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    LWD ,

    Are you using it? You don't have to, although I understand it offers quite the proposition in terms of value.

    You may also need to worry about anti-cheat systems and how much access they give themselves to your system.

    LWD ,

    Never underestimate the power of a company to exploit you. Maybe they won't, but nobody saw AI getting trained on every word we write either.

    (Gaben, if you're reading this and you mean no harm, then tighten up your privacy policy).

    Under the FISA expansion, what exactly should I worry about, how do I manage privacy?

    Hello everyone, with the unfortunate passing of the FISA expansion, I was left with a few questions. I tried to research it, and to me, it seems like they are beefing up surveillance with routers and ISPs (correct me if I'm wrong.) Aside from having businesses stalk you when you use their WiFi (connected with ISPs.)...

    LWD ,

    How do you figure you need to trust it more than both your ISP and your government? I understand how it gets as much data as your ISP traditionally does, and that means you need to trust it as much as an ISP...

    ...But I have a very poor opinion of any ISP that operates on regional monopolies (as is common in the United States), and those are probably linked directly to the NSA a la PRISM anyway. I imagine a VPN, even a mediocre one outside the Eyes countries' jurisdiction, frustrates this.

    LWD ,

    Last time I checked, Ukraine is fighting a war against a Russian invasion.

    During World War II, the US censored pictures of dead soldiers until 1943. And that was without a war happening on American soil.

    LWD ,

    "The people being invaded need to behave better" is one way people justify brutality against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. And despite the argument working better on Hamas, I reject it there too.

    In both situations, the chaos is being caused by the invading country, and the onus is on the invader to leave.

    You said "LOL" about Ukraine not getting to join the EU, but that was the same attitude the US and Israel had towards UNESCO for daring to admit Palestine as a member state in 2011.

    LWD ,

    In Gaza, I think the claim is "The invasion doesn't stop the corrupt Hamas government from stealing food"...

    Again, the solution is the invading country leaves and stops interfering.

    LWD ,

    I'm guessing that due to the small size of Lemmy and the political nature of this post, there might be a lot of visitors who aren't aware of how bad Telegram is at protecting privacy.

    From TechCrunch:

    Telegram has disclosed names of administrators, their phone numbers and IP addresses of channels

    It shouldn't have had that data available to begin with...

    LWD ,

    That didn't stop you from speculating earlier.

    LWD ,

    In 2014, Ukraine overthrew a corrupt Russian puppet president and called for a new election. Instead of participating, the puppet fled, and Ukrainians discovered his palace.

    Were you aware of this?

    LWD ,

    It's interesting how the biggest comments either pretend there is no war, or remove Ukrainian self-determination from discussion of it.

    Seems kind of like those people who try to lump in Palestinians in Gaza with some imaginary monolith of "all Muslims" in the middle east.

    LWD , (edited )

    It removed a Russian puppet leader. Now there is no foreign puppet in charge of the country. This alone is a huge change, doesn't sound like it's "merely" a shift.

    Edit: more significant than even I thought.

    Using LGBT rights and antisemitism (and even censorship!) as a metric, I'm pretty sure you would agree that leaning towards "pro western" values is preferable to what Russia is doing in their country and to their puppet states.

    LWD ,

    Ukrainians wanted Yanukovich, the most unpopular and probably most corrupt Ukrainian president, gone.

    Despite attempts to treat Ukrainians as lesser beings by pointing to an imaginary puppet master, they did this on their own accord, and only 4.9% of them wanted him to return.

    LWD ,

    I think you misunderstand me. The Ukrainians made their own choice in 2014. There was no US "coup". That's the year Russia's puppet was removed, and the year Putin turned to an invasion.

    LWD ,

    Apparently people like you have bought so deeply into imperialist thought that you can't fathom anybody being independent outside of a great national power.

    Eurasia has always been at war with Oceania, therefore Oceania must have been responsible.

    LWD ,

    The call proves nothing.

    For comparison, white supremacists believe Jews are engineering the end of the "white race" because of a piece of paper in an SPLC office. This also proves nothing.

    LWD ,

    Are you anti genocide?

    https://theintercept.com/2020/06/28/welcome-to-chechnya-gay-men/

    LWD ,

    Expounding on previous suggestions...

