Oh dang I didn’t know

I like Iceraven.

I will never have anything to do with any nation that under ANY circumstance demand to be the sole source of truth.

There’s a whole world out there and you pick NZ?!

I’ve still to find any geo-restriction on AUS and NZ sites from Bahamas and considering how AUS and NZ have acted on average the last five years, I’m not browsing the internet from either even if on an anon VPN.

I do understand their reasons, yet the majority of lemmy.world is shitposting assholes so there’s some flaws somewhere…

My VPN provider has no legal obligation to work directly with my national law enforcement and if there’s an international warrant for my internet traffic, there’s no logs.

I don’t want ANYBODY knowing what I do on the interwebs even if it’s just personal stuff not a james bond villain crime webring.

And TOR over VPN is so standard several VPN providers have TOR exit nodes, though that negates a lot of the no-trust chain of TOR.

Maybe I’m missing something but when she welcomed me to the world of automated licence plate registration, it’s old news to me. These systems have been implemented across the world on local levels for decades, I have no doubt there’s illegal data retrieval from these systems by law enforcement and intel agencies.

What even is “Parallel construction”?

Not to mention GPS built into newer cars, accessing the mobile network where every single cell allows for triangulation. And personal phones. And facial recognition. And door cameraes. And so on.

This battle was lost 20 years ago, regular people are just too demoralized to care if it’s done out in the open now. As always, the best time to adapt was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Every single browser sync solution requires some sort of storage at the company, something to keep in mind when it comes to privacy.

Yes, FF fanbois, even self-hosted Firefox sync server needs the Mozilla account verification server and it’s ridiculously difficult to set it up compared to just self-hosting the data storage component.

Why? Principle or practicality?

Swiping those profiles is a lot of work.

From what I gather, yes. But will you be allowed to install F-Droid? No.

A lot of users care about privacy but find it unattainable due to technical difficulties.

Thundermail, not Thunderbird.

I’m OK with that just as much as I’m OK with random internet strangers downvoting me without bothering to even question my reasoning. To add fuel to the fire I’m happy to report that I look down upon GAFAM-mail users in general as well! 😁

That’s fine, I’ll just silently treat the Thundermail users in the same way I treat people who use AI to write mail replies.

Every time I’m reminded about Ecosia I go to their AI and burn some electricity.

I’m the guy that gets offended on behalf of what ever I want.

Sure, the only times I get issues is when using a blocked VPN node.

I have been googling my life for a few years.

🫠

What are you using?

I “steal” the music and either have it locally on my devices or stream it through VPN from my home server.

Coincidentally, I use PipePipe to download the audio from YouTube music videos. Been using it more than torrents for quite some time.

What’s nice to some is authoriterian to others.

I think there should be options, included for open source. I know there’s different architectures but look at ARM devices, a lot of software is compiled for that architecture too. I’d much rather sacrifice a big software catalogue for more free and secure solutions. More software would be available as time go by.

In one way I already do, running a custom android ROM with no Google services, with no Google Play there’s a lot of software I miss out on. I’m perfectly happy with that.

I just want RISC-V and open drivers on everything.

People here are way nicer to each other than Reddit

If one has the right kind of opinions. 🤷

Untraceable visitors are worth nothing. From a cynical point of view, better off without them.

Community about colours?

More like a community about the color orange and it’s related hues.

Browsing reddit while using a VPN is verboten.

Good grief I despise that smug, winking snoo with a effing fedora that goes along with the error page.

I’m trying to be better.

Unlike those dang noobs

If everyone you email use gmail

Using encrypted mail like Mailvelope helps. If they refuse to stop handing everything to GAFAM in any way, they’re really not worthy of private communication.

Degoogled not as in “Disable and remove Google components” or “Using Samsungs (or whatever) services instead of Google” but degoogled as in “Operating system built from the ground up without google components ever built in”.

The only one I have a hard time leaving is YT

Subscribe to YouTube channels through RSS, view content through a front-end or FLOSS apps. It goes a long way.