BadgerInATrenchcoat @ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat@social.privacytools.io

Quick reminder, your privacy is fucked if you're using stock iOS or Android and your security is fucked if you're using a ROM like Lineage or especially a mobile Linux OS. The only way to have a private and secure phone is with a verifiable mobile operating system like Graphene or even Calyx.

@sir Rust ain't that bad.

Domain registrars are weird. Namecheap is overpriced, Dynadot is limited and has an obtuse and hard to navigate website, PorkBun lacks many TLDs and is limiting, GoDaddy is crazy expensive and upsells you every chance they get and can charge you for thing you didnt even know you were paying for, Njalla requires crypto to pose any benefit. The list goes on. It seems like all of the choices are flawed in one way or another and on top of it you've got to give all of your info to them for ICANN.

@dajbelshaw @moodlenet Setting up your own instance can be not only a way for him to join mastodon but it can also ensure that you can protect his data and it isn't being misused or sold by another company. You can do this for cheap on any old laptop, a raspberry pi, or a couple dollars monthly VPS. Hope this helped, good luck, and have an amazing rest of your day!

You know its been a long day when in your browser you type "sudo apt install invidious.snopyta.org".

@TheDoctor I eventually got it to work, but like I said its still janky. Collabora in Docker caused me more headache than I'd like to admit. I think my main problem was Apache, MySQL, and MariaDB, as I have had zero experience with any of them up until this point and was forced to do work with them a good bit. Plus it didn't help that the laptop is so slow it takes a good twenty seconds to show a neofetch.

Alright so I've always setup NextCloud with the snap, you can set it up in like 30 mins and with minimal hassle. Recently though I wanted to use NextCloud 20 (which the snap doesn't have) so I figure "well, I'll just do it the real way, can't be that hard, right?" It has been almost a week of fucking around with this server on my ancient laptop with MySQL, certificates, backup and restore, encryption, and so much more, and its still barely working and jank as fuck.

0/10 would not recommend.

...but yet they still can't employ strong sandboxing to save their life.

Quick reminder, "anonymous" data is never anonymous. Not on Apple, not on Google, not anywhere.

@tennoseremel UGC is just pretty much install and go, if you have time to harden Firefox you've certainly got time to harden UGC with 30 minutes to spare lol. If you don't like the UI I can kind of get that, I personally like it but that's just a me thing. I'm not saying to use Chromium, while the security is great the Google junk is obnoxious. I'm just saying I think you should at least give Ungoogled Chromium a try, if you don't like it then get rid of it, but the security is amazing.

@tennoseremel Ungoogled Chromium has the name it does for a reason, Eloston, the developer of the project, has stripped out all Google hooks or code, if I recall he has a detailed writeup of everything that he did and everything you can do to harden it even further. Can't recommend the browser enough.

@weltsnake I DO NOT advocate, endorse, or approve of Nazism, Fascism, or any other hate speech. I am just proposing the idea that Patrick might not be a Nazi or a fascist based on just the fact that he has an account on a free speech social network that was misused by its users or even a comment made in poor taste multiple years before. AGAIN, it is so important for me to emphasize this - I DO NOT advocate, endorse, or approve of Nazism, Fascism, or any other hate speech.

@weltsnake Still form your own opinions but just because they have a Gab account does not mean that they are suddenly Nazis and fascists. If you look back at everything Patrick has said in the past on the Whonix forums and other social networks its not hard to see that he is a major advocate of free speech, so it would certainly make sense that he would want to have an account on a platform that allows free speech of essentially any kind.

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@tennoseremel May I ask why?

@tennoseremel They signed an insane lock-in deal with Google, they collect an immense amount of data out of the box, the browser has inexcusably abysmal security no matter how much hardening is done, I could go on and on.

Don't use Firefox. Just don't.

Use hardened Chromium or Ungoogled Chromium. Ungoogled Chromium retains Chromium's stellar security model while still stripping it of any Google spyware or garbage.

@andreas I love their posts, they're always surprisingly comedic.

@andreas That's awesome!

@weltsnake Whonix is still more secure than browsing on your host OS and can possibly offer an extra layer of privacy from the websites you're visiting, but just don't hold the impression that just because you're using Whonix that means your host OS can't see your activity.

@weltsnake Word of warning, your host OS can still see everything you do in a VM, meaning Whonix is only as private as the OS its running on.

@librebuddys And while yeah, proprietary software is unverifiable, you think that the open source project with 10 million lines will be verified by the community? 99 out of 100 cases it won't. I love FOSS and Libre software, firmware, OSes, etc, but I don't think that proprietary software is the devil just for trying to keep their code a secret from their competitors either.
I love your posts I just don't agree with this in the slightest. Have a great rest of your day.
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