When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
It is funny these YouTubers are only capable of this much knowledge. They do not understand democratisation is the most important and fastest way for masses to attain anything. This is precisely why my non root smartphone guide allows any Android phone and minimal user knowledge to achieve privacy and security, unlike some cults that ask you first buy specific phone, worship specific people, ask no questions and believe in whatever they do.
IDENTIFY PRETEND EXPERTS AND DRAMA QUEENS ON INTERNET
There are a lot of pretend experts these days. Some do it in the name of security, some do it on YouTube, some do it for drumming up hype purposes. Everything has a pretend expert these days, but I will restrict myself to the computing domain.
In the case of security, there are many people that ignore privacy and anonymity implications, telemetry implications, and act apologetic for corporate closed source software. This is generally done for Western Big Tech, especialy Google, Apple, Microsoft and so on. Most of them are generally either hopeless people, employed on behalf of companies for marketing, or secretly have shareholder stakes with these public companies. RUN FROM THEM! Run as far as you can. These people never have your security interests as a priority.
There are a lot of technology YouTube channels that try to capitalise and bank off of prominent and big software, and “recommend” it to people by reading the marketing sheet or website pages. Usually, they lack substance or are going to make a 2147483647th video about a topic, rinse and repeat. Unless something is FLOSS, if something comes from the corporate lovers, take it with a bag of salt, not just a grain.
It is not just corporate lovers, though, that have cults. There are some projects that are FLOSS but have toxic or propagandistic cults behind them. One of them has some wonderful recent examples, related to FlorisBoard or Bromite (Chromium-based web browser). One of them is largely known for scammy crypto currency and creating a harmful network effect by giving sponsorships to tech YouTube channels.
Poor is a strong word. It is not about being poor, but rather the inability for corporates to have a lack of the same constraints that FOSS zealots have. Money is just one of the key constraints.
Harmful network effect is not mere marketing, but propaganda aimed to make people deploy surveillance tools on themselves.
Glad to know we could purge our existence back in the day from this corporation infested web2/3 dystopia. It is no longer possible, because corporations, AI and scrapers are thirsty to scrape any data without consequences. I would rather not exist on such a disgusting internet.
But a lot of the photos deleted are either badly clicked photos or NSFW stuff, so it is fair. This is the same company that kept chest thumping about security, when the fappening happened, and only in recent years did they tell they always had unencrypted iCloud.
To me, it sounds like it will just need accelerometer sensor to detect tracking. My non root smartphone guide has already advised for a couple years to deploy and configure the Private Lock app from F-Droid to prevent data access for phone snatchers. It is FOSS, does not require trusting Google and Just Works™.
Apple's features are a joke. What Google has is better, and what they are doing now is magnitudes better. It was already done 5 years ago on Android, though, by a FOSS app.
Set it to 1, her anger might be enough to keep locking it :p
Jokes aside, gauge it properly to avoid accidental locks, as using the PIN while in public can cause security issues against shoulder peeking toms. Glad that it was of help. It works well, enjoy using it. BTW did you note that from my guide?
First of all, Lunduke... has very funny opinions on things, as his politics massively shifted in the past 4-5 years, as someone who used to follow his rants before he became a rightwinger. His interview at Chris Titus channel was also a bit unhinged, and Titus protected him by hushing him a fair bit.
Secondly, unique IDs are only a thing when you download the Firefox online installer stub from their website. If you download the offline installer from their website or from any decent Windows software site (Majorgeeks, Filehorse et al), this is not a problem. Also, this is not at all a problem on Linux, since the software installation method is fully centralised.
What I will criticise is CEOs have been leeches at Mozilla. Emily Baker has been an absolute leech, and there is no denying about it. The new CEO is also a leech. But that has not affected Firefox. It may, however, affect Firefox as the developer money is snatched by CEOs. What has affected Firefox is how the world has shaped up, and people are okay with having less privacy because western elites have helped create that ecosystem for masses to cuck themselves. I am not going to honk trumpets for their inclusive politics like a liberal, but it has allowed to distance them from clowns like Brendan Eich, which has been fairly helpful.
