Lemongrab

@Lemongrab@lemmy.one

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EU Commission opens formal proceedings against Meta under the Digital Services Act related to the protection of minors on Facebook and Instagram ( ec.europa.eu )

The Commission is concerned that the systems of both Facebook and Instagram, including their algorithms, may stimulate behavioural addictions in children, as well as create so-called 'rabbit-hole effects'. In addition, the Commission is also concerned about age-assurance and verification methods put in place by Meta....

Lemongrab ,

The EU is not a hero. It does better than the bare minimum and look great when compared to the US and other fascist countries. The EU keep talking about banning encrypted messaging and installing backdoors into encryption. They also aren't uniform in their application of privacy laws. Not that US companied aren't terrible (they are) but so are all companies. When money is the goal, all that results is the insatiable hunger to leech every possible source of capital and destroy our inalienable rights to reach their impossible goals.

Lemongrab ,

I hope it isn't just a fine. A fine is just the cost of doing business. We can't let them get away with using capital to do crimes.

Lemongrab ,

LLMs have shown time and time again that simple crafted attacks can unmask the training data verbatim.

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But it directly says to disable enhanced tracking protection. Weird fuck up.

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$10/month, right? Not terrible but expensive nonetheless

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Military weapons, which should be banned lol.

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Does it allow for a screenshare feature like what you describe with guiscrcpy?

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Fingerprinting from the original website is easy, the frontend will have a fingerprint as well but it should be shared by all the users without exposing their browsers. Better privacy therefore.

Lemongrab ,

Librera FD as your reader app: https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/
Sherpa Onnx as your TTS engine: https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx

I recommend the piper TTS pretrained models, either Lessac medium or Kusal high/medium

Lemongrab ,

Installing Sherpa Onnx TTS makes it an option to use as your system TTS voice

Lemongrab ,

Motorola as well. Either way, stock android is very intertwined with Google bullshittery, making a degoogled ROM like DivestOS or GrapheneOS necessary for proper privacy from google. A privacy respecting ROM won't fix relience on google apps though.

Lemongrab ,

Amazon and Facebook app managers come preinstalled as System apps on so many android phones.

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In some cases adb can't uninstall them, so even worse

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You can get USB-C to 2.5 mm jack. I assume your phone is USB-C if it is modern enough to have that specific missing feature.

Lemongrab ,

For a regular user, I'd suggest fedora workstation over Debian. Debian is old reliable, but the out of box experience for the user is clunky and missing some utilities and features. I had a tech friend of mine transition from windows and there were many small things that I hadn't noticed would cause problems.

I still run Debian on many different devices, I like it quite a bit especially when distromorphed with Kicksecure.

There is also Linux Mint Debian Edition which switches the base OS used by Mint to Debian. Out of box experience with LMDE is much more user friendly.

Lemongrab ,

As a rebase, I reccomend secureblue: https://github.com/secureblue/secureblue

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Or instead of Kali check out ParrotOS

Lemongrab ,

Kali is all about the tools. It is not more secure than the average linux system, actually the opposite most of the time. It is designed for red team hackers mostly. Still neat to poke around with. The same is true for ParrotOS

Lemongrab ,

2nded. OpenSUSE in general is great imo. IIRC, OpenSUSE has the 2nd largest repo, after Arch Linux AUR

Lemongrab , (edited )

Do you play niche or weird games? Most games I play work as well if not better than windows compared to my gaming friends. The only problems I've had on Linux were because I decided to fuck around with the OS while doing some niche programming shit.

I interact with windows enough (since everyone comes to me for their tech problems) and I don't see a reason that Windows needs to still exist. Ads everywhere, cancerous data collection practices, crappy products that lag or glitch. Its a mess and I hate every time I have to use it any more. Nowhere near the same feature richness of linux, costs money, and they are constantly making poor anticonsumer decisions.

Lemongrab ,

Understandable. For making sure games work I use protondb.com

I haven't had any problems modding games, even using external mod managers.

For most people, a browser and some apps is enough, which linux is perfectly ready for. For most gamers, linux can run basically any game like native, and most niche games with some finagling.

Lemongrab ,

When I tried self hosting it I kept getting trackers blocked by ublock. From just my self hosted instance I get 0 blocked, but with the materialious frontend it would keep climbing. I killed my instance when I reached 90 blocked. It was ublock in hard mode

Lemongrab ,

I assumed it was remote Fonts or something, I may try it again.

