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rar , 26 days ago to Privacy in The Best Email Aliasing Providers in 2024

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.

rar , 26 days ago to Privacy in Using Discord in a private way?

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

rar , 26 days ago to Privacy in Using Discord in a private way?

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.

rar , 26 days ago to Privacy in Using Discord in a private way?

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.

rar , 26 days ago to Privacy in SimpleX network: private message routing, v5.8 released with IP address protection and chat themes

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

rar , 1 month ago (edited 26 days ago) to Technology in The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster.

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?

rar , 1 month ago to Technology in Online Content Is Disappearing

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.

rar , 1 month ago to Privacy in How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?

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.

rar , 1 month ago to Privacy in How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?

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

rar , 2 months ago to Technology in The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks

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.

rar , 2 months ago to Technology in People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you

lol k

rar , 2 months ago to Technology in People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you

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.

rar , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Custom Domain Email

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

rar , 2 months ago to Technology in Spy.pet is harvesting your Discord history with no ability to opt-out

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.

rar , 2 months ago to Privacy in What steps do you feel like are before a VPN?

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.