throwawei369

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by throwawei369 4y ago
If am not wrong, Little snitch doesn't stop any malicious domain that the user is not aware of. Little snitch is effectively a MITM app for all connections on the system it is installed on.
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by throwawei369 4y ago
My point is. With Linux and FOSS software, you do not necessarily need to treat programs as hostile. By default, most software is open and can be audited. If you decide to extensively use proprietary software then you have bigger problems t
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by throwawei369 4y ago
> You can apply more flexible rules than just blocking specific hostnames -- for example, based on IP subnets, port numbers, or specific binary executables This doesn't sound like a common use case. You can already block connection
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by throwawei369 4y ago
So Wireshark but with connection permission toggles... Why does anyone need this on Linux? You can already block domains you know are malicious in the hosts file or use a personalized DNS resolver for that. Or am I missing something?
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by throwawei369 4y ago
This would all be true if podman wasn't a gimped version of docker.
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by throwawei369 5y ago
How about you consume your international news from outlets that actually specialize on reporting global news. Such as the BBC world service.
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by throwawei369 5y ago
Not in support of the above poster's views btw, but I think he gave the analogy in a broader sense. Your take on this mirror analogy is from a micro-level. I still think looking at FB from a birds-eye view, the society mirror assessmen
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by throwawei369 6y ago
Reminds me of a situation where I had to do tech support for a pal who had bought a Chinese phone (later learned it was a Xiaomi device). Turns out for some reason the Chinese model didn't have Google play store pre-installed since it
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by throwawei369 6y ago
Last I checked it's not illegal to be a fascist. Hacking computer systems and stealing data however is illegal. Whether this is right or wrong is debatable. Free speech shouldn't be.
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by throwawei369 6y ago
This increase of extreme assault on free-speech platforms should be worrying to everyone. Not too long ago, we were hailing the "internet" as a free fair space. Now it is a free fair space ... for everyone but some kind of peopl
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by throwawei369 6y ago
I can tell your age by this comment. I'll leave you with this quote. "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
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by throwawei369 6y ago
Instead Firefox uploads your geographical location to their servers every time it starts up. And before you ask, this telemetry cannot be stopped. And when you finally manage to do some therapeutic dissonance from the above default behaviou
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by throwawei369 6y ago
> data.mistat.intl.xiaomi.com Ah. I'd recognize this spy domain anywhere since it regularly features in my pihole's top 5 blacklisted ones
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by throwawei369 6y ago
Offence is the best defence
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by throwawei369 6y ago
Seems you have too many HN tabs open at the same time.. But the article I have linked shows the study done on how apps read this information. Goes both ways for Android and Apple at the time, not sure if much has changed
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by throwawei369 6y ago
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/4000-...
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by throwawei369 6y ago
Wait until iot becomes mainstream. I foresee tiny chips creating mass scale mutiny against their creators and colonizing us (best case scenario)
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by throwawei369 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. It's a far better approach as a cloaking technique. Reason I use privacy-possum addon on Firefox.