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gravitywell ,

Keylogging or screen recording basically.

gravitywell ,

It is on f-droid too. This isnt being "unhinged" its just calling out google for their hypocrisy and pointless "privacy” policies and citing lots of examples.

gravitywell ,

Since FLAC tend to be around 1444kbps I use 144kbps opus and that makes them abour 10% of the size.

gravitywell ,

Not Compatible with what exactly? It works on my 20 year old ipod using rockbox, any modern players should support it.

gravitywell ,

Mail carriers are not idiots, they just discard the thing as trash since its obviously not an envelope... Business reply mail will only ever be paper letters, so what you actually want to do is just send whatever it is back to them with useless information or if its an actual envelope you can stuff it with glitter or shred the paper inside, its still technically "improper use" but they won't know that until its at the destination.

gravitywell ,

Well now I just want to do it more.

gravitywell ,

This is a tough situation because the more changes to settings you make the more unique you will appear. Less is more in this case, libre wolf or Mullvad are both good Firefox based browsers with good defaults. My biggest recommendation to add is a cookie auto delete plugin, or if you dont need to keep anything logged in even better just have it delete cookies on shutdown.

gravitywell ,

Frp or nginx are both available on openWRT to do what you want.

gravitywell ,

Pitch is basically twitter but on Tor.

gravitywell ,

I'd just host them in a library only visible to mom and members that would want to view it.

Also consider the unintentionally comedic value of such films, they're sometimes fun to watch just because of how bad they are.

gravitywell ,

Linux Mint Debian Edition if you find Debian itself too intimidating.

gravitywell ,

The nvidia 1650 can't do AV1 but it can handle hevc just fine, I'm currently using a 1660 on mine and before that it was a 950. Unless you need more than 3 steams at a time you should be able to get it working.

gravitywell , (edited )

Onn TV box from walmart is $20

There is also a 15 stick version...

You could find lower end/older devices that will work too but when you can get a new 2023 box that's up to date and not full of bloatware or spyware, why would you want to risk it?

A raspi isnt what id consider low end or cheap in regards to jellyfin, but it will def work fine.

gravitywell ,

Well I know the older 2021 models could be flashed with lineageos and the 2023 might also but its not really an ideal OS for a TV and not really optimized but there is nothing really stopping you from enabling debug mode and unlocking the bootloader on it.

I haven't done a deep dive but I know my way around adb and disabled almost all the apps i didn't want and I don't notice any abnormal activity going on when its supposed to be idle for example.

I didn't want to link to or reddit but you can find guides on how to remov what little bloat it does come with.

gravitywell ,

Nitter still works but you'll get rate limited pretty fast. I don't think anything other than paying twitter money gets around rate limits.

gravitywell ,

If it was possibly to bypass their service then it wouldn't be as popular as it is. It's most likely an issue with Waterfox and not cloud flair, id file a bug report.

gravitywell ,

I don't trust for profit venture capital funding, if you want to see where it ends up just Look at how telegram or wickr transitions from being "open" and free to getting stripped of features only to have them become paid only and the wickr sold off to Amazon and ended all non business support...the business model for making a profit off chat applications is bad for users.

Also now that signal supports usernames I have no reason to use anything else even for people I wouldn't want having my real number.

gravitywell ,

how to access the NAS and HA separately from the outside knowing that my access provider does not offer a static IP and that access to each VM must be differentiated from Proxmox.

HA has add-ons for duckns and nginx-proxy-manager which should solve this... Or alternatively use those things in docker or by installing on your host OS.

is Coral really useful with 3 cameras?

Yes if you want object detection

  • do you need a Coral in USB or M.2 version?

I've only used a USB, I don't know how to pass M.2 through to the VM but I'm sure theres tutorials out there if you want to.

  • are there affordable NUCs with free M.2 slots?

Can't answer that one.

  • won't proxmox add a layer of complexity with Coral/Frigate/a Zigbee dongle?

Yes, you'll need to know how to pass through the devices to their respective VMs.

gravitywell ,

Oh right, so the NAS you can setup with the addon Samba NAS.

