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cyrus , 5 days ago to Privacy in Privacy@Lemmy.ml: What are the best ways to minimize fingerprinting on Firefox?

use Tor Browser.

If your concern is fingerprinting, that is undeniably the best there is out of the box.

If you want Tor Browser without having to use the Tor Network, Mullvad is basically just that; Tor Browser without the Network.

cyrus , 26 days ago to Privacy in What's the best messaging platform?

SimpleX is quite a promising project, uses Double Ratchet End-to-End-Encryption (from Signal), and has a very interesting protocol and model to provide quite strong metadata protection, especially in regards to whom you talk to and groups you're in.

If your threat model requires exceptionally strong Metadata protection, SimpleX is probably going to be your go-to

Though, for a more lenient threat model, where still good, but less laser-focused metadata protection is enough, Signal will probably do just fine.

Personally I use Signal, but I also have a SimpleX Profile, an XMPP Account and Matrix. (preferred in that order)

cyrus , 27 days ago to Technology in Why a Half a Million Artists left Instagram for Cara Last Week

The "NO AI" clause is conditional, though.

As mentioned in their FAQ, they will reverse that rule when it is "viable in terms of data privacy and ethicality"

unless the rampant ethical and data privacy issues around datasets are resolved via regulation.

Whilst they aren't VC-Backed, their servers already had to do nearly 10 upgrades, their "AI Detection" is backed by another, third-party AI, and it's not transparent what said service is.

And to top it off, it's a closed ecosystem. You upload your art there, and either Cara dies one day and your following is gone, or they change their policies, leadership or anything else, at which point everyone will have to move again

it's yet another case where the Fediverse and other Federated networks address the core issue that lead to this disaster - content ownership - better than systems like these do. I'm not hopeful for Cara.

cyrus , 29 days ago to Privacy in FUTO Keyboard app

Yes, they self-implemented that.

So unlike Heliboard, you don't need to import Google's Swypelibs.

cyrus , 29 days ago to Privacy in FUTO Keyboard app

Its great, same as their standalone Speech-To-Text Application.

cyrus , 29 days ago to Privacy in FUTO Keyboard app

Just FYI, Heliboard (continuation of OpenBoard) has all of the above. Just note that you'll need to import Google's Swype library once to use Swipe-To-Type.

cyrus , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Self-hosted diary

Syncthing does have an Android app, but I've never looked into doing anything syncthing-related on iOS because I simply don't have any iOS devices :/

cyrus , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Self-hosted diary

I've resorted to just syncing my fault folder using Syncthing externally, surprisingly convenient

cyrus , 1 month ago to Technology in Framework boosts its 13-inch laptop with new CPUs, lower prices, and better screens

NPUs existed before recall and have other uses apart from that.

cyrus , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Self-hosted diary

If you wanna go nuts on the data, probably Obsidian.md with the built-in Daily Note plugin and the Dataview plugin, which allows you to do all kinds of crazy operations on the data in your vault as if it was a database.

If you wanna go less nuts, obsidian still has tagging, linking notes, daily notes, and all kinds of other stuff built-in and is extensible by things like the Calendar plugin from the community.

And everything is stored as plain Markdown with the occasional hint of JSON (for some plugins) so you're not locked into using Obsidian until the end of time. Your data is yours.

(I realise this sounds like an ad but I've just been using Obsidian for years now and I enjoy it)

cyrus , 1 month ago to Technology in Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza

Just FYI, SearX is dead. Long live SearXNG

cyrus , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Home server 1.0

Codeberg, woo!

cyrus , 1 month ago to Matrix in Matrix client for Android for family and friends. Your experiences.

It's not a traditional matrix client mind you, and when I say "Matrix First" I mean architecturally.

cyrus , 1 month ago to Matrix in Matrix client for Android for family and friends. Your experiences.

Yes.

After their plan of starting with local iMessage and expanding later didn't turn out well, they turned it around. Start with Matrix, add local bridges later.

The current application is based on the Beeper Mini codebase, is Matrix-First and will soon allow you to use local bridges to better preserve E2EE. As seen by some MSCs opened up by the beeper team, they are also looking into encrypted chat backups with these local bridges.

cyrus , 1 month ago to Technology in Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web

Alternative Title:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Bullshit-Powered search and the future of the Hellfire we used to call the "Internet"