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You can use Armcord or other Discord client which is for sure better than the offical.


Actualy the malware somehow deleted windows defender and disabled automatic updates. I install MalwareBytes and run full scan and removed it.


Oh it’s paid… I would rather install Linux, I don’t pay even for Windows.


Thank you for the link, it will help for sure!

I (not me but my family) always used just default Windows Defender but I heard good things about Malware bytes and BitDefender, I’ll checked them out.


Yes it does but I haven’t checked whichones do end whichones don’t. But half of them do, thats important.


I’ll clean all USB sticks the house, just to be sure.


I found a worm on my USB
This is probably not the right community but I haven't found a better one. So I watched a video from Seytonic where he mentiond that some malware creates a windows link with the name of the usb on a usb. So I checked my usb because I remembered that I had to click 2 times on my usb to opened it. I found a link that contained cmd.exe and a name of a file next to it. Upload to the virustotal showed Raspberry Roblin worm. I use Linux but my familly uses windows so I will have to go through all familly computers and remove the worm. Where can I find info how to remove this specific worm - Raspberry Roblin? On google I found a description about how the worm works but not specific files it creates and how to remove it. The first page that shows up is microsoft.com and it says that windows defender detects the worm, but clearly it doesnt. Edit: The worm was on one computer and it did not have windows defender installed. Seems like malware removed it and also disabled automatic updates. I installed MalwareBytes and sucessfully removed the worm :)
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Voyager is way more popular, but I don’t like it’s iOS-like UI, so I went with Thunder


I’ve used it a few times and it’s great!


I wanted to check out if that is true… and it is. Then I clicked on Simple Calendar > Trackers…


Interesting, I thought Chromite was just for Android


Best browsers for 3D stuff like games and CADs are chromium based.

I generally use Librewolf (Firefox fork) but for gaming and 3d modeling use Brave. I think it’s tge best chromium based browser.


I use MEXC and CoinEx. They have KYC, but it’s optional.


That is just in EU right? So Switzerland (in the center of Europe) won’t have that? Interesting…


I’m sure it will be and I’m also sure Apple will do EVERYTHING to make it almost imposible to do that. They may also block users from using their iPhones if they discover that they are set to EU, but they are actually not in EU.


72%. And I use the top software recommendation for 5 out of 7 services, one was a little more down and I don’t use the last one.


From worst to best places to store your crypto:

  1. Online KYC exchange
  2. Online non KYC exchange
  3. Offline on your computer/phone
  4. Offline on a USB key/SD card
  5. Offline on a cold storage like Ledger or Trezor


You can run a monero node, tor relay/bridge, etc.


2 things:

  1. A nickname: on every online account I set a nickname and not my real name. If you google name you get 2 results from same site about some competition. If you google my nickname you get 2 pages of my stuff.

  2. Switch from Google (to GrapheneOS, ProtpnMail, etc.)



I did, most of them are used for AI or business search engines. I copied everything except Yandex.


Nice, thats what I am looking for!


Nice idea, but a lot of random text that user doean’t see would slow down the website.


I can block search engine crawlers from specific paths so that should be solved.


Good idea. I will made a invisible link to “traps for bots”. One trap will show random text, one will be redirect loop and one would be random link generator that will link to itself. I will also make every response randomly slow, for example 0,5 to 1,5 seconds.

Good thing is that I can also block search engine crawlers from accessing only the traps.


Block AI bots from your website
Hi, I'm building a personal website and I don't want it to be used to train AI. In my `robots.txt` file I blocked: - ChatGPT-User - GPTBot - Google-Extended - FacebookBot What bots should I also add? Are there any other ways to block AI bots? IMPORTANT: I don't want to block search engine crawlers, only bots that are used to train AI.
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Where to buy domain for your personal website?
Hi, I'm thinking of building a personal website about tech, privacy, open source, etc. Any recommendations about where can I buy domain? .com is taken, but everything else is not. Shuld I take .tech (few dolars more expensive) or something more basic?
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Pi-Hole vs AdGuard vs NextDNS
I use Pi-Hole and works great. I've heard about AdGuard and seems the same thing as PiHole, but you have to install an app/extension. Everyone in this community recommend NextDNS. Whats the difference between them?
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I know, I use GrapheneOS with 6 profiles (only 2 have Google services), but some apps like Android Auto require tight integration with OS which is not possible with GrapheneOS. I thought GPay was one of them.


Great! Another Google phone without Google. Sounds terribe but it’s the best phone you can currently have.

I thought GPay doesn’t work on GOS. Personally I never checked because I don’t use GPay.


