Clearly, someone was not thinking of the children

It actually looks really cool. I ran Lineage for a while and it was great, but I do enjoy projects that don’t fully degoogle as well and give a more “modded” experience

Lmao you’re right. Removed the first part. It came to look like an ad because I posted my first thought, then came back with my second one and appended it.

As far as the password goes, to this day I have no idea how it happened. I don’t want to admit I use the same password for everything, but ye know… it just stopped working for Proton one day.

I used to use Protonmail and VPN, but one day my password just randomly stopped working and I lost access to everything. Switched over to Tutanota and Mullvad and have had zero issues since.

Anyone who cares about this and doesn’t require a Windows server is already using BSD/Linux/etc

No but as someone who started in 1.5.2, I’ve switched to playing ReIndev which is a continuation of Minecraft b1.7.2 and works 32 bit

Stats aside, I can’t help but laugh anytime people suggest Lemmy is dying off or failing. Aussie.zone didn’t used to exist, and Lemmy.ml used to have like… one post a day? And it would be some tankie nonsense like “I’m a Russian living in Ukraine - Russia isn’t going to invade Ukraine, it’s all Western propaganda”

SMS? You mean the paid, vendor lock-in, MITMable traffic? Possibly one of the only options that is actually worse than Discord

And these limits will be tied to inflation?

Genuine question, can screen readers not parse image text in 2024? I personally use some image text to text copy programs on Linux to help speed up my development workflow, so it seems good screen readers have already had this for years?

…so did Lutris, Bottles, ZentryWine and like 8 others. That’s why we created yet a new program to unify them all!

(To be fair, I like the fact we have choices, and hope this project takes off, but yea…)

Based on the currently Bottles dev’s plans to create Bottles Next, my guess is no

Not true. I run ad campaigns and pay upwards of 1$ a click most times. AdNauseum hurts like hell.

Please use it :)

Egypt told Israel of the attack before it happened: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/12/israel-hamas-war-egypt-warned-foreign-affairs-gaza

The terrorists are allied with the ones holding public office - the same public office pushing for mass surveillance

I was genuinely confused why OP was talking about curtains and storm shutters

I’m a big fan of Ameliorated, it lets you turn any existing Windows install to a custom one with this thing called “Playbooks”. Their “Revi OS Playbook” has privacy as a rated feature, and although I haven’t used it, Ameliorated has always worked great for me in the past

The biggest one people usually get wrong is thinking their messages on WhatsApp, Telegram, and other proprietary messengers are private

Media targets the average citizen. Average citizens won’t easily understand the ramifications, so the media writes on clickable stories instead.

It’s safe to assume every service logs your IP, because even if they don’t intentionally, something as simple as an IP can be logged/intercepted by so many intermittent services it could end up caught and recorded accidentally.

Honestly, even the crypto part of Brave was a cool idea. Back when it was in beta, I was sending various websites and GitHub users ‘tips’, and they were able to cash out. It was genuinely supposed to be a new way to monetize the web (they later made the tips automatic based on how long you spent on each webpage), but, yeah… Too many people didn’t see the vision, and they got too much hate, so I’m pretty sure that whole program is axed now.

Brave is better out of the box than Firefox

Which country did you move to by chance? Honestly just curious.

And for the game… I would recommend small Minecraft servers. Usually the community is tight-nit, and you can get into deeper relationships with people after a few short weeks.

It’s a big subject, but generally:

• We have a library or SDK that developers put in their app/webpage (lots of apps are webpages)
• When you launch the app, we figure out who you are and what you’re doing
• We send it back to our servers, do data analysis, and use it for advertising/sell it

If we only have a little bit of data it’s pretty useless, but if we know your location/job/salary it starts to become very valuable

It’s like the Playstore. Lots of smaller countries have their own version of the store, for control or sanction reasons. RuStore in particular is mandatory to have installed by all Russian OEMs

Because you won’t be able to get a VPN on RuStore anymore

It’s a pretty cool idea. The more you fail, the more POW is applied.

Teeworlds (Flathub) is the cutest game ever, with simple mechanics but insane depth. I love playing it solo or with friends!

If you’re willing to spend 40$, various data brokers will sell you all the information people in this thread have mentioned

Couldn’t think of a better title, TL;DR via receiving an iMessage with a specially crafted image, an attacker can get full access to your device. Update iOS immediately to resolve the issue

GDPR allows for the company to verify your identity before proceeding with deletion. Source: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rules-business-and-organisations/dealing-citizens/how-should-requests-individuals-exercising-their-data-protection-rights-be-dealt_en

[The company] can ask [you] for additional information in order to confirm the identity of the person making the request.

Signal removing SMS support was the final straw that made me stop recommending it to friends. I had 100% of my contacts on Signal before that, and very few have left, but my new friends all use Instagram/Kakao/whatever.

I know that wasn’t very related to your comment, but UGGHHH

Not using the school given device is the best course of option unfortunately. Second hand ones are good, but the specs will be pretty bad

Okay, but what else are they gonna use? Matrix?

It’s likely requiring some “integrity API” (DRM check)

Source- I’ve seen similar things doing Android mobile dev

Sir, this isn’t Reddit

Obviously the solution is to centralize more of our data online, so if someone somehow gets access to it the reprocussions are even worse

Nah, because it will be considered a service that people choose to integrate with, and you won’t be required to use Google’s authentication service

France based

There is no such thing as a private cellular device.

So what? You’re gonna throw up your hands and give up? Why are you even here then?

There’s degrees of privacy, and different anti-tracking methods that come with a list of pros and cons.

It’s great to be critical, but if at the end you throw up your arms and go without a VPN you’re significantly less private.

You don’t need to stop every single attack vector - not even browsing on Tails will do that. But to go with a good VPN provider who has a history of not handing over data when subpoenaed is good