AFAIK it hasn’t been used as an OS yet (meaning init - the thing you start after bootloader). Or a bootloader
Right?

That’s definitely what my scripts, that I moved to using, do. Maybe the feature was missing back then

And it can also do three-way, bi-directional sync. Which feels kind of crazy to me

Ah. Then it must have not fit my use-case at the time. I don’t remember

Can you define which remote dir should be synced where? That might have been my issue

I’ve been using pcloud. You can choose for the data to be hosted in EU. Doesn’t have a client but works well with rclone (and Round Sync on Android). And from time to time they offer “lifetime” package - no subscription

Depends how one looks at it. From purely practical POV, probably 90% of us don’t need to bolt their doors so much. But as a principle, as a society we’ve lost the “war” on privacy so much, that it really takes a long way to pull the dial back to where it should be

I don’t think they do, honestly. Being rich does not necessarily mean being smart

And those who pay for not being brought up on the lists of most rich, probably don’t use tech themselves

Their wealth comes from stocks, bonds and land, not an account that can be hacked. Their safety against kidnapping for ransom comes from being pals with most of politicians and/or having clout in the right circles to help any politician that will ping high enough to be allowed to get an appointment

fascism is capitalism showing its teeth, like what trump is doing more overtly now

AFAIK that is not the definition of fascism

But I’ve seen a TikTok of someone who is studying politcal doctrines (IDR if their level was Major or PHD) and what is currently going on was ticking off all the boxes

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/30683/is-if-you-have-nothing-to-hide-you-have-nothing-to-fear-a-line-used-by-joseph

To example.com?

Huh. Maybe it does exist

What kind of weird spam is this? There is temp-mail.org, and description matches. But the name is wrong

Weak article

But to rescue the topic: yes, technically it could spy you and upload hashes of each 5 seconds of your mic into a datastore for recognition. But why do it in such a long and pricy way when the ads suppliers (one fo them being google) have all your demographics they need? And sometimes even know if a click on an ad banner resulted in a purchase. And that way don’t have to recognize if that was you talking, someone on the street or their own ad

Read https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit

Even using anonymized discount loyalty cards fuels the recognition which ad to push your way

I think that having any kind of recognizable email is against the idea of privacy. So I would set up the following layering:

1. Mozilla Relay/TempMail (randomized email accounts)
   for most of shops, job applications, etc. If it leaks you can easily disable the account and/or rotate it on periodic basis to limit the cross-database matching (the privacy part)
2. a few separate domains for things where you can’t stop receiving mails or having an account is really worth it

• one for banks
• one for government
• one for the few shops where the first layer is not enough
• one for private exchange

1. the provider that can change

I think the best approach would be to contact Microsoft customer support

Don’t get me wrong, I agree that sometimes freedom has to fight for itself

have to defend democracy or it will be eroded

Are we sure this is going to happen? Or it is possible that we got convinced on that by people who don’t care about democracy, only want to be in charge?

Could you elaborate on this angle? I’m not very well versed in the rights of companies operating in the EU, but I’m unsure “freedom of speech” is one of them.

I rather mean “political discourse”

There was Twitter. Apart from advertising, the very good thing it brought was free access to information. But not only getting it, also sharing. So we knew about for example Arab Spring or Umbrella protests and more or less what is going on, before news decided to tell us and how to tell us

Then came Musk, all in white, saying that moderation on Twitter is biased and he’s going to bring it more freedom of speech

Some time passes and let’s say that now EU does ban X. What’s the next logical thing he’ll say?

I think it might be something like “see? EU banned X because they didn’t like the truth. For the truth, come to me”. I’m afraid that banning would rather give him power and echo chamber, rather than fixing what is going on

I’m not against this angle. But IMO evangelization and conversions only really worked when backed by the state

My approach is calmly keep using free platforms, keep degoogling, when sharing information, share the links from those free platforms, so it keeps pinging in general consciousness that these exist. So the next time everyone does suprised pikachu face to what extent our data is used against us, you don’t have to say “see? I told you”. They come to you asking how to do this, what are the limitations and realities of getting free etc

But, of course, as with everything, diversity is a strength. Some of us should fight, some of us stay calm and keep going on
I think

Maybe the solution is to put a restriction on business, news agencies, and government services from using it?

But that opens another can of worms. A precedence for a governing body to say which platforms can be used for reaching your audience. I’m afraid the change will have to come from the bottom

If anything, I’d phrase it “public service messaging has to operate on platforms which don’t require an account to read”. But that doesn’t solve the problem of general culture on the service

I don’t know

Wouldn’t that enable an angle of “martyr for freedom of speech”?