    "On iOS" is rough because you're at the mercy of whatever incredibly limited experience Apple allows. Safari is the only real browser on your phone and it can be subjected to limited ad blocking, followed by your system (phone or tablet) with something like AdGuard.

    If you're on a particular home WiFi network, you can also add your own DNS filter using something like PiHole.

    LWD ,

    Just the world's biggest election between a popular, incumbent president associated with the color orange and religious nationalism, versus a disorganized opposition. And fake news is a problem.

    LWD ,

    It could function as a nicotine patch for people who have a Schüllian obsession with Twitter.

    Safest way of using WeChat on Android?

    I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn't the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I...

    LWD ,

    Probably an iPhone user.

    Or otherwise concerned about using an app banned by the state.

    LWD ,

    If you're in the US and mostly worried about one app, you can probably devote a Work folder via an app like Shelter to a GF.

    LWD ,

    Don't all providers have the ability to filter things?

    Personally I have very few problems with DNS providers filtering out malware, that sounds like a benefit to me.

    LWD ,

    I can do this in like 5 seconds with my PiHole and not only am I not a network engineer, I would encourage people to never employ me as such.

    So for an actual business that has a bigger budget than me ($0) and more hours to devote to it than me (.02), shouldn't it be less of a problem?

    Is it just me or Rob Braxman has lost it lately?

    I've never been super-impressed by Rob Braxman. I mean he's never truly wrong in what he was saying in his Youtube videos, but his explanations are over-simplistic, a bit of a shortcut (but fair enough to reach a wide audience I guess), and mostly designed to sell his meh deGoogled cellphones and equally meh privacy services....

    LWD ,

    Sometimes it's easier to sell solutions to the problems that you describe versus problems that are real. I've gotten that sense with his videos from the beginning, even the less extreme ones I've been recommended in the past. At some point you need to cut your losses, and at this point I think Braxman is more unhelpful than helpful in the tech space.

    LWD ,

    I'm pretty sure it's the opposite, although it's understandable that it'd give off that illusion.

    You might experience a lower framerate in apps because your battery is overheating, but intentionally invoking it (like Mull does) will make your device require less processing power and thus less likely to overheat.

    LWD ,

    I never installed any dictionaries and it worked fine for me. IIRC.

    I installed HeliBoard_1.2-release.apk . I didn’t really know how HeliBoard_1.2-debug.apk and HeliBoard_1.2-nouserlib.apk were different.

    They don't really matter to most people.

    And, it seems like I can do the equivalent of Shift + key on a standalone keyboard (for example, to get 1 instead of Q), but I don’t know how to, or what that’s even called.

    Usually you glide from the ?123 icon towards the top, or long-press the number row.

    Gliding from Shift to something else will allow you to capitalize.

    LWD ,

    Privacy.com is technically a bank, so you're going to need to identify yourself in some way regardless.

    LWD ,

    In my experience, it does a good job of obscuring my identity from websites with questionable security practices (e.g. ones that rolled their own payment processors and are clearly questionably coded, or just ones that could be).

    And it obscures the nature of your purchases from your bank.

    LWD ,

    That's a good point. For me, it lets me obscure my real name and real address from some websites, so it's good enough for me.

    For everything else, I would probably consider purchasing in person whenever possible, or with cryptocurrency as a last resort.

    LWD ,

    Update: especially because, recently, some banks will use your transaction history to advertise to you, I feel even better jumping onto one with stricter rules regarding that

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/chase-bank-to-let-advertisers-target-customers-based-on-spending-habits

    LWD ,

    This is basically why TAILS exists. If you're interested, you should look into that specifically.

    LWD ,

    That's where the Tor component of TAILS comes in. The documentation here is really valuable:

    https://tails.net/doc/anonymous_internet/tor/index.en.html

    LWD ,
    1. Use different passwords for things
    2. Use a password manager
    3. Don't upload all your stuff to Google
    4. Switch to DuckDuckGo
    5. Install Firefox (or LibreWolf/Fennec) or at least Brave
    6. Use Signal
    LWD ,

    Louis Rossman wants you to block all ads. Paraphrased: the fraction of a penny he might receive isn't worth the waste of your time.

    https://youtu.be/narqU0RruJY
    https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=narqU0RruJY
    https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=narqU0RruJY

    LWD ,

    Did you watch the video where he explains his thoughts? It's not easy to disagree with someone before hearing them out.

