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I trust code more than politics.

  • [OC] What People Think Privacy/Security Is

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  • Proton VPN and Mullvad VPN are both open source, meaning their code can be publicly audited to make sure they're upholding their standards of privacy and security. Furthermore, Proton VPN offers a free tier. These are the main 2 reasons. NordVPN only protects your privacy against other websites, not NordVPN themselves. Hope this helps! Let me know if you want more details.

    Edit: Mullvad VPN can also be paid for in cash/Monero, and they don't ask for any personal information to use it (not even a username!)

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  • Security isn’t the size of the app

    This could have two meanings, one of which I figure I should address:

    1. If you mean "size of the userbase for an app," then yes, even projects that fly under the radar are much more secure than "mainstream" options. That's the main purpose of this infographic.
    2. If you mean "physical size of the app on the infographic," the reason they're different sizes is simply because they were hard to fit on one page, and this made it look nice ;)

  • [OC] What People Think Privacy/Security Is

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  • Good question! There are hundreds of good resources, some of which include Privacy Guides and my friends at Punching Up Press (they have a lot of other good infographics). Naomi Brockwell TV is a YouTuber with some great beginner friendly videos to guide you step by step. Let me know if you're interested in others!

  • A bookmarklet to quickly debloat Duck.ai

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  • I don’t understand how this is possible if this is a private, account free service.

    It's likely there in case (for example) you, in court, testified to using Duck.ai for illegal purposes. DuckDuckGo themselves would not be the ones dragging you to court, but they could get caught in the crossfire, so they want to avoid liability.

    Overall, I don’t get what ddg gets out of this very expensive to offer service. Which means I don’t teust its a way to privately use LLMs.

    These are the possible motives for each side:

    DuckDuckGo gets to add AI to their service, which attracts users. DuckDuckGo is paid in sponsored results at the top of searches, so more users means more money.

    The AI providers are willing to provide free/cheap service as a sort of sponsorship to attract users of their own. If you are using GPT on Duck.ai and decide you like it, you may be incentivized to use OpenAI's own service to chat with the better model, since the models on Duck.ai are not top of the line. It's the same thought process behind free tiers in services.

    Both sides win in this arrangement.

  • A bookmarklet to quickly debloat Duck.ai

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  • You can add &kbe=0 to the end of the URL when you search to disable it. If you know how to add custom search engines this is the easiest way.

    Otherwise, you can add "kbe":"0" as a value inside the duckduckgo_settings parameter in the bookmarklet, like this:

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		'duckduckgo_settings': '{"description":"Each key is a setting documented in https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/settings/params/","kdcm":"6","kdcs":"0","kbe":"0"}',

    Cheers!

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  • There are plenty of options:

    • You can carry around a spare burner phone that is powered off. These are relatively cheap ($30 + the cost of your cell plan), and has the benefit of working even when your main phone dies. You can leave it charging in your car.
    • You can carry around a cellular hotspot, such as one from the Calyx Institute. This also helps fund a pro-privacy organization, and this hotspot can be used to provide internet for multiple devices. See this video for more information.
    • You can still call emergency services even without a SIM card.
    • If there are public Wi-Fi networks nearby, you can connect to those in order to get in touch with people you need.
    • You can ask anyone nearby for help. Whether it be borrowing their phone to make a phone call, using their phone as a hotspot, or having them help you directly.
    • Hike to the nearest civilization for help.
    • Wait for a bus to pass by, if they are in your area.
    • Some smart cars have the option to call for help built-in.
    • Use GrapheneOS with a carrier. It will still be much more private than using iOS, and you can disable the cellular radios when they are not in use by enabling Airplane Mode.

    Even without any of those, the chances that you will be completely stranded with no one to help and no way to call emergency services are very, very slim. Privacy protects you from more likely scenarios, such as data breaches or identity theft.

  • [GUIDE] How To Setup Rust on secureblue (with some pictures)

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  • As I mentioned, using rustup requires granting VSCodium more invasive permissions to get it to work. Furthermore, installing it would require layering system packages, which should be done sparingly. Using the Rust SDK is the recommended approach by VSCodium while using their Flatpak, and it is actually the simpler option.

  • [GUIDE] How To Setup Rust on secureblue (with some pictures)

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  • secureblue has native support for containers, although it uses the more modern Distrobox rather than Toolbx. I tried installing VSCodium in this way, but I couldn't get it to start due to some windowing system issue. Even if I could, it comes at the cost of security. Firstly, user namespaces need to be enabled. Secondly, the app would have less granular permission control (e.g. full access to the home directory). For those reasons, it's better to avoid using containers unless explicitly required. This method works fine, so there's no need.

  • [GUIDE] How To Setup Rust on secureblue (with some pictures)

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  • This guide is actually only 3 steps:

    1. Install VSCodium
    2. Install the Rust SDK
    3. Enable permissions

    The rest is just extras, like installing rust-analyzer, which you would need to do on any distribution. The reason it's so long is because I wanted to make it painstakingly simple for anyone to be able to do it, regardless of using the command-line, user-interface, mouse, or keyboard. Depending on how hardened you've made your secureblue system, you really could just install everything with one command:

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flatpak install -y com.vscodium.codium org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.rust-stable/x86_64/24.08 && flatpak override -u --env=FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=rust-stable com.vscodium.codium

    secureblue isn't designed to be fast, easy, or simple. It's designed to be secure.

    Hope this helps!

  • [AMA] We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything!

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  • The Privacy Iceberg

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  • Looks good! Thank you!

    I'd be happy to collaborate in the future if you ever want to :)

  • The Privacy Iceberg

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  • Having tried Feeder and Read You, I currently use Capy Reader. It needs a few tune-ups before having a UX as good as the others, but it has features that the others lack (search capabilities, filtering, etc.).

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  • Both of which also appear (looking at this on mobile) to require compiling by the user.

    Vanadium comes preinstalled on GrapheneOS, and Trivalent comes preinstalled on Trivalent. Compatible Linux distros can add the Trivalent repo to install it without building.

    Show me something Windows based that can be as secure as LibreWolf along with the appropriate extensions for blocking ads, fingerprinting, CDNs, and other spyware-like content.

    LibreWolf is far from secure, as it is based on Firefox and so comes with the same security issues. If you meant to say privacy and not security, the reason nobody makes high threat model browsers for Windows is because Windows itself is not private and it would be a losing battle.

  • The Privacy Iceberg

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  • Both. It's open source and privacy respecting. Though, email is fundamentally insecure anyways.

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  • How did you find these yourself?

    I've been learning about privacy for the better part of 6 years. At first, most of my information came from lurking on Reddit and Lemmy, but then I started getting first-hand experience and doing my own research.

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  • I have my inbox hooked up to my RSS reader, too, which means I get a notification on my phone every single time someone comments...

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  • Who can I credit for the infographic and links?

    Simply leaving a link to this post is fine. Thank you!

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  • I use Vanadium. It does have an ad blocker.

    Settings > Site settings > Ads > Blocked

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  • People still not getting the meme portion of this?

    64 people and counting :P

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    Looking for a playlist manager

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    Programming languages ranked by popularity in privacy software

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    Use a password manager

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    What does perfect software look like?

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    What are some privacy focused forms of entertainment?

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    Why are most "privacy" WebMail providers labelled as proprietary?

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    UPDATE

    Raivo wiped all of my TOTP codes

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    Tap to Pay on GrapheneOS

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    Raivo wiped all of my TOTP codes

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    DeAmazoning a FireTV

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    Reminder: The DMV uses photos for facial recognition

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    T-Mobile's Forced Arbitration

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    Looking for some Android apps

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    FTC issuing over $5.6 million in refunds from Ring security issues

    www.ftc.gov /news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-sends-refunds-ring-customers-stemming-2023-settlement-over-charges-company-failed-block
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    How can you prevent KeePassXC database lockouts?

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    Where are places you see ads?

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    Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode

    www.theverge.com /2024/4/1/24117929/google-incognito-browsing-data-delete-class-action-settlement
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    What are the risks of sharing DNA?

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    Looking for a DNS resolver

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    Why haven't private carriers emerged yet?