resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

@alcinnz that link is bad.. do you mean reelhouse.org? It sounds interesting. I have no problem paying for something that's #DRM-free

@humanetech @0xdecafbad@social.linux.pizza @Snowcode I used Kodi as a PVR ~6 or so yrs ago, but AFAIK it needs either a live TV/satellite, or a library of stored content. I don't think it can interface with a streaming service. Also, I just went to the website & was disturbed to find it's on #CloudFlare. I can't stomach working with anything that subjects ppl to CF. /cc @shellkr

@Meatball @oilyfish @e_mydata AFAIK #JCB is the only relatively ethical international payment network, and JCB cards are unavailable in Europe and the US.

@e_mydata @oilyfish @Meatball note as well that American Express is an #ALEC member (which means #AmEx fights workers' rights, public healthcare, public education, gun control.. basically upholding #Trump values). So I #boycott AmEx too.

@Meatball @oilyfish @e_mydata Denmark & Sweden have the highest income equality in the world (top 3 or so), so I'm sure there's no problem for locals there. But no one is immune to technical failure (like my valid card being rejected). And apart from the privacy abuse, Visa & Mastercard does political blockades (e.g. they blocked donations to #wikileaks). So it's still important to fight against the #WarOnCash.

@Meatball @e_mydata @oilyfish my plastic was rejected (even though the account was in good standing). So I did laundry in the sink.

@oilyfish @e_mydata @Meatball I couldn't even do laundry in Denmark -- the machines required an online top-up from plastic. They managed to fuck up something that was quite simple: coin operated machines.

@Meatball @e_mydata @oilyfish I was in Denmark for a couple months & encountered cashless shops. I was quite disgusted because I'm aware of the #WarOnCash & the impact on poor ppl - and what an injustice it is to not have a cash option. So even though I carry plastic, I #boycott #cashless shops to fight the war on the right side.

@0xdecafbad@social.linux.pizza thanks for the tip. Emby looks like users have to bring their own content. Not sure the old folks can handle that. I thinking more along the lines of #FOSS tools that work w/streaming service (& I suppose that implies #DRM)

Smart TVs are just smart enough to be dangerous.

@oilyfish @Meatball @e_mydata /e/ is short for #MDMA. You should try it, but stay away from banking apps - those things are dodgy.

I want to say to my family: ditch #netflix. Ditch #amazon. And don't buy any more smart TVs. It's all #DRM'd up the yin-yang anyway. But they will reject that advice. Is there any #freesoftware for any decent streaming services?

I would never buy a #smartTV, because #nonfreesoftware. Yet I'm the one that gets called in when a family member's #Vizio becomes unusable with #Netflix & #Amazon apps suddenly failing. What does Vizio tech support say? They said: "buy an #AppleTV".

@Tutanota until then, I'll write my #Tutanota gripe right here: the command "gpg --auto-key-locate clear,nodefault,wkd --locate-key $tutanota_address" gets no results. It works for #Protonmail users. Plz make it happen.

@Tutanota #Reddit is #centralized, heavily censored, & it runs on #Amazon #AWS. Wake me up when you're having a discussion on dev.lemmy.ml/c/tutanota. #Lemmy is more aligned with your #privacy mission (Amazon is a privacy abuser).

@rob@fosstodon.org superficially their credibility doesn't look great (#microsoft github, #facebook, #twitter on their website) but at least they don't appear to force users into #masssurveillance the way #Signal does.

@lightweight Note as well that 8 states force registration through a #CloudFlare site. The voters of those states probably have no idea they're giving their SSN, DL#, & home address to CloudFlare Inc.

@vcrkhl@mastodon.social @requiem it's also worth noting that there is now urlcanary.com, which makes it trivially easy for anyone to track when a recipient reads their mail just by embedding a unique URL in an HTML msg.

@eletrotupi
I get email from banks/brokers that arrive as a multipart MIME msg, & the "text/plain" part states nothing more than "you need to update your mail program for better security". The "text/html" part actually conveys a useful msg. So although my text MUA is smart enough to render HTML in text form, it also favors the "text/plain" part if it's there, thus hiding the msg.

We should start sending emails with an HTML part that says "turn off HTML to read this msg".