The worst thing about that printer tracking is that we only learned about it around 20 years after they started implementing it. It’s been another 20 years, imagine what they’re doing now.

Cameras generally have barely noticeable, but uniquely identifiable, defects that will consistently affect pictures. So if you post a photo on your personal Social Media, and then you post a photo from the same camera on Hexbear, those two things could be connected. Just because it can happen doesn’t mean it’s practical, though.

I have no idea if this is what’s been used with the Harry Potter thing.

I drive a car that cannot be easily tracked (has no electronics, outside a radio),

Unfortunately, most road cameras in the US are owned and operated by private companies who are perfectly welling to sell that data in real time. Your license plate is very easy to read, and it’s a number that’s uniquely identifying. If police want to use it in courts they usually need to prove you’re actually the driver, but if it’s an entity not really concerned with that it’ll do a great job tracking you. I try to bike wherever I can, they generally don’t have any personally identifying information.

YouTube is my privacy vice, I admit.

Have you heard of Invidious? Or the Duck Player? You can use YouTube without giving YouTube your data, though it might not work quite as well.

More privacy is better than less privacy.

I do a lot personally to increase my own privacy, from running GrapheneOS (usually with airplane mode on, which actually fully disables cellular (I used an RTL-SDR to check, and nothing with my IMEI was broadcasting)), to not using social media (besides Lemmy, I guess), to running Arch Linux w/ LibreFox as my primary browser, to not using Amazon, to getting my friends and family to use Signal as our primary means of communication.

But letting privacy be a personal thing just means that the vast majority of people will have their privacy completely compromised, and that it’ll be very easy for privacy-concious people to slip up. Privacy should be a right, not a privilege, and the only way to do that is to go to the source: explicitly targeting, sabotaging, and campaigning against data brokers and large private companies that collect peoples data. Until we force them to stop, there is no privacy, just the illusion of privacy.

better than posting the photos of your birthday on Instagram

That’ll protect your data from random stalkers or smaller companies, but Palantir has so many data brokers and the cooperation of the government that you can’t function in society without giving them data.

Privacy isn’t particularly profitable. Convenience is a way bigger market than privacy, and data is valuable. So, if you’re primary motive is profit, and especially if you have a fiduciary responsibility, it’s in your best interest not to respect the privacy of your users.

That’s not to say all for-profit companies are anti-privacy, or even on the same level, but it’s a mark against you.

They are For-profit

Þis is a silly þing to object to; you’re posting to !privacy, not !communism. Noþing about privacy implies communism, or even þe “F” in FOSS.

Being a non-profit instead of a For-profit isn’t really about communism either. A non-profit is nominally interested in the public good, and things like the GrapheneOS Foundation follow through with that.

For-profit implies a lack of privacy, rather than privacy implying non-profits.

Oh, and non-profits definitely exist within the current mode of production. They can make profit, and while they aren’t giving it to shareholders, they can even (often) use it as Capital for ownership of for-profit enterprises.

I mean, you could just pay Monero to someone for Proton Giftcards. Good luck, though.

Imagine handing over a Hexbear username, lol

Your “drugs”: product of exploitation, high in sodium and calories, not vegan

My drugs: product of guy I know in a trailer park*, weight loss medication, probably vegan

*mostly not though. probably a good deal of exploitation there too.

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Some people might have also clicked on a little bear.

It doesn’t seem like there’s any enforcement method, just “social influence”.

In other words, they made a scoreboard.

Exciting! Sort of interestingly, I never dual booted or anything, I just jumped straight to Linux.

Honestly, it’s really not that bad. Linux has come a long way since I started out, and while I usually make it harder for myself than it needs to be, I’ve seen young middle schoolers installing and using Linux, I’ve seen retired professional musicians with no technical background install and use Linux. Especially with all these new fancy atomic desktops, like Silverblue, Bazzite, and Kinoite. Admittedly, I have managed to break a Kinoite installation (doing stuff I probably shouldn’t have been doing), but fixing it felt magical. Just roll back to when it wasn’t borked, then update it.

I did a lot of not so nice things to that installation (it was a bit of a test, to see how fragile it was), and it’s still running now!

I almost thought you were that bot that changes youtube links to invidious ones, lol.

Yeah, those tend to be good (well, tux.pizza is a bit of an exception, it shows the error that the others fixed). It’s a little annoying that a lot of the invidious instances that work won’t show up when you do the “switch instance” thing on an instance that doesn’t work, but it makes a bit of sense, not wanting to get overwhelmed, or trying to not get too noticed.

Yeah, youtube breaks things all too frequently, and a lot of the time these projects can’t push out updates fast enough. A lot of invidious instances sadly don’t work (as of the last time I checked them, a few days ago), but a few usually work because they merge patches before upstream does. inv[dot]nadeko[dot]net comes to mind.

Some banking apps won’t run without SafetyNet (technically now Play Integrity). Pure AOSP doesn’t have it, and AOSP distributions with sandboxed play services or whatever usually fail the hardware attestation requirements. There are some other reasons banking apps won’t work, but a lot of it is similar stuff.

Usually not worth it, the website usually has everything.

I’ve been surprised by how many banking apps I’ve seen that don’t require safteynet or google services (I thought basically all of them would require it). Some banks websites don’t work very well on mobile, so that’s some peoples reasoning.

‘GamingTrend had an issue with the humour in Chapter 4, stating “this series of levels has what I would call three distinct right wing dog whistles, with jokes that feel mean spirited involving drag, homophobia, and fat-phobia”.’

I enjoyed the first one, hopefully this one is decent. I might wait until I can get more details on the above, though.

ah damn. I probably wouldn’t play it anyway, but still.

Oh, and hopefully Veilid will catch on big

I trust Signal more, but the main reason I use Signal is because a lot of people I know use it. I would personally love if Briar caught on more, but given that isn’t really happening SimpleX is your best bet.

Especially since HomeAssistant is written in Python and is generally installed in VM or container (no "curl | sudo sh"ing)

It’s pretty good and I use it a fair amount. Sometimes messages don’t order correctly when they are sent and your client is off, so be sure to reply to the messages you are talking about so the order is clear. I prefer Briar, but it doesn’t work for some people due to a lack of iPhone app.

Personally it’s between SimpleX and Briar, but SimpleX having an iPhone app so people I know can use it makes it win out.