BadgerInATrenchcoat @ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat@social.privacytools.io

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

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.

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

It's good that TikTok is probably getting banned because of all of the privacy invasion but I can't help but feel kind of bad for all of the people who have made a legit living off of it, they're just going to lose all of that. I don't know, just mixed feelings.

Damn, NetGuard still isn't supported on Grapheme 11? Like using the network permission is fine and all but its not as effective and granular as NetGuard.

OS Privacy and security breakdown.
Chromebooks; Extreme security, abysmal privacy.
Linux; Lower than average security, great privacy.
MacOS; Great security, poor privacy.
Windows; Average security, awful privacy.
BSD; Great security, amazing privacy but zero browser sandboxing for Chromium and Firefox.
Haiku; but why

I really want to make a mastodon and/or matrix home server, it would be fast due to the inevitably smaller scale and the hosting it would be on, I wouldn't collect any information unless its absolutely necessary, it'd be secure, etc. I really want to give back to the community for all that they've done to help me in the past, but hosting can get expensive fast I'm really worried I wouldn't be able to financially keep the project afloat.

What is it with people just praising and shilling Safari for just adding a feature that every browser has had for a while now. I mean it just let's you know if there is as tech garbage on a site and blocks it, but so have Firefox and Brave for YEARS. And even if a browser doesn't come bundled with it, you can just download uBlock Origin, one of the most downloaded extensions of all time. Like yeah its cool that they finally added it but it took them years so they'd better, they're way behind.

I feel like right now there are 3 good phone brands, Apple for phones with good privacy and security out of the box with minimal tweaking, Google's Pixel line for amazing security and unrivaled privacy if you flash GrapheneOS (also security on Chromebooks is the best for any laptop period but they have like no privacy so its for a very specific use case), and Sony for small phones if your focus isn't in privacy or security but just for like a good all-arounder.

Maybe its just me - I dunno

Honestly brand loyalty annoys me so much. Like the brands you like, but don't preach them as the objectively best option just because you've chosen to baselessly shill for them.

I've been using Ubuntu Touch for the better part of today on my old OnePlus 6 and I just want to say I finally get why people say its good but not daily driver ready. I always was like "eh how bad could it be, its got gesture based nav, its optimised for slower hardware, etc" but the gestures are janky and don't work 75% of the time, the apps are almost all webapps, even on my decently fast OP6 video is barely watchable. I wish them the best but its not good enough to daily as it stands now.

Things are so mixed in the tech/privacy world the past few days. The Mario classic stuff all coming out (I know unrelated but I'm still hyped as hell); good. Facebook suspending sales in Germany for Oculus devices due to violation of GDPR and hopefully reducing collection in the EU; good. BUT THEN - Just as I thought Apple was finally going to make a good privacy move for the first time, they pull their privacy features 'for now' because Facebook complained. Like come on.

Working on a project to create the most secure flash drive possible for fun (I know it sounds a bit stupid but come on I'm bored). So far my idea is a password protected, encrypted flash drive, containing a KeePass vault which is password locked, which in that KeePass vault contains the password to the encrypted VeraCrypt vault protected by the maximum strength password that KeePassXC can generate. Any other ideas of how to make it even more secure?

What ever happened to RCS? Like I feel like people were talking about it all the time like a year ago and how it was going to revolutionise texting or something but then it just like disappeared. Also didn't it have client-to-server encryption? (I know not E2EE but better than nothing..)

Imagine using Twitter lol