Glorified network janitor. Perpetual blueteam botherer. Friendly neighborhood cyberman. Constantly regressing toward the mean. Slowly regarding silent things.
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Spotify Premium User Slams App Over Audiobook Feature (www.dailydot.com)
Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas 🏴☠️
Is it impossible to be private online? (yewtu.be)
In sharing this video here I'm preaching to the choir, but I do think it indirectly raised a valuable point which probably doesn't get spoken about enough in privacy communities. That is, in choosing to use even a single product or service that is more privacy-respecting than the equivalent big tech alternative, you are showing...
[Resolved] Is anybody else having issues with DuckDuckGo and StartPage? (slrpnk.net)
screenshot of searching "test" in start page that doesn't return any results...
Is Privacy Worth It? (blog.thenewoil.org)
When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
Jack Dorsey says he quit Bluesky because it was becoming another Twitter (www.businessinsider.com)
I would maybe like a smart watch, can you help me decide?
Hello,...
Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose (arstechnica.com)
Pulling this off requires high privileges in the network, so if this is done by intruder you're probably having a Really Bad Day anyway, but might be good to know if you're connecting to untrusted networks (public wifi etc). For now, if you need to be sure, either tether to Android - since the Android stack doesn't implement...
Which are the F-Droid apps everyone should download?
What do you personally use AI for?
I really want to use AI like llama, ChatGTP, midjourney etc. for something productive. But over the last year the only thing I found use for it was to propose places to go as a family on our Hokaido Japan journey. There were great proposals for places to go....
Ask: How do you handle your résumés?
Usually I rely on my network & haven’t needed this kind of document in ages, but I’ve been tasked with creating a résumé for myself. I’ve grown more privacy-conscious every year & I think it’s weird that we are expected to give out so much information about ourselves to companies that lie about their culture & don’t...
Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade (www.neowin.net)
I don't think people on this sub use it, but it's great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.
New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now (discord.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17618684...
Opinions on SELinux
I'm considering implementing SELinux in my Debian setup, but I've read that it was initially developed by the NSA....
Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
TL;DR there was a backdoor found in the XZ program. All major distros have been updated but it is recommended that you do a fresh install on systems that are exposed to the internet and that had the bad version of the program. Only upstream distros were affected.
Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages (arstechnica.com)
in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."...
Sweden joined NATO, what does this mean for MullvadVPN?
My main question is, should we avoid VPN companies that are apart of the the 14 eyes, etc.? TIA!
Bluesky is ready to open up (www.theverge.com)
Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist (arstechnica.com)
Ransomware causes mental, physical trauma to security pros (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)
Mozilla is unhappy because the use of browser engines other than WebKit will be restricted to the EU, forcing them to develop two different apps....
Your next Windows PC may need at least 16GB of RAM (www.ghacks.net)
None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway (conspirator0.substack.com)
Our AI-generated future is going to be fantastic....
Their Songs Were Stolen by Phantom Artists. They Couldn’t Get Them Back. (www.nytimes.com)
Non-paywall: https://archive.is/mWKBz
How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse (plasticbag.org)
Remove Modem/SimCard from a Car
I want to buy a new car, but it needs to be privacy friendly....
Can I edit .docx files without a Microsoft 365 subscription and if not are there any alternatives
TLDR: can I edit docx files on word without a subscription and if not what are some apps that can allow me to do so...
What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Bruce Perens, one of the founders of the Open Source movement, is ready for what comes next: the Post-Open Source movement....