    LWD , (edited )

    This is the same Louis Rossman who is part of the FUTO organization. FUTO makes GrayJay and other tools, and funds Graphene, the FSF, VLC, and Right to Repair stuff.

    Louis isn't some Rob Braxman type.

    He's established in his field as a pretty technically competent public advocate for consumer rights.

    LWD ,

    The source code is right here. It's free and open source.

    Am I missing something here? FUTO appears to do tons of good work so I'm not exactly sure what one non-"Libre" piece of free, open source software does to discredit them, or him.

    LWD , (edited )

    This reads as extremely petty.

    He's part of an organization that also made an app that also has a license that isn't totally perfect, therefore all his other advocacy is inherently wrong?

    Cancel Louis Rossman first, and then we can reassess whether his comments here are also incorrect.

    ETA: I found this article that lays out the issues about GrayJay and its license. It doesn't deem the app, nor anyone associated with it, particularly cancel-worthy either.

    LWD ,

    It's not unreasonable to think a person would want to offer some kind of live location sharing to friends. Including situations like "what if my tinder date goes horribly wrong"

    Location tracking can be used maliciously, but a private app is hardly going to be a hidden app. And OP didn't ask to obscure the intent of it.

    LWD ,

    DuckDuckGo's AI is basically a proxy to OpenAI or Anthropic.

    We do not save or store your Prompts or Outputs.

    Additionally, all metadata that contains personal information (for example, your IP address) is obfuscated from underlying model providers (for example, OpenAI, Anthropic).

    If you submit personal information in your Prompts, it may be reproduced in the Outputs, but no one can tell whether it was you personally submitting the Prompts or someone else.

    If you don't like the sound of that anyway, and it's totally understandable if so, there are settings to disable it.

    LWD ,

    A slightly more verbose policy specifically for the AI stuff is at https://duckduckgo.com/aichat/privacy-terms

    LWD ,

    How's it know what you summarize?

    LWD , (edited )

    Yeah, I don't know how they could be much better. Obviously since they don't host the model, they're doing like SearxNG and passing along data for you, but all they can do is remind you not to mention anything personally identifying.

    Edit: well it tried.

    https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/282/022/797/159/059/original/e3b92b7f5f46034b.png

    LWD ,

    There's nothing in this email that implies Google is uploading biometric data anywhere.

    AFAIK it's stored locally on your device, never uploaded anywhere (and that's on purpose), and apps can tap into a system-level API to use your biometrics or phone password to re-verify that you're really you.

    "Apps" include Google Play Store.

    LWD ,

    The root of the problem needs to be solved within the next negative six months, and the millionaires pushing/operating it sure don't seem interested.

    LWD ,

    I still genuinely don't know how to do this. Contact verification works within a 1-1 chat, but it's unclear whether it's the same contact in a group chat.

    For example:

    1. Open a group chat that you have a friend in
    2. Tap their avatar, bringing up their contact info
    3. Tap "Verify Security Code" and take note of the value
    4. Tap Back, then tap "Send direct message"
    5. In your DM screen, tap their avatar at the top, bringing up their contact info
    6. Tap "Verify security code"

    It's a different code for me.

    LWD ,

    I don't like the way it sounds, but I appreciate the honesty. Videos like this are always prescriptive, even if they present themselves as if they are a personal, "just for my needs" thing.

    By the way, do you remember a video and Medium article posted by someone who was trying to convince us that big companies like Google aren't really privacy invasive?

    LWD ,

    It sounds like the reference is spot-on:

    Pope also based aspects of the border crossing... on the Berlin Wall and issues between East and West Germany, stating he was "naturally attracted to Orwellian communist bureaucracy". He made sure to avoid including any specific references to these inspirations, such as avoiding the word "comrade" in both the English and translated versions, as it would directly allude to a Soviet Russia implication.

    TIL

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