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helenslunch ,

Tesla board member and close Musk confidant Antonio Gracias once took Musk's phone away to prevent him from tweeting late into the night, Isaacson said during a Twitter Spaces event on Wednesday.

"At one point when Elon was firing off tweets without filtering them in the least, they were on a trip and Antonio took his iPhone — Elon's iPhone — and locked it in the hotel safe with Antonio punching in the code so that Elon couldn't get up at 3 a.m. and start tweeting again," Isaacson said, describing Gracias as "one of Elon's closest friends."

Musk later got hotel security to open the safe at around 3 a.m. so he could start tweeting again, Isaacson said.

The biographer added that Musk is "almost addicted to the drama that comes with Twitter" and sees owning Twitter as a way he can be "king of the playground."

"It's something he loves — loves almost to the point of compulsion," Isaacson said, adding that some of his friends, including his brother Kimbal Musk, attempted to convince him not to buy Twitter.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tesla-board-member-once-locked-172209587.html

helenslunch ,

I’m not sure if ASUS has meant to disable the router for anyone under 16 or if it’s a bug.

Pretty sure they just expect everyone to click "Agree" regardless of age.

PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (www.wsj.com)

Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....

helenslunch ,

I had to buy something recently and literally the only payment they accepted was PayPal...

helenslunch ,

It will never be any of those things.

If you want to get close as possible, this is going to be a LONG conversation and has less to do with the device and more to do with how you use it and what sacrifices you're willing to make.

helenslunch ,

For the phone apps you'll have to add them by their IP address.

helenslunch ,

Sounds a lot like Umbrel bit with less crypto.

helenslunch , (edited )

That's because it doesn't pay shit and destroys your body. Not to mention it gets harder every year.

helenslunch ,

Immich does this, minus the routing.

Strava does this, minus the FOSS. That's all I got.

helenslunch ,

Unfortunately there's no way to express that request without subjecting yourself to exploitative platforms like Discord and GitHub.

helenslunch ,

Meta I find easy to block as none of their services are actually useful.

Oh honey. Meta is still collecting your data, even if you never use their site.

But if you use a private browser and a VPN you're probably OK.

helenslunch ,

They aren't even remotely close to companies like Google.

That doesn't mean they don't operate in the same issue.

If you want proof, just have a quick glance at their privacy policy.

helenslunch ,

The problem is it's being advertised as "an alternative to Threads"

helenslunch ,

These kinds of websites are generally nicknamed alternative frontends

Yeah, the problem with that is that frontends are often interactive.

Mastodon could be considered an alternative frontend for Threads as well.

helenslunch ,

I know that. I think the problem is, specifically as it pertains to Threads, is that "alternative frontend" can mean different things. Moshidon is an "alternative frontend" for Mastodon. The backend is all the same. So if I were to be advertising this project, I would be making sure to make that distinction somehow. Probably by including "private" somewhere in the title.

Regardless, does this allow you to generate a personal feed or is it just supposed to be a redirect like Nitter?

Reminder: The DMV uses photos for facial recognition

This is half a decade old news, but I only found this out myself after it accidentally came up in conversation at the DMV. The worker would not have informed me if it hadn't come into conversation. Every DMV photo in the United States is being used for AI facial recognition, and nobody has talked about it for years. This is...

helenslunch ,

What can we even do to fight the privacy practices of giants?

Not much unless you're a billionaire or a politician.

helenslunch ,

I meant that they hold the resources and the influence necessary to change society.

helenslunch ,

I mean it's not nothing but it's close

helenslunch ,

You're going to set them on fire?

helenslunch ,

Ok well I wouldn't really recommend saying as much on the internet...

helenslunch ,

Nailed it.

helenslunch ,

I'm not sure it is. Feels like a waste of money. People don't care. Politicians don't care. In fact they greatly benefit from the erosion of privacy.

helenslunch ,

Better yet, just get a tattoo of weird shapes on your face
Give yourself a third eye and a sideways mouth.

helenslunch ,

ACLU has done a lot of good

I don't doubt it, but at the end of the day it's a drop in the bucket vs. the wide variety of increasingly exploitative platforms that people continue to use.

