you should perhaps find a little energy and read the whole message. especially the paragraph that starts with “Discussion”. because that paragraph is the rule. what do you not understand about this?

Recently there was a discussion about an r/privacy mod, carrotcypher. they have been mod on that sub since before the reddit exodus but they are making very strange decisions, to put it lightly. maybe this is their work too

how do you discuss privacy on android devices if you can’t even do so much as mention the name of an android rom. this is truly insane.

rogue has bad reading comprehension, the rule is not only about graphene, and that’s not even what it even says about graphene

consider requesting a GDPR data request, and when that’s completed a GDPR data deletion. the former mostly to have a backup for you, you can skip it if you don’t find it important

in my experience liking stupid pages, and political news pages, and sometimes giving various reactions to posts helps. did that for a few weeks last year, but decided that this experimentation does not worth my time

in the past they were using a jitsy integration, they are in the process of migrating to their in-house element call

a few years ago (actually, probably 5+, how the time flies) they made some kind of data collection mandatory, but at first totally hidden, afaik not even a changelog entry. then people found out and went angry, so unifi made an opt-out setting for it

I don’t know what happened after that, but to me they have shown it clearly that they are driven by US mentality (not because of current politics, but generally)

sure security is important. but notice how the dog has grown to be much larger than the person walking it

did you try to change instance in settings?

my phone does not have a headphone jack anymore and I totally agree with you. I can’t use my phone anymore for something that I did with it a lot in the past

sorry, sometimes I can’t hold it back anymore. maybe I should just stay silent sometimes

that author seems to be the last douchebag you should listen to. who the fucking hell sends someone to pound sand for correcting him?

I understand that you might be moved to engage me in debate on this topic, but that won’t happen because I will just immediately block you.

Fuck all the way off with this shit

signal crypto is a scam, but this person is just a raging retard.

The fact that there are no interoperable third-party implementations, or even third-party builds/distributions of the Signal app

that’s not true, Molly is perfectly fine

np, I learned this today too. we are truly very lucky to have these alternative services and the guys behind them

you seem confident, but it seems this is not true

yeah, that’s nextcloud. but how do they input data? I guess its touch based, but is it a touch screen with on-screen keyboard (an android tablet with a web browser could replace that) or do they use a pen, or voice, or something else?

writer:

Anita Key Government Liaison

lol

even that is questionable professionally

nextcloud comes to mind, but don’t know what alexa show is

the option is definitely there on android and desktop. but if iOS is still so simplistic to not have a common filesystem for the user and apps, I don’t know where could it put the export file

edit: I was misateken, it seems they have removed the function from the android app

alternatives are totally worthless for the only useful property of cryptocurrencies, which is private payments

Is it possible to set a password for sudo on Android? I’ve never seen anyone talk about it.

on android you don’t use sudo, or if it is possible, it is not the usual way. usually there is an app that controls access, and when something wants to start a new program with the su command (switch user), the app pops up a prompt about whether you want to allow it. this prompt can be implemented terribly insecurely or not (or rather the “backend” of it really).

the most common root solution nowadays is Magisk. it only modifies the bootloader. it is open source. if you look up how it works, its like a sophisticated malware, but handing control to you

Sucks that I can’t control sensors with root. Sensors are my biggest fear on all phones.

you can’t for the modem. but for other apps, you can, if that’s worth anything. to me it does, because some sensors are not gated by a permission (gyroscope, compass, magnetometer, proximity sensor, light sensor)

what android version do you have? on newer ones there’s a developer setting to allow to have a “sensors off” quick settings tile

Well, shit.

if you don’t need the modem, you may be able to safely wipe the partition holding its firmware. but look it up if it is safe for your phone! it should be, but who knows. also, make a backup! not 1, but 3!! it holds identifiers like the IMEI, and if you lose that… you can’t really just think up a new one, or the carrier may ban you and another poor soul

what is the process of using these, generally? (I assume there are variations)

are there ATMs that work without a camera pointed at your face?

what do you mean by cellular hotspot? working as a CSS itself?

it is not at all detrimental to privacy. it may be to security. different things.

of course, until you install something that uses root and mines data. but there are plenty of tools working with root that don’t do that.

you most probably can’t switch off sensors even with root, effectively. that needs a hardware based switch that just cuts power to the sensor, and requires your physical action to turn it back on.

Intel ME on android is ARM TrustZone, I think, or at least probably that’s the closest, but take this with a grain of salt.

but I doubt that a highly complex OS is running beneath general Android as we know it

afaik the modem often relies on a linux based system

If anyone at Proton is reading this […] I’ll stop leeching resources once I finish migrating to my new email provider.

lol

error: problem between keyboard and chair

but nowadays maybe it works better with screen

element keeps a lot of metadata unencrypted. but it is federated, you can choose the server that has access to it (deny federation for the room or set up federation ACLs if important to keep it there), and because of the former it’s harder to just shut down.

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/privacy/comments/1bqymdr/what_is_not_encrypted_in_element_matrix_client/

https://red.artemislena.eu/r/privacy/comments/da219t/im_project_lead_for_matrixorg_the_open_protocol/

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/660

https://red.artemislena.eu/r/privacy/comments/1bqymdr/what_is_not_encrypted_in_element_matrix_client/

signal doesn’t, in theory they don’t even know the recipient of your messages (but there’s a twist in that part as I remember), but it is centralized around US servers. it is easier to shut down.

So then why would you even think to do something like this? Like…why?

well if you would bother to read what they have written… oh I see, then you couldn’t be so condescending

unless they use a computer from the 80’s, there’s no reason a large hosts file should slow down programs that bad.

yeah. this is a bug.

I think the transfer/roaming should be able to work fine without a mesh system too. I remember that OpenWRT has like 2 settings I think, that are not related to the mesh mode but can help device roaming, but by default disabled for compatibility reasons

if you still have the devices and you have some tech skills, maybe you could install openwrt on it. are you sure it’s model name is deca? I don’t see on the supported list

I tried TP-Link Deca, but the mesh refuses LAN communication if the router doesn’t have a constant and stable connection to the internet

that’s ridiculous

true, but I thought it would be important to know the state too

a fake address could still be helpful against database leaks, but I think also if the data is just sold. triangulation tells a broad area, at least sub 5G, which is not the best, but technically it is

ok but don’t the available providers vary by state?

that won’t work without telling us your region. the largest part of the world doesn’t even know what is AT&T, let alone ATT

fuck all the bosses that would try to excert control over my phone

I don’t need an LLM on my phone, and most people don’t either. I mean, I’m not an AI addict, but also, these are battery powered devices!

if I want to use an LLM on the go for some reason, I would either run that at home on a computer that was made for performance, or just use the duck.ai site because that’s just fine too.

my phone has 6 GB, and that’s plenty. I have a ton of apps installed, and always running background services like Syncthing.