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Behind ublock or behind materialious? I understand what ublock hard mode is. It blocks all 3rd party frames, scripts, and just 3rd party in general. Minor benefit over ublock medium mode but important in my setup.

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Interesting

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It was to make the data inaccessible to general people, therefore removing the reason people visit reddit. Even if reddit could still get the data, regular people would be inconvenienced (in theory) and look somewhere else.

Lemongrab ,

Garbage take. Having apps as PWAs is better for security, privacy, and doesn't need to be clunky. Websites are clunky when they import massive remote JS libraries instead of just relying more on CSS. No website I've every visited has had a valid reason to be slow, I mean we can literally use a webpage to control a remote VM in real time. Apps get to declare most of their permissions and will often require these unnecessary permissions to use them at all.

Lemongrab ,

For security, yes, your word is not enough. This would be confidentiality in the CIA triad. I still understand your disappointment seeing probably many dozens of drives get destroyed. I get the majority of drives by scrapping old PC and it pains me to see what people will throw out.

Lemongrab ,

Massgrave: https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

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Then get a burner pixel 3a and install grapheneOS or DivestOS

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https://divestos.org/pages/devices#device-sargo

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https://divestos.org/pages/browsers

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Nah, self hosted local search engine on Microsoft's platform? Lol

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Most people in our social circles. Trust me, I spoke with random people about Musk and his brain chips and they thought he was a genius. Elon's tech is years behind the research he stole the ideas from.

Newpipe is getting updates on fdroid again and seem like will be getting updates for the foreseeable future as the issue stopping it is solved. ( f-droid.org )

Also on an unrelated note anyway to remove live from your subscribed channels update field ? Some channels are filling it with live so i have to really scroll down to see my video feeds and can't find a setting to switch it off. Newpipe didn't used to add live in your what's new feed of subscribed channels, related pic .

Lemongrab ,

Settings>Content>Feed>Fetch channel tabs

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Of course we use XMPP, its the dead king of messaging

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  • Stirling PDF
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  • PiHole or Adguard home
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Custom default settings, speed, and reliability (not IP blacklisted)

Lemongrab ,

I don't fetch from google. Also a VPN does wonders for that.

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It looks clean, maybe not very original but better than a early 2000s looking-ass website

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This is true

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Not in actual privacy tests. And Brave is at least mostly open source. Not great either when compared to a good FF config, Firefox+arkenfox and ublock medium

Lemongrab ,

Not a brave employee and barely affiliated with them. Also Firefox browsers come out on top still. Vivaldi is missing much of the fingerprint disception features of Brave or Firefox. It is also closed source meaning it isn't a good choice for privacy anyways. All around a shit take when it is obvious Vivaldi isn't built for anti-fingerprinting. I am by no means a supporter of Brave, I stay far away from it and its shit.

Lemongrab ,

Does that change the fact that Vivaldi is not a good privacy browser? Its content blocker is weak, its based on chromium which is affected by MV3, it can't protect screen dimension fingerprinting, or canvas fingerprinting, or containerize cookies, or block 3rd party scrips and frames, or standardize specific settings like Firefoxes RFP, etc. Not a good privacy browser. Use a fully open source browser.

Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

I'm looking into hosting one of these for the first time. From my limited research, XMPP seems to win in every way, which makes me think I must be missing something. Matrix is almost always mentioned as the de-facto standard, but I rarely saw arguments why it is better than XMPP?...

Lemongrab ,

If the goal is to make a similar experience to discord, we should make a desktop/android client which changes the way the info is shown. I boil down discords main features this: 1-to-1 call/text, modern messenger features (emojis, text, audio, video, link embeds), servers with the option for channels and always on voice chats, group chats (weird overlap with servers). Always on voice chats should be as simple as disabling notifying or dialing members. Is it not just that simple to get a heavily reduced version of discord? Maybe noisetorch for noise cancelation.

Lemongrab ,

Kicksecure Debian CLI: https://www.kicksecure.com/wiki/Debian

Lemongrab , (edited )

Agreed. Not FOSS though :(
Decent privacy policy.

Lemongrab ,

Its temporary. Just something you can quickly switch on in case of an interaction.

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