Also your point about UGC using uBO is nonsense. Manifest V3 simply disallows the full capabilities of uBO on Chromium browsers due to its hard cap on memory limits. Raymond Hill has a lot of words to say about it. uBO Lite is about as good as uBO easy mode but even lighter, and you cannot block selective domains or scripts at all. Not to mention, uBO on Firefox allows importing extra filter text files, which is not an option on Chromium browsers.
Firefox has customisable user.js and userchrome.css, so the former allows implementing Arkenfox's configuration and such things.
I’m NOT sorry for the trouble and mental break down I may have caused by the sudden realization that Firefox is as good and private after all, if you can put in a little work. You may cry, whine and bang your head about it. Your disinformation cope attempt has failed.
Lunduke has a problem with Mozilla's "politics" as a white Christian rightwinger, as do people like Luke Smith, for reasons that should not need much explanation. He fell into that rabbit hole few years ago, and wishes to remain there.
Signal and Telegram are not rivals, though? Signal aims to be a E2EE chat platform, while Telegram works like a public forum in realtime chat format. Signal/WhatsApp are different from Telegram/Discord. They are not the same type of platforms.
Durov is comparing apples and oranges, and anyone falling for this whining, calling Telegram bad is an idiot.
I absolutely aim to challenge this kind of crap. If I leave, I doubt there will be people who will do it consistently. People want to follow X, Y and Z cults but not A, B and C cults, and think they are rational. Rationalists can come up with the most irrational nonsense, which is why they are not rational.
Signal stans do not have an answer to this. OMEMO is verifiable, rest of the stuff around it is not. Signal even had a time when they did not update the backend open source code for over 6 months.
I will throw shade at this liberal article writer by saying Elon Musk also promoted Signal. Does this make Signal actively compromised? Absolutely as much as Telegram.
This way of judgement of things is pure mental illness. I refuse to sugarcoat this, because now suddenly this Telegram vs Signal shitshow will become a trend if it is not nipped in the bud.
Signal/WhatsApp are different from Telegram/Discord. Former aim to be E2EE messengers while latter aim to be realtime public forums. Comparing apples to oranges is dumb, and falling for this Durov whining and counter-whining of Signal sheeps is even worse.
Let me ask Signal stans, since they are so proud of it, why is it that they kept delaying the username feature, and still require phone number to this day? Signal is not anonymous or private. Their servers are all Amazon and Google. What is private is the message contents, and even WhatsApp has that. Most people never even install Signal from their website's APK, instead Play Store or Aurora frontend (same thing) or some APK website. So how is Signal this messiah? Matrix is a whole lot better, XMPP and SimpleX are even better. Briar is an extreme step further.
Is Meta ownership the singular thing that needs focus? Google, Facebook and Amazon are nearly equally evil, considering all of them are US military contractors. Other Big Tech companies are too, but Signal uses them as server hosts.
Consider the fact that a lot of probabilities that surface as criticism are valid, because Signal prioritised things like stickers, statuses and fucking MobileCoin crypto over username pseudonymity functionality, and even then you need the phone number. Do you know who did this since day one? TELEGRAM. Telegram has pseudonym username option to hide phone number from people from the very start. Signal did not have it for 9 years until recently.
Joke aside, Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool is the tool you need. Download a fresh copy and put it on a USB stick. Whatever Windows computer you need to disinfect, restart in safe mode and copy KVRT. It is standalone and runs offline and can be removed after use. It will scan the whole system. Its malware removal rate is approximately the same as Kaspersky suite, so you know it will do the job.
Edit: turns out there are brainwormed redditors out here. Ignore their downvotes and you will be fine following advice.
Any serious security expert is not a Russophobe and regards Kaspersky as the best commercial tool provider and company for malware analysis, based on merit and not on nationality. Kaspersky also does annual global malware reports. You are not one of those serious security people.
I do not trust Bitdefender, the second best, because it has relatively very high false positive rate. Unlike brainwormed western nationalists, I focus on merit of the tool, as will any serious security enthusiast.
Edit: also since you are concerned with my edit, yes CIA uses metadata to kill people, and I cannot trust CIA country origin products like Bitdefender. Also lol at abusing one man instance to try and be a snitch on people. This tells a lot about you.
However, Russian and Chinese interference is usually on a much larger scale than other countries and typically has a much higher amount of scrutiny than other countries because of this fact.
