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How sorry didn’t know, so that make him really one of the biggest expert in FOSS 100%


That’s a good find that famous people are getting into FOSS (should be free as in freedom too). But it’s really not a good thing that they spread a non expert speaking to the crowd.

Tier lists are meant to be mainly subjective and pretty relative to the person that made it. In that way Pewdipie could quote experts but in no case should make a tier list based on what he found the last weeks (I didn’t fully watched the video so maybe I’m wrong and he made a big disclaimer)


Because it makes a healthier base to work with or to simply use it without caring

Increasing privacy (and sometimes security)




For sure datas are everywere and will maybe try to remove it, but (as said to another person) what do you think about this: https://lemmy.ml/comment/18649355 Thank you


This is surely one of the best option but its time hungry to setup, read this reply: https://lemmy.ml/comment/18649355 What do you think?


Thank you, to be clear these datas are not really compromising but it’s still datas and I don’t want them on internet. My point of view was, is it better to leave it and fake that we are a “normie” (sorry for the word, a little bit negative…) and that I don’t care about being there or to try to remove it. My argument is that trying to remove it would make me shine like a glowstick by saying that I care bout it. What’s your opinion?


Waterfox try to remove some blobs of Firefox out of the box, so it’s better for the normal user


Remove personnal infos or keep it?
I need your opinion on this problem: My personnal infos are on the web, is it better to try to have them removed or simply ignored it? Basically I'm wondering if trying to remove it would not make me shine outside of the crowd more than juste leave it and act as simple citizen And, warning, these infos are not compromising but they are personnaly infos
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I don’t know what is spam for you, but when you get three message requests from three girls respectively named Tania, Clara and Ella that are contacting you about you carrier or your management skills, I call it spam.

The way that Signal integrates phone number is odd because it opens up the spam door. O understand why Signal use phone numbers this way (to make “normies” adopt Signal more easily like WhatsApp would do) but it not the best to kind of contaminate the network with the traditional cell network


Scams, girls wanting to chat with you, incredible money opportunities…


You can go to Simplex (for sure a lot of people here already done it) but if only privacy nerds get to this place this is not a great solution. We (I’m talking about us using Lemmy and chatting on SimpleX) must convince people, starting by friends and family to stop using these fucking socials then at this point SimpleX will be considered as a viable alternative


It’s not an argument. Think about regular mobile numbers, are they preventing spams? No.


Personnaly I hate all the companies that are saying they are trust worthy because they are swiss, but nevermind this is not your question. Personnaly I wouldn’t recommended you at all a “prebuilt” NAS as later you will be stuck in a proprietary env that not gonna serve you well. So buy a cheap PC out of eBay and customize it to your needs

Edit : typo


If you want to be good in your mind, make it open source and publicly available.

The other solution is to keep it BUT think a little, if such a dev like you succeeded to make a such great working product don’t you think that five eyes (and others) could do a much more advanced product within a shorter period of time?

So if you don’t make it to the public someone will develop it m against your will



Can understand that you are using it

BUT iOS is NOT a private OS at all!


Snowflake is a bit like a bridge so you only transport encrypted traffic to the tor network and no one knows what’s in

The only requirements is to live in a place that is not blocked from Tor (and don’t a low data plan)



Great job, keep your motivation!

But you shouldn’t use any apple product, they are as bad for privacy as using Google’s one. Do not use an iPhone (lineageos is pretty good to use), do not use Apple’s services… And keep going



As I seen in other comment I think that the protocol is audited not really the app and servers In comparison SimpleX is audited pretty regularly


Don’t know if we should impose Signal as an alternative and forget SimpleX, in fact SimpleX is better in many other ways than Signal, the only problems are early dev problems…


In any case a service that implement E2EE is always more secure than plain data transit Even with a backdoor it’s a bit more secure than regular service

But you should be angry against the UK law cause of the probable future consequences that will impose even further surveillance for other services But people that defend it are probably mainly Apple fans. Apple is “against” to maintain a “privacy” friendly company against google and meta, but it’s bullshit




Vivaldi is not open source. For me that’s a no-go



The problem with Mullvad is that there is not port forwarding for seeding stuff


Or maybe a two hope vps setup should be great too, while preserving usable speeds



In any case a VPN is not anonymous but more private than without. Only some can be used as real privacy voucher (for example Mullvad, iVPN (and maybe proton…)), other are great for torrenting but in any case for privacy, they are not really transparent upon their security + surely friend with most of the intelligence agencies


Is a self hosted VPN good for daily privacy?


