you can still use a yubikey or even a password manager like keepassxc with passkeys, no need for any google/apple or even secure enclave.

it was always free for me but i think i was early enough of an adopter to be grandfathered in on some old setup

There is already gridcoin which is a cryptocurrency that awards boinc work, so I’d say this concern has already been addressed because of that.

not anymore

cock.li but it doesn’t encrypt your inbox so keep that in mind.

xpra: it is like tmux but for X windows (works on wayland), but it can do much more than that. You can seamlessly run GUI programs from a container or VM on your main desktop while still sandboxing their X capabilities, forward windows from Windows desktops, and it has efficient encoding so it is usable over poor connections as well.

At least on my phone, rebooting also makes it require PIN

For those who don’t remember, not only could signal be used for SMS, it used to be able to do encrypted sms convos.

It usually isn’t super hard to tell apart randomized junk like this from real human patterns. That is why Tor Browser for example tries its best to make everyone look the same instead of randomizing everything.

That said, for the mere purpose of throwing off the ISPs profiling algorithms, you could make a relatively simple python program to solve this. A naive solution would just do an http GET to each site, but a better solution would mimic human web browsing:

• Get a list of various news sites and political forum sites
• Setup headless firefox or chromium
• Use Selenium or similar to crawl links on each site. Make sure you have the pages fully load and wait a random amount of time that a human would before going to the next page.
• https://realpython.com/modern-web-automation-with-python-and-selenium/#test-driving-a-headless-browser

If you have no programming capability this will be rough. If you have at least a little you can follow tutorials and use an LLM to help you.

The main issue with this goal is that it isn’t possible to tell how advanced your ISP’s profiling is, so you have no way to know if your solution is effective.

Feel free to DM me if you go this route.

I do something similar with rclone and vultr’s s3 service. I made an s3 remote in rclone and then a encryption layer remote on top of that.

Just because you can’t stop all the leaks in your plumbing doesn’t mean you shouldn’t fix the ones you can.

Unfortunately, its not clear if masks actually stop facial recognition. I think it helps, but not probably not as well as it did before covid.

Yes and no. decentralization is great for a lot of reasons but it does come with downsides. I don’t know about you, but i convinced my family and friends to use and keep Signal for years now and i don’t think i would have had such luck with Matrix/Element, let alone a p2p app.

I’m glad decentralized options exist and think they deserve more funding and love, however.

Depending on what you’re doing, Local LLM can help a bit. Like if i want a recipe for an apple pie i could use LLaMA-2 to find out even without an internet connection.

Not saying its a replacement for a search engine, i just think its worth mentioning.

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On one hand they are incentivized to not f-over their users. On the other hand, because you need a paid account it wouldn’t be as private as SearXNG-over-Tor or whatever.

Hey, I’m currently stretched pretty thin on projects so it will be quite some time before i’m able to port it, however I appreciate the interest. If you or anyone you know is willing to port it, i would appreciate help.

I was partly inspiried by this extension for chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keyboard-privacy/aoeboeflhhnobfjkafamelopfeojdohk

However I am not sure if it is open source and i don’t think its maintained anymore. It is a good starting point regardless.

No, it randomizes the key timing. It also doesn’t address stylometry so you can still be identified, but it helps. I made a browser addon that does the same thing. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/private-keyboard/