I post someone’s comment on a controversial topic about google and GOS. I saved it because that’s exactly how I feel.

Step 1 of installing GrapheneOS for de-googling your life: Buy a Google Pixel phone

Look - I know, I know. I get it. Google allows you to unlock the bootloader while maintaining the phone’s unique and excellent hardware security features. The argument makes sense. It is compelling. Other manufacturers do not give you this freedom. I am not arguing about that. I have a Pixel phone running GrapheneOS myself.

However… It is just so very obviously ironic that one needs to trust Google’s hardware and purchase a Google product to de-google their life through GrapheneOS. I think that it is a perfectly valid position for someone to raise their eyebrows, laugh, and remain skeptical of the concept either because they do not want to support Google at all, or because they simply will not trust Google’s hardware.

The reason why I think that this is “controversial” is because I have seen multiple instances of someone pointing out the irony, followed by someone getting defensive about it and making use of the technical security arguments in an attempt to patch up the irony.

https://mander.xyz/comment/15084264

Every task required to leave the house makes me anxious :/ It’s really hard time for me rn but I can’t complain… I have everyday fresh food, clothes, shelter, comfy bed… Still, the world outside is scaring the shit out of me… I’m more comfortable in an environment without hoomans arround and on Lemmy :).

Yeah… And probably all big players have somehow backdoored their phone :/.

M’y anxiety says No !

Thank you ! 😄

Thanks :) ! Could you tell me what use case/purpose such function can have from a dev perspective?

Oh yeah so not bragging arround and/or exposing a public jellyfin/ember/plex instance?

Neither ! But I though more people would be aware and would cross-post it on every game related community (maybe even the Piracy community). So I was quit surprised to hear it for the first time.

I mostly get all my news from Lemmy and rarely peek into all, to much negativity and one stance political opinions…

That was an interesting read and saddening at the same time. I feel so sorry for the poor guy and all other email selfhoster.

Kind of curious here and sorry for my lack of understanding in IP stack, but isn’t IPv6 going to somehow mitigate that issue?

Isn’t there any other protocol that actually would circumvent that censorship? Like something like I2P? Or is it impossible to forward that kind of traffic over to it?

The internet is already a cesspool of censorship for “security” reason and it’s getting worse over time. Do you have any clue where or how we can join a community/group that somehow fights back those kind of unfair and monopoly behavior of big tech companies ?

Thank you !

They mostly don’t give a fuck about what you download. Just don’t share the stuff forward.

That’s a no go in the P2P community. Leeching is bad for the whole network and for everyone else. Especially on public torrents.

Went 2 weeks there:

• First week was only about diving and was probably the most beautiful thing I will ever see in my life.

• Second week was about visiting the monuments and while they are astonishing cultural and historical bangers (except the pyramids which are impressive from the outside but just some dull stones in the inside) people living there (even those running restaurants or hotels) are invasive as fuck and not worthile your time…

However we also rentend an airbnb for 2 days and even if the room was clean it looked a bit gloomy but the guy was very nice and friendly we even ate a pizza with him and watched a local TV movie (some sharknado rip from their country XD). It was a way better experience than In a stared hotel with all commodities…

In general, going the tourist way is mostly a bad experience in every country.

If you’re running an Android phone, there’s RethinkDNS which can block every requests except those explicitly allowed by yourself on the DNS level and firewall your traffic based on your rules.

It’s very customizable but It’s not that easy to get it right. You can even hook up your own wireguard tunnel and add block lists similar to uBlock.

If you want to dig deeper into the DNS blocking you can have a look at PCAPdroid which allows you to peek into wich app does what on the DNS level. While it works without rooting your phone, if you want to use it in combination with your VPN, you need root access.

Hahaha… What a stupid take. Yeah scientific research isn’t biased and hasn’t been poisoned by conflict of interest… never has been and never will I guess? Scientific research is the ultimate truth of wisdom and you don’t need your own critical thinking anymore 😮‍💨 (Yeah the tobacco industry was right, smoking is healthy !)

when the researchers themselves are saying the work isn’t over. why are all the super geniuses in this thread so smugly announcing this topic is wrapped up?

It’s better to be safe than sorry

Edit:

Therefore, the fact that no evidence for large-scale mobile eavesdropping has been found so far should not be interpreted as an all-clear. It could only mean that it is difficult – under current circumstances perhaps even impossible – to detect such attacks effectively.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_6

Scientific enough?

76 up’s / 68 down’s on OP’s post.

It’s very close, still the majority wins, that’s how it works, if not happy change the system not the voters.

Maybe not 24x7 but this did happened and people have reported it multiple times. If you really think those multi-billion dollars companies are not capable of or won’t do anything so sketchy because it’s not “worth it”, then it’s time to open your mind to the possibility that those companies are not your friends.

Haha! Seriously? This works? I mean they will probably just disable your account that’s all, but that’s a neat trick if it works !

While I do get most of them, I’m really confused by NOR and XNOR.

Why is there suddenly and out of bound mask outside the circles? (If that does make sense :/)

PS: sorry for the serious question XD I probably don’t get the joke?

I get your feeling :) Don’t worry the silent majority is on your side. However they won’t comment because they fear from being banned or backslashed…

While It can’t be proven or disapproved, I also had my share of strange coincidence where my mind goes “Huh? How is that even possible?”… Kinda strange feeling! But that feeling gave me the push to the privacy route maybe in a rather to extreme direction? Always follow your guts when there’s to much noise to make a clear decision.

• RethinkDNS (block every in/out request except those manually allowed)
• Degoogles android (Shizuku+canta, magisk, debloater)
• Only open source apps and delete everything else (no exceptions here) -…

You will never get full 100% privacy or anonymity, however you can make your data as much as difficult to get and waste some of their resource and time :).

Good luck !

I think it was… Cyberwar/crime is the new kind of war, it can be deadly and put a whole country/system on halt with a lot of consequences (human and resources).

Most people would call out conspiracy theory, but I do firmly believe that those higher ups are doing WAY more bad things behind our backs than we can imagine.

But hey we have no proofs, except those lost trails left by good people who need to hide their own asses because the government are looking for them for crime against the government?

That’s exactly why I value privacy and doing everyday my best to leave as less information about me as possible. Sure they have the mean/money to find where I live in seconds but they won’t get that information without a fight ! F#CK big corporations !

Same ! This looks so satisfying !! Hope they have proper manual though… Not an outsourced Polish only image based manual… Uhhhg !

To bad Diablo 2 didn’t got that kind of treatment…

I Also heard they announced TQ2 (kinda excited), I really hope for a good sequel that keeps the good old ARPG feeling.

Yeaaah I hoped and prayed for a good Diablo squel but this is probably never going to happen any time soon… Like never.