m_svo @m_svo@social.privacytools.io

@redcoqui
Okay, now don't use the built-in OnlyOffice for anything important 😀
It's very fresh and full of bugs that cause data loss.
I'm going to move my Nextcloud home and set up Collabora Online in a container, since it needs more RAM than I currently have in the cloud.

Twitter Could Launch The First Decentralized Social Network

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/365327

Funny, isn't it?

@redcoqui
Google Maps :(
On the bright side, GPS is somehow broken on my smartphone, so even Google can't track me when my WiFi is off.

@redcoqui
Huh, they really don't mention it anywhere in the app, too. The string below is the user-agent DDG uses. So I would guess it's Chromium, because 88.0. etc is Chromium version, other parts must be for compatibility. My FF browser reports it's FF version.

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/88.0.4324.152 Mobile DuckDuckGo/5 Safari/537.36

@redcoqui
I used it, paid for premium, to monitor connections when I bought my phone, to understand which apps are phoning home.
It's a great software!

Normally I use a proxy or a VPN for extra security though, so no need for NetGuard.

Heard some of you guys being worried by 15 cm of snow. Here's a Russian winter 😀

@Wetrix
Morals were misused to start wars against innocents (paint good or neutral as evil and you're good to go), religions were mostly invented and used to control people: to follow one man not democratically elected, to kill, to conquer. Or maybe to stay peaceful and just hope for a better life (Buddhism).

So, I would say religions are just tools to control people, more suitable in some cases than exploited concepts of good and evil.

@Wetrix
Aren't all morals invented for self-preservation and other selfish reasons? Be kind to others - said someone who wanted everyone to be kind to him. So, let's say the concept of good is a survival mechanism, then a concept of evil is a counterweight for it to work - a list of what not to do of you want to survive as a species.

Different societies (or goverments, or autocratic rulers) needed different tools to control the people. That's where morals and religions come into play.
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@spectral_shadow @Wetrix
Too cold for Siberia 😂
Greenland it is, then

@tilduke
Thanks! Was surprised to see it's not locked down like a normal FF stable release: developer mode is there, I can load any extension I like, and about:config is there too (it's not in FF stable).
So, stable with benefits! I like that!

@redcoqui
Also my wife recently asked me to help her clean up space on her phone, and we started checking if some apps generated too much cache.
Guess what, the weather app (probably the most popular in my country, it's from Yandex) generated 640 MB of data (not cache). What was it doing? Recording audio? (half joking here, probably just a bug)
But this speaks a lot of closed source apps for me. They are not optimized, they are not secure, they are mostly just trash.
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@redcoqui
OpenBoard from F-Droid on Android, it looks great and works fine.
I avoid closed source apps, aside from Google apps I only have Firefox (it probably has some closed source components on Android) and a epub/pdf reader with no suspicious premissions installed. Everything else is FOSS.

Why? My local forum is filled with people dissatisfied with this phone model: it lags, hags, battery drains fast, etc. I have none of these issues.
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@redcoqui
No, I don't use MS software, even deleted MS account (Skype) last year.
Normally I don't even use Wine and don't have it installed. I may use it to play some older game that doesn't like Proton though, last time it was F.E.A.R.

@redcoqui
They gave me a Windows laptop at work and I have to use it to connect to our client's production system which contains a ton of sensitive data. Proprietary VPN does not support Linux.
My employer uses OpenVPN, so I do everything else on my Linux laptop.

@redcoqui
Brave did some shady things in the past, like injecting referal links into a crypto (exchange?) site.
I tested it on Android, and while they do randomize browser fingerprint (no one else does it), they also put my exact phone model into a user agent. Why? This just gives more data to websites.
Also I don't like the icon 😋

@Lindsaythelibrarian
Don't stress it, I probably did too much because I enjoy it, but also it took me about 3 years to be here 😀

@Lindsaythelibrarian
Telegram is not a great replacement for WhatsApp, but it's the only thing everyone uses in my place.

No, no issues with Signal here, but now when you mention it - no one ever sent me a media 😥

Oh, also:
- Bitwarden to store my passwords and sync across any devices
- Aegis Android app for 2FA
- Imagepipe Android app to strip EXIF data from photos before I share them

And full disk encryption on my personal PC and laptop.

@Lindsaythelibrarian
- Firefox and extra hardening from https://privacytools.io/browsers/#about_config
- Open source Android apps from F-Droid, like Slide for Reddit
- Signal and Telegram (deleting WhatsApp this May, it now only runs in an Android emulator on laptop)
- Protonmail + Anonaddy instead of Gmail

As for tactics, I only keep several websites I trust open in normal tabs daily, all the other things (including googling) happen in private windows, which means no cookies, etc. on my devices.
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@Lindsaythelibrarian
I'm a bit of a tech geek, so while I still use some google things (like an Android smartphone), I also probably overkill it somewhere else.

- Nextcloud instead of Google Drive
- Joplin synced to my Nextcloud instead of Google Keep
- My own VPN and Proxy with DNS filtering (very similar to Pi-hole.net) - for blocking ads, trackers, also some social networks, etc.
- Linux (not instead of Windows, it's just superior to anything else :P )

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@nikolal @syntax
The thing is, Nextcloud has a built in OnlyOffice server (by default) starting from NC 19 I think. Previously you needed a separate server for it.
NC 20 has even more features (I did not yet upgrade).
With such rapid growth, I would not count on RPi 4 to handle NC now, or maybe not in near future. I may be wrong though, I never owned an RPi myself.