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LWD ,

Important question: exactly what does it forward to them? After reviewing their privacy policy, it looks like they may be forwarding something in addition to the query itself.

When it comes to adding a layer of privacy between your queries and the OpenAI results, I believe them, but I really want to know exactly how much privacy there is and isn't.

LWD , (edited )

ChatGPT begs to differ

(ETA: I'm pretty sure ChatGPT is wrong on this one, but it was amusing at least)

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/214/983/029/461/565/original/ca91a4a6b7c516c5.jpg

LWD ,

ChatGPT: it tells you what you want to know!

(And sometimes what it tells you is even true!)

LWD ,

Just reported it to the Lemmy network administrators

LWD ,

Maybe, but it feels really good when I look at my big number next to your little one

LWD ,

You could erase the first two sentences of this comment and lose literally nothing. Which is pretty impressive, considering how important "dialectical materialism" sounds.

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Mostly the party of small government.

They just want to keep children safe... from the LGBTs.

LWD ,

If a 4 year old is exposed to furry porn, I don't think the culprit is the website.

LWD ,

I too am curious about the real world implications of this lack of process isolation.

LWD ,

Daniel Micay of Graphene has... A reputation.
At the end of his tenure at Graphene, Micay started increasingly accusing people in many other communities of conspiring against him and harassing him. It elevated to the point of accusing Louis Rossman of being part of the conspiracy. It got swept under the rug for years, but Rossman was the one person to get so pissed off that he eventually outed Micay... And his departure from the organization was swift.

I actually reached out to Micay (IIRC before Rossman outed him) looking for answers. After showing me some incredibly scant "evidence" that amounted to accusations he had written in the past, he started accusing me of being part of the conspiracy too.

I don't like to claim people have mental illness recklessly, but I can't think of many other reasons he behaved that way. The only other obvious one is that he was a massive asshole for no reason at all.

But he's also very technically competent (or at least, prior to stepping down, was very competent), and there's probably a reason Graphene finds so many Android bugs and gets their patches implemented so regularly. But the whole thing definitely taints the project and some of the pages he most likely wrote.

LWD , (edited )

Considering this is straight from a VPN provider, take this with a boulder-sized grain of salt.

And I say that as someone who believes using a VPN is generally more beneficial than not. And espouses most of that advice regarding the VPN.

Even if a VPN were totally benevolent and gave daily tours of its office, there's still no 100% guarantee their claims can be verified at all times. So there's always an element of trust. (I trust most of the ones outside of the Eyes countries more than my home ISP, though. )

LWD ,

If you're looking for something professional, Jitsi is open-source and only requires one person to have an account to use it... You might have a better experience if you self-host or find someone who does.

LWD ,

Let me get this straight, the data is worth $5 billion to Google, but they aren't even necessarily deleting any of it?

LWD , (edited )

There's also privacy issues with Matrix:

  • Account deletion on Discord: username becomes [deleted]
  • Account deletion on Matrix: will not delete username
  • GDPR-compliant account deletion on Matrix: will not delete username

Discord is also one (admittedly very lousy) company, while Matrix starts with the privacy issues and just gets worse

Edit x2: I can't place a parenthesis to save my life

LWD ,

Right after you promise to convince all their moneyed interests to accept those changes into the repositories they manage

LWD ,

There's a huge difference between streaming games and streaming PowerPoint slideshows

LWD ,

Telling Discord users to switch to Matrix because "it works like a charm" is incorrect, considering how Discord is used.

"It's tolerable if you can put up with the low bit rate and high latency" is more accurate.

LWD ,

SyncThing is great for encrypted, serverless, bidirectional sync, preferably with small folders... But unfortunately really eats up a lot of battery.

I'm still waiting for some company to figure out E2EE syncing with the quality of Google Drive (mobile and desktop integration built in). Proton is close, but they fumble reliable integration.

LWD ,

Mobile Fennec (or pick your poison for any Firefox fork) has made browsing overall much better. Between ad blocking, Enhanced Tracking Protection and a paywall-bypassing extension, browsing is overall less tedious than a comparable Chromelike.

LWD ,

Bypass Paywalls Clean is the one I use.

LWD ,

Between all these replies, I have to say I'm a little jealous. And I might have to look into making a SyncThing dedicated "server" on my home network using YunoHost, a thing that (IIRC) wouldn't require exposing to the Internet because SyncThing will also happily run across volunteer-run relays.

By any chance, have you had any success with a unidirectional sync between your phone and your computer, where it's possible to delete old photos on your phone to save space without worrying about them being deleted on the computer side? (This issue really only crops up for me when I'm already far away from a computer, BTW.)

LWD ,

Personally, I'm okay with shouldering the security risk considering the internet-wide toxicity of Chrome and forks.

Lynx would be more secure than either.

