I am a highly privacy-minded individual who would like the advantage and connection of others through social media without all of the nonsense that goes with traditional social media.
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Last Notes npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru My grandfather used to do this. Except it was a single switch and it said Warp Speed. Then he'd flip it and quickly accelerate. That was always a lot of fun. npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru With GoS you are able to set up a duress pin that will wipe the device if entered. If you go this route it may be possible for authorities to charge you with 'obstruction of justice' or destroying evidence. 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This completes my transition from Google in its entirety and I couldn't be happier. npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru Thank goodness for custom ROMs and #Grapheneos This feel gut wrenching to me only because I feel sorry for everyone who doesn't have the knowledge to install something other than stock Google Android. npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru While this is a good article in that it highlights the fact that well over half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck their purported solution is a f*cking budgeting app?? It doesn't matter how much you budget, if your pay doesn't rise with increasing costs budgeting won't do much at all, if anything. And this article does what most pundits do: puts blame on consumers, rather than f*cking capitalists who insist on paying near starvation wages, while getting fat off of our labor. npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru I have a question for those running #Manjaro on their #Pinephone. Are they still releasing updates for the Pinephone and or #PinephonePro? I haven't seen any new Beta builds in about two years. For the longest time Manjaro was the best distro for the Pinephone and I was able to daily drive it for several months without any major problems. #mobilelinux npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru I updated my #Pinephone and my #Pinephonepro to see the current state of #mobilelinux and I really like many of the changes. I still need to insert my SIM card to see how well the cellular modem and texting work as of late, but I was saddened to see that last stable release #Mobian did was about two years ago. I did see they are still pushing weekly developer builds, however. How many people are daily driving their #Pinephones? Which distributions are you using? What do you use your phone for? npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru My Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS lasts a solid 24 hours, if not a little more between charges consistently, which is pretty standard for this hardware I believe. But I also have push notificatoons on for two apps and I know that uses a significant amount of battery. npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru I was using Ubuntu Touch years ago and had an issue with an app. Got on a forum and talked with the dev for it. Within minutes they fixed the issue, uploaded new version of their app, which I installed, and the issue had been fixed. It was amazing. The power of free software. npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru The cryptography engineer has written a follow up replying to this blog post. https://soatok.blog/2025/01/20/session-round-2/ This is interesting. I hope to have time soon to read all the arguments. npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru I have been looking into session and came across this blog post by a cryptographer who looks to have some strong arguments against Session's security. Given my limited knowledge of these topics (cryptography) the criticism looks legit and it is concerning. https://soatok.blog/2025/01/14/dont-use-session-signal-fork/ npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru The stripping of the forward secrecy from a strong protocol seems really strange to me. My first speculation when I read this is could this be a government honeypot? Or maybe the developers are simply really bad at security? npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru I had no idea SSD was started 15 years ago. It's been an invaluable guide for me and I've sent it to many friends and family. Thank you for all the work put into it. It really shows. npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru What is working with the phone? Any issues at all daily driving it? npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru I always felt like WSL was just an attempt by Microsoft to entice more devs to use Windows because so many love Linux's tools, just to game their usage numbers and to collect more data on a larger number of people for their advertising business. npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru 74%? 🤞 npub1nkwxcmc444dq6s2tp7gd77julyqs6c9ch0e488c8qncfcaeqfnfq66qg2d privacy_guru This is a fantastic article by ACLU's Jake Snow. Thanks for sharing!