DuckDNS will mitigate your issues with not having a staic IP (alternatively theres any number of DynDNS programs you can look into if for example you already own your own domain name)

Nginx-Proxy-Manager allows you to forward ports based on the domain used to connect so, you might not even need it really but if you wanted for exmple to have an address like mysupercoolnas.duckdns,org rediect to one proxmox vm and mycoolassitant.duckdns.org to reditect to HA you could do that. Or you could just have one DynDNS setup and use port forwarding on your router to handle what ports direct to which VM.

gravitywell ,

eBay doesn't do anything, the seller would need to have their own policy and even then there really isn't much in place to stop people from lying.

gravitywell ,

Privoxy maybe

gravitywell ,

Calling out hypocrisy is not the same as defending China and TikTok.

Some banking apps don't appear in the Aurora Store (lemmy.ml)

This has happened a few times, but it was always related to the use of VPNs because the app is not available in the country of the server, but now, even if I disable the VPN, change the spoofing model of the smartphone, open from a direct link from the Play store (in which the app page opens, however, with almost no information,...

gravitywell ,

Just checked and will bank installs fine for me from Aurora. Are you using it anonymous or do you have an account signed in?

gravitywell ,

Mainly Because there is no money in doing it.. people who are privacy can just do it themselves and use VPN, most every chat app these days is already e2ee, and data collection is mostly dependent on what apps you use/have installed rather than whos networks your data travels through.

gravitywell ,

Man the sovcits are getting sneakier

gravitywell ,

Namecheap since I have been using them since the 00s and never had any problems.

gravitywell ,

Isn't that literally what the GPL3 exists to prevent? So called "tivoization"?

You know what would really make stallman smile is if you licensed it under something that requires sharing the source and all modifications.

Also solves the cost problem since you no longer have to support the infrastructure for all users just a small subset. I already host searxng and it's not great but I host it because I support projects that encourage self hosting and we need more free and open source search options

Also how is your product getting used by another company "going to waste" all your work? Maybe you mean take advantage of without paying? But if that's the case and money is such a big deal how is advertising off the table? Unless you're trying to compete with kagi, but you're facing a huge uphill struggle if you plan to monitize and not be open source/self hostable..

If on the other hand you change your mind about it, I'll be one of many self hosting fans who will happily deploy and contribute to improve the project in any way possible. (Currently self hosting searxng here)

That said, even if it's not fully open, really looking forward to seeing the project grow, it sounds like you have your hearts in the right place and we sure do need something better.

gravitywell ,

Not sure I follow your reasoning here... Having commercial forks isn't necessarily "competition" or if it is it's not always a bad thing. I suppose you could look at something like say Debian as being in "competition” with Ubuntu, but they both promote the underlying linux kernel and benefit from each other's improvements, while one is very much for profit while the other is a very well funded non profit organization.

gravitywell ,

I use samba for normal usage and rsync for backups.

gravitywell ,

For automatic stuff I use synching to keep my home an documents in sync.

I don't normally use samba remotely but I have a wire guard VPN that I connect to if I'm not at home and that gives me access to samba or any other "local" services I might need when away

gravitywell ,

How is getting a push notification any better at tracking someone than the actual gps and tower data that their phone is CONSTANTLY sending out to their cell providers?

Seems really overblown, like most people hearing this assume it's including contents of the notifications but it doesn't, and if law enforcement wants to put a suspect at a crime scene, they can just get the data from T-Mobile, if it gets to the point they're asking Google or Apple for info, id be much more concerned about all the data and emails stored on the cloud, which they already have no problems giving out.

Am I missing something? What can law enforcement gain from push notification data that they can't get with data from the cell provider already or the wealth of other data collected by Gmail, maps, Uber, etc, which is way more useful than anything a push notification would contain.

Not defending the practice of course, I don't get push notifications because I don't have Google apps installed on my grapheneOS phone, but I'm pretty sure T-Mobile knows my location just as well.

gravitywell ,

So assuming the app isnt E2EE then there would be many ways to read message contents, for example if the subpoena your email provider, or SMS provider. Google play store and apple store again also already have all the details of what apps you use, how often you update them or when you removed them.... There is just no benefit to using push for this kind of data gathering, there is always one or more much better ways of obtaining any of this data... wanna know when a woman left the state to go to health clinic? Cell towers. Husband suspected of murdering wife and you want to know what dating apps he used? Google play store has logs of every dating app they joined, and all those dating apps will gladly hand over chat logs and other data to proper authorites when asked nicely... And its not like the pushnotifications themselves are just open air unencrypted broadcasts anyone can monitor, Law enforcment at the very least has to submit the requests to google and apple anyway, so why would they care about push notifications when they can get access to a suspects entire cloud storage and emails?

