GolfNovemberUniform

GolfNovemberUniform, 13 days ago

I use LineageOS because my phone is not a Pixel and it works fine to me. If you don’t want to pay Google for a Pixel, buy a used one. Other than that LOS is fine. It doesn’t have anonymization features like /e/OS or something like that but it doesn’t force nor promote any apps or ecosystems (except for Seedvault but it’s not a big deal) and it is FOSS

GolfNovemberUniform, 13 days ago

Unfortunately 90% of privacy-conscious people can’t live without Google services because Google Meet, banking apps and other Play Integrity needing stuff

GolfNovemberUniform, 13 days ago

But that’s what GrapheneOS uses afaik. The person I replied to said that LineageOS (a fully vanilla ROM) with root (which breaks banking apps) is a better solution. I agree but I added that the mentioned solution is really not for most people.

GolfNovemberUniform, 13 days ago

There are some issues with some questions: empty ones (variant 1, variant 2, variant 3 etc) and toggles where radio buttons would be more appropriate

GolfNovemberUniform, 13 days ago

Sorry I can’t find it now. Probably I misunderstood something idk

GolfNovemberUniform, 13 days ago

I guess no more ad-free experience in privacy-respecting clients. Well that sucks but let’s hope it at least won’t kill them completely

GolfNovemberUniform, 13 days ago

As I understood the ad will be a part of the actual video file you receive but, unlike fixed sponsor integrations, the time it’s shown at will change every time. That is going to be impossible to get rid of without AI unless there are some exploits

GolfNovemberUniform, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Please no not AI

GolfNovemberUniform, 13 days ago

I use LibreTube btw

GolfNovemberUniform, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Idk what’s DeArrow and I don’t use SponsorBlock because it’s not reliable for me lol. What is really good about LibreTube though is the privacy stuff and that it works fine on 8 years old phones. DEATH TO PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE!

GolfNovemberUniform, 13 days ago

Oh yea I use Arch btw

GolfNovemberUniform, 13 days ago

Energy efficiency, enforcement and hallucinations

GolfNovemberUniform, 14 days ago

They can have data about your past but if you care about privacy, you can limit data collection a lot and outdated data is useless in many cases. Sacrificing privacy is a questionable choice and won’t give a conscious person peace of mind at all lol but everyone makes their own decisions.

GolfNovemberUniform, 14 days ago

TL;DR You need a realistic threat model.

Well that’s true but ehh still it doesn’t happen too often. If you want to keep your data away from the government then it is a danger. If you just want not to give the unethical advertising and data mining companies your data for free so they don’t have profit (like I do), you don’t need to focus that much. And if you’re concerned about your partners and friends getting the data, you have to reconsider their role in your life ngl.

That’s why you get a separate identity or device for everything that requires your real name and NEVER EVER tell your real name online (they even teach it in schools nowadays if you didn’t know).

If you want a public life with posting everything that happens to you, you can’t protect much except the metadata. Other than that there is some data you can’t protect but my previous points help with it and, once again, it depends on who you want to protect it from.

GPS ftw.

GolfNovemberUniform, 14 days ago

GPS on a secure device is the answer. Also read my long explanation. I recommend using 2 devices and identities to avoid similar issues

GolfNovemberUniform, 13 days ago

That’s really overkill for my threat model. For me it’s a device with a degoogled FOSS ROM, no proprietary software, no sim card and with correct settings

GolfNovemberUniform, 14 days ago

3 letter agencies, governments in general and data hungry companies will continue searching for a way to bypass encryption. And just a reminder: direct access to the system (remote or physical) bypasses all kinds of encryption unless it’s protected separately. Backdoors and kernel level anti-cheats ftw

GolfNovemberUniform, 14 days ago

AI may be useful in some cases (ask Mozilla) but it is not like what you said in the middle part of your post. Seeing the vote rate makes me feel a tiny bit better about this situation.

