I finally got around to installing this app but it requires an account. Is this a recent requirement?

I can’t remember any time in the last 2 years before I deleted my reddit account where a post I made didn’t get auto-moderated.

My bad. Its been a while, but Thunderbird at one point. If I remember right there was an update relatively recently that made it much more difficult to import offline emails, so if you find a better alternative let me know.

I should re-iterate I download the emails to use in an offline client. Their service doesn’t support third party clients to receive and send email.

When I do taxes, I need to search thousands of emails for receipts and the tuta apps make this impossible. This is my workaround.

I’ve used Tuta for years, paid account with multiple custom domains.

I prefer them for their principles, but their clients are extremely frustrating. Emails load very slowly and their email search is basically unusable.

I’ve resorted to downloading old emails and using other clients to import and search through them. I really wish they would improve their email search.

This has been my experience as well. What tweaks are you making to default librewolf?

I can honestly say Ive never used x or twitter. I absolutely hate the format and it seems like a waste of life to scroll through a feed reading quick snippets of text.

At least with a reddit or Lemmy style social media platform, I can click on the text snippet and be brought to a more in depth post about it. And it’s simple to navigate replies for useful information.

Twitter is like somebody yelling something from a megaphone, then a crowd of people screaming over them randomly.

Discord is the next platform that needs to die. Online forums were perfect for what they did, then discord came along and now it’s a nightmare to comb through any type of community or support system for useful information. Again, people screaming into the void…

Zip it, Scotty

You should publish a guide once you do it. That sounds pretty interesting.

I’ve been using it for many months and I like it a lot. Only one of my banking apps doesn’t work.

Currently my main issue is that webauthn stopped working after an update. And the community support hasn’t been helpful.

I wish they had better documentation in general.

Yeah pimeyes absolutely needs to be shut down and laws need to be in place to protect private citizens from having their information sharable and searchable without their explicit consent. “Publicly available information” is always the line people use to defend these services. I’m arguing that our modern capabilities needs to be adjusted for. Things shouldn’t be so publicly accessable in the first place and personal data aggregation should be a much more vetted and potentially licensed business. Can we talk about what other purpose these facial recognition databases serve other than to stalk, expose, or extort people? If they required proof of identity and only allowed searches of your own face then I could understand the value.

You’re right. I always thought Peertube was another YouTube frontend.

I think the only real path forward is for a developer to figure out a way to decentralize video hosting. The future of the free internet is decentralization. We’ve seen which way the wind blows when platforms are centralized.

Consumer storage is abundant and cheap as hell. There will need to be incentives for: 1. Creators 2. Node hosters 3. Moderators. Potentially AI could do the heavy lifting on number 3. Figuring out a way to avoid ad based revenue would be another hurdle. In an ideal world, creators would accept that only 10% of their viewers would contribute to them monetarily (through patreon or donations) and use the platform for its freedom from corpo bullshit.

But as much as the Foss and decentralized crowd has been growing, I think we’re still a long way out from average people becoming fed up enough to care. I still get eye rolls from everybody I know IRL when I try to get them to open an invidious link.

I’m in the same boat as you in that I need Instagram for work. My approach is to create a separate work profile in GrapheneOS. I handle all of my mobile work apps in that profile using a separate VPN from all other profiles. I don’t expect to be completely free from tracking in this profile, but for my threat model I don’t mind too much. Any web queries I make in this profile I keep strictly work related.

People arguing you just shouldn’t use Instagram need to remember Instagram is a tool just like Windows, Adobe, etc. Sometimes you need a specific tool to do your job and I believe as long as you containerize that aspect of your life then you’ll be fine.

Just don’t use your work Instagram for personal stuff, not even browsing memes.

I had a few episodes saved offline in my apple podcast app but it appears you are correct. Surely there’s an archive somewhere?

In most cases it’s just too annoying of a process to get on the list. But I understand why the invidious team prefers to vet instances rather then have something like a beacon system that auto populates all consenting instances.

Some other good instances:

• https://iv.nowhere.moe
• https://yt.dupindustries.com
• https://invidious.reallyaweso.me
• https://inv.tux.pizza

I operate an invidious instance. Google has really cracked down the past two weeks on YouTube front ends. Its extremely frustrating.

Invidious devs are finalizing a workaround so hopefully things will be working again in the next week or two.

Damn. You’re correct. My brain saw instance and ignored the rest.

Looking in the NewPipe settings I found a place to enter instances and there is one already configured. I guess I was proxied the whole time without realizing. Thanks for the clarification btw.