This nonsense is largely invented by Democrats and people at Washington, to hide fascism of their own country from their own citizens. You parroting the state department propaganda is not a surprise, because many do it. Quoting CNET, Bloomberg and others makes a lot of sense.
Many countries have these issues documented when interference happen. You know which ones don't? The ones that you lemmy.ml shills usually defend. That's not because they're not doing it by the way. Damn... And you're a mod here?
Edit: for any non-admin 3rd parties wondering who downvoted me... 100% of those votes at the moment is lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml.
Your stance looks pretty clear on this issue, since you also managed to quote a Democrat, and even claim:
Isn't it funny that many other Anti-viruses don't seem to have these issues?
I think you are giving yourself away here, more than an attempt to snitch on Lemmy instance users.
Yes I edited the post, but you also seem to abuse powers as an admin of your one man instance to see unedited content. Still, does not matter much because NATO/CIA country origin products are hard to trust because of what they openly say they do.
Also,
So basically ANY software not Russian, you seem to not trust. Claim it's on merit... But only point out nationality. Don't you find that odd that Russia can't do no harm either? Even though other companies do not have as clear cut ties to their governments?
It is clear you are blindly parroting US State Dept crap, and doubling down on it. I think you will find peace at places like Reddit and CIA platforms, where there is no criticism allowed against NATO countries, considering you are from eastern Europe, part of Anglosphere. Lemmy might not be a good place for you, considering a lot of leftists exist here who are harder on NATO countries and their services.
I have not blocked anything, but left it for admins and other mods to review it, since you have not done something too nasty to call for immediate action within this moment.
To the point though, when 100% of downvotes on a comment is strictly from lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml instances. Yes, you're shills, not a single opposing opinion between you.
Your own little vote charter shows one dbzer0 user upvoting as well, so your claim is utterly false. It is not us who are hivemind shills, but you who is parroting US State Dept propaganda.
As for Chinese and Russian IPs being detected, guess what? A lot of westerners are fucking racist to the core, including you, who act sus the moment you see a .cn or .ru domain on the network filter. And that includes a lot of the netsec people who see this stuff. What if China and Russia started treating .us or .ca or such domains like this and demonise countries? It is you people who project the hate you possess onto others, and you even manage to be proud of it like an absolute idiot with no merit based judgement capabilities.
It is not a problem that you have enabled email notifications, but you went ahead and posted a vote charter publicly which is only visible to admins (talk about teaching how Lemmy works lol), and are now even talking about reporting comment, something you as a non-mod or non-admin should be unable to see, yet you do as you utilise your one man instance.
Let me correct it for you, since you seem to project a lot.
No actual thought process occurring. Just "Russia/China bad, rest world good". No nuance at all.
You also failed to address your stance that you published. Why is it that every other platform you originally listed was a problem where Kaspersky isn't?
I did not fail. It is too clear to me how you are parroting US propaganda, even quoting a Democrat (Russia hater party) about it. What room is there for reasoning with a crow like you, shitting everywhere happily?
You are clearly a propagandist and should not be taken one bit seriously on security matters any more than the average YouTuber or Redditor. There are probably tens of thousands of hobbyists alone that are superior to you on places like r/netsec, let alone competing in professional space. Shitting on Kaspersky regarding security matters makes you look like the worst slurs I could summon for an incompetent clown.
A little consolation for you, since you seem so keen on hinging yourself to the idea - yes Chinese and Russian actors exist in cyber space, just like actors from USA, Canada, Germany, France, Italy and elsewhere. Even North Korea. Cyber warfare is a real, nasty thing. And USA and Israel rule in this space. Facebook even mass deploys malware onto people's devices via their fbcdn domain. But hey, Huawei, Tiktok, Alibaba, Tencent, QQ, Kaspersky, Yandex, VK, whatever west can, will demonise proudly. Tiktok ban by USA upon one Israel call and one McCain discussion tells a lot of what I need to know on how bad who is.
Windows defender is almost useless. It heavily relies on cloud for scanning. This is not a problem with special offline tools that some AV companies provide to disinfect systems that may not be able to connect to a network.
I recommend you check PC Security Channel to see how Defender works against ransomware when internet is turned off, versus on. You can also check performance of other AVs. He is the most reputed resource on benchmarking AVs if you want to see frequent updates, and a rare one that is not biased or rooted in nationalistic or weird biases, since he has his Patreon, Discord and a lack of dependence on lackeys.
