midnightGhost

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by midnightGhost 3y ago
Bandcamp is interesting and I am considering it and cancel Spotify. How do you go about discovering music? I use Spotify for not only listening to my artists but for music discovery too.
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
You described Linux. All the reasons and then some on why I switched to Linux and use Windows strictly for gaming.
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Privacy Is Power(aeon.co)
6 points by midnightGhost 5y ago|0 comments
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
DuckDuckGo does save users search history. It is stated in their privacy policy: "We also save searches, but again, not in a personally identifiable way, as we do not store IP addresses or unique User agent strings. We use aggregate, n
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
https://www.onlyoffice.com/
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A Private Place to Write Documents, Store Photos and More(crypt.ee)
3 points by midnightGhost 5y ago|0 comments
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Chrome 94's Idle Detection API can be abused according to Mozilla and Apple(ghacks.net)
4 points by midnightGhost 5y ago|0 comments
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Amplosion automatically redirects from AMP links to normal websites(christianselig.com)
2 points by midnightGhost 5y ago|0 comments
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
There is Lbry as an alternative to YouTube as well. It seems interesting. https://lbry.com/
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
I would say this is true. But personally the late night hours is a time when the world seems to stop and I'm able to be in my own space. I don't use social media so I don't have to worry about notifications from those apps. B
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
Tutanota here as well.
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
I agree. You're not wrong. Us niche groups care, see how the tech works or learn how it works, see what happens with our data and see the possible use cases with some of these systems. That's why I think the whole data collection
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
Facebook lost at being a social media platform long ago with serving ads and trying to be a social media platform and news media platform at the same time. It just does not work. That seems to be the big issue with people trying to create a
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
Eric Schmidt also said in a interview back when Google was starting up that they wanted to get Google right up to the "creepy line" but not cross it. This interview was also put in a documentary called "The Creepy Line."
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
I remember that story about Zachary McCoy. This whole thing continues to get worse quick and will continue to get worse. I know people say we need legislation and regulation on data privacy and tech companies which we do. But before that ge
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
I'm in the same boat. Though I actually do trust my VPN provider Mullvad. Highly talked about, based in Switzerland, and Mozilla also uses them for their VPN service. Edit: Sorry. Not Switzerland. Sweden. For some reason thought Switze
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
Discord now lets you change your username and avatar per server. Though to have a different avatar on different servers you need nitro.
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Apple Is Terrible for Your Privacy – The Hated One(youtube.com)
9 points by midnightGhost 5y ago|1 comments
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Identifying back doors, attack points, surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices [pdf](zdziarski.com)
3 points by midnightGhost 5y ago|1 comments
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
- I’m staying on iOS 14 for as long as I can. - I disabled iCloud and iCloud photos. - For now doing encrypted backups to iTunes on my pc. - I’ve also started using Cryptee and they seem solid. Link below. I’m also curious to see how crypte
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Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors(schneier.com)
17 points by midnightGhost 5y ago|1 comments
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
This was posted a couple years ago but might be of some relevance today with the latest developments of Apple.
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by midnightGhost 5y ago
I never heard of wet-bulb temp until carrot weather included it in a recent update.
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Firefox now shows what telemetry data it's collecting about you(zdnet.com)
3 points by midnightGhost 7y ago|0 comments
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Search-warrant demands that Google turn over account info, Android info etc.(boingboing.net)
9 points by midnightGhost 7y ago|1 comments
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by midnightGhost 7y ago
Then if one service had it all then people would be calling it a monopoly.
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Apple's AWDL protocol plagued by flaws that enable tracking and MitM attacks(zdnet.com)
1 points by midnightGhost 7y ago|0 comments
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by midnightGhost 7y ago
I agree. A journal is supposed to be "your place" usually that no one knows about. When you use apps and note apps to journal in your data is being sent somewhere and the sacredness "your place" idea is gone.
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People with extreme political views have trouble thinking about their thinking(popsci.com)
17 points by midnightGhost 7y ago|0 comments
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by midnightGhost 7y ago
YouTube Vanced is good. https://vanced.app/

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