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uzi ,

Ads on a login screen? That's disturbing.

For people automatically saying to switch to Linux, it's because they have never had a job in tech to know it doesn't work that way, and have never worked in production. There are several industries where if you don't run Windows you can't have a job because all of the software is only designed to run on Windows in their industry.

uzi , (edited )

Oh excellent! This willl help towards making OpenBSD 7.6 a usable home desktop system with having KDE 6 and now Wayland is implementing support for OpenBSD.

Israel using Meta's WhatsApp to kill Palestinians in Gaza through AI system (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

According to software engineer and blogger, Paul Biggar, however, one key detail on the methods employed by the Lavender system that is often overlooked is the involvement of the messaging platform, WhatsApp. A major determining factor of the system’s identification is simply if an individual is in a WhatsApp group containing...

uzi ,

People in Gaza made relatonships with Israelis to get pictures from Israel for gathering intelligence in their plans for Hamas to go butcher and slaughter anyone in Israel, not Jews only.

uzi ,

If disclosure of HIV is necassary then stay away from engaging in such activity. That's a filthy lifestyle to choose to participate in.

uzi ,

That's the only reason I won't use Proton, because the app and the network is not clean. The best security encryption is made from public protocols, so app and servers should be open source.

uzi ,

If servers can not be made frer and ooen source, why does BSD exist abd all of there free open source 3rd party ports?

uzi ,

People who demand constant internet connect when thy go out have a higher probability of having too much personal information on their phone. It's a difference in mindset or mentality.

Cell service is overrated. Given the amount of people in public that are either scrolling or on some form of a social media shows having data service is not as important as people think it is. I have a GrapheneOS phone for listening to music and if I want to check for public wi-fi for a specific task but most days I never connect online when I am out and I've never signed up for a cell data plan before.

Life can be happier when someone is out in public and can't check messages, that usually can wait anyways for a few hours, and they can enjoy the world around, not what's on a screen.

uzi ,

With a new randon MAC address created each time it connects online, logging means nothing for trying to identity or remembering a device.

Is it just me or Rob Braxman has lost it lately?

I've never been super-impressed by Rob Braxman. I mean he's never truly wrong in what he was saying in his Youtube videos, but his explanations are over-simplistic, a bit of a shortcut (but fair enough to reach a wide audience I guess), and mostly designed to sell his meh deGoogled cellphones and equally meh privacy services....

uzi ,

Have you considered the possibility his whole YouTube gig was always a scam? Look at how 1995 his website is. Has ever done a video teaching how to do anything technical so viewers can do something themself? He's a talker. There's no evidence of having IT skills.

His audience is the uninformed, don't know any better. All he does is talk. People are better search videos and watching a random person showcase how the work is done for people to follow along and teach through examples. Rob doesn't show anything, only talks about it.

For all viewers know, all of his videos might be his opinions based of what others say, but give him a terminal or a shell and a keyboard, he might not know how to do anything.

uzi ,

Hmmm,...I wonder if Peertube would qualify. I'm genuinelly not sure, although Peertube is federated.

i2p is excellent, but I would guess that it does not have the bandwidth to stream video to watch.

Try using Tails and connect to a Peertube instance.

uzi ,

If this is for version 4.2.2, I would be interested in a similiar write up for version 5.6 or later.

uzi OP ,

I fully agree about blocking. Giving someone your phone number is not as scary as the internet portrays it to be. In fact, people are hypocritcal, because they will give their number to a business where mutiple real people can access their info, but if they give their number to a person, they delusionally think stalker, harasser. People think way too much of themself. If I have a person's name and phone number, if I don't speak to them, I will get rid of their number. People don't care about getting a random number as much as the internet portrays it.

uzi OP ,

If you delete your username, yes, potentially someone else could use it. The upside of that is if your username gets reported after it's deleted, it can't be tied to anyone if it's not in use. The Signal service won't have a record since users can create and delete names at will, delete one, create a different one. It provides more anonimity due ro temporary usernames.

uzi OP ,

That woild make for good info sec. I would be curious to test how it does for numbers that are not a cell number, and anonymously paid numbers. I can get my wn number without a name for that phone number and pay for the phone service with crypto and cash.

uzi OP ,

That's funny, good one.

uzi OP ,

You soend too much time on the internet and not enough time developing skills and ad abilities that will behoove in the decades ahead.

uzi OP ,

I do fully agree with you. It's easier to delete a username. My point was for giing someone your phone number, random people don't obsess over it the way the fear is hyped up about giving someone a phone number. People freely given a phone number to a business, for people to use that number, but terried to give it to a person, that's a contradiction.

I believe hype about the fear of giving a number is a reflection of that person's social dysfunction along with callousness. If someone says they are scared to give someone on the street their phone number, whom they can block, that is a reflection of their delusional self-aggrandizing narcissism.

uzi OP ,

I fully agree, except about when it's time to disconnect, that sounds like you go into every interaction expecting a ime that you will ultimatey cut that person out of your life. Or you go into every situation assiming at some point you will have nothing to do with someone. That's a self fulfilling mindset.

uzi ,

I'm in full agreement with you. Not even a little bit of disagreement.

uzi ,

In F-Droid, after disabling all anti-features, SimpleX still is listed. Signal never will be due to connecting to GCM or Firebase. Molly is an improvement for Signal but not for untrackable privacy like SimpleX from using a different ID with each individual SimpleX contact.

uzi ,

No, because SMS code was removed from Signal, I believe Molly would have to fork the code if they try to put it back in.

uzi ,

That's a valid reason, prioritizing security over convenience. I forgot about the fact that texting is plain text communication.

Getting Strange Spam Calls

I have an app on my Android phone called Calls Blacklist. I whitelisted my contacts and block everything else. It blocks calls coming in on my mobile number, but I also have a Google Voice number that it doesn't block calls for. Weird thing is that I only seem to get blocked spam calls after placing an outgoing call using the...

uzi ,

Google could be selling it as a live number fom the servers seeing outgoing activity, in the same way a Gmail is sold as an active address.

uzi ,

You are part of a proprietary service, you cannot be surprised.

uzi ,

My sentiments exactly. That was not worth a post, and whoever did post should find helpful practical information and stop complaining on the internet.

Question about using default router and modem

Is using the router and modem my cable company provided for my internet putting my privacy at risk? And if so, I have heard of openWRT routers but it seems like there's quite a bit of a learning curve with that but even if I got one would I need a non cable company branded modem as well? Any specifically that anyone here would...

uzi ,

For privacy, any ISP can technically see everything you do online including phone using wi-fi unless a device or syatem uses a VPN, Tor, or i2p, but that does not mean the ISP is keeping records of what an account does online. They may have no interest.

For security, you definitely need your own router. If you can build a system to use as a router running OpenBSD or pfSense, at leaat use a router with open source firmware so your router traffic is not going to someone else and an open source router will give you a lot more extensive network functionalities.

uzi ,

Does XMPP with OMEMO give you what you are looking for, or am I misunderstanding?

uzi ,

The whole Simple apps suite should be removed because they are never going to get another update again in the F-Droid repository.

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