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Raspberry PIs don't run on MB/s, they use GHz.

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Also the solution to proprietary software

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Yes, they are called data brokers and there are a lot of them, e.g. Acxiom, Kochava, Huq, X-Mode, SafeGraph and many more

Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing (www.theverge.com)

The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....

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Easy Solution: Linux, Firefox/LibreWolf, DuckDuckGo

Fuck Microsoft!

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I hope more users will do the same

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But technically it would be legal, since the DMA came after Brexit

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  1. This only applies to the mobile app
  2. They stopped doing this in 2022
  3. LibreWolf comes with uBlock Origin preinstalled, which blocks all sorts of ads, trackers and other malicious JavaScript
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Suggest a better alternative then. Startpage, Mullvad Leta and Whoogle are just Google proxies (and Whoogle is pretty unreliable), SearX, SearXNG and 4get are also just proxies for multiple search engines. There are no good independent search engiens, Brave Search sucks because it's made by Brave, a company notorious for pushing weird NFT and Blockchain shit, Mojeek has pretty bad search results and Kagi requires an account, and only allows 100 searches.

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And DDG is just a proxy for Bing following that logic. I’d choose those three over DDG.

Yeah, but if the alternatives aren't better, why not just use DDG?

Making a new account every 100 searches should be an option (albeit a somewhat tedious one), no?

That ain't a great solution either

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Tell me which of the options I listed you would use.

  • Startpage is owned by an advertising company
  • Mullvad Leta is only available to Mullvad VPN customers
  • Brave does a whole bunch of shady stuff, e.g. installing VPN services on people's computers, although they never asked for it

The other options aren't good either

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Never heard of it.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/6/20/introducing-mullvad-leta-a-search-engine-used-in-the-mullvad-browser

It's pretty neat and Mullvad is a very privacy-focused company with a great track record. They released their search engine (which is a Google proxy) together with their own browser, which is based on the Tor Browser and developed together with the Tor Project.

SearXNG and 4get is what I recommend for privacy. They get their results from other search engines but those won’t be able to trace the query back to you. Also, it’s open source and everyone can set up their own instance so there is no incentive to generate profit from your data.

I tried to use 4get as a DDG proxy, all the instances I tried kept getting blocked by DuckDuckGo. It wasn't a great experience. I also tried SearX and SearXNG many times, I always keep coming back to DuckDuckGo, because it just works and it gives me decent results. With SearX, I often had trouble finding relevant results. I tried various options and different search engine backends in SearXNG, but I never really liked it. DDG is definitely far from perfect, but so are the other options, and I think DDG is the best and easiest to use for less technical users.

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https://brave.com/category/web3-crypto-nfts/

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uBO can be set up to block all JS by default, allowing you to manually whitelist each script. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode

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I would love to switch away from DuckDuckGo, and I would be very happy if Mojeek was a viable alternative. I'll try using it for some time and I will report any issues I encounter with the search. Btw it's great that you're on the Fediverse!

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Never even heard of it

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I've been using Authelia for almost 2 years and I really like it. Never had any issues.

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That's for IDE drives. And there's /dev/vdX for virtual block devices.

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You just described GrapheneOS, by far the best mobile operating system IMO

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Because Pixels are the only Android phones with reasonable hardware design (in regards to security)

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Pixels have many hardware security features that can't be found on any other Android phone. Examples are the Titan M2 chip, which uses the Android StrongBox and Weaver API, Insider Attack Resistance and hardware attestation. It enables a strong implementation of Android Verified Boot. On many other Android devices, Verified boot is insecure or entirely broken. Pixels are also the only phones on the market with hardware memory tagging.

I highly recommend this section of the GrapheneOS FAQ and this video.

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Just read my other comment https://lemmy.world/comment/8376049

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This one is pretty good https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

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It works very well, I use it all the time on GrapheneOS

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Signal doesn't "heavily use Google services". They only use proprietary libraries and integrations for 2 purposes: Donations and push notifications. Signal uses the platform's native way of handling push notifications, on iOS it's APNs and on Android it's FCM. This is also the reason why it's not available on F-Droid. You can use a fork of the app like Signal-FOSS or Molly. These remove all proprietary dependencies and you can download them from their custom F-Droid repositories.

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Molly claims to use OSM in their FOSS builds: https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android/blob/main/README.md#dependency-comparison.
I can't confirm this because I never use any Signal features that require map integration.

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Have you tried out Molly? If yes, did you use the normal version or the FOSS build? Btw the Version available on Accrescent is also FOSS

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I like the direction this is going

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It's more secure than F-Droid. It's still in a pretty early stage of development though and currently only offers a handful of apps.

  • App signing key pinning: first-time app installs are verified so you don't have to TOFU.
  • Signed repository metadata: repository contents are protected against malicious tampering.
  • Automatic, unattended, unprivileged updates (Android 12+): updates are handled seamlessly without relying on privileged OS integration.
  • First-class support for split APKs: downloaded APKs are optimized for your device to save bandwidth.
  • No remote APK signing: developers are in full control of their app signing keys.
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https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824506840

Not a huge issue right now, but it will probably an issue in the future

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I'd also put Passbolt on the list, it's not that well known, but it's really great. I selfhost it on my home server and I'm very happy with it.

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Nextcloud Notes is pretty good. Btw Joplin has an option for End-to-end encryption.

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Didn't know they accept crypto payments, that's cool

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Well better then nothing

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I don't think this is what OP is looking for

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That's why GrapheneOS doesn't come with a wallpaper.

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They probably sent the threats themselves to justify banning Proton Mail, because they want to destroy privacy and encryption.

Self hosted Wetransfer?

Hello, i am looking for a self hosted application for sharing files like with wetransfer. I have tried the discontinued Firefox Send which has nice features like link expiry and works great in general but lacks authentication (only offers simple password protection). I also want the option to share with registered users. Is...

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You can selfhost Bitwarden/Vaultwarden (which I recommend, since it's rewritten in Rust and you get all the premium features for free) and use Bitwarden Send. This is probably more secure than most other options.

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You can continue using the cloud hosted version of Bitwarden and only use your own instance for file sharing.

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Sure, I've been a premium customer for years because I find the service very useful, but this community is all about selfhosting.

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I'm pretty sure Bitwarden is profitable, about a year ago they even purchased another company: https://bitwarden.com/blog/bitwarden-extends-passwordless-leadership-with-acquisition/

Also, I don't think they make that much money from individuals. They focus more on businesses, because they pay more and these customers stay around for a long time, they can't easily switch to a different solution.

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No it's not. Mull is built from the latest version of Firefox for Android, which currently is 122.

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Not on Android. I have it enabled and my user agent is Firefox 122 on Android.

But yes, Mull is built from Firefox Nightly (actually from Fennec Nightly, which removes all proprietary blobs).

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Roundcube should work pretty well for you: https://roundcube.net/

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My company uses Roundcube for Webmail and offers Thunderbird as a native client. It's always great to see free software in a corporate environment.

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Buy Framework laptops, these have amazing repairability and upgradability, as well as good Linux compatibility. They even offer ChromeOS options, if you ever need a Chromebook.

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Yeah it's really cool. Also works very well with an external Gpu.

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