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.
Mitchell Baker, Laura Chambers, Nabila Syed... Well it seems women are no better than men as far as capitalist greed goes. It is clear they want to steal the money of developers who want to build Firefox and other tools in better ways, instead of doing this AI and buzzword marketing bullshit and killing Firefox. They even had to layoff some security developers in the past few years just so that these CEO pigs could fill their tummies with more money.
Instead of the anti-trans agenda Brendan Eich, we get this other opposite agenda in place with money grubbing CEOs. Using leftist politics to cloak themselves is fucking disgusting. But since they are women, they will be immune to any criticisms.
With this change, we are seeking a new Executive Director to lead the Foundation’s movement-building programs. Currently, the Foundation has two core programs:
Global Programs funds, convenes, and synthesizes the movement to increase the diversity, cohesion and impact of people working on internet health issues globally. The team has conducted research on AI transparency best practices; given grants
Over the past few years, Mozilla’s leadership — including CEO and Chairwoman Mitchell Baker and President and Executive Director Mark Surman — have been working to expand the scope of this work. Surman has been focused both on pointing to the Foundation’s movement-building programs at the challenge of creating trustworthy AI and on expanding the Mozilla portfolio to include a new venture capital arm and a commercial AI R+D lab.
Former executive director was the one aiming to create AI, and new executive director is filling the role now. So, it is the same circus clowns doing the show.
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?
This kind of apathy towards men is horrible, and I try to coerce people so that someone considers listening to us wanting a balance. I am trying to understand why there is no inclusivity for men and their concerns among the left. These kinds of posts, and comments on a similar tangent are very common here, and the weird part is these stereotypes are not even applicable for leftist, liberal, centrist and most men out there. Even some conservatives are not like this. Only a specific portion of rightwingers behave like this. Mainstream social media already spews this kind of vitriol, yet it is also here, and plenty cis men are on Lemmy that see this regularly.
We as men are not the baddies. And I am not even going to phrase it as a question, because it is a fact. Neither is it our fault, nor is it our doing.
I have never seen a piece of content removed for misandry at all. NEVER. It is always about misogyny. Why is that? I have helped build this platform in 4 years and crushed a ton of fascists, but this keeps bugging me, as on one hand I try to bolster the privacy community by myself, but on the other hand I keep seeing this non-inclusive stuff.
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.
Because the world is not utopia, and individualism combined with a unipolar hegemon (UK before, USA now) made the division of society a feature and not a problem. Also, capitalism forces us to fake productivity and not have free time for ourselves to indulge in useless things like... learning more languages and cultures to become harmonious with more people. Wars and genocides are useful, you know... to fill the pockets of some white swines.
While colonialism created conditions that made it favourable to benefit from the coloniser's language, the capitalist structure ensured a proxy form of colonialism never seen before in human history, where all forms of media and pop culture were hijacked. It is unique, and it is a perspective that only I have held and seen nobody talk about it, but Britain has utilised cricket as a tool of colonialism on Hindustan (post partition, India and Pakistan). It is part of reason why even after independence we continued to be silent, unlike China, who faced half as worse the fate as India, bounced back through Mao's revolution.
Now, back to this proxy colonialism that never left most countries even after Britain left them, post WW2 the baton seemed to have been passed onto USA. The iron grip of capitalism and a unique cocktail (western pop culture infused with the invention of modern advertisement by Edward Bernays that abused psychoanalysis theories) and the vacuum of money and opportunities created by western imperialism ensured no matter how hard colonised countries were crippled, they would have only few choices left - starve and shrivel (DPRK post 1980s USA bombing), become proxy subservient to west (IMF/WEF initiative) or become subservient to west in the form of brain drain and human resource drain. This is purely my theory and how I think about things without ever having read a word of socialist literature.
The adoption of their language was just one step among many steps they probably worked long ago, or worked as time went on. I do think it was thought of long ago, similar to what Zionist Project is.
I am not sure, I may be just rambling here, but whatever I guess.
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?
That is DIN font, condensed and probably boldened. DIN is royalty free and one of the clearest fonts you could use on any font size. I love it, and I am not a fan of many fonts. Recommend you check Go and Etoile font families too, royalty free.
Jerboa allows me to moderate the giant Lemmy communities, and has been quite reliable, so it is what I am sticking to. The lack of autosave drafts upon going back or every 20-30 seconds is a major issue I certainly do not like.
Minor bugs like the comment nav strip collapsing some comments instead of navigating is annoying.
Also, since phones are big nowadays, I would seriously like if there is an option for a translucent up/down comment navigation squares on the left or right side middle portion of screen, offset by probably 50 pixels. Many people will appreciate this and other apps might copy it too and improve things for everyone.
Also, tap to load images might be a handy feature for some people and those moments when data speeds are atrocious.
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.
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...
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