I'll bet whats really happening here isnt even that cops are "super interested" in push data, but rather they realized that its one of many forms of data that they include when make a request. I'd bet tey also grab any kind of "fitness" related data , and things like your advertising preferences too, because why not? Investegators don't usually go around asking for just the bare minimum they need to incriminate someone or prove an allegation, they just fill out the data request form and check "all of the above".

Go look at how many different options google takeout has, and imagine they probably have a few bonus ones just for law encforcment, Push notifications is just a drop in the bucket in terms of the data that we're all giving away freely by depending on the duopoly of google/apple for all our mobile communications.

gravitywell ,

If we're talking about these agencies subpoenaing in order to get the data, that kinda sounds like privacy protections are in place for it. I think whats really happening here is that push data is now one of a hundred or so other things (like emails, google/app maps data, web search history), that's now being included when agencies make requests for a users data... they arent specifically going after push notifications any more then they're going after how many steps your fitbit is counting, they just want all the information they can get, and by voluntarily giving it to these companies we put ourselves at risk, its a very distopian trade off.

gravitywell ,

That's actually a really good point I hadn't thought of. I still think other data would be more useful, but your example is the first one I'm hearing that maybe could have work if they had no other data to work with

Whats the purpose for usernames on signal?

Been using signal for years and love it and got the majority of my contacts on to it. My question is how are usernames useful now? You still need to register with a phone number with signal to limit spam and bots afaik and I'm assuming you should protect your username just like you do your phone number anyways because spam,...

gravitywell ,

Remember that "average Joe" is not actually signals only focus, it's average journalist/ whistleblower/protestor living under a hostile government that may target them and their associates for what the rest of us "average joes" might consider basic free speech.

So a scenario might be, people use signal in Iran to arrange a mass protest on a specific day, word gets out and some of the organizers are arrested and pressured to give up their companions... They cooperate by unlocking phones, but police have no idea who the lead organizer "RndoUsr.40" is and the people arrested never met face to face so no amount of pressure would get them the organizers real ID

And yeah, for us average joes it's good for aquaintences and because names are easier to remember so it's handy.

gravitywell ,

Well yeah can't protect against stupidity I suppose

gravitywell ,

They can't get a phone number from someone if only a username was shared with that person. maybe the people who lectured you about it not also being for anonymity where not aware of plans to ad usernames or that a projects aims and use cases can change over time but signal can and has already been useful to a good number of journalists, not requiring a phone number to share your contact with someone is what id consider a major game changer in terms of what use cases are now open and threat models that can be accounted for.

2G, 3G, 4G, 5G mobile data made some sense as it represents generational leaps in the technology itself but then Xfinity wants to advertise "10g" internet...

Comcast says it represents a 10 Gigabit cable internet network they are building (it doesn’t exist) so they are basically changing the meaning of the g from generation to gig to act like 10g is 5 generations better (or twice as fast)…or that they have a 10 gigabit network. Neither is accurate. It’s still just cable...

gravitywell ,

Comcast can't even do symmetric speeds. I'm not sure what locations have thier best speeds but in my area, where they compete with the much more affordable but not as large coverage area offerings of fiber. The idea that they could offer even a signle gigabit level service to the majority of their customers is laughable.

I bet it did lead to a lot of confusion especially when you called up for 10GIGABITS and got offered plans in the Megabits with usage limits and overage fees and all kinds of complicated shit. I called in to cancel my service a few months back when i moved to an area with fiber again, they said "we offer gigabit too you know" and i was like , nah you kinda don't actually, but even if you did its like 3 times as expensive for just the download speeds.

gravitywell ,

That title sounds like what you'd say running a Kickstarter scam.. yeah sure its not good yet but if enough people keep preordering our not complete product eventually it will be good.

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