FutileRecipe

FutileRecipe , 4 days ago to Privacy in Is pixel 4a too old for a new phone?

Do they all really? I know GrapheneOS does, and I think DivestOS even says "use my OS to stay as up to date as possible, but if you have a current/supported Pixel, use GrapheneOS instead for superior security." But I don't recall other OSes really going "we're more secure than GrapheneOS and here's why."

FutileRecipe , 19 days ago to Privacy in Nostr continues to raise the bar on private, uncensorable online discourse

It's doomed to become a nazi bar...you can just go to an instance with admins you trust better or make your own instance

Ok, how is that different than Nostr? Don't like your Lemmy instance admins rolling against your Nazi views? Join a different instance. Nazi sympathetic instance gets defederated by everyone else? Make your own instance.

FutileRecipe , 19 days ago to Privacy in Nostr continues to raise the bar on private, uncensorable online discourse

But generally I'm not a fan of the stuff I've heard and read about the Nostr protocol so far.

Can you elaborate?

FutileRecipe , 22 days ago to Technology in YouTube Is Cracking Down on Gun Content, and 3D-Printed Gun Makers Aren't Happy

Yeah billy should be build IUDs not 3d printed guns

I see the /s but...The Ukraine war videos don't show how to build IEDs, though. And even if they did, who would the parents sue? Ukraine, a nation at war? As opposed to 3D printed guns show you how to make them, and you could try to sue the gun company who it belongs to. And YouTube in both cases.

we didn't do a good job transitioning from religious to secular values in that way.

A lot of religions were founded on and/or expanded by violence (Pilgrims to America, Knights Templar, Spanish Inquisition, etc), so I don't remotely think "religious to secular" is the reason.

FutileRecipe , 1 month ago to Privacy in Tap to Pay on GrapheneOS

Other than Google pay...

Google Pay's Tap to Pay does not work on GrapheneOS.

FutileRecipe , 1 month ago to Privacy in Don't see many mentions to Waterfox?

Startpage, which is still recommended over at privacyguides.org

For now. There is an open pull request to remove it due to Startpage fingerprinting users (I didn't delve into it to see if it's true, but that was the reason given). And just because it's been suggested doesn't mean it will be removed, so time will till.

https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/2577

FutileRecipe , 1 month ago to Technology in Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

So is bullshitting. More so, only human minds can bullshit.

And a bull's anus.

FutileRecipe , 1 month ago to Technology in Arizona lawmaker uses ChatGPT to help craft legislation to combat deepfakes

This chud uploaded potentially sensitive information to a public service.

A bill draft, which eventually/maybe gets signed and is public by its very nature is sensitive?

People really need education on how to intelligently use these services.

Agreed on principle, but I don't see how what he did was wrong...other than calling ChatGPT a subject matter expert.

FutileRecipe , 1 month ago to Technology in Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy | Mozilla privacynotincluded

Is there a Lemmy community like R4R? If there is, I can't find one.

Just did a search, and there are 3 with none active.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5921004b-ba76-4117-8beb-3aaf5d38c492.png

FutileRecipe , 1 month ago to Technology in /e/OS Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It

Unfortunately the fact that NFC can't be used on anything that's rooted anymore is kind of a deal breaker.

NFC can be used on GOS, and they frown on rooting.

If I could use google pay and my normal banking apps with GrapheneOS I would switch to it today.

It's due to PlayIntegrity API wanting a "Google certified OS," which is ironically less secure than hardware attestation that GOS supports. I doubt Google would change their model, but your bank might. Some banks do support GOS, and they have changed at the request of their customers before. Send them the GOS documentation and you might get lucky.

https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide

FutileRecipe , 1 month ago to Technology in /e/OS Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It

We need hardware requirements so that not just pixel phones can get grapheneOS.

GOS has strict hardware requirements to increase security that currently only Pixels meet. They won't, and shouldn't, compromise their standards which would give you a weaker OS. Want GOS on other vendors? Convince those vendors to up their hardware game.

FutileRecipe , 1 month ago to Privacy in Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash

Sounds to me like you need an upgrade. I tried Jerboa, but it felt like it always lagged behind or was buggy for some reason. Then I switched to Voyager, which gets constant updates. Also, it's a PWA, so I don't need an app and it can thus be used on mobile, tablet, desktop, etc. Not to mention the theming is one of the best, in my opinion.

FutileRecipe , 1 month ago to Privacy in Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash

The ending period? Not for me on Voyager.

FutileRecipe , 1 month ago to Privacy in Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema

Even their server codes are publicly available

Last I checked, their provided server code lags behind their production server, so you rarely get to see the current version. However, that's kinda the point of E2EE, is you don't have to trust the server.

FutileRecipe , 1 month ago to Technology in Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter

I don't know, sounds reasonable chief.

They want to talk to everyone so they're blocking someone/anyone? That does not sound logical. If that instance defederates, all that person has to do is just not use them as their home instance. They're saying they want to talk to everyone, but they're going out of their way to not do so (by blocking an instance, for whatever reason). Makes no sense to me.