resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io
Joined Mar 2019
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8 free-world-expanding projects are proposed here to improve #netneutrality and/or counter rampant #censorship:
Vote for the project that you think would be most beneficial. This is the 2nd four of 8 proposals. Please vote in both polls.
Poll 2/2:
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tech review; cloudflare
@jookia I guess this goes without saying, but remote browsing is a privacy disaster. There's no point in controlling what your client sends to the cloud if your client IS in the cloud.
@Seirdy @josias ME can never be fully eliminated as it's required for the CPU to boot. The anti-ME configurations can only disable it after a certain point in the boot process. I don't know to what extent we can call it neutered, but my biggest problem is that the ME is anti-non-corporate-consumer & yet non-corporate consumers continue to throw money Intel's way. So Intel still profits in the end.
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Introducing Innernet - Jake McGinty @ Tonari: https://blog.tonari.no/introducing-innernet
Code on Github: https://github.com/tonarino/innernet
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2011: The Thinkpad T420 is the best general-purpose laptop ever made.
2021: The Thinkpad T420 is the best general-purpose laptop ever made.
"It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes." – Keith Braithwaite
Seriously. A durable, upgradable, battery-swappable laptop with a bunch of ports, trackpoint, middle-mouse button, good keyboard, and LED lamp that can take advantage of at least *some* of the power efficiency and hardware decoding improvements of the past decade. That's it. That's all I need.
2021: The Thinkpad T420 is the best general-purpose laptop ever made.
"It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes." – Keith Braithwaite
Seriously. A durable, upgradable, battery-swappable laptop with a bunch of ports, trackpoint, middle-mouse button, good keyboard, and LED lamp that can take advantage of at least *some* of the power efficiency and hardware decoding improvements of the past decade. That's it. That's all I need.
@better @laura But regarding the former, such as helping to improve the UX for #Chase patrons, I wonder if that's been carefully thought through. Your tool adds value to a corporation that's so unethical no one who is informed & has the slightest urge toward social responsibility banks there. Wouldn't it make more sense to document Chase's trackers /without/ offering a fix?
@laura @better It's very useful that your project is collecting metrics on the web's bad players. You're working on sites of corps that are inherently quite evil (#JPMorgan Chase, #CapitalOne, MS), as well as sites for companies where their ethical issues are only with how they run their site. For the latter, your tool clearly contributes to a better world.
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Let's stop calling them "#Facebook users". Instead, call them "Facebook pawns". This is not to take away dignity; it's to clarify the distinction between real Facebook users (those who pay money to FB in exchange for influence) and those who are used by FB in service to genuine users.
@m_svo @kat you might be righ about the software, but it's kind of up in the air whether the installable software talks to the IMAP servers, or it uses the web service through an API. Normally I would expect the software to not depend on the web service at lamiral.info, but when I see his prices i wonder if that prices in the cost of him maintaining a service.
@kat @m_svo It's clear that I have a choice between running installed software or using the website. You say no javascript needed, which implies that the web form must be sending that information to lamiral.info, which then must be acting as a service. In the absence of js, there would be no way to sync without the engine running on the website.
@kat @m_svo indeed I'll have to be the judge of whether it meets the security needs. But whether it's even feasible is unclear. The CLI does not seem to have an option to select a mitm, which means either lamiral.info is hard-coded, or it means there is no mitm (that I directly connect to the imap servers).
@m_svo @kat BTW, it's not that I want my email shared between two ESPs. That's actually a bad thing, but it's a hack to circumvent a tor-hostile entity. I will say that there is a gap in free-world ESPs if Posteo is the only option. I try to get normies off #MACFANG services & this feature would be a useful compromise in some cases.
@hund @arghyadeep @yarmo He says look at the content instead of the hypocrisy of his web organization. His dirt on Disroot relies on a citation of an article that doesn't even name Disroot: https://www.zdnet.com/article/dutch-police-snoop-on-criminal-chats-by-intercepting-encryption-server/
@yarmo @arghyadeep @hund indeed the guy is really grasping at straws to try to run smear campaigns. Before reading anything, it was obvious that not only is #privacyWatchdogIO using a #CloudFlare DNS, they are proxying through CF with a config to block Tor users. The About page really makes it clear the guy is a jackass.
Joined Mar 2019
