Funny how you need more and more technical knowledge to go deeper into privacy, until the last level, which is basically giving up on technology itself.

Uber has a pwa available. Would it help you? At least it would minimize privacy invasion.

I like grr.la because I can sign in into the services with any random name @grr.la before opening the temporarily mail site, and sometimes I find out that it wasn’t required to confirm the mail, saving some time

Congrats! It can be a difficult choice for some, because of the inconveniences it brings, but it’s well worth it. We all need to ditch the big corporations and be free.

Isn’t it impressive that we in Brazil sometimes create the best and most simple solutions to problems, but no one will imitate us and will keep insisting in their problematic systems, because we are the third world and supposedly can’t get anything right? It’s sad when we end up replacing our own good things, because even we think we’re inferior in everything and can’t come up with a good solution for anything.

No need to make things complicated. I’m from Brazil and I live everyday the consequences of having our data exposed out there by mismanagement and abuse:

There are criminals out there using our data in several ways, like extorting money, taking banking loans in your name, using your credit card online, etc etc etc. We can’t rest in peace

Same here. In a more general way, I don’t understand why people can’t simply let things coexist in peace. Just because one doesn’t like or use something, doesn’t mean that others shouldn’t. I’m getting tired of that behavior in our society, to be honest.

In this world of enshittification and organizations becoming more and more aggressive, it’s so nice and refreshing to see proton doing the opposite and moving to a better model :)

If it were anyone but MS, I would agree.

Anyone? What about google or meta?

That kind of app is understandable because we tend to use it too often, but when it comes to apps like online shops, delivery services, government services, and other things we tend to use less often, I think it’s better to avoid filling my phone with invasive and bloated apps.

I wonder why pwas never became more popular. You can offer your service for everyone, without the need to install anything, while letting people install it as an app, if they want.

Sorry, I don’t ubderstand your question. As far as I know, sharedrop works in the local network, doesn’t it?

Perhaps sharedrop would be best suited for you?
https://www.sharedrop.io/

https://localsend.org/

Something like local send, maybe?

What about buying second hand?

Out of curiosity, you have to open a port in the router for that to work, right? How does that work in the security aspect? Do you need to do some constant maintenance in your setup or something in order not to be vulnerable?

I’d suggest a raspberry pi. You can run lineageos on it without gapps, or libreelec if kodi is enough for you. This optio nis not only better than tv boxes for privacy, but is also much more durable, since you can usually install a newer android version later, while tv boxes rarely get updates.

Wait, wait, wait. Let’s not aim at the wrong thing. Programming becoming accessible is a great, and is not the cause of bloat. Bloat is not even something that can be easily pointed to a single cause, and a lot of things played a role, like poor tech education, companies not giving a fuck and relying on hardware replacement, lack of regulations, big tech corporations having practically monopolies and no incentive to create better products, the high demands of timing for projects, etc.

Thank you for the tip. In my case, I’m working with technology prospecting, and we use patents as a source of information on what kinds of new technologies to expect, what technologies are about to become public domain, etc. It’s not something that can violate any IP.

Thank you very much!

Thank you for the recommendation. I didn’t know archive.org had this feature, and it seems to be focused on open databases, something that even scholar doesn’t do. It will help me a lot.

I used to have access to scopus and web of science from my university, but I don’t have anymore, so I ended up using scholar, but looking for alternatives.

Elicit looks interesting, but I see that it requires a login, and has a bit weird privacy policy. I will check it in more detail, thanks.

I tried it, but didn’t find a way to search for articles. it seems closer to zotero than scholar. Am I missing something?

Patents seems to be the hardest one to find alternatives. The thing with google patents is that it searches from multiple databases, from multiple countries, so we don’t need to look for each source.

Your wifi ssid and password.

This is very interesting, I will try right away.

Edit: Tried it, and it broke almost every site I use. Even lemmy didn’t work. It doesn’t look like it can be used without manual intervention, like ublock.

Does noscript blocks unnecessary JavaScript automatically, or do we need to manually add rules?

Don’t be hasty, there’s still 16% of this year to be lived.

Brazilian here, used to people being robbed all the time:

Almost 100% of the time, robbers just want quick cash, ant they will either 1: steal the phone and try to sell it (most robberies simply fall into this first category) or 2: point you a gun and force you to unlock the phone in order to 2a: force you to transfer money from all your banking apps or 2b: take it unlocked in order to send messages to your contacts asking for money.

Most robbers don’t have enough tech skills to even understand what a bootloader is. We live in techy social circles and we tend to think everyone has similar skills, while in reality, most people can barely use their devices. Just to illustrate how low are most people skills, if you format a drive with something like ext4, most of the population will be unable to access it.

The kind of situations where criminals will have high skills tend to be when they target specific people or companies, usually paid by crime lords or rivals. Such scenario is very unlikely to happen to the average joe.

Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not saying that security measures are unnecessary. I’m just telling how most criminals operate around here, and highlighting how we tend to overestimate people’s tech skills.

That means shit, if someone can compromise your bootloader in an hotel or some other public place then they’ll get to your data either way once you turn on the phone.

I never really understood how this kind of attack happens. Can it simply be done in any phone? What are the required conditions?

Our only real private option is cash, and people are more and more pushing it as “outdated”.