You Can’t Stop The Signal
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You Can’t Stop The Signal
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Is Privacy Worth It? (blog.thenewoil.org)
When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
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Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash (www.patrick-breyer.de)
What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
Telegram apparently censor queer groups (mastodon.social)
cross-posted from: leminal.space/post/6433881
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
By the way, the earlier posted article restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data… had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary
sim card from Ebay , bad idea?
ordered a new phone so I wanted a new SIM for a clean slate. My country require KYC for SIM cards. So i ordered this www.ebay.com/itm/295938085941 I see now that the card is being shipped from Israel....
Smart meter data: the Government’s at it again (www.openrightsgroup.org)
Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before. Here’s how. (arstechnica.com)
Where to "practice Linux" terminal commands
I’ve been using Linux for about 7 months now and have become a lot more comfortable using the terminal but I feel like there is more that I can learn....
CJEU Gives File-Sharer Surveillance & Data Retention a Green Light * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
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How can i do whatever I want to do ?
I wanted to install jackett and sonarr, they are complicated to use as is, moreover I am using Ubuntu. I am following fuidleine for installing jackett with STUPID command line making it EXTRA difficult. But now I have to change directory ownerships and what nots. I am the ONLY user on this machine. I want to own everything by...
Github Can Never Support Kernel Development (youtu.be)
How you all prevent Password/OTP/TOTP deadlocks?
I have read quite a few posts about preventing account password takeover from various malicious ways, and many OPSEC measures are there to prevent it from happening....
Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?
Whether you’re really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!
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Why I no longer use a VPN (most of the time) and nor should you - YouTube (youtu.be)
Alternative inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=pp-INfssWBo
Alcohol Addiction Treatment Firm will be Banned from Disclosing Health Data for Advertising to Settle FTC Charges that It Shared Data Without Consent (www.ftc.gov)
According to the complaint, the company contradicted its privacy promises. From 2020-2022, the company allegedly disclosed users’ personal information, including their health information, to numerous third-party advertising platforms via tracking technologies, known as pixels and application programming interfaces (APIs),...
Dynebolic is a portable Linux distribution that can be used without installation (www.zdnet.com)
Regarding The Hyprland & Vaxry Situation (www.youtube.com)
Just putting this here cause I found it a good overview of a pretty confusing situation I had no prior knowledge about
debloat an amazon fire tv stick 4k max?
Is it possivle to debloat a fire tv stick? I.e. remove all amazon related apps and replace the launcher. The info I find online is scattered around and depends on the version.
Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Lasse Collin, the other xz maintainer, has acknowledged the backdoor (tukaani.org)
They haven’t particularly made a comment on the situation so much as acknowledged it’s happening. They seem to be going with the story that they had nothing to do with it and this is news to them. Hope to hear more from them soon so we can find out more about the situation, how and why this happened, etc....
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)
Family photo sharing?
My son was just born, and while a few photos will go on the likes of Facebook and Instagram, overall my partner and I are wanting to keep our shared photos private from the EULA abuses that we all know and hate....
An app called Bless Every Home, which has been backed by some of the biggest names in evangelical circles, is mapping the names and addresses of immigrants and non-Christians. (newrepublic.com)
How can I enable DNS over TLS on openSUSE MicroOS with KDE?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills
I installed a few different distros, landed on Cinnamon Mint. I’m not a tech dummy, but I feel I’m in over my head....
NetBSD - thoughts?
What’s the point of it?...
Invidious
Its very funny to me that I only learned about Invidious recently because youtube is trying to take it down. I will never open youtube ever again. Ive been using addblock/tracking blockers for a decade at this point but now I don’t even have to look at their shitty website with its ever degrading interface....