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refalo

@refalo@programming.dev

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refalo , to 196 in Block rule

what about toxic idiots whose every comment is downvoted to oblivion and they make you want to stop even looking at comments anymore

refalo , to Lefty Memes in And if not US, it's UK, France or Russia

money buys freedom, obviously

refalo , to Privacy in RCS vs SMS/MMS?

What are the privacy implications of adopting RCS?

When it first came out, I specifically remember that trying to turn it on in the messages app makes you agree to hand over all your messages to google, so I never used it. But now it just seems to support it anyways, so not sure what happened to the agreement I never clicked on.

refalo , to Privacy in Privacy@Lemmy.ml: Do browsers block websites from uploading data that could be used for fingerprinting like resolution, installed fonts, etc.?

same way on all platforms

too bad navigator.platform still returns Linux instead of Windows...

refalo , to Privacy in Private WiFi camera for out of town viewing. Live view only. No storage.

When you say "app" do you mean something that will let you view remotely through a residential NAT connection with no port forwarding or hole punching? Because 99.9% of those options are inherently not private.

If you only need the camera itself to have a local feed i.e. you already have some kind of VPN/tunnel/etc. into your home network, then something like a cheap Amcrest works fine and does not require Internet access for the camera itself.

refalo , to Privacy in Privacy@Lemmy.ml: Do browsers block websites from uploading data that could be used for fingerprinting like resolution, installed fonts, etc.?

No, there is no way to prevent sites from uploading the info besides just not providing it in the first place.

And because of how programming languages work, there's no way for the browser to identify that data being uploaded "is" anything specific, especially when there's things like encryption, obfuscation or just re-arranging the data itself into larger collections of data.

refalo , to Privacy in With the advances in AI and telepathy fields, how do you see the future of privacy?

what privacy lol, it's already gone

refalo , to Memes in Hey she tried her best ok

legit I've had people get angry at me for using "they" the same way everyone normally does

refalo , to Privacy in To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules.

It is not possible to have privacy online anymore. Full stop.

refalo , to Privacy in To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules.

I have nothing to hide

Ok, pull down your pants and hand me your unlocked phone.

refalo , to Privacy in A Rising Enforcement of Censorship

Freedom of speech is the right to express opinions without government restraint, not without corporate restraint.

refalo OP , to Privacy in Matrix - A Pit of Abuse with Government Ties

It IS all over the place. Did you not watch the video?

refalo OP , to Privacy in Matrix - A Pit of Abuse with Government Ties

I think that’s a problem of who is recommending the servers to people

I don't think that is true at all, for several reasons:

  • matrix.org actually has tons of terrible users itself, and many channels even ban or strongly discourage even having users from that server, plus it's usually the slowest.

  • a great many channels on matrix.org are unmoderated and already host CSAM and abusive/illegal content

  • because of how federation works, anyone who is on matrix.org and happens to join a "bad" channel even on another server, now forces matrix.org to always keep a copy of that channel and all of its content forever.

Facebook

Including Cloudflare, who for some reason banned kiwifarms yet continues to allow sites like 8chan and others who are also hosting CSAM/zoosadist/other vile content.

refalo OP , to Privacy in Matrix - A Pit of Abuse with Government Ties

the only way for an average user to get exposed to such rooms

But there is a growing dissent for matrix.org itself as a homeserver for various reasons, and many people/blogs/posts/etc. online will try to steer users towards alternative "privacy-respecting" or "free-speech/anti-censorship" (aka allowing illegal content) servers, many of which of course host terrible content, so I think more and more people are getting exposed to it and realizing how bad of a problem it is.

refalo OP , to Privacy in Matrix - A Pit of Abuse with Government Ties

Is this impossible due to Matrix’s design, or is it poor moderation from server admins?

Kinda both. The design does not inherently destroy rooms permanently afaik, and server moderators don't do enough to prune bad things either way. It's a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. People have also been (ab)using its file upload capabilities to use matrix as a global, free, unlimited CDN, sometimes even for completely (to normal users) hidden content using custom message types hiding in plain sight.

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