Freddy 
@freddyym@social.privacytools.io
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Wow what news to start the day with! elementary OS, a popular Linux distro, has chosen to remove Google Analytics and replace it with Plausible! And open their dashboard to the public! Way to go!
Link to their Twitter announcement: https://twitter.com/CassidyJames/status/1275208242793046018
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Create No-JavaScript friendly sites - https://www.garron.blog/posts/no-javascript-sites.html
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First, yes human rights and fighting fascism is more important than operational security. Obviously. You're ok with associating with Nazis?
But also, Whonix isn't the only option. It's possible to torify VMs without it. Whonix is complicated and heavy, and I think there are better implemented ways of doing the same thing
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Very proud of the decision by @Tutanota to be no longer listed on the copperhead OS webpage once they heard about the history of the company. I wish more companies were vigilant like this. Way to go guys!
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Imagine repeatedly shooting yourself in the foot in order to use Gab.
RT @Whonix@twitter.com
@micahflee@twitter.com No, it's not. Your arguments are weak and I've no interest in bikeshed debates. Sorry, I didn't intent hurting your feelings by ignoring you. ^PS
A list of substantial, commercial-or-social-good mainstream websites which provide onion services.
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Is the Whonix project run by fascists? https://micahflee.com/2020/06/is-the-whonix-project-run-by-fascists/
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Airport Surveillance Is About to Reach a Whole New Level of Ridiculousness
https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/flying-airports-coronavirus-surveillance.html
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If you’re operating an open XMPP server and let people register through the web interface you need to check out this: https://github.com/iNPUTmice/Conversations/issues/3796
Basically if you display a QR code after registration with JSON containing the JID and the password Conversations.im users can just scan the code to add the account to their app.
Very nice!
Footnote: this will be available in Conversations 2.8.8.
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Introducing the BARE message encoding
https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/21/BARE-message-encoding.html
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My post today reflects some thoughts I've been thinking about as I look for better ways to approach privacy myself and look at some of the really bad takes I've seen in the area. https://chriswiegman.com/2020/06/privacy-empathy-and-the-zero-sum-game/
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Google already knows too much about us.
And now, it wants to get its hands on our sensitive health data.
We have launched a petition telling the @EU_Commission to block their merger with @Fitbit. Add your voice!
https://pvcy.org/googbit https://nitter.net/privacyint/status/1274784904497119232/photo/1
@x don't read the entire piece. Equally, knowing things (i discovered that some families were unaware of lockdown somehow as they read no news) is good.
Furthermore, I think there is a place for news. But, we need to stop reporting such basic events. I read an article that basically said 'stop telling me that bitcoins price has gone up, I don't care'.
Frankly, I think we should apply that to everything. If you tell me that there is x covid cases, it will be different tomorrow. its an odd one.
@x similarly when there were these boys trapped under water (where-ever and whenever that was) after they got out, I didn't need to know that they had recovered. I don't care.
Opinion pieces are very good on the other hand. I pay for reliable paper newspapers that have a plethra of opinions to read from, all of which can help you make a balanced judgement of a situation.
Equally, its good to know whats going on. Skimming headlines gives me a rough idea of whats happening even if I...
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@x I like the sentiment, though I am inclined to disagree. Freedom of the press exists for a reason. We need to be able to report on things when there is clearly something wrong (like the Snowden leaks).
There is, like you say, a lot of junk news. When Notre Dame burnt down I was upset, but I didn't need to know to much more. Once the cause was found out the coverage should have stopped.
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@x they have a strict criteria. I tested Migadu against it and it failed for a few reasons:
- Doesn't support DANE
- No valid MTA-STS and TLS-RPT policy
- googletagmanager.com is present on the homepage
I still use them, and have contacted them about these issues, though they haven't gotten back.
They used to list Runbox, though it was removed after they changed the criteria.
I think StartMail gets overlooked as an email provider.
They are even on PrivacyTools.io
https://www.privacytools.io/providers/email/#startmail
@rw you've done far better than me. I'm on day 17 and I started on the day the challenge started (which I'm fairly sure is before you!). Oh well, we stagger onwards...
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Day #050 of #100DaysToOffload and I reach the point of no return.
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How is NSA breaking so much crypto?
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/10/14/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/
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