resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

@phryk you might be tempted to get a virtual address (e.g. anytimemailbox.com), which exists for that purpose, but banks are now keeping track of those kind of addresses & rejecting them. It's really irritating legit ppl are refused business on the absurd assumption that they're criminals. OTOH, #Patreon is quite evil as it imposes #PayPal, so we shouldn't be using them anyway.

Why did #Tor Project remove #Fetchmail & #Getmail from their website? https://web.archive.org/web/20170925012544/https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO/EMail "Old" info isn't necessarily useless. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO/EMail?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&action=diff&version=49&old_version=48&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

I need to delete #email older than ~45 days or so from the server, while keeping a local copy of all msgs (old & new). To my surprise, #Fetchmail can't handle this, while #Getmail has a "delete_after" option. Must I use Getmail?

@humanetech @lopeztel @d599f84e really? that's bizarre. I tested #FireFox w/ #noScript & Ungoogled #Chromium w/ #uMatrix. In both cases j/s is enabled for #deepl.com, and in both cases all the objects are slammed against the left side of the screen with dysfunctional buttons. It has been this way for months.

@humanetech @d599f84e @lopeztel is the #Deepl.com website broken for everyone or just me?

@rysiek @conatus @sir I'm not aware of #Newegg taking a stance against patent trolls, but I'm boycotting Newegg as it often treats #Tor users with hostility. Or so it seems.. maybe non-Tor users get Newegg's "are you a robot?" screen as well.

@eff Stop linking to #Facebook & #Twitter from eff.org, and stop accepting #PayPal donations, and then I will donate.

apparently #Tor project has been caught deliberately sabotaging the software of their own users: https://activism.openworlds.info/@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo/104942993531161253

@BlackWinnerYoshi @abloo @strypey If you opt to give up your privacy to feed a CF'd #fediverse node, you also serve as an enabler of the privacy abuse of others. So doing a #fediblock on #cloudflare is of course necessary for privacy. Blocking CloudFlare is also the pro- #netneutrality move.

@strypey @abloo @BlackWinnerYoshi the free and open (non-cloudflare) fediverse allows #Tor connections & thus the privacy of not revealing IP addresses (read: PII) while also preventing ISPs from tracking where their customers visit. #CloudFlare DoSes Tor users thus attacking #privacy. And if you so much as execute the #CAPTCHA j/s, you feed #hCAPTCHA, who then finances CloudFlare.

@mplammers I think it's worth a try to work to convince the city council of US cities to adopt privacy laws, but it's an uphill battle b/c Amazon employs lg. numbers of ppl in many states. So the gov. is afraid to piss off #Amazon and drive away jobs.

@mplammers One option might be to park a tall box truck in front of your house just to block Amazon Ring and also so that guests can't park their surveillance cars as close to your house.

@mplammers some parts of western Europe are sensible enough to ban surveillance cams that capture more than one's own property. Cams must be positioned and angled to just capture their own front door and they need to ask for extra permission to install a 360 degree cam. I don't think any US city is smart enough to have that kind of law.

@mplammers To worsen matters, zoning laws often ban front fences from being higher than ~2ft. or ~1 meter, so you can't block the neighbor's surveillance of your house.

@mplammers If you consider that neighbors are now installing #Amazon #Ring all over the place, this is a much bigger threat. The neighbor across the street might be giving Amazon 24/7 surveillance of your house, with facial rec. & license plate reading, so Amazon can log who comes and goes from your house.

@mplammers I wonder what the fix is. Theoretically you could have a guest garage that works like a faraday cage, but the cost of that would be hard to justify for what little difference it would make. You could gate your driveway and ask guests to park their surveillance boxes away from the house.

@TheDoctor @Wetrix @cjleads Signal isn't a suitable intermediate step because it actually brings in many unnecessary surveillance mechanisms. If you need a middle step that works for low-tech users, #Wire & #Jami are a better choice b/c they do not impose phone number registration. They give an e2ee payload without excluding people who don't have mobile phones).

@Wetrix @cjleads @TheDoctor in this sense, it's similar to Facebook. I choose not to have a Facebook account, and Facebook chooses not to accept me as a user (I don't meet FB's registration requirements). So I'm excluded from that community. As that community grows, the exclusion becomes more detrimental to the excluded group because more ppl interact with the false assumption that everyone is included.

@TheDoctor @cjleads @Wetrix the problem is that the privacy abuses don't just affect the user b/c this is not a service that someone uses in a vaccuum. It's inherently collaborative. So one person's need to correspond with another entails pressure on others to participate in a centralized walled-garden that feeds pernicious entities. So it's important to discourage the spread of it.