BadgerInATrenchcoat @ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat@social.privacytools.io

By the way, I don't have a Twitter account. I was just using Nitter (NixNet supremacy) and saw it.

Just saw a poll on Twitter -- less than a hundred votes so anything but scientific -- but it was inquiring about people's *favorite* messaging app. More than 60% of people said WhatsApp and only <10% said Signal. I think despite the low amount of people voting, it was by a tech person, so the numbers should have been the most favorable, but it seems Signal's still got a way to go.

@redcoqui I use GrapheneOS default keyboard. I miss swipe typing coming from iOS but Microsoft's SwiftKey is telemetry filled and just awful for recognition. I miss GBoard as well from my old Android cause of the killer autocorrect but fuck Google, y'know?

@redcoqui Do you mean an Oculus Quest 2? I got a Rift S on launch day. Well before Facebook integration was mandatory, I was able to just block all outgoing traffic from the HMD, it wasn't a problem. It'll become a paperweight when the FaceBook account becomes mandatory, though.

@redcoqui Nothing, switched to Linux about eight months or so ago and never looked back. Only time I ever went back to Windows was to use my Oculus (I know.) HMD. Bar that I'm Linux-only!

@redcoqui Adding too many extensions destroys your privacy due to giving yourself a unique fingerprint. For my recommendations of tweaking/addons I'd recommend you check out my blog post here:

https://write.privacytools.io/threebadgersinatrenchcoat/ungoogled-chromium-hardening

@gritnot Oh the counterintuitive nature of big tech companies, truly inexplicable.

@MoneroDiscussions I mean cool idea but you'll lose money like crazy.

@viciousviscosity Only if its an inexplicable looping metropolis of animals.

@dajbelshaw Instead of changing the password, you could hide the ssid and block his MAC address from connecting, doesn't sound like he'd be the kind of person to randomize his MAC address if he's leaching WiFi lol.

@gritnot I think it actually makes more connections to Microsoft when you use YubiKey, as it connect to a domain connected with biometrics and authentication when I tried it out. Keep in mind this was about a year or so ago, though, so things may have changed.

@syntax I mean minimal OSes (Arch Linux ARM, for example) can certainly help SD longevity but really I think you're just sort of minimally prolonging the inevitable. Just be sure to make regular backups to an external storage device and you'll be all good.

@morganizeit That sounds pretty nice! How long have you been making bread like that? I always thought it looked fairly complicated haha.

@redcoqui Where's that neither box lol. Brave is better, but both are totally fucked in their own ways. FireFox is insecure, slow, and surprisingly unstable ( used Firefox for over 5 years ). Brave is fast, built on Chromium so secure, and privacy is pretty much anyone's guess.

Ungoogled Chromium all the way.

@weltsnake I mean still Tusky supremacy either way, but even then why iOS first? That seems like such a "fuck you" to almost 90% of the mobile user-base.

@TheDoctor @sullybiker I don't like their approach to doing it either, I'm just saying I don't think its enough to warrant the overwhelming outcry of users. That's understandable, it's all in use case and time. Remember, this isn't a ton of Microsoft blobs they're putting into RPIOS, it's a repo. Just because a ms repo is in the os doesn't mean that telemetry is shared or anything to that effect. It's likely for special software and fonts, I wouldn't be rushing to burn your Pi.

The federated tab is just exclusively bots at this point.

@tk Still fucked on most distributions for non-AMD cards - bar Fedora SilverBlue at least.

I don't get the problem with the Microsoft repo on RPis. I mean they're devices at their core meant for children and beginner coders (whether that's their common real world use or not), so it stands to reason that on the default os they'll have a repo that likely allows some common programs to function (VSCode for example). Also, it's only on the default OS. The kind of people who will be bothered by this sort of thing aren't using RPi OS, they're using ALARM or Void or something like that.

@redcoqui Yes and no. Sudo, while theoretically using the principal of least privilege, is super easy to steal from a user. Doesnt take more than a couple lines of code to take a user's sudo password and do just about anything that you would want with it - all generally without the user knowing anything. The default user generally has more permissions than they need as well.