I often wish all services could provide an opt out “I’m aware no 2fa is risky but I really don’t give a damn about this account so fuck off with the constant email verifications”. Or if companies insist on forcing 2fa, at least support hardware keys. Don’t even get me started about banks…

Good point. I’m aware of the icloud method of imessage cracking, but I often forget that I’m not always the weakest link; it’s up to the people around you as well.

I eventually managed to get the yubikey to work, although it is very buggy and the steps to get it working are unacceptable IMO for the “most secure phone OS”. Hardware keys should be a major priority and should simply work just as easily as using passwords, but it seems to be a stale open feature request for a few years. Luckily for me, once bitwarden is authenticated with 2fa I don’t need my hardware key unless I reinstall it. So that’s one major hurdle behind me. Another plus is that while you need sandboxed google services to utilize hardware key auth, they don’t need network permissions to work.

If iMessages are e2ee and you aren’t using iCloud, is there any evidence your messages aren’t private? As far as I’m aware iMessage is considered a very secure messaging channel. It seems like most people distrust it due to the Apple affiliation. Not that I blame them, I feel the same about Google.

Just for the sake of getting used to / transitioning to a single gos phone, does it make sense to use the insecure phone as a hotspot and utilize the pixel without a sim (so data only device). I would be using e2e encrypted apps for texts and calls so this makes sense in my head.

Appreciate the info.

It seems absurd to me that a third party online service is required for a hardware key to work in the first place. I figured it would be authenticating strictly between the locked service and the user.

Most helpful comment. Thank you. I’m heavily considering carrying two phones. My biggest hurdle is the Yubikey at this point because it locks me out of my password manager and most of my more important apps.

You mention using the usb-c connection. I tried that but it doesn’t seem to register. I guess I just need to research some more.

Thanks for giving me some hope!

When I initiate Yubikey auth via NFC in Bitwarden, it takes me to a Yubikey demo page. From what I’m reading online, for some reason I need to install google play for the key to work correctly.

Also seeing lots of chatter on the forums that a recent gos update broke most banking apps and they’re working on a fix.

Thank you for the info about the keyboard. I’ll check that one out.

I really like mostly everything about GrapheneOS on paper. The UI, user profiles, security features. It’s the inability to use it in a practical setting that’s frustrating me. Yet I see many people claiming they switched to GrapheneOS a month or a year ago and love it. So there’s got to be a solution. I can’t imagine those individuals installed gos and it was smooth sailing since day 1.

Oh this is pretty cool.

For my own understanding, what potential dangers are there using a Yubikey as opposed to an open source key?

I always wonder what legal risks hosting something like this comes with. If you host a public server and uploads are client side encrypted, seems like it would be a magnet for illegal file transfer and CSAM, no?

I haven’t. I doubt it would solve all of the problems I experience.

Anybody downvoting me can share their experience running protools with multiple hardware fader interfaces and 18 input DAW interface, pci SDI cards, and 6 separate display monitors.

Adobe software, Davinci Resolve, 3ds Max and its 20 plugins. None of these work or work seamlessly in Linux.

I can’t even get my surround sound to work properly in Ubuntu without having to manually adjust multiple convoluted conf files.

That’s the truth. I love Linux. I use Debian and Ubuntu on a bunch of servers I run. But fanboys need to stop deluding themselves into thinking it’s easy or even worthwhile to use Linux in lieu of Windows for anything and everything. I would be ecstatic if that changed.

I don’t think it’s the options that make Linux a hard pill to swallow. For me it’s the lack of support for hardware and most software. Sure there are alternatives or WINE but that’s usually a big downgrade from just running it on windows.

My Ubuntu box I use for browsing/watching videos and listening to music just barely works and was frustrating to get properly configured. Linux for the dozen professional softwares I use for work is basically impossible. As much as I hate it I had no choice but to stick with windows.

It’s not the fault of Linux developers. The hardware and software companies just largely do not support it still.

QEMU. Using NAT but it’s attached to the host’s NIC. I know this is probably what’s causing the issue. I’m not sure how to connect it to the VPN.

Is it the privacy community in general or Lemmy that’s gotten infiltrated by all of these antagonistic socially inept 15 year olds recently? Never started a thread on Lemmy that’s gotten so many unsupportive and useless responses before. And I’m active on piracy subs…

When you detect a compromised account you could put a freeze or lock on it. If there are that many compromised logins that constant account swapping is an issue then twitch needs to overhaul their account security.

Maybe I’m missing something but you can tell a compromised account from a secure account by the user behavior, no? If an account is compromised the activity will be spam/harassment, etc at which point a ban on that account would happen. And compromised accounts could be accessed from a non-vpn Ip also.

Got an alternative that isn’t youtube?

I have not. I try to avoid apps if I can.