Krock @krock@social.privacytools.io

@chris I feel you! Trying to reason with kids who think they need some of these things is a trap these companies put us in. Tictok is like Lucky Charms. Kids scream at their parents for it in the grocery store.

@thenewoil
This is great news for Google's and Apple's advertising business. The squeeze is on FB and other adtech players.

@chris
I love reading others' experiences.

Setting expectations and re-evaluating values and priorities helped myself and family. Our FOSS solutions will rarely have all the features and pretty screens of megatech, but the trade off is worth it.

We think we need all kinds of services, and this really needs to be questioned. Five or ten years ago we lived just fine(perhaps even better) without these perceived needs. Taking some steps back has been fine, though requiring adjustment.

@contact @Decentralize_today
Well said. I would go further and say that Apple owns you (an Apple user) given how much they know about you and how difficult it is to get out of their ecosystem. Of course my statement would fall flat or provoke defense.

@thenewoil
If the default setting of public was a SW glitch rather than error of sys admin in setup, many agencies (CIA, ICE, DEA, DOD, FBI, FDA..) would have similar issue, and that would be massive. As much as we all may hate what PLTR SW can and does do, this article seems to attribute the error incorrectly based on limited information.

@thenewoil
We are screwed at Gov checkpoints.
Keep mapping the facetraps on osm.org which will then appear on https://sunders.uber.space. I love explaining to people in stores why I have a paper bag over my head.

I am a convicted SIDELOADER. I am a repeat offender and probably in a registry of sideloaders. 98% of the software on my phone was SIDELOADED from #GrapheneOS and #Fdroid. My PC devices are similarly all sideloaded with Linux and FOSS. https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Building_a_Trusted_Ecosystem_for_Millions_of_Apps.pdf

@thenewoil
Most of those dumbshit apps are available from the 2 corp stores. There is a marketing effort underway to make 'sideloading' a bad word like they did with the word 'hacker'. Propaganda spreads with articles like this that give 95% good advice and then stick this in there.

@thenewoil Dataminr surveils Zuckbook and other platforms to send alerts to its subscribers which include corporations, police, and news media. They kept asking me to invest in the company, and I am now assured that my no decision was right. Too many people are throwing sand in the machine which makes the value of its data suspect if not problematic.

@thenewoil
Most of it is a decent level one guide, but the seventh recommendation to only load apps from Google and Apple stores is disinformation. Sideloading is the new word for installing SW that the overloads did not bless. For Android users, I recommend installing first from #fdroid and then #aurorastore if you must use a proprietary app.

@hackernews I guess this would make XMR completely illegal as well as localmonero.co

@tychosoft @aral
The old saying: "The canary sings more beautifully when it walks into its cage" describes the difference between the Stasi and modern consumer tech. Oh do we have so many canaries now in the cage singing so beautifully for us.

@gritnot If you have a store nearby, it is best to buy one cash. You can also buy them on Ebay anonymously. I was lucky to have a friend who works at Google devices who had a whole box of them. He gave me one and was happy when I showed him how to flash Graphene on one for him. He sure does not want his bosses watching him.

@hackernews
I wany my dead body cycled back into nature to feed these beautiful creatures rather than wasted in a fire.

@hackernews Doing my bit by mapping the surveillance cameras on OSM.org and handing out paper bag masks in front of stores. https://sunders.uber.space/

@Wetrix DDG is a front for Bing (Microsoft). DDG makes its money with Amazon ads that it places in the results. Microsoft benefits from knowing what people search for and by possibly controlling returned results. It is an anonymized search, but it benefits companies we might not want to support. I am not anti DDG as it is a better alternative to the personalized searches. My default is Searx or Mojeek. Then I will go to DDG only if needed.

@tika
I have helped a few family members move from iOS to degoogled Android ROMs and know the obstacles. Yes first a person must want to be free before you can help them. Creating awareness of how unfree they are with Ithings is the first step. Then it is difficult to remove these implants from cyborgs.