And while I agree that it stopped being what it was and we can’t rely on it anymore, wouldn’t that separate EU from the rest of the world given current market share?

In my opinion: abandon - yes. Ban - no

Here it’s similar. I’ve found out that if to the question

do you have our membership?

I respond “No, thank you”, they often understand correctly and don’t assume I want to set one up

When I don’t have the time to enable sheltered apps, I use Firefox with uBlock and AutoCookieDelete to watch the links
Last time I did this was a few hours ago

Yeah, I was wrong

Is there a limit to one-time cards

There should be something about that in the Revolut EULA or something like that. But I’ve never encountered it. The moment the payment goes through, a new card appears in the app

Can you elaborate But how private your data really is, that might be hard to answer

It’s a business. A closed source. They are of course bound by laws and regulations but there’s practically no way to make sure they aren’t selling transaction data/statistics under the table. Also, the cards issued by them are either visa or mastercard (IDR), so these companies have that info too. And I’d bet they sell transactions analytics
Then there’s also the matter of telemetry. Apart from telemetry gathered by the app for Revolut, I guess there’s no way to use it without Gapps

FWIW I did not notice an influx of spam after registering an account. But that doesn’t prove anything, of course

We can’t inspect the code of the app. So it’s probably only as private as other bank apps

most banks do not support NFC payments in their apps

Huh? All the other banks I use support it

But you’re right regarding Revolut. I just checked and I was wrong, it’s not there in the settings. I have no idea how I used it with NFC in the past, then. Most of the time I use BLIK

WDYM by source? You just open phone settings, NFC and choose Revolut to be the app to be used with NFC
If you choose to be issued physical card there probably is a way to just copy it physically into NFC but I haven’t used that
Revolut is just another bank. It’s just a little less behind the times than most

I’m not sure what “tap to pay” is and I haven’t used privacy.com. But you can attach your Revolut card to NFC in phone. Without going through Google Wallet
It also issues one-time cards that get destroyed after one use
In general it’s pretty handy, even if as pre-paid account

But how private your data really is, that might be hard to answer

access my documents on my different computers or my Android phone

I had similar setup but I was using obsidian and pcloud. Syncing up&down was done by scripts using rclone/roundsync (android). Script part might be harder to achieve using windows

But I came here to say that I finally decided to test syncthing and it’s so much easier! And just works. Now pcloud is rather a backup and sharing than gateway

Depends. I’ve found that it was able to explain to me (about Spanish) why, when and how to use this form or the other. But it won’t come up with a plan of lessons. And the level of support will depend on the amount of resources available for the language you want to learn

Maybe this could help?

Search is working fast, which is nice. Unfortunately it seems to focus on articles in my language without possibility to switch to English, so 1. someone might argue this narrows down who is using it, and 2. sometimes I need to search for an article in other language.
Also, from issues on github it seems that it can be a little buggy atm

At the same time, on wikipedia, ublock sees only wikipedia and wikimedia domains. And the page even doesn’t need to ask about cookies. I don’t think wiki has a problem with privacy, per se. Of course in countries with stupid governments this might be a good idea

And I was commenting on the article. Which only has two lists and at the bottom

By enabling all of these settings, you are significantly reducing the amount of tracking and data collection these devices perform, but keep in mind that you are not completely eliminating it.

And I’m criticizing that

I can’t find better source ATM but basically its encryption is not good enough anymore

I think this article is so-so. For example

• Display: Screen timeout: Shortest duration you are comfortable with
• Wallpaper & style: Set your lock screen to something generic and non-personal (no family photos, etc)
  (…)
• Security & Privacy: Device Unlock: Screen lock: Strong password preferred, followed by PIN, then Pattern.
• Security & Privacy: Device Unlock: Screen lock settings: Enhanced PIN privacy: Enabled
• Security & Privacy: Device Unlock: Screen lock settings: Lock after screen timeout: Shortest duration you are comfortable with

These don’t affect “the amount of tracking and data collection these devices perform”. Might be good ideas in themselves, but bundling these with options that really diminish the amount of data broadcasted, washes the picture out IMO

TIL about searXNG

Exactly ;)

I use it for some time now and all my browsers. I am surprised it does not have more users. In my opinion it’s easier to find what you want with startpage than duckduckgo

It seems that a few months ago it became operational

I like Aard2 you download a dump of wiktionary and it just works. For more than word to word translation Monocles translator works well enough for me

And for cloud I use RCX

Maybe obsidian? It’s not open source, unfortunately, but

• works offline
• has android and linux clients
• the files are markdown, so you don’t even need to export these
• the clients render the files so it can look better than plain txt files