BadgerInATrenchcoat 
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat@social.privacytools.io
- Lemmy
- @BadgerInATrenchcoat@lemmy.ml
uhh... not good at bios... I'm a privacy and security advocate and motion designer from earth (i think.)
Joined Jul 2020
@kravietz This is an amazing approach to this, I really hope it sets the president for the rest of the community.
@Wetrix Still doesn't fix its deep-rooted security and privacy problems but hopefully its a step in the right direction.
@romina If you can get rid of Facebook and WhatsApp, you can get rid of Instagram! Good luck and good job so far!
@TheCanine Hey you got it! Good job! Also amazing pixelart!
Jonah stepped down as services administrator I believe. If I recall correctly blacklight447 is the new admin.
@Wetrix Holy shit, I don't think I've ever seen that much red on a defrag summary on any drive ever. If you're looking for any SSDs to replace it, I can vouch for the WD Green, Samsung 860 EVO, SanDisk 3D Ultra, and ADATA (I think they only make one line of SSDs.)
I have all of them and can vouch that they all work amazingly and have lasted a while.
@TheCanine @stux Both parts have to have the same width and height.
@Wetrix I'm not a big email guy myself but my current choice is Cock.li. If you can get past the vulgarity of the website, they actually offer a pretty great service. They're extremely Tor friendly, like they encourage you to use Tor so they can't track you, their privacy policy is amazing,etc and I compartmentalize by using multiple different emails under them. I can't recommend them enough, just be aware that their website and some of the available domains are vulgar and sometimes offensive.
@Wetrix Also if you try to create an email over their .onion URL, it just puts you right back to the clearnet .com the second that you go to the signup page. The redirecting, the banning, and the other stuff like their government oversight and everything during production just makes me hate protonmail so much.
@Wetrix I've made probably ten proton accounts, same thing happens every time when I do it over tor. I make the account, start getting the settings the way I want them whatever, but within ten minutes I always get banned for some reason. Its been reasons spanning from spam to suspicious behaviour. Keep in mind when this happens I have never sent an email soooo..
@weltsnake Oh okay I see, I just didn't know cause I'm in only legacy group chats until they finally upgrade them after all this time.
When will Signal finally allow users to upgrade legacy groups to new groups? Like I've got a couple groups already established in which I'd like to take advantage of the new group features but I can't because it's a huge hassle to make all new groups and there's no way to just upgrade. They said that you'll be able to in the future, but they've said that since they rolled out, seems like a pretty big feature to ignore.
@weltsnake I saw that! When are they coming?
@Wetrix That's what happens to me every time I try to make a protonmail account.
Thank you so much for your input!
While I think Tox is nice, the metadata I was talking about wasn't just each users IP being leaked, I was talking more about normal metadata, who it was sent from, who it was sent to, when, from what device, from what client, etc. While Tor would theoretically keep you anonymous, any metadata leakage, especially an amount as severe as Tox's, should definitely be considered. While I'm certainly no cyber criminal, the leakage just fills me with paranoia.
@Wetrix Its hard but possible, most commonly through relying on people's systems not including the .bat .exe or .whatever on the end, but some people have actually succeeded at embedding malware into mp3s and flacs.
Imagine trying to put malware into a flac lol
@nikolal It says it's based on email? That certainly doesn't inspire confidence - I haven't heard of it before, though - how does it stack up privacy and security wise to the likes of Signal.
I mean I know eight votes is hardly scientific but if I don't see an undeniable need for original services or a clear want for them from the community, it's possibly years of work on my part with little to no help until they come out to make a suite of services that maybe nobody will ever use. You have a good suggestion though, initially host existing services and slowly make new ones too. I will certainly think more about it, and I greatly appreciate your feedback, thank you! 😀
- Lemmy
- @BadgerInATrenchcoat@lemmy.ml
uhh... not good at bios... I'm a privacy and security advocate and motion designer from earth (i think.)
Joined Jul 2020