Wait a second! I though NO serious security people are Russophobe? Are you changing your story now?
I told you, you are not one of those meritorious superior knowledge people. You do not fall in that Venn circle.
Outside people are coming to different consensuses based on opinions and experiences that's normal... It's lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml that don't.
I can make a very easy guess who are these outside people. They support Ukraine while overlooking Stepan Bandera monuments, some even support Israel and most support Democrats and Joe Biden. You seem to overestimate the number of "outside people" based on how many of them are terminally online people in a specific portion of the internet.
They literally do. Have you not heard of the great firewall? The vast majority of the internet is unusable to China... and requires a VPN to access anything.
That tells me how much you really are vested in understanding how shit works. China's Great Firewall is a defense mechanism against the brainrot nonsense and bullying west does to China (also other "enemies") every day since the past couple or so centuries. Ever saw Drums of Fu Manchu? Or that Bloomberg supermicro chip crap article you shared, which was debunked ages ago? US government annually funds media and ragwriters billions publicly to defame China, Russia and other "enemies" everyday. Well guess what the bullied kid in the classroom will do? Shut off and work on self. You support a really nasty, evil agenda.
Kaspersky has strong ties to the Russian government that is sufficient to warrant any "serious security" person to evaluate a different solution.
Any serious, unbiased security person will refuse to discount Kaspersky and their global work on cybersecurity. And not many even touch what they accomplish. You are not a serious person in any capacity whatsoever.
Why the ravenous defense of Kaspersky at all? It's just an anti-virus software no? [...] How you look like a frothing lunatic?
Your nonsensical takes on Kaspersky and chest thumping do warrant that kind of reaction. Not even knowing what all Kaspersky does is fucking stupid. It tells me you only read about Kaspersky whatever the fuck you read on western tabloids and rags, and never on any forum or via unbiased cybersec people or outlets. Maybe you think there is nothing better about cybersec outside of west, which is as insecure as you can be.
I have been pro privacy and anti data harvesting for many years now, however it is becoming increasingly more difficult staying off some platforms. Mostly Meta....
The cost of extreme privacy is your mental health and human relations. As rough as it sounds, you have to make a compromise, because you will not be an Edward Snowden in your life. What you can be, however, is an individual with a private life that beats out 95% people at having better privacy.
While I do not want to recommend it for privacy reasons, having just WhatsApp is good enough to strike that balance, to keep that one outlet open to society. I ended up doing that, since I realised barely a few people came to install Signal for me, even though I have a lot of leverage. They would instantly prefer normal calls and SMS over the usual WhatsApp, which is way worse for message content privacy and security. I did that experiment announcing reducing and even stopping WhatsApp usage, firewalling it and opening it weekly to check messages, and did gain a lot of leverage, but life became harder and stressed.
If you feel like you want to talk more, you can, whenever I will get time online. I can help you with threat modelling.
you will notice a WhatsApp section where it says "Messages: Limited*", referring to unencrypted iCloud backups giving away messages which is no mystery. This is not an Android problem, and even better if chats are locally backed up on Android.
WhatsApp message content for one-to-one chats has not been compromised to date as far as E2EE goes, whereas metadata is unencrypted. WhatsApp messages atleast on Android can only be accessed in two ways — either user reports the other user to end up sharing the last few contextual messages between both parties, or by (forcefully) opening the phone. There is a third way, Israel/USA tools like Pegasus malware and Cellebrite toolkits, but those are reserved for high profile targets like activists and politicians.
Brainrot conspiracy theories are baseless when we have examples of court subpoenas and sophisticated malware like Pegasus needed to open phone and get to WhatsApp messages. Metadata is far more valuable compared to message content for feds, which is what stupid people are yet to realise. The same people that believe in this conspiracy theory and then go on to use Chromium based browsers leaking every bit of metadata possible, and using PWA apps without a firewall and good HOSTS ruleset are laughable.
I would prefer my OSes not built in NATO countries, thanks. My Windows AME is extremely despywared, otherwise I would not be using it as second OS either.