Oh right… In that case I would install just google play services and disable/uninstall it on profiles I dont need.


Use different profiles. They seperate apps, data, settings, etc. I use these profiles:

  • personal (for photos, communication, etc.)
  • internet (lemmy, mastodon, vpn, torrent, new pipe, etc.)
  • google (play store, drive, maps, translate, etc.)
  • finance (bank, paypal, localmonero, crypto wallets, etc.)
  • school (teams, canva, web shortcuts, etc.)

I think in vanilla android you can have 3 user profiles and 1 guest. I use grapheneos which supports 15 users and 1 guest.


I have installed Brave on my grandparents’ computer, because:

  1. They had only used chrome, so brave is more familiar than firefox.
  2. Less chance of something not working/loading properly.

Personally I use firefox.


I have memorized this link so I know what is rickroll without opening it.


Go through all spam in last month and press unsubscribe in the bottom of the email. That shuld reduce spam by at least a half.



That would also work, except for unsupported devices.



If it runs Android and if you can enable usb debugging in developer settings than yes, otherwise no.


I just discovered this amazing app! It lets you remove (or just disable) preinstalled apps like Facebook, Netflix, etc. and system apps like samsung knox apps, diagnostic, bixby, and even One UI (but you must have installed other launcher). You can’t brick your device, worst case it falls into a boot loop and after 5 reboots it will factory reset. Debloating your device will make it faster, more private and more secure (less atack surface).
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To be clear: I also hate crypto EXCEPT MONERO.

When I got a new PC it had (and still has) quite powerfull cpu, so I googled if I could make some money from my PC. The answer was crypto mining. Only nice looking crypto miner for Linux was Cudo miner and it only supported Monero for cpu mining. I was mining for a year and got 50€, because of free electricity (parents). In that time I discovered that Monero is private and anonymous crypto and then I got interested in privacy. I was also a localmonero trader but paypal close both of my accounts without a reason :(.


Tech -> Raspberry Pi -> Linux -> New PC -> Mining Crypto -> Monero -> Privacy



My privacy journey and privacy questions
**Online privacy**: Best privacy related thing I've done is use a nickname. If I search my real name on Google, only two results show up (and my Instagram, but I deleted it) from the same site, my place in some school competition. That's it! But if I search my made-up nickname... Github, Gitlab, Reddit, StackOverflow, LocalMonero, fucking SuperTuxKart and A LOT MORE related results - basically my whole internet life. I stared using randomly generated username for each account in case my name is somehow leaked from my nickname account. A month ago I also bought Pixel 7a and installed GrapheneOS as my daily driver. Separate accounts are AWESOME. I have account for personal use (family, photos, friends, etc.), (not basic) internet use (Lemmy, podcasts, torrenting, youtube/newpipe, etc.), google apps (maps, drive, galaxy wearable, etc.), finances (banking app, Paypal, crypto wallets, etc.), school apps (teams & ms office, Canva, etc.), and anonymous account (Tor, OnionShare, Session, Briar, etc.). On personal profile I have "always on" VPN to my house, so anywhere I am, apps think I'm home and it's useful for public Wi-Fi-s. On the internet profile I have "always on" MullvadVPN. On anonymous profile I have "always I use self-hosted Bitwarden. Can this de-anonymous me on the internet profile, because traffic from Bitwarden goes to my home, or will this know only Mullvad (that already knows my home IP, because it has to)? I also switched to ProtonMail, LibreWolf, and Startpage. I self-host Nextcloud, Syncthing, Monero node, Pi-Hole, etc. Recently I started deleting all my accounts that I don't use anymore. Now I'm pretty happy about my anonymity online. **Physical privacy** & security: I weak ago I got a RFID blocking wallet. I bought it in a store where I am signed in for news and sales, and I also get a lot of cheaper things because of it. But they basically track everything I buy, where and when. And that is with all stores if you have the stores card (I only have one, because parents pay for everything currently). Does anyone know if this stores share data between each other or with someone else? I live in Europe, I know we have better privacy laws than US but it's still bad, right? I am also joined in club of students in my city - cheaper movies, skiing, tickets, etc. Is that also a privacy concern? **Payments**: For privacy reasons only pay in cash, I know. What about if there is no cash option? I've heard of prepaid debit cards, but they only work in US. Is there any way for private payments in Europe? If not would something like Revolut be more private than traditional banks? For online payments I can buy prepaid debit cards for US services in XMR. And for not US services like ProtonMail? Is there something like privacy.com (with virtual cards) in Europe? Thank you for all comments :)
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