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SimpleX having PFS while Session not having it also seals the deal.

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It's a hostage situation they're doing like any proprietary social network. You want to encourage people to move away from them, but then you need to interact with those same people in order to do that.

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I've found that being consistent with what you choose to share is the most difficult thing. Conversations can get personal, and as you get closer to those random nicknames there's the constant urge to share mundane stuff about your daily lives like weather, holidays, and such that will all add up.

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When I tested it, VPN do work after sms verification. Tor nodes, however, resulted in all my test accounts being banned.

The Best Email Aliasing Providers in 2024 (blog.thenewoil.org)

Email aliasing is one of the most underrated privacy techniques that has yet to go mainstream. For the privacy-conscious user, it offers a degree of separation between all your accounts, making it harder for data brokers to correlate your various accounts across different services by not using the same email address to sign up....

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It's all about risks vs benefits. You can open up your domain for more users, but that also can make you potentially liable for what other users do with your domain from law enforcement if something nasty happened.

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Problem is, people rarely realize the importance until they're lost. Plenty of posts from 90s and 2000s containing valuable insights are probably lost forever. Remember that not everything online is in English, either.

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Internet of the 90s and early 2000s were introduced as a library where people consulted text for information. There was an introduction (tutorials), a userbase that's educated and/or eager to learn, and most importantly, it was the wild west where companies didn't think much of except for just having a .com address. This is where our view of search engines come from - to consult with keywords and read.

This is no longer the case. It's no longer seen as a library, but a shopping mall where you have advertisements shoved down your throat and flashy stuff that grab your attention. For people who were born after smartphones and grew up without knowing the early stuff, the search engine is... well, do people know or even care about that?

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Burner phone to anything that requires communication. Erase metadata of anything that will be shared and uploaded online.

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Treating phone numbers in contact list with username was a brilliant idea (for the spread of mobile messengers like Whatsapp) but also a very horrible idea (for user privacy and everything else). I can't just change a phone number for privacy. My acquaintances will gladly update them with my name, my old and new number, ready for Zucc to scoop them up in a fucking silver plate.

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Same can be said for any field, academic or not. For example, it won't do any good to dismiss cancer awareness campaigns because doctors have been saying about it for decades. It's for the public's benefit, and everyone deserves privacy.

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lol k

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There was a civilian airplane that mistakenly drifted into Soviet airspace and was shot down back in the 1983, killing everyone on board. Pilots can train for scenarios requiring manual operation, but that doesn't mean they should only rely on human perception, especially when it involves other people's lives.

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I'm aware cock.li is for the meme edgelords, but what about purelymail?

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Just my two cents here to mention that it's necessary to see this as a journey and a mindset, not a single-step or one-size-fits-all panacea.

If she's annoyed of advertisements creeping up, introduce her to adblockers and slowly make her get used to it. If she has shared concerns after seeing her friends or colleagues receive abusive comments on their social media accounts, comment on the dangers of oversharing one's private life and its potential consequences and tangible threats, like medical insurance companies abusing the info, and so on.

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Can't wait for it to die and wither out. But I know they will retain a big pool of users on hostage like reddit or fb for a while.

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Bless the Revanced guys. They made my mobile youtube binge watches as smooth as my desktop firefox + ublock setup.

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I would have to find a way to keep them on without needing a battery inserted.

As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

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For some of my acquaintances, uploading to facebook or sending them through whatsapp counts as backing up their pictures.

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Honestly I miss that little metallic bastard with so many software shoving AI in our throats.

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Wake up, developer. We have an OS to burn.

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That's even worse. I bet there are tons of false positives and people facing consequences at job for bad reviews Glassdoor thinks they wrote.

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Ah, the 4chan method of engagement, right?

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The same used to be said for Internet Explorer in the 90s.

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I can be your Guest1234 anytime you want ;)

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It's all federated, so it would be strange the bots didn't scrape anything off.

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We can point fingers at Pichai, but I don't think Larry Page and Erik Schmidt would have been able to keep Google true to its visions even if they really wanted to. Google simply became too big and successful compared its humble cool techy startup era, no way it was remaining the same all along.

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Ballmer had that energy emanating that just screamed I. Love. This. Company. (screams).

VPN and Tor use on the lemmy verse, is it banned ?

Hi, I have noticed for three days now not being able to post comments from my Lemmy.world account while connected via Tor (I was left waiting for a spinning wheel )! I thought at first It might be a problem with LW servers but after three days, I concluded they are banning Tor and VPN users from posting, I Have found a user...

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I'm also against blocking proxies, but we the privacy minded folks are a minority that actually uses vpn or tor for everyday internet browsing. There are lots of bots and malicious actors using our resources to spam large instances, and if I were managing a popular fediverse instance, I too would have been forced to consider blocking vpn/tor, even if I didn't want it.

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They're all trying to reinvent email by bolting something else on top likely an in-house implementation of whatever's hot at the moment. However, the supposed benefits are completely gone once you're exchanging mails with any other email host.

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I fucking love my b/w laser printer. No bs, plug and print, nothing else.

Self-hosted or personal email solutions?

I have a unique name, think John Doe, and I'm hoping to create a unique and "professional" looking email account like johndoe@gmail.com or john@doe.com. Since my name is common, all reasonable permutations are taken. I was considering purchasing a domain with something unique, then making personal family email accounts for...

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I was very tempted to go for this one, but couldn't find info on whether this was a one-man operation or if there are any disaster recovery plans. Sounds cruel, but if that one single guy my email depends on gets hit by a bus...

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Makes sense. I'm happy with my current provider but purelymail is a strong candidate for if I'm out of options.

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