The government doesn't even need surveillance, they just demand it from corporations with data that users knowingly and willingly volunteer to them, to the extent that you can't even participate in society without subjecting yourself to those same invasive and exploitative platforms.

their lawyers have fought to not give up Signal users' information

What information? How can they give information they don't have?

helenslunch ,

They're literally lobbiests

Huh?

have a track record of forcing the government to make great changes

And yet here we are...constantly sliding downhill, regardless...

helenslunch ,

yarr

helenslunch ,

I'm very aware of all of this, and none of it contradicts my statement.

helenslunch ,

Please tell me something I don't already know.

helenslunch ,

This site does a really great job of illustrating how fingerprinting works and the plethora of information that your browser is telegraphing to every website you visit.

helenslunch ,

Impossible to say without knowing everything about you and your situation but the most likely scenario is that at one point you were signed into a device with the VPN disabled or disconnected.

Google has ways of knowing your location but some of the more sinister ones, like determining your location based on WiFi, they're probably not going to broadcast back to you.

helenslunch ,

A good browser will not send most of that info, or it will spoof it.

T-Mobile's Forced Arbitration

In an effort to increase my privacy, I decided to buy a Pixel phone second hand to use with GrapheneOS. Due to some miscommunications, the phone ended up being carrier locked with T-Mobile. GrapheneOS's own website advises against buying carrier locked phones in order to avoid the hassle of carrier unlocking it....

helenslunch ,

I stopped buying them because of bloatware.

But if you remember there was also a time where certain phones were exclusive to specific carriers and that was the only way to get them. In fact the carrier's name was in the model number.

T-Mobile Sidekick? AT&T Tilt?

helenslunch ,

The in-person representative decided to try calling support one more time, and even went out of his way to try lying to the support team on my behalf

LOL this is how SIM swaps happen, and why it's fucking preposterous that so many companies still use phone numbers for 2FA.

helenslunch ,

What's the comparison, exactly?

helenslunch ,

And what is your takeaway from this?

helenslunch ,

Why?

helenslunch ,

I mean it's the same groups and the same people. The only thing new is the interface. Which is designed for sharing photos.

helenslunch ,

Arch solves a lot of problems...

helenslunch ,

This is the correct answer

helenslunch ,

I'm sure they didn't deserve it but OP's comments are notably missing from this screenshot.

helenslunch ,

If it were anyone but MS, I would agree.

If there was a Linux distro that added this feature I would be completely unconcerned.

But MS has given us every reason they possibly could not to trust them.

helenslunch ,

pipes it to an ai and then stores it wherever you want (including a local NAS)

HOW WILL IT DO THAT WITHOUT ANY NEURAL PROCESSING UNITS?

helenslunch ,

Neither of them compete with MS.

helenslunch ,

My dude, are you high? This was released in 2015...

Alternatives to Google Docs/sheets?

What are people using in place of Google docs/sheets/etc? I'm looking for a simple program that syncs with the cloud so I can access my documents on my different computers or my Android phone. I run Windows 10 (don't crucify me). I use libre office for things that can stay on one computer, but for things like school notes,...

helenslunch , (edited )

There's no shortage of alternatives for this but the best one for your particular usecase is probably syncthing. It will sync files on a folder across devices.

helenslunch ,

Yeah, Synology is fine but they're usually overpriced and underpowered, and have limited software available. Running a normal homemade server makes much more sense, I'm my opinion.

helenslunch ,

That might boil the frog too quickly. Especially considering the public backlash they're reveiving.

helenslunch ,

I think of ActivityPub as a sort of bidirectional RSS feed. It makes much more sense in that way than it does as social media.

Mirror all data on NAS A to NAS B

I'm duplicating my server hardware and moving the second set off site. I want to keep the data live since the whole system will be load balanced with my on site system. I've contemplated tools like syncthing to make a 1 to 1 copy of the data to NAS B but i know there has to be a better way. What have you used successfully?

helenslunch ,

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