I’ve got an android

It’s better than whatsapp, imo.

Yes, signal and matrix are better but at least it’s not facebook.

What are a lot of payment accounts?

If I had too many services I pay for, I’d try reducing that as well. Less is more for me.

Change bank.

Don’t use the app.

Depends on the use case an server.

Google and facebook do not yet have public servers. You want a trudtworthy server such that noone abuses your metadata like the time of sending a message.

It’s very useful for companies like email but for real time communication. I’d prefer matrix over most other forms. In many companies and agencies matrix is getting introduced these days.

It’s not anonymuous just like signal isn’t perfectly anonymuous.

Tgen it’s a bug. Can you reproduce it? Which os?

Did you activate “block connections without vpn” aka kill switch?

There’s only one vpn slot on android. How do you tunnel the connection without a second device?

Did you activate “always on vpn”?

Until there’s something better, fire tv is the best you can get. Everything works.

Sound like some sort of xy-problem here.

There is encrypted email, look into tuta or proton. It’s just that “no” (I just don’t know any) other service implemented their encryption standard. But it is there. People would just need to use it.

Moreover, matrix is encrypted and federated.

I used my mastodon picture. I was hoping it would find at least that, but it couldn’t.

It couldn’t find me.

Thanks! That’s important to know!!

Vpn

As bad as it is, phone numbers are a feature, not a bug

Since France uses matrix themselves, they could’ve simply shut their own server down 😛 Which would be horrible of course …

Yes

Did you look into garmin watches? GOS has no pay function.

• making the introduction about the topic itself
• today, all traffic is encrypted. You do not need a vpn for that. Even if you wouldn’t use TLS, using a vpn wouldn’t make it much more secure.
• just address that IPs can be static or dynamic. There are many different cases and you exclude them.
• just because the ip is hidden, you may still reveal your location by other means.
• i am still in charge of my privacy, vpn only hide ip. All other personal identification methods are still valid.
• if you need to be anonymuous vpns aren’t the best tool for it which is the controversal part about vpns. If you just want to torrent, you have to use vpns in many locations. Vpns are useless if you log in to services.

Changed it, thx!

Google does not yet have to sell chrome. Many titles of articles are misleading.

I don’t like google owning chrome but if they’d force google to sell it and not apple or microsoft to sell theirs, I’d be against it. It would only harm google and deter competition

I didn’t check for internet connectivity and I’m always onine. I just don’t care that it phones home whenever I start the device.

What’s the best alternative? I’d move if there was one

You change the text? That’s only on the user side, right?

I know people who didn’t update their browser for ages and use outdated android versions and nothing happened to them.

I use zerotier and afaik they can’t access it, hence, I assume it’s the same for tailscale

Why did you choose gitlab and not codeberg/forgejo for open source everything?

I don’t own one but I agree, it ist very good. But it’s too expensive for what it is nowadays. A second hand one or maybe the next generation might be worth it again

I use an amazon fire tv 4k, I only use it to start jellyfin. It’s perfect.

If you don’t want it to phone home, put it behind a firewall, and block all but your domains

Important tool

Let’s say I work in an IT area (but not infosec)

There may have been discussions around it beforehand. I didn’t ask why it went so smooth.

I don’t have to. Matrix is coming anyway. It’s not an if but a when.

For official (internal) company communication though I will advertise matrix instead of signal. I’ll report back once I’ve talked to the right people about it.

Wtf. Newpipe for the win

(Sorry apple users)

It sends the private key? Are you sure about that?

I use a password manager. I don’t care about it. Passwords are reasonably secure.

Don’t visit the websites.

It’s important to be libre and open source.

If someone claims somefhing without source, you cant trust it.

Bitcoin != most cryptocurrencies

Thats not true.

As soon as you share the into with a potential employer that it is you, you lose the privacy. You have to assume it’s publicly known. It’s not worth the effort.

If you do your research everyone knows you spend most of your day researching anyway. At least your supervisor will know who you are. You will want to talk to others and tell them “I’m currently research xy. I wrote this idea, what do you think about it?” Etc.

You should do the phd because you are intrested in the topic, not to gain some degree.

You can write your good papers as an anonymuous person. If they are very good, people would cite you. People will want to invite you.