VPN as the day of today?
Are VPN good for privacy today, should we used them to protect our privacy? Not free, none have all advantages and wouldn't let my ISP only know my traffic so these times I'm really overwhelmed by all of this Used Tor for a bit but it's not practically useful, slow (okay but not the main problem) and blocked by a lot of websites.. Maybe a chain of VPN could be good? I really don't know, can you help me? Basically I don't want to have no protection but don't think VPNs are really the solution... PS: maybe a rented machine with self hosted like VPN could be good?
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Found that it is a UK based society where did you find that it was Israeli?


Basically any cheap VPN is good for torrenting as we don’t need complete anonymity but more of a proxy like connection, to not receive letters from ISPs telling us our use of internet


In my opinion you should enable it

Didn’t watch out for reasons, maybe ironfox gives one?


It’s not really not trusting Mozilla but more what they do to their products, telemetry and else

The same source with patches if you prefer that



Hello ChatControl 👋

Seriously again a ridiculous law… This is a pure non-sense, in theory you should be afraid, in the reality such a law wouldn’t be applied by Signal for example, and you would find alternative to these backdoored apps, such as SimpleX or others… BUT we need to fight against it, it’s a big no go for future privacy! Keep fighting and fuck these guys!

Note : Even if Tuta is concerned it wouldn’t change much… Today gmail is more than 70% of emails so in this case the privacy is equal to 0. Email is not secured at the foundation and with google in the equation, it’s hard to fight against


The real alternative to Signal for myself is SimpleX. The project is still in his beginning but it’s the best instant messaging we could have once polished finished


Opinion on the Matrix protocol
Is matrix good to use, seen a lot of drama around it. For example hackliberty.org left it because of lacking of security and moderation, do you still recommended it?
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Thoughts on RiseUP?
Since the recent Proton events I need to change providers and I found RiseUP. I would like to know how good is this service and if I should consider it. Moreover as I know that it is no open to sign up how to get a RiseUP account? THX for all
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My #1 recommandation for messenger, as the day of today
Just a post to say the goods of using SimpleX instead of others "private" messenger. First it doesn't not require any id, phone number, etc... Can create how many accounts that you want! Decentralized servers, everyone can run and use own servers, and communicate with others! Big privacy side! Look at this one of the best https://privacyspreadsheet.com/messaging-apps. The only negative is the usability of the app, this is why it needs support and be democratize to gain attraits to people, and maybe one day be one the most used messenger app...
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For the Paris 2024 Olympics, the city got the "right" to use the AI surveillance technology in the street. As we thought, they are going to keep this as long as they can. We need to do something against this IRL mass surveillance, going every day more into our private life
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Thought on Graphene?
Hello, making this post to get some honest, and technical opinions about GrapheneOS. Please do not be bother by this question. No drama here pls 🙏. I've heard that there is some of the google code into the "sandbox" feature. Say your opinion below! 👇👇
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Does MATRIX recipients know my IP?
I wanna know if MATRIX recipients know my IP, and more globally what the recipients know about me (how the matrix protocol works). THX
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Chat surveillance law by the EU Parliament?
The results are showing up... Now we have to hope for the law to be declined... Already discussed about the chat control law of the EU, here : https://lemmy.ml/post/16469106
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What’s the best messaging platform?
Cross-posted from : https://lemmy.ml/post/16566616 Hi, I wanna know what is the most secure and best messaging app/platform... Need an app that is crossplatform and has a very good numbers of features and security. (And it has to be FLOSS) I thought about XMPP clients, Signal, Session, IRC clients.. Propose and explain me your choice
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Best browser tweaks for privacy?
Hello, always wanted to know the absolute best to have the most private (and secure) browser, need tips for android and linux. I think Firefox based browser are the best choice but i'm open to recommendations!! THX
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What do you think about Invisible Pro?
I have some concerns about this app and I'm asking if it's useful or not, not the app itself but more the 3 protocols included in it. I2P, DNSCrypt and TOR. **What is you opinion?**
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A few weeks ago, leaks from a Chinese company specialized in hacking were revealed publicly. We learned about the ways of hacking and much more, very interesting article to read! 👍 > I-Soon was founded in Shanghai in 2010. Its CEO, Wu Haibo (吴海波), is a “first-generation red hacker or Honker and early member of Green Army which was the very first Chinese hacktivist group founded in 1997” according to a Natto Thoughts blog post on the company from October 2023
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> Hundreds of websites misconfigured Google Firebase, leaking more than 125 million user records, including plaintext passwords, security researchers warn. Once again do not use google based apps, degoogled yourself, and don't trust big companies, have a (de)goo(gle)d day!
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Hardware Chinese & USA trackers?
Hello everyone, I have a question : Does Android phone have **hardware based trackers**? Not with the telecom part (for sure it has some), but especially in the CPU... And are **Chinese** phones **worst** than **USA** branded? So is the fact of having a degoogled os resolved the problem? Thx 😃
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