LWD ,

Using Noscript eventually causes me to give up using Noscript, which is probably the one thing I was supposed to avoid...

LWD ,

That's why uBlock Origin is such a blessing: so many people have already contributed to figuring out what to block on so many websites.

LWD ,

I know you didn't add the original "This YouTuber is anti-China!!!!" disclaimer but it's still very funny.

The video is good, though, from what I remember when it was initially released.

LWD ,

Here's a genius tip to the Google developers: you don't have to turn over the data you don't have.

LWD ,

You joke, but I don't see why Google wouldn't just hand over browsing data regarding various topics they already consider demonetizable.

LWD ,

"No security person is ever comfortable with this, no matter what consent we get from the general public. The general public just doesn’t know how this stuff works"

Apparently there was some debate among the Facebook leadership about whether getting clueless people to sign a consent form was good enough for them.

Cool.

PC principal collecting consent forms

shaedrich , to Firefox
@shaedrich@mastodon.online avatar

And, please @firefox, remove those tracking links from . With that, you bring discredit on yourself.

https://mastodon.online/@shaedrich/112167697451986072

LWD ,

Mozilla didn't hear you, and they're adding a shopping addon instead. Thanks to buying a company that trafficks in private data, which is now an official Mozilla subsidiary.

That's right, Mozilla is now an adtech company.

At least Pocket is "universal" -- it works on every site. The shopping extension only works on the three biggest commerce websites within one country.

LWD ,

Related: Google just knows who YouTube users are, and can unmask them at will. They definitely won't fix anything to make people safer from that on their platform.

LWD ,

Fairphone should also work on the fairness side of things, because they dropped the headphone jack and, with a heavy heart I'm sure, started selling unfair Lithium Earbuds...

Their reasoning was, in part, people who bought their modular repairable phone said it was too big.

LWD , (edited )

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LWD ,

Corrupt politicians can simply ignore the law. If they didn't ignore it, they wouldn't be very corrupt.

LWD ,

Monero is like an unregulated stock. If you want to use it for a purchase, you want to wait until as late as possible to actually purchase any.

A better strategy for staying private would just be hoarding money under your bed.

LWD ,

Good point. My statement was a bit reductive, I just worry when it comes to creating the kind of blanket ban on stuff that people can work around if they're powerful enough.

LWD , (edited )

OP, your post is a mess.

  1. It's not "total monetary surveillance," it's limited to cryptocurrency and high (>$11,000) cash payments.
  2. You shouldn't encourage people to contact the EU before showing them what's actually happening
  3. Your Snort post doesn't work on my browser and it's a pretty bad social network anyway.

For people who are looking for actual info:

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-seeks-cash-payment-limit-tougher-money-laundering-rules/a-68024075

https://finbold.com/anonymous-crypto-wallets-now-illegal-in-the-eu/

Or the source OP was using:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-cash-cap-and-ban-on-anonymous-crypto-payments-results-in-financial-paternalism/

(ETA better info and links)

LWD ,

Do you see the irony of people treating a cryptocurrency in name as a cryptostock in reality?

LWD ,

Either is always better than neither.

Some DNS filtering apps like Rethink let you add a VPN so you really can have your cake and eat it too, although they're not easy to make.

LWD ,

If I need to fudge info, I tend to put it into a password database's "notes" field for easier note-keeping, FWIW.

Not a full-on identity, but bits of info like stated name, address, etc.

Is JMP.chat expensive? Are there any alternatives? (lemm.ee)

I've been using this phone number from JMP.chat and I've barely used it for much of anything (Started February 27th, 2024), and somehow its telling me I need $35? I tried out their service plan but it was way too expensive. I only bought it once and took off my credit card after because auto pay kept auto depositing money into...

LWD ,

To keep a US phone number functioning to some degree, most services seem to want $5 a month minimum. $35 or even $15 seems pretty steep. Are we talking a multi-month commitment here?

LWD ,

Yeah, and Twilio has a reputation as a horrible company that sucks for both privacy and security

LWD ,

You can get 3 months of Tracfone service for $20 from a store. That includes minutes, text, and data. Other services probably cost way less but that's a major one.

LWD ,

You don't say...

LWD , (edited )

FWIW Cromite should be the recommendation now (Bromite has been long discontinued!), although I too don't worry too much about the sandboxing benefits and use a FF fork for much/most of my browsing these days.

LWD ,

One of my favorite browsers, and it does such a good job I apparently haven't had to think about it enough to learn how to spell it...

LWD ,

Kudos to you for posting the article even if you did disagree with it

LWD ,

The Register is usually on point. What's up?

LWD ,

I thought Fastly sounded familiar. They're partnering with everybody these days, including Mozilla to push "private" shopping ads in their latest browser shopping feature, and Invisiv in their multi-hop VPN.

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