Hello, tone-policing genocide-defender and/or carnist 👋
Instead of being mad about words, maybe you should think about why the words bother you more than the injustice they describe.
Have a day!
Shouldn’t we also have the opposite list; a sort of name and shame or if you use these banks, you’re screwed list?
In part, because it can be more conclusive to take a bank that has consciously made the decision to block access, rather than having a list of banks that maybe just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
FYI: the people in here recommending the open source competitors for Yubico aren’t mentioning one thing: YubiKeys, being proprietary, support a proprietary protocol called Yubico OTP in addition to the FIDO authentication protocol that the open source competitors can do.
The reason this matters is that some applications, like the Linux Bitwarden desktop app (there are others, but this is one that I’ve had to deal with), don’t support FIDO authentication, but do support Yubico OTP. This means that, for those apps, the open source keys wouldn’t be a valid authentication method.
Granted, the number of applications like this are small, and probably grows smaller by the day, but it’s an important distinction to be aware of.
Yes. The US is also authoritarian. Yes, there is a clear media bias when it comes to the headlines that western media outlets are willing to run. In particular, paining non-western countries as more authoritarian than the US (which is sometimes true).
It’s valuable to point this out. Dog knows the shitty media bias bots used in other communities won’t.
However, the overall tone of your comment seems to suggest that it’s okay for non-western governments to do authoritarian bullshit, just because the US does. I trust that wasn’t the point of your comment, but I assume that’s why some may not take kindly to it.
For what it’s worth: my instance disables down votes, so I literally can’t down vote posts I disagree with.
https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
This is more usable than browsh, in my experience, but has the very unfortunate downside of being based on Chromium (🤢)
If you use GNOME or KDE, check out https://github.com/quexten/goldwarden.
FYI: Bitwarden has integrations for SimpleLogin, Addy.io, FastMail, etc. for their username generator, so you can easily generate aliases for every site, regardless of what alias provider you use.
You say that as if companies haven’t been imposing greedflation/shitflation on everyone for many years.
Voting with your wallet isn’t an effective means by which to motivate a company to do anything. You’re just a drop in the bucket, so your distaste for a company will never influence their behavior. You know what does? Shareholders.
Thankfully, Proton is moving away from that harmful influence by becoming a non-profit, so that will be less of an issue for them and they can focus on delivering services that users actually want instead of shoveling in anti-features and forcing arbitrary price-hikes on their customers like most for-profit companies do.
FYI: this is another FUTO app that uses their proprietary “FTL” license, so it’s not open source.
I agree with doing this, but the main drawback is that you can’t easily check all of your unique aliases in HaveIBeenPwned without scripting something and paying for API access.
I have hundreds of unique aliases for my accounts, but no simple way to see when/if the services that use them are breached.
You can root on GrapheneOS. You do it exactly the same way you’d do it for the stock Google ROM:
boot.img
from the GrapheneOS image and patch within Magisk.The main annoyance with this is that you’ll have to do that dance every month when a security patch gets released, but for me, it’s better than vomiting from exposure to ads on mobile.
Not really. IMO, the determining factor for this is how “sticky” a given service is.
Leta is a public search engine that you don’t have to pay for their VPN to use, and switching search engines is quite trivial, making this a very easy switch in the event that either service is unsatisfactory.
That said, I have no idea why anyone would want Google search results in 2025 because their search engine is terrible, but more power to anyone that does.