GolfNovemberUniform, 15 days ago

grabs popcorn

GolfNovemberUniform, 15 days ago

Ok it’s getting properly sus now. Mozilla goes into politics way too much

GolfNovemberUniform, 15 days ago

Doesn’t matter. Politics is politics and always ends badly.

GolfNovemberUniform, 15 days ago

So you’re defending major companies? Ok. May as well do what Jia Tan did…

GolfNovemberUniform, 15 days ago

It isn’t much of a surprise to me either. I heard of them jumping into politics and misusing donations in the past. But it doesn’t mean they’re good

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

I had this or a similar issue right after installation many times. I force rebooted and everything was fine. I wouldn’t worry about it too much

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

Performance has left the chat.

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

Yes, performance of zsh. Idk if it’s a bug, a language issue or just a downside of having more features but it is slower than bash

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

Nice. ARM makes a lot if sense for energy efficiency. Would love to see it on a more budget and low-end device though

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

Orange Pi is not open-source and is designed in China. Kinda suspicious this one

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

I thought the chat control law idea kinda died already

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

But why can’t you just use software from GitHub or F-Droid or something that doesn’t have to obey these laws? Is it illegal?

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

They can’t if you use a VPN and the app is not in their jurisdiction

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

I wasn’t even talking about such cases. I was talking about people who need really secure and private communication in that particular comment

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

Good luck with it, mister/miss

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

I don’t care if it’s illegal if the law violates people’s privacy tbh

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

Agreed

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

This is why we shouldn’t let such people to the government in the first place. Anyone who believes in “patriotism” and “national interest” (that appears to be 99% of people in the democratic world) will disagree though. It’s a matter of double standards, lack of understanding and care at this point

GolfNovemberUniform, 19 days ago

You can just go for Ubuntu, Mint or AntiX if you want good experience. Debian can be harder but it’s quite stable (unless you use KDE). Any other suggestions depend on your use cases. For example, you can only use Ubuntu based distros for some Android development tasks

GolfNovemberUniform, 19 days ago

GG for the last line

GolfNovemberUniform, 19 days ago

But how can they access a passenger’s digital profile?

GolfNovemberUniform, 19 days ago

Well that is obvious. Btw many phones have file share mode as the default now. Make sure you change it. But how about other cases? I don’t really understand. Are digital profiles officially tied to the ID and plane tickets now?

GolfNovemberUniform, 19 days ago

Oh so they just use the data from the credit card like age and gender? It’s still bad but not that much of a problem as if they had access to all Google, Apple, Meta and other kinds of analytics and behavior data. Though I heard some banks do buy that data so I wouldn’t be surprised if they gave it to the airline. Well I know the era of total surveillance is coming. The EU may fight it but the US doesn’t seem to have any desire to do so. That’s unfortunate but only a big amount of active people can change it. Also what is an UA card?

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

But the article says the ads are personalized. I really suspect it goes deeper than just the destination

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

That’s what I wanted to know. Well total surveillance is slowly becoming a thing. Having multiple digital identities and using privacy-respecting services makes more and more sense every day

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

I believe you can use your “official identity” only for stuff that requires identification (like border crossing, business and flights) and create another one for general internet usage and stuff like that. It’s much harder in countries that require ID to buy a SIM card though

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

It makes sense why they want to do it but it’s really sad. I think you still can use the majority of privacy-respecting internet if you host your own email (so you don’t need a phone number to register it) but it basically reverts the internet to the 90s because you need knowledge to set up a server and it doesn’t let you use almost all of the popular messenger apps, making usage of the “official identity” mandatory to contact most of the people and therefore lose privacy when the situation gets worse

GolfNovemberUniform, 18 days ago

Not really. Some stuff can still remain private and there are useful privacy-respecting services. I believe it can get much worse

GolfNovemberUniform, 19 days ago

Doesn’t all the Fediverse count?

GolfNovemberUniform, 19 days ago

We have a lot of projects like that. Too much for anything to go mainstream actually. We need to focus on one or a few so we have higher chance of popularizing it