You know how bad it was to buy just a SIM card lately? Really hard! Walmart doesn’t sell them, Best Buy doesn’t have just SIM card for sale anymore unless it’s “Simple mobile” “Ultra wireless” or some shoddy NVMO. or Mint, but Mint doesn’t do mobile hotspot plans 😮‍💨.

My best guess, I’m going to buy a Tracfone SIM probably, bc it supports T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon, and their cheapest plan is $10/mo for 1GB data which is mostly for emergencies anyway since I use WiFi at home and work.

I think people reject that it’s as bad as they’re told because that don’t like to believe it’s that bad, or that there’s no way companies would do that to them. People don’t accept being told “you’re making a big mistake” and to feel dumb about it.

That’s my take. I had somebody at work ask what I do regarding privacy and I realized I lit up with excitement to share and had to immediately dial it back to not freak them out. I started out small and simple and emailed them since basics after chatting. Said, if they wanted additional info let me know " so that it’s up to them to continue the journey (down the rabbit hole lol).

But just glad to see others gaining the knowledge. My journey wasn’t immediate, it’s gradual, so I have to be mindful of their process too.

Someone should do a write up for pihole vs adguard vs technitium vs eBlockerOS

https://eblocker.org/en/ (German product?) (BTW you’re all welcome that I showed you a new thing)

Ah, good catch. Well it’s too bad.

Wants privacy and security, posts in GitHub lol. Jk sort of. In all seriousness, it’s an interesting project I’m going to check out. Thanks for the hard work.

Edit: fixed your link https://github.com/pablo-chacon/the-substrate

This is actually an Android feature. iOS, too. It’ll give a random MAC or device MAC depending on what you want.

My MDM at work for Android-based handhelds I’ve configured to device MAC so I can geofence devices and keep track of them. If an employee connects to the employee network (which has to be configured by IT) we set it up with with device only MAC so we can add that device to the allowed list. Apple warns “it enables tracking” but if they ask I tell them in public it might be configured that way but we don’t care nor monitor that closely. If someone shares out the WiFi password by digging through settings, it wouldn’t matter as it’s not allowed.

Anyway, just thought I’d share both mainstream OSes do this now for a few years now.

I forgot that exists lol. Of course it excluded gov use. I feel like it’s ignored anyway and gives no real protection, or we wouldn’t have a million flock cameras everywhere in this state.

The real link, not news article, is from EFF Org. Doing the Lord’s work!

https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/

So far it’s great! Cheogram works well with 1 on 1 messages, but I struggled at first with making sure it worked well. It wants to initially enforce encryption but the most you can do with non xmpp users is TLS security. Wish I could host a bigger server to have all friends and family sign up in order to get them using protest secure messaging.

Not to mention no ATM camera recording the transaction

Man, I setup Immich for my whole family, a RAID6 of enterprise drives with about 10TB total available storage, and 1TB/user. I’ve got symmetrical 1Gbs fiber, too. Does anyone use it? No. The last get together I told them if anyone wanted help setting it up, I wouldn’t mind. And no takers really. I said it’s easy enough anymore with a 1TB SSD being <$100 it’d last a very long time they could back up too that, far more than Google allows… Nope…

It’s insane to me that nobody wants to change, but when these companies change on everyone, they just let it happen.

Yes, it’s as bad if not worse than you think!

I mean the data hoarding, not documentary.

I just use Google Messages, but I’m signed out of the app. Actually, no Google acct on my whole phone. I stick to F-Droid for apps of I need em.

The way I see it, mousy sms stiff goes through the carrier servers I’d not Google, and at least Messages is RCS. However, I’m running XMPP and jmp.chat for a phone number to test out switching entirely and setting up friends and family on my server. Trying to go full hermit mode.

What country are you in? I literally just did this (US) in my browser and watched (started) 3 different videos with no account or age checks.

Thank you, this looks very interesting and useful! I’m going to set this up and test it out with a couple friends.

Noice!

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Time to start disabling updates and packages for a bunch of devices.

I’m redoing my laptop back up Windows 8.1 just to have it (lightweight and enshitter-free) and then dual booting Linux on there. Desktop already Linux but may download even more ISOs just to have them handy.

Will eventually setup p2p for anyone who wants them. I’ve got close to 200tb.

We spread word to migrate to federated and non US tech platforms to start taking their financial leg, then ad revenue drops and slowly they weaken. The weaker they are, the less political influence (aka purchasing power) they have!

We can’t revolt if they keep sending over (somewhere) young adults as part of a draft. It’s like they have to minimize who could uprise, and young gen Z and alpha are the ones pushing back on following the rules, but are also the most affected by the draft.