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Cake day: Jun 26, 2023

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What are you scared of?

If you are worried your parents will see your browsing history, that is you threat model.

If your concern is government surveillance, you need to do more than just clear your browsing history.




Change is hard. It has been a long road to get where we are today: major OS and Browser vendor support. Users now need to change their behavior.


Passkey is resistant to these attacks, but user adoption is not widespread enough for Discord to be able to mandate it.


A lot of legal detail in this post. Here are three key points I pulled out the aricle:

  • Internet users have a First Amendment right to speak on social media—whether by posting or commenting—and that right may be infringed when the government seeks to  interfere with content moderation, but it will not be infringed  by the independent decisions of the platforms themselves.

  • Underlying these rulings is the Supreme Court’s long-awaited recognition that social media platforms routinely moderate users’ speech

  • This term’s cases also confirm that traditional First Amendment rules apply to social media



I use alt browsers like DDG and Brave that have builtin ad blocking. I also have a pihole.


Stop spying on us.

Privacy problems are not policy problems, businesses are choosing to invasively collect data in order to pad their coffers. This is not welcome and just because you try to hide this fact in obfuscated policy language it is not ok.


I like this post it lays out privacy choices on a spectrum from the basic to the truly nightmare-fueled fever-dream paranoid:
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I have used my Yubikey to do FIDO2 auth on Linux Mint with Chromium and Firefox. I have tried M365, Twitter and Facebook but any website that supports FIDO2 should work.

Did not need to install any OS components.