee?
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    by kornhole 4y ago

    And forms in many pages are analyzing text and typing patterns as you type. This can actually be used to identify someone. I generally resort to typing everything into a notepad and then pasting when ready. Whonix resolves this, but my work
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    by kornhole 4y ago

    This seems to be in an exploratory phase with many questions still on how to implement. I do see this as positive in general that big car makers such as GM are recognizing the benefits and willing to partner with IBM on building open source
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    by kornhole 4y ago

    I don't think Switzerland is subject to this but I could be wrong. I setup my own mail and xmpp server to be safe. I recommend others to do the same. Yunohost.org makes it easy.
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    by kornhole 4y ago

    I would be very curious to know how one could test this so easily. https://www.imobie.com/icloud-unlock/locate-a-lost-cell-phon... and many articles demonstrate that even when a Google or IOS phone is off it can still
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    by kornhole 4y ago

    I consider community control and privacy to be features. I think the author is talking about more technical features that are often in conflict with these. I like KISS in my social media and news media which of course is why I am here and i
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    by kornhole 4y ago

    I like to walk into cell phone stores and ask if they have any phones with an off switch. These are of course rare and only sold by niche companies like Pine and Purism. Everything else just looks like it is off while it is still transmitti
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    by kornhole 4y ago

    Additional to what has already been said, they could choose homomorphic encryption as WhatsApp appears to be now using. No person can read the messages, but the computer can scan and analyze them.
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    by kornhole 4y ago

    You are right. You are here on HN because you probably are discerning of the kind of news that might actually be useful to enhancing your understanding of our world to help you navigate it.
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    by kornhole 4y ago

    Many are free of surveillance, advertising, government censorship, and AI manipulation that keeps feeding people garbage. https://framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD Here is one resource if you want to explore: htt
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    by kornhole 4y ago

    From the perspective of the pharma industry, one good outcome of the public consumption of more of this corporate social media is increased sales of antidepressants.
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    by kornhole 4y ago

    I do recognize that shutting off the news and events of the world can definitely increase one's emotional well being. Part of being a social citizen is being aware of, learning, and acting on knowledge. My main issue with this and many
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    by kornhole 4y ago

    I have Mastodon, mail, XMPP, Coturn, and Nextcloud instances all running on a single Raspberry PI setup quite easily thanks to yunohost.org. They have ISO's for just about any hardware or a VPS. Hostman and Mastohost are among the othe
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    by kornhole 5y ago

    I have since just moved everything into my Nextcloud server since it does everything I need and keeps my data totally private. It is on a Raspberry PI running Yunohost, and I can add additional drives as needed. I don't remember all I
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    by kornhole 5y ago

    The greatest data miner in history hits a mother load. With location data and the rest, he has Kompromat on almost every politician.
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    by kornhole 5y ago

    I connected my Linux systems to my Nextcloud server, and then I connected my Gdrive as external storage in Nextcloud. When I turned on server side encryption in Nextcloud it also encrypted my connected storage of Gdrive. So I accomplished b
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    by kornhole 5y ago

    It seems the best solution is to ban all advertising and money interest on the platform. Then Twitter would have a lower valuation, and they would not do that. It is a good thing we do have ad-free social media like Twitter such as Mastodon
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    by kornhole 5y ago

    This diet works well for my Scandinavian makeup, but it is very unethical in the world of today. I try to get most of my protein from plants. They don't make me feel physically great, but I can live with myself better doing so.
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    by kornhole 5y ago

    It left something in their memories that we need to fix Facebook with more censorship. Now the reason is to protect us from Russian misinformation.
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    by kornhole 5y ago

    You just need to put on the special glasses right? They Live is a great movie. "I came here to kick ass and chew gum, and I'm all out of chewing gum." is one of my favorite lines from it.
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    by kornhole 5y ago

    The cost of deploying or not deploying such anti-piracy screening systems further entrenches megatech and makes their smaller competitors illegal.