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Further, when @vkc@linuxmom.net made some criticisms of Ventoy in one of her YouTube videos, she was subjected to a harassment campaign, and others told her the same happened to them.
What the fuck is happening to the world? Are we regressing or were we always this regressed and we’ve just given powerful tools to fucking chowderheads?
but otherwise I don’t need it on a daily basis.
I’ll be real, this is part of why I didn’t understand Ventoy. I keep a bunch of large, fast thumbdrives around blank and available. When I need/want to put an OS on there, I do it when I need it, and then I’m always installing the most current version of the install. It takes under 5 minutes, at best.
I used to try to keep various installs on thumbdrives… but it would be two years down the line by the time I needed to use it again and by that time it’s literally pointless to be using two year old installation media.
All my laziness about not checking it out has come to fruition. Now I simply don’t have to, because this is sketch as fuck until it is handled.
route everything through a VPN
I can see it now:
“SOS I need help, I’m stuck in an underwater cave just outside Tulum, Mexico and I’m running out of air!”
“Finding your geolocation, we have determined your cave is in New Zealand. Dispatching rescue team to the Mines of Moria.”
EDIT: Don’t ask me how someone got satellite phone signal in an underwater cave lol.
Does the satellite stuff work in the UK and could it be bad for privacy?
I’m not sure if it works in the UK, (see below) but it’s really only meant for emergencies. Like if you’re lost in the wilderness with no cell phone signal and you’ve broken your leg. It really can only be activated when you dial 911 and don’t have signal, so I don’t expect that that’s something you’d want a lot of privacy for if you wanted you be, you know, rescued and alive. I think I’d be willing to sacrifice info like my name, location, and the nature of my emergency to stay alive but that’s just me. 😆
- This feature is currently available in the US only (except Hawaii and Alaska).
To contact emergency services when you don’t have a network coverage on your Pixel phone:
- Dial 911 immediately.
- If you don’t have a mobile or Wi-Fi network, you’ll find an option to use Satellite SOS in the dialer.
- Tap Satellite SOS android satellite and then Use Satellite SOS and then Start.
- To describe your emergency, fill out the emergency questionnaire.
- To share your emergency with your emergency contacts, answer the on-screen questions.
- To notify your emergency contacts, tap Notify.
- If you don’t want your emergency contacts to receive your location and emergency information, tap Don’t notify.
- To connect to the satellite, follow the on-screen prompts to correctly position your phone.
- Connection and response times vary based on location, site conditions, and other factors.
- Once you’re connected, the emergency service provider should reply via text within a few minutes.
- To receive replies, stay outside with a clear view of the sky.
- When you would like to end the satellite text conversation, press the End button and follow the prompts.
Anyway I doubt it would be sending data to satellites without you knowing simply because that’s costly and you have to align your phone properly to get signal for it to begin with.
For instant messengers, I would also add Wire and Matrix/Element (Matrix is the protocol, Element is the messenger that uses the protocol).
https://matrix.org/ - https://element.io/
Both good open source secure messengers. Matrix is made by a type of non-profit foundation made to guide the development of the core protocol, and Wire is a Swiss company staking their future on how secure their messenger is for Enterprise applications. They both have different philosophies on how their operations are ran, but they’re both open source and secure.
They’re not as privacy respecting as Briar or SimpleX, but they’re also more aimed at organizations and groups that plan on self-hosting and potentially not federating with the rest of the network to help silo their organizational data. Wire obviously aims towards Enterprise customers, but Matrix does as well, despite a different approach. Matrix has had growth with both German and French governments for various secure communications systems within their government bodies based on the matrix protocol. So good messengers, just aimed at a different group of people as Briar/SimpleX.
So maybe they could have their own “Enterprise Chat” section? I dunno, just my thoughts.
Now do MicroSD
The existence of a Fucks Given app implies the existence of a Fucks Taken app.
Do a Site Survey and make a Wi-Fi heat map of your current setup so you can figure out if you need any APs in specific areas.
To me, this is the most important and most overlooked thing you can do to prepare a wireless network.
I’ve personally had good luck with NetSpot but pretty sure you have to pay for the enterprise version to do a heatmap/site survey.
Isn’t the entire credit industry built on spying on your financial behavior to be able to decide your credit score to begin with?
but to minimise the cost
What about the cost to the environment? That cost is just a negative externality to them and you, apparently. Yet I’m the one accused of thinking “conservatively.”
Burning ten times as many fossil fuels to “minimise the costs” is literally fucking stupid and short-sighted.
This comes up again and again:
AI only does a half-ass job, so you need a real human stepping in to “fix it in post.”
We’re seeing corporations throwing money hand over fist at AI because corporations want it to replace workers.
We’re burning an extra planets worth of energy for something that still needs human intervention to be usable.
Maybe, just maybe, we could just pay humans a living fucking wage to do the same work to begin with instead of constantly trying to find more and more ways to just not pay people at all.
Like, shocker, if you have a fully staffed customer service department, you actually will solve problems for people faster than an AI staffed customer service department.
The corpos don’t care, they’re not actually interested in solving our problems. They’ll burn the planet to the ground in effort to avoid paying us a living wage.
Lots of screenshots on Google Play and F-Droid pages, which are linked to from the gitlab.
Nice, I hadn’t heard of them until now, either.
I’m just excited that end-to-end-encrypted services have become in such high demand that we’re seeing lots of different implementations.
It took a while, but it looks like Veilid finally has a basic chat built in their protocol as well. It says it’s secure, but I can’t find any info on its particulars.
Beyond the fact that security on Telegram is a joke (E2EE not enabled by default, only available in 1-to-1 chats, groups chats are all unencrypted, homespun encryption algo), they have never had a full, independent audit of their encryption standard.
It looks like there are a handful of papers that looked at parts of the earlier standard Telegram used (MTProto 1), but nothing on the current version (MTProto 2).
https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2017/project/19.pdf
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf
Anyway, long story short, Delta Chat has had independent audits several times. I’d say that says it all, really.
Pretty sure Discord keeps tons of data on their users and readily complies with warrants.
I mean, they shut down tons of Yuzu and Yuzu clone discord servers for Nintendo.
I think they’re already in the good graces of those kind of folks.
They have fallen victim to the hyper-reality of the Spectacle.
God they’re always such whinging fucking pussies any time they have to deal with the same shit as anyone else in fucking society.
“They’re going to extend that to their NFL family partners to use your information should they need to. That branches into a lot of places that your biometric data could be exposed to, a lot of people that you may not want it to be.” Grammas says raises fears that biometric data – i.e., a selfie – could fall into the hands of “people who are anti-cop, that support a different agenda from what law and order supports.”
Literally cry me a fucking river when you yourself constantly use facial recognition to drum up cases.
Cops are the biggest fucking pussies you can find. They need body armor to even step outside of their Safe Space of the Precinct building.
Unrelated Relevant Cop Crying Over Nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H2wZg8ICMo
right, the hackernews set…