I did not remove it, and I do not think your xenophobic pity is required here about OSes made outside of USA. You would probably have been okay if a European country, submissive to USA, would have made such a compromised OS, so that their ChatControl and all those shenanigans would be part of it I guess?
Scrambled EXIF - the simplest upgrade to removing meta data from your photos, when you want to send them to people
FFShare - the simplest upgrade to removing metadata from your photos/videos AND compressing them when you send or share them with someone. This saves on upload time (upload speeds are often horrible) and bandwidth for both sender and receiver.
Saber - handwriting notes app for Android
DiskUsage - disk space analyser and visualiser, with nothing better IMHO
RootlessJamesDSP - want systemwide Viper4Android but without rooting? This thing needs you to have a degree in audio engineering (lol jk). AutoEQ presets, DSP, convolver, virtual room effects, a crazy equaliser, +15 dB volume gain, its got a bunch of stuff you can customise separately for your phone speakers, different headphones and other connected audio gear.
(yes I might eventually have a long list to update the smartphone guide with solid recommendations)
Valve went with KDE not because it is stable, but because user interface can be customised with it catering to gamers. GNOME is more rigid and stable. The exact same reason goes for Arch, quickest firmware and kernel updates to leverage maximum performance per watt and to buy maximum time for optimisation. Arch is not known for stability in the way Debian/Ubuntu LTS are known.
No, I shit on their delusion when they claim KDE is the best and most stable DE. It is like saying the second to finish the race has finished first, which is illogical.
Are you going to be a legal commercial distributor of these videos? No? Use x265.
Useful x265 settings:
CRF 21 Slow or 23 Very Fast, depending on the quality you need. (Do not choose presets other than slow, medium or very fast, all others are waste.)
Encoder level 4.0 or above, usually auto might take care but sometimes banding issues may remain if not set manually
Command line options - aq-mode=3:aq_strength=1.1
If video is 10-bit or 12-bit, do not go with x265 8bit video encoder. Use MediaInfo to check this for your videos. This also solves banding and chromatic aberration issues.
AV1 is about 10x slower to encode, and you will save roughly 2-3% more space than x265 which is a stupid tradeoff for time wastage.
Audio: never compress the audio stream of a video. Passthrough should be used.
Also, I find Windows much more reliable than Linux when using Handbrake for long batch video conversion queues. The cutree keeps fattening but conversion will not abruptly stop or crash in second passes.
I've been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I've given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It's unreal how strict the requirements are now....
Account suspended, please upload selfie to continue (no thanks xi).
I find it interesting how people like OP are racist pieces of shit, even though Facebook or Zuckerberg or USA has NOTHING to do with China. This is just as sensible as saying my neighbour in Florida has 3 dangerous bulldogs, and this is Xi Jinping's or Putin's fault.
I do not care about this little privacy invasion fling, because playing stupid games wins you stupid prizes, like this post. Having a personal Facebook/Instagram in 2024 is batshit insane. What is more important is the "no thanks Xi" nonsense that westerners are refusing to give up. It almost feels like xenophobia and bigotry is a part of their culture.
In case the message is still unclear... westerners need to stop blaming the "foreign enemy" (China/Russia) for all their self goals and wrongdoings. They are responsible for their own nonsense. Tide pod challenges exist in USA and not China for a reason, the population of one of those countries is dumber than a donkey.
No, Facebook and Instagram do this video selfie or government ID thing. Tiktok has never asked for these things to date, on top of letting you use it without account. OP is bigoted.
The whole west is one nation in how they are ok with Palestinian genocide. These same people were the ones lying about Uyghur Muslims few years ago. It is no surprise west is bigoted as a whole, considering the colonialist history of USA and Europe that is quite exclusive to them. ASPI is from your country, right? Or Murdoch network? Guess what, Australia is part of west. Australia is not just part, but USA's Deputy Sheriff in Asia region, and even have their military bases where you people are disallowed from going. Australia also loves to harass or kill Indian immigrants, so it is part of the problem.
As for the donkey part, I know of only one country at large in the world, where people have the audacity to do moral grandstanding while supporting overseas genocide and wars silently, and not even knowing where countries are on map. You are the laughable simp for west.
It is perfectly okay to call out on and shit on this western exclusive attitude I commonly see on YouTube, Reddit, twitter, 4chan, western forums and now even fucking Lemmy. Everything is about China, Russia, DPRK, Iran and whoever else is the "enemy". There is plenty of shade throwing happening to keep the hatred alive.
Westerners are very much one group, considering what all is happening today. The "nuance" and civility is murdered by westerners, by controlling global media, spreading hatred for non Anglos, aiding or committing genocides and doing this kind of stuff like OP in daily lives. The voting pattern kind of tells the story, though, as OP gets upvoted with a complete acceptance of "no thanks xi" racism where there is no role of China. It is okay for you people, and in the future there will never be a discussion on this sort of behaviour. Go to 4chan if you want to be okay with it. They do it in every paragraph.
GrapheneOS officially supports and encourages the use of Google Play Services and a Google account for "security" purposes. Their "unofficial" members also spread propaganda advocating for the same.
They are also an embargo partner with Google for security patches, and add features that may threaten the lives of privacy users, or end up in jail or death in certain circumstances.
GrapheneOS officially supports and encourages the use of Google Play Services and a Google account for "security" purposes. Their "unofficial" members also spread propaganda advocating for the same.
They are also an embargo partner with Google for security patches, and add features that may threaten the lives of privacy users, or end up in jail or death in certain circumstances.
There is defiance against Google services for sure. DivestOS is quite a lot better in that the motivations are fairly honest, and Tad is not catering to Pixels only. However, he has a different type of problem, in that he has done a bit of soul selling to the disgusting Daniel Micay. The situation is complicated, so let me simplify it. Micay's code is not truly open source, but rather only usable if one worships Micay, and if someone were to even lift a finger to criticise, he will label them with epithets, harass them and unleash his rabid GrapheneOS social media army upon them. Sounds wild? It happened to FlorisBoard and Bromite projects, both of which are no longer developed.
Micay in realtime, in DivestOS' XMPP chatroom, was accusing me of the typical "harassment ringleader campaign" BS, and ordered DivestOS/Mull developer (these are his aliases) SubZer0Carnage/Tad/SkewedZeppelin that if I was not banned immediately, DivestOS and him would face social media targeted campaign and DivestOS will have to forcibly pull off any borrowed GrapheneOS code. DivestOS developer dusted his hands off me.
For obvious reasons, I stopped using Mull and switched to Firefox mainline browser with uBlock Origin. I will never touch stuff that Micay or Tad has created or forked, unless other good developers have a strong oversight on them.
What if I started allowing idiots claiming Apple is privacy friendly and people should absolutely trust Google Nest speakers because Google is a big company?
Disagreements are not small, when someone attempts to establish alternative reality as facts. This is why the bold stance is necessary.
Let me ask, how many years have you been deeply into the privacy endeavours? And I mean deeply. 2? 3? 5 years? I was using Tor before I hit teenagehood. You need a certain level of authority to keep such problems at bay, when one is unwilling to listen, act proud of not researching and double down on their nonsense takes. Maybe you like the shitty advice given on Reddit or other garbage privacy communities where Brave, Pixel and iPhone are recommended, but this is not going to be one. Privacy communities are full of half knowledge loonies and grifters, and there is almost no defense against it.
Is Privacy Worth It? ( blog.thenewoil.org )
When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
When Online Content Disappears ( www.pewresearch.org )
iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes ( www.theverge.com )
Android's new anti-theft features ( blog.google )
cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/25062075
Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data ( blog.mozilla.org )
Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government ( www.theregister.com )
Are right wingers creating FUD around Signal? ( hachyderm.io )
I found a worm on my USB
This is probably not the right community but I haven't found a better one....
Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema ( threema.ch )
What is the cost of privacy?
I have been pro privacy and anti data harvesting for many years now, however it is becoming increasingly more difficult staying off some platforms. Mostly Meta....
Huawei's homegrown operating system, launched after the company was put on a U.S. blacklist, may soon overtake Apple's iOS in China ( fortune.com )
What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
Handbrake/ffmpeg: What free video codec to use for 720p videos?
I have a lot of old movies, most will barely be 720p....
Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account
I've been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I've given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It's unreal how strict the requirements are now....
Thoughts on Google turning every device into a scanner for Find My Device?
Received notice of a change to the service in my inbox today. Seems icky to me....
Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain ( restoreprivacy.com )