cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46759454

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46759392

This one is just so funny haha 🤣 🤣 🤣 "It doesn’t appear to be working too well – a 12yo kid fooled it by using an eyebrow pencil to draw a fake mustache …"

Peace and data security be upon you all.

This is my German-language site on Codeberg:

NO GOOGLE TRACK

It covers Google's abuse of power, Project Nimbus, and more. I also list alternative browsers and search engines, complete with pros and cons. I show you how to block Google services using uBlock Origin and strengthen your browser using the hidden about:config menu. The entire text is in German, but I hope automatic browser translation works well enough for you to understand. If you have questions, feel free to message me.

I am trying to choose an email provider, to use with my identifying accounts (like banks, gov ids, etc.). I feel that emails for such cases do not need to be end-to-end encrypted, since most information would already be present with banks, gov, etc.

So I was looking at non-E2EE emails - Mailbox and Posteo.

• Between Posteo and Mailbox - which one do you use / is better in terms of privacy?

I noticed that both of these are hosted in Germany. With rise in popularity of right wing party, a bunch of stuff around chat control and verification, and even normal German government support for Israel, I was wondering whether I should look for other solutions hosted elsewhere. Or use Proton / Tuta instead?

Also, I am not sure if any of these companies support right-wing or Israel themselves?

Do you have any suggestions regarding this?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1101450/texas-sues-netflix-for-spying-on-kids-and-consumers-by-illegally-collecting-users-data-w

Petition.

For years, Netflix represented to consumers that it did not collect or share extensive user data. In reality, Netflix is a logging company that records and monetizes billions of behavioral events—and occasionally streams movies. Netflix uses intentional engineering to track and log users’ viewing habits, preferences, devices, household networks, application usage, and other sensitive behavioral data. Every interaction on the platform became a data point revealing information about the user. This tracking applied to not only adults’ accounts, but also kids’ profiles.

Netflix has then disclosed this information to commercial data brokers and advertising technology companies, where it was combined with data collected from other platforms to build detailed consumer profiles. Netflix users’ data is essentially shopped across Big Ad Tech’s shadowy network. The company earns billions of dollars every year from secretly selling consumer data.

https://archive.ph/s3jcT

A bit of fun: throw boulders at the tech bros!

What high score can you get? (It gets progressively harder - they appear for shorter and shorter times - and the game finishes when they are too fast). You can play it on your mobile phone too.

We don't condone violence! This is just a bit of 8-bit fun.

So I am recently looking up the options to buy a new EV and, clearly, I've been discussing it with my family and close friends.

There was one constant tho, anytime we ended up discussing it, THEIR phones would light up with a plethora of Car adverts.

This has made my mother snap, she has told me she wants to buy the same phone as mine and I've finally been able to discuss with her other ways these devices are made to work for the manufacturer, not their buyers.

So far so good! I personally can't wait to setup the GrapheneOS phone for her.

Can anyone recommend a weatherproof network camera that doesn't rely on any third party servers or a proprietary app? Bonus points if it can easily be attached to a bird feeder.

My main concerns are privacy, being able to use it when the company goes out of business, and looking at birds. Recording short clips and photos automatically when it detects a bird or motion is a plus.

I'm very technically inclined, but this would be for a nontechnical family member, so I could host Frigate (or similar) for them if necessary, but something that just connects directly to an open source app would be great.

Apple wont give gyro data but firefox will, firefox wont give battery data but chrome will. Everyone gives screen size and density data.

Why are these data points not discussed with privacy?

I have a Dreame PCB breakout adaptor for Valetudo. It's a spare, not soldered.

I don't have a button but I should have the other parts needed.

Free to whomever needs it within Canada. I'll ship it, send me a private message. :)

You might find this write-up on the EU age verification plans interesting. It links the actual EU plans with quotes from them, too.

Google's reCAPTCHA service is reportedly broken for users on de-Googled Android devices, raising accessibility and privacy concerns.

I lot of the hostnames or IP addresses that your android devices connect to without your direct knowledge or consent(1) are hard to find anything relevant about, except for the fact that Google owns a lot of the domains and IP ranges. This article helped me a lot when deciding which end points to block(2).

(1) You have given your consent, albeit unknowingly, since the EULAs are purposefully written so that the end user has a hard time understanding it.\
(2) In my case, with a systemless hosts file using Magisk and AdAway

Source code and details: https://git.anarchists.space/nemesis/Lingunymous

Everyone has a unique writing style, word choice, sentence structure, punctuation habits and that can be used to identify them. Lingunymous rewrites your text using a local LLM to mask these patterns, making it harder to attribute writing to a specific individual.

Use cases include:

• Protecting anonymity when publishing sensitive or controversial content
• Evading authorship attribution and stylometric analysis
• Separating your personal writing fingerprint from pseudonymous accounts

Wanted to share https://nitter.net/ with you all. Great front end and I believe you can even selfhost it yourself. No account needed, just add any username after the trailing / or within the search field and boom, profit. Enjoy!

From the Beeb.

Law-abiding citizens have "nothing to fear"

The guy falsely stopped said he will appeal the ruling.

I don't live in London or even UK but I hate that these systems are becoming unavoidable. At least if you ever leave your house, lol. As London, so eventually Chicago. As Chicago, so eventually every one horse town. We're building out a world of complete, unavoidable surveilence. Even where you WALK, now.

I hate it. I hate it, and it won't end well.

I'm glad poor Orwell didn't live to see his nightmare come true.

For a long time, ever since i was a little kid, I had always used and trusted Windscribe.

I have no major issues with it as it is still decently reliable. I believe Windscribe is a good product, but the VPN ban talk is making me consider a new candidate and I am looking at Mullvad VPN. While Windscribe was nice for so long, I want the safety of a VPN that operates in a country that doesn't give a fuck.

Mullvad looks promising, and the APT repo comes with a browser too. Doubt I'll touch it over Librewolf, however it is a tool I am genuinely considering switching to as my daily driver VPN.

If you've used Mullvad for a long time, has it served you well in the long run?

IVPN just updated their tiers. I've connected to IVPN dashboard today and realised that my Pro plan migrated to Pro Suite, now including modDNS (NextDNS alternative), MailX (email aliasing), and Portmaster Pro (which is new for me and quite interesting, I'm exploring the app on Linux).

Device limit also bumped from 7 to 10. Solid value add for existing and new subscribers.

I love their service, kudos to IVPN team!