virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
My advice would be to look into things one at a time while also avoiding taking the sledgehammer approach. Based on what you mentioned, some things you might want to look into:
Look into some encrypted cloud storage/backup options. Filein comes to mind but there's plenty. I'd recommend against self hosting your own cloud in most cases (like nextcloud) in most cases it is both less secure and less private especially on a VPS - and if its on a home server it makes your backups less redundant.
Try doing more stuff in web browsers, web wrappers, or front ends. Unlike an app, there's a lot less sneaky stuff a web browser can do, even if it's the same platform. The Brave browser does cookie isolation and progressive web apps well, it might make a good second browser dedicated to progressive web apps. Apps like newpipe are great for YouTube and piped/invidious for yt or nitter for twitter are two good examples of front ends.
Installing apks is easier than you might think, and if you install FDroid it's three clicks (download, allow installation, install) and worth checking out. Once it's installed you can treat it like any other app store, and in combo with Aurora (on FDroid) you can get about any app without going through a Google account.
As for email, you can forward emails from a gmail account to a proton account. And as for content, consider trying to follow via RSS (you can follow just about anything with RSS one way or another).
For social media look into activity pub and nostr. Just about any alternative social media is going to have the crazies from one or both sides of politics kicked off of mainstream platforms, but federated and decentralized platforms allow you to pick and choose a lot more.
Last, as the phone goes, whenever possible try disabling background data and setting aside pre-installed apps you don't want to use and going from there. A step up from that would be to uninstall/disable them (either in settings or adb bridge for those you can't disable). Custom Roms would be the biggest leap, and the most technological. If you're going to buy a phone with the intent of installing one, Graphene beats everything else hands down while still being one of the easiest to install.
Good luck
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
Rufus or registry editing during installation can both dodge the requirement if you need it.
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
Tbh, there are a handful of reasons to avoid F-Droid, all of which existed long before this. AFAIK nothing with the app itself changed as of yet so I'd hold off on quitting it over this.
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
Calyx with Micro G does have benifits, but isn't quite as good as sandboxing, and also doesn't have some of the other degoogling and security Graphene does.
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
If you have the time + know how to keep up with Arch, and want the latest packages or need the latest drivers, then go for it.
If you only want an Arch install experience, then fire up a virtual machine and stick with Endeavor or switch to a stable release like Debian on bare metal.
But most importantly, if it brings you value (in productivity or experience) then whatever you decide isn't a stupid decision.
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
Not sure you can, unless you're using a Pi Hole. Vanadium doesn't accept plugins to my knowledge.
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
Do filters cancel a notification? If so you can send them to a generic folder that doesn't notify you.
And if you don't want to give them an email that matters consider simple login. It's owned by proton and will give you a few addresses for free.
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
Mozilla's funding comes from Google (not all of it but enough that all their other finding source's wouldn't even cover the bulk of the CEO's salery). I doubt Mozilla is going to do much.
We can hope it doesn't bode well for their ongoing anti trust case though
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
Clients taking it into their own hands reminds me of delta chat. Basically the same thing but the client handles encryption and uses a generic email server as the chat server.
But any good client will handle encryption themselves (heck even "bad" clients will do that). As long as they're not UK based and don't neuter the clients for their UK users they'll still retain proper encryption completely client side (outside of public key infrastructure which is a whole different topic).
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 80%
I'll add one more grip: Amazon integration. It's been resolved for like 7 years now, but I still hold it against them a bit for placing Amazon search results in my desktop all those years back. Not that I don't have an Ubuntu server running as we speak, but it still does taint them a tad in my eyes (and probably acts as an anachronism to the "it's a corporate distro" theme of dislike around here).
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
Sounds like what you're looking for is PGP/GPG. Been around for a while, but does the job well.
Also, I doubt most projects built outside of the UK (or Europe as the EU seems to be moving in a similar direction) will actually comply and backdoor their own software. As long as you have internet they'll always be actually secure software to download.
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
Is it wireless? If so, and the controller supports it, try using it in wired mode. Sounds pointless, but have had issues with wireless controllers that worked fine when connected via USB.
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
Bringing back memories of my own. Mandrake in 2004 was a but before my time, but I'm sure I've still got my Ubuntu discs I downloaded at the local library and burned myself almost a decade after this Mandrake disk.
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
If I vaguely remember, symmetric encryption is more or less halved by quantom computers using the current encryption breaking methods right? That and just the growing computer power IF they continue to grow at a similar rate. 32 bit encryption used to be the military standard, now it's a joke that a kid's laptop could break.
Makes it potentially vulnerable to governments who are dedicated, but as long as the common laptop theif doesn't have a quantum computer or a generic technical literacy and years to wait and we're not making enemies with governments we're all fine regardless.
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 92%
69 ... Nice.
I hope this doesn't end badly for VMware. I use VMware exclusively in a professional setting, and partially in a personal setting. With everything I've seen it's by far the most stable (Qemu seems to be close to bare metal in ideal conditions, but can get a little quirky at times to say the least) and beats out virtualbox in both performance and stability.
If it's mostly in cash & stocks hopefully from my layman's view they're buying a valuable asset and not going to enshitify it for a quick buck when the debt bill comes in with an uncertain economy.
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
IPFS?
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 75%
I don't think there is any proven results, but I think the reason the EFF prefers Braves decision is the philosophy that there are so many data points that it could be possible to link you to it using the ones not standardized by anti fingerprinting.
Like ways to incorrectly describe someone. One describes a guy correctly but generically. One describes a guy with a lot of detail but the wrong race and two feet too short.
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 85%
Yes. Brave focuses on providing random data points each time it's asked (e.g. screen size). A hardened Firefox will try to provide a generic fingerprint.
Apples to oranges more or less, I'm unaware of any proof that one or the other is considerably better across the board. Though my gut does tell me that randomization is a lot better in the specific situation of regularly signing in and out of accounts.
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
What, social lives? Get outta here with that nonsense and be a hobbit like the rest of us :)
Seriously though, if you're thinking on a phone I'd reccomend just creating a second profile instead of getting a whole new device. The apps won't be running when the profile is running, and as a bonus you can usually restrict the profile's permissions. Also consider checking out web wrappers (e.g. frost) or PWAs.
On a desktop you can always just use the web version, bonus points if you auto clear cookies or have a separate profile.
Edit: if you already have a spare then that might work better than profiles.
virtualbriefcase 11mo ago • 100%
Maybe I didn't word that right. Meant that they run out of the box, but if they break they can be repaired fairly easily.
Somewhat recently I learned about tildaverses which if you’re unaware are communities where everyone gets an ssh account on a server to do things like hosts sites or gemini capsules, and access to services like a community IRC server or the ability to host their email there. This kinda got me thinking of community run clouds services with a slightly different approach and I thought I would I would ask Lemmy for their thoughts on how they would build something like that. My hypothetical thought was something inspired by a tildaverse but a little less technical and a little more utilitarian but still with a community feel to it. Maybe nextcloud? A matrix server? A microblogging platform with activity pub? A blogging platform of some sort? A hosted RSS aggregator? The whole idea being both something that would be a community, but also something that would provide a bunch of your standard services like online notes/word processing, messaging, social media as apposed to hosting it yourself or paying for it with ads or money. Or maybe you like the idea of a more tildaverse style community with the more classic things like ssh and IRC for the internal community kind of deal? In either case, if you were to build a community like that what would you include and how would you set it up? It’s all just a thought experiment in my case though, I don’t actually intend to set anything up by that, but would just be curious what you all would build and how you would do it if you were to set something up like this?
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/books@lemmy.ml/t/304010 > Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry
Endless sky can run on really low powered hardware, and is a top down space combat/trading/adventure game. Being FOSS it's on a lot of operating systems and can be found everywhere from Steam to Flathub to F-Droid.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/2078153 > I wanted to read RTF files on my phone. I couldn't find an RTF reader on F-Droid. So I cross-compiled unrtf with Zig
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/1038953 > A post where I go over why I'm not a fan of the planned OS Windows 365 (an all cloud version of Windows), and why I'm not a fan of the existing push towards everything in the cloud, which I compare to each other. > > It's a new blog so feedback would be much appreciated, either on my writing style, any missed grammatical errors, or the website design/layout (I'm new to Hugo but luckily themes do the heavy lifting). > > Thanks 😀
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/357098 > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366703 > > > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366698 > > > > > Richard Stallman was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not Richard Stallman or the Free Software Foundation. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/357201 > People are dying. The world is in chaos. Do our words matter?
It’s been a couple weeks since FMHY went down and I’m going through link aggregator withdraw. Sounds like they’re going to try to get everything restored but since it’s going to be on a different domain even assuming they do so the original community will be gone anyway with everyone unsubscribed. I've re-created the community [here](https://lemm.ee/c/classicblogposts) if you're seeing this and want to join or rejoin. !classicblogposts@lemm.ee Have a good day - and best of luck to the FMHY devs
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/357223 > So, there you were, trotting through the Interweb Forest, feeling pretty good about yourself. You’ve got your Veil of Privacy draped fashionably over your shoulder, and you’ve just left the Temple of [REDACTED] feeling invisible. Oh, the sweet taste of online anonymity! > > You’re ready to joust any shady DNS dragons or phishing sirens that dare cross your path. You’re like a knight in shining armor, except your armor is crafted from complicated algorithms and digital code. But then, bam! You bump into a Tracker Cookie, and let’s just say, this cookie doesn’t crumble. Turns out, this little biscuit isn’t fooled by your flashy Veil of Privacy. Tough luck, mate. Who knew